Ezekiel 7:5

5 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Disaster after disaster is coming your way!

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 No hope remains, for I will unleash my anger against you. I will call you to account for all your detestable sins.

4 I will turn my eyes away and show no pity. I will repay you for all your detestable sins. Then you will know that I am the LORD .

5 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Disaster after disaster is coming your way!

6 The end has come. It has finally arrived. Your final doom is waiting!

7 O people of Israel, the day of your destruction is dawning. The time has come; the day of trouble is near. Shouts of anguish will be heard on the mountains, not shouts of joy.