Ezekiel 7:3

_NOW IS THE END COME UPON THEE, AND I WILL SEND MINE ANGER UPON THEE, AND WILL JUDGE THEE ACCORDING TO THY WAYS, AND WILL RECOMPENSE UPON THEE ALL THINE ABOMINATIONS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

He puts the word_end _a third time, and repeats it even a fourth and a fifth time. Whence we collect, that those miserable ones, although admonished more than enough both by teaching and experience, were yet like brute animals, so that they always promised themselves something to fly to, and were not impressed with the fear with which the Prophet would strike them. They did not think that an end was really coming, but said, Oh! something will remain, some will escape; and this therefore was their pride. Hence the Prophet does not inculcate the same word in vain: _now, _says he, _the end is come _When he says _the end has come, _he signifies that the Israelites vainly and foolishly trusted in the future, because they had not yet experienced extreme rigor. God, as he had said, had been lenient with them as to punishment. What then did they do? When they perceived such forbearance in God th...

1-15 The abruptness of this prophecy, and the many repetitions, show that the prophet was deeply affected by the prospect of these calamities. Such will the destruction of sinners be; for none can avoid it. Oh that the wickedness of the wicked might end before it bring them to an end! Trouble is to the impenitent only an evil, it hardens their hearts, and stirs up their corruptions; but there are those to whom it is sanctified by the grace of God, and made a means of much good. The day of real trouble is near, not a mere echo or rumour of troubles. Whatever are the fruits of God's judgments, our sin is the root of them. These judgments shall be universal. And God will be glorified in all. Now is the day of the Lord's patience and mercy, but the time of the sinner's trouble is at hand....

A kind of refrain, repeated in Ezekiel 7:8, as the close of another stanza....

EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 7:1 The absence of any fresh date, and the fact that it is simply tacked on to the previous chapter by the copulative conjunction, shows that what follows belongs to the same group. The use of the phrase, THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, shows, however, that there was an interval of silence, perhaps of meditation, followed by a fresh influx of inspiration; and, so far as we may judge from the more lyrical character of the chapter, a more intense emotion. EZEKIEL 7:2 AN END, etc. The iteration of the word once more gives emphasis. The words read like an echo of Amos 8:2. The FOUR CORNERS (Hebrew, "wings...

NOW [IS] THE END [COME] UPON THEE,.... This is repeated for the confirmation of it, and for the sake of application of it to the people of Israel, of whom he had before spoken in the third person; but now in the second, in order to arouse them, and excite attention: AND I WILL SEND MINE ANGER UPON THEE; the token of it, the punishment of their sins: AND I WILL JUDGE THEE ACCORDING TO THY WAYS; pass sentence, and execute it, as their evil ways and practices deserved: AND I WILL RECOMPENSE, or "put upon thee" f, ALL THINE ABOMINATIONS; cause them to bear as a burden the just punishment of their detestable iniquities; which would be more than they would be able to bear, though not more than they deserved. f נתתי עליך "ponam super te", Pagninus; "dabo super te", Montanus; "reponam super te", Junius Tremellius, Polanus....

Ezekiel 7:1. This chapter closes the first great message of Ezekiel. This great judgment message is written in beautiful language, which, in the Authorized Version, is marred by numerous incorrect renderings. The reader will find a reliable metrical translation in our larger commentary on Ezekiel. First, the end is announced to come upon the entire land; it could no longer be averted. There is another day coming in which the Lord will deal in fearful judgments with this earth. Now is the day of salvation in which God speaks in love through His Son, When wickedness and apostasy has reached its climax, the day of salvation will end and “the day of vengeance of our God” will begin. Then He will speak in His wrath and vex them in His sore displeasure Psalms 2:5. Then will they say to the mountains and rocks, “Fal

EZEKIEL 7. THE END IS NIGH. Ezekiel 7:1. The visions of doom, so vividly described in the three preceding Chapter s, reach their climax in this chapter, charged with emotion and palpitating with the sense of the approaching end. That end was yet more than four years off, but already Ezekiel sees it in all its horror that day of the pitiless anger of Yahweh, who by His terrors would teach His wicked and idolatrous people who and what He was....

The end is come upon the whole land, unsparing destruction from the Lord This destruction is the fruit of the abominations of the people, their idolatries and crimes (Ezekiel 7:23). They shall know when it overtakes them that he who inflicts it is Jehovah, God alone....

III. CHAOS AND CALAMITY 7:1-27 Chapter 7 is a sermon in the form of a lamentation. It is characterized by frequent repetitions designed to underscore the certainty and severity of the coming calamity. The chapter is written in what has been called poetic prose. The sentences are choppy, broken, and oozing with emotion. Division of the material into discussion units is admittedly arbitrary. But it would seem that the prophet first announces the coming calamity (Ezekiel 7:1-9) and then describes it (Ezekiel 7:10-27). A. The Calamity Announced 7:1-9 TRANSLATION (1) And the word of the LORD came to me, saying: (2) And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD concerning the land of Israel: An end! the end has come upon the four ends of the land. (3) Now is the end upon you