Ezekiel 7:5

5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! Disaster after disaster [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 Now the end [is] on you, and I will send my anger on you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and I will bring on you all your detestable things.

4 And my eye will not take pity on you, and I will not show compassion for your ways; on you I will bring your detestable things; they will be in the midst of you, and you will know that I [am] Yahweh.'

5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! Disaster after disaster [is] coming!

6 [The] end comes, comes the end! It has awakened against you! Look! [It] comes!

7 Doom is coming against you, the dweller of the land; the time comes, the day [is] near, panic and not joy [is] on the mountains.