Ezekiel 7:26

Ezekiel 7:26

24 Therefore I will bring the ^aworst of the Gentiles,
And they will possess their houses;
I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease,
And their holy places shall be ^bdefiled.

25 ¹Destruction comes;
They will seek peace, but there shall be none.

26 ^aDisaster will come upon disaster,
And rumor will be upon rumor.
^bThen they will seek a vision from a prophet;
But the law will perish from the priest,
And counsel from the elders.

27 ‘The king will mourn,
The prince will be clothed with desolation,
And the hands of the common people will tremble.
I will do to them according to their way,
And according to what they deserve I will judge them;
Then they shall know that I am the Lord!’ ”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Mischief . . . upon . . . mischief— (Deuteronomy 32:23; Jeremiah 4:20). This is said because the Jews were apt to fancy, at every abatement of suffering, that their calamities were about to cease; but God will accumulate woe on woe.

rumour—of the advance of the foe, and of his cruelty (Matthew 24:6).

seek a vision—to find some way of escape from their difficulties (Isaiah 26:9). So Zedekiah consulted Jeremiah (Jeremiah 37:17; Jeremiah 38:14).

law shall perish—fulfilled (Ezekiel 20:1, Ezekiel 20:3; Psalms 74:9; Lamentations 2:9; compare Amos 8:11); God will thus set aside the idle boast, "The law shall not perish from the priest" (Jeremiah 18:18).

ancients—the ecclesiastical rulers of the people.

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezekiel 7:26:**

Jeremiah 4:20
Lamentations 2:9
Amos 8:11

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