Ezekiel 7:5

5 This is what the Lord God says: Look, one disaster after another is coming!

Ezekiel 7:5 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 7:5

Thus saith the Lord God
Here should be a stop, a colon, requiring attention to what follows, it being something awful and terrible: an evil, an only evil, behold, it cometh;
meaning the destruction of the city and temple; which, though but one, was such an one as was never known before nor was there any like it. The Targum is,

``evil after evil, lo, it cometh;''

one evil after another; when one evil is gone, another comes, as in ( Ezekiel 7:26 ) . The Syriac version is, "behold, evil for evil comes"; the evil of punishment for the evil of sin.

Ezekiel 7:5 In-Context

3 The end is now on you; I will send My anger against you and judge you according to your ways. I will punish you for all your abominations.

4 I will not look on you with pity or spare [you], but I will punish you for your ways and for your abominations within you. Then you will know that I am the Lord."

5 This is what the Lord God says: Look, one disaster after another is coming!

6 An end has come; the end has come! It has awakened against you. Look, it is coming!

7 Doom has come on you, inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near. There will be panic on the mountains and not celebration.