Ezekiel 7:7

7 Death has come on you who live in the land. The time for you to be destroyed has come. The day when it will happen is near. There is no joy on your mountains. There is nothing but panic.

Ezekiel 7:7 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 7:7

The morning is come upon thee, O thou that dwellest in the
land
That is, early ruin was come, or was coming, upon the inhabitants of Judea, which before is said to be awake, and to watch for them; and now the day being broke, the morning come, it hastened to them. Some, because this word ^F7 is used in ( Isaiah 18:5 ) ; for a crown or diadem, think a crowned head, a king, is here meant; particularly Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the instrument of the destruction of Jerusalem. So the Targum,

``the kingdom is revealed upon or against thee, O inhabitant of the land.''

Jarchi interprets it of the morning setting as the sun does, its light and glory disappearing; and so denotes a dark and gloomy day; the time is come;
the appointed time of Jerusalem's ruin, the time of her visitation; the day of trouble,
or "noise" ^F8, [is] near;
either of the Chaldean army, its chariots and horses, and of their armour; or of the howling and lamentation of the Jews: and not the sounding again of the mountains;
not like the echo of a man's voice between the mountains, which is only imaginary, but this is real; so Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it: or this was not like the shoutings of the vintage, which were joyful ones, ( Isaiah 16:9 Isaiah 16:10 ) ; but this the voice of lamentation and sorrow, doleful sounds. Jarchi says the word signifies the cry of the voice, proclaiming or calling on persons to fly to the tops of the mountains, which now should not be; and so the Targum,

``and there is no fleeing or escaping to the tops of the mountains.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (hrypuh) "corona", Tigurine version, so some is Vatablus; "cidaris matutina", Montanus.
F8 (hmwhm) "tumultus", Montanus, Piscator, Starckius; "strepitus", Calvin; "clamoris", Vatablus.

Ezekiel 7:7 In-Context

5 "I am the LORD and King. I say, 'Horrible trouble is coming! No one has ever heard of anything like it.

6 " 'The end has come! The end has come! It has stirred itself up against you. It is here!

7 Death has come on you who live in the land. The time for you to be destroyed has come. The day when it will happen is near. There is no joy on your mountains. There is nothing but panic.

8 " 'I am about to pour out all of my burning anger on you. I will judge you based on how you have lived. I will pay you back for all of your evil practices. I hate them.

9 " 'I will not spare you or feel sorry for you. I will pay you back based on how you have lived. I will judge you for your evil practices. I hate them. You will know that I am the one who strikes you down. I am the Lord.