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Text -- Ezekiel 7:1-17 (NET)
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Context
The End Arrives
7:1 The word of the Lord came to me:
7:2 “You , son of man – this is what the sovereign Lord says to the land of Israel : An end ! The end is coming on the four corners of the land !
7:3 The end is now upon you, and I will release my anger against you; I will judge you according to your behavior , I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices .
7:4 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For I will hold you responsible for your behavior , and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices . Then you will know that I am the Lord !
7:5 “This is what the sovereign Lord says : A disaster – a one-of-a-kind disaster – is coming !
7:6 An end comes – the end comes ! It has awakened against you– the end is upon you! Look , it is coming !
7:7 Doom is coming upon you who live in the land ! The time is coming , the day is near . There are sounds of tumult , not shouts of joy , on the mountains .
7:8 Soon now I will pour out my rage on you; I will fully vent my anger against you. I will judge you according to your behavior . I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices .
7:9 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable , and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices . Then you will know that it is I , the Lord , who is striking you.
7:10 “Look , the day ! Look , it is coming ! Doom has gone out ! The staff has budded , pride has blossomed !
7:11 Violence has grown into a staff that supports wickedness . Not one of them will be left– not from their crowd , not from their wealth , not from their prominence .
7:12 The time has come ; the day has struck ! The customer should not rejoice , nor the seller mourn ; for divine wrath comes against their whole crowd .
7:13 The customer will no longer pay the seller while both parties are alive , for the vision against their whole crowd will not be revoked . Each person , for his iniquity , will fail to preserve his life .
7:14 “They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready , but no one goes to battle , because my anger is against their whole crowd .
7:15 The sword is outside ; pestilence and famine are inside the house . Whoever is in the open field will die by the sword , and famine and pestilence will consume everyone in the city .
7:16 Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys ; all of them will moan – each one for his iniquity .
7:17 All of their hands will hang limp ; their knees will be wet with urine .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Sin |
Israel |
Wicked |
Remorse |
Conviction |
Judgment |
Jubilee |
DOOM |
CORNER |
Repentance |
Trumpet |
Punishment |
Prophecy |
PROPHECY; PROPHETS, 1 |
DOVE |
ARMOR; ARMS |
EARTH, CORNERS OF THE |
FEEBLE KNEES |
NUMBER |
NEAR, NIGH |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Eze 7:2; Eze 7:3; Eze 7:3; Eze 7:3; Eze 7:4; Eze 7:4; Eze 7:4; Eze 7:4; Eze 7:5; Eze 7:5; Eze 7:6; Eze 7:6; Eze 7:6; Eze 7:6; Eze 7:6; Eze 7:7; Eze 7:7; Eze 7:8; Eze 7:9; Eze 7:9; Eze 7:9; Eze 7:11; Eze 7:11; Eze 7:11; Eze 7:11; Eze 7:12; Eze 7:13; Eze 7:13; Eze 7:13; Eze 7:14; Eze 7:17
NET Notes: Eze 7:2 Or “earth.” Elsewhere the expression “four corners of the earth” figuratively refers to the whole earth (Isa 11:12).
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NET Notes: Eze 7:5 So most Hebrew mss; many Hebrew mss read “disaster after disaster” (cf. NAB, NCV, NRSV, NLT).
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NET Notes: Eze 7:6 In each of the three cases of the verb translated with forms of “to come,” the form may either be a participle (“comes/is comingR...
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NET Notes: Eze 7:7 The LXX reads “neither tumult nor birth pains.” The LXX varies at many points from the MT in this chapter. The context suggests that one o...
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NET Notes: Eze 7:8 The expression “to pour out rage” also occurs in Ezek 9:8; 14:19; 20:8, 13, 21; 22:31; 30:15; 36:18.
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NET Notes: Eze 7:13 Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in v. 16;...
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NET Notes: Eze 7:14 The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.
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