Ezekiel 7:1-27

The Desolation of the Land of Israel

This is a final message of doom upon the whole land (Ezekiel 7:2). God's wrath against Israel's sin is relentless, and the judgment is inevitable and close at hand. Social relations will be broken up (Ezekiel 7:12); preparations for defence will be unavailing (Ezekiel 7:14); wealth, which has been an occasion of sin and an instrument of idolatry, will not avert calamity, but will become the spoil of the heathen (Ezekiel 7:19); priests and prophets, king and nobles, will be helpless to deliver (Ezekiel 7:26; Ezekiel 7:17); the Temple will be profaned (Ezekiel 7:22); the remnant will be overwhelmed with sorrow (Ezekiel 7:16). Ezekiel 7:5; Ezekiel 7:10 are in the poetic metre commonly used for laments or dirges.

7, 10. The morning is come] RV 'Thy doom is come.'