Ezekiel 7:10

The ruin is universal, overtaking all classes

10. morning is gone forth Rather: is come forth, the figure of a plant springing up; Job 14:2, "man cometh forth like a flower." On "morning" see Ezekiel 7:7; R.V. doomas there.

rod hath blossomed i.e. sprouted and grown so as to become a rod. The general scope of the passage seems to imply that the "rod" here is that by which Israel shall be chastised. In Jeremiah 50:31 Babylon is named "pride" (R.V. marg.), and the words "pride has budded" may serve to explain "the rod has blossomed." If the pride were that which the rod was to humble the words would better be attached to the next verse.