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    Ezekiel · 27 verses

    Ezekiel 7

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    Silver goes into the streets, gold turns unclean, and neither buyer nor seller can manage the ordinary courtesies of a sale; meanwhile the trumpet sounds and nobody goes to war.

    The end arrives with paperwork still unfinishedvv. 1–14

    The word comes to Ezekiel with a message for the land of Israel: the end has reached all four corners, and judgment will answer the people’s ways and abominations. Disaster rises, doom blooms into a rod, and even commerce loses its manners: the buyer must not rejoice, the seller must not mourn, and the seller will not recover what was sold while both remain alive. The trumpet is blown and everything is made ready, but no one goes to war. A remarkably well-organised non-event.

    Wealth is no longer ediblevv. 15–27

    Outside waits the sword; inside wait plague and famine. Survivors flee to the mountains, hands go limp, knees turn to water, and sackcloth replaces dignity. Silver is thrown into the streets and gold seems unclean: wealth cannot satisfy appetite or fill a stomach, having become the stumbling block that brought iniquity. Beautiful ornaments are made into vile images, then handed over to foreigners and the wicked as plunder. The city is full of violence, the treasured place is defiled, peace is sought and not found, visions and counsel fail, and at last the king mourns while the people’s hands tremble.

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    1. Ezek 7:1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    2. Ezek 7:2“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

    3. Ezek 7:3The end is now upon you, and I will unleash My anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.

    4. Ezek 7:4I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’

    5. Ezek 7:5This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster—behold, it is coming!

    6. Ezek 7:6The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come!

    7. Ezek 7:7Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy.

    8. Ezek 7:8Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.

    9. Ezek 7:9I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.

    10. Ezek 7:10Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed.

    11. Ezek 7:11Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.

    12. Ezek 7:12The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.

    13. Ezek 7:13The seller will surely not recover what he sold while both remain alive. For the vision concerning the whole multitude will not be revoked, and because of their iniquity, not one of them will preserve his life.

    14. Ezek 7:14They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude.

    15. Ezek 7:15The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.

    16. Ezek 7:16The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

    17. Ezek 7:17Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.

    18. Ezek 7:18They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.

    19. Ezek 7:19They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.

    20. Ezek 7:20His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.

    21. Ezek 7:21And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.

    22. Ezek 7:22I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

    23. Ezek 7:23Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

    24. Ezek 7:24So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.

    25. Ezek 7:25Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

    26. Ezek 7:26Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.

    27. Ezek 7:27The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 19Proverbs 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
    • 19Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.
    • 19Luke 12:19–20Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
    • 19Ezekiel 14:7For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I the LORD will answer him Myself.
    • 8Ezekiel 9:8While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord GOD, when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem, will You destroy the entire remnant of Israel?”
    • 8Ezekiel 14:19Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
    • 17Ezekiel 21:7And when they ask, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you are to say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt, and every hand will go limp. Every spirit will faint, and every knee will turn to water.’ Yes, it is coming and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD.”
    • 19Isaiah 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
    • 19Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
    • 2Amos 8:2“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”
    • 3Ezekiel 18:30Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.
    • 4Ezekiel 6:7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
    • 8Isaiah 42:25So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
    • 8Nahum 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
    • 10Isaiah 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
    • 12Isaiah 5:13–14Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

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