“ An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. ”
The end is come: it watcheth for thee - The end (personified) so long slumbering now awakes and comes upon thee.
An end is come, the end is come: it (b) watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. (b) He shows that the judgments of God ever watch to destroy the sinners, who notwithstanding he delays till there is n...
Ezekiel 7. The End is Nigh. Ezekiel 7:1-9 . The visions of doom, so vividly described in the three preceding Chapter s, reach their climax in this chapter, charged with emotion and palpitating w...
An end... the end... it watcheth . Figure of speech Paronomasia. App-6. Hebrew. kez... hakez,:... hekes. it = she. Note the sudden change of gender, referring to "the morning" of Ezekiel 7:7 ....
The whole context has the same meaning, namely, that although the Israelites are deaf, yet they are compelled to attend to God’s continued threats. The Prophet therefore strikes their ears, bec...
DISCOURSE: 1097 APPROACHING END OF GOD’S FORBEARANCE Ezekiel 7:5-9 . Thus saith the Lord God: An evil, an only evil, behold, income. An end income; the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold,...
An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee - This is similar to the second verse; but there is a paronomasia, or...
An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. It watcheth for thee - rather, 'waketh for thee.' It awakes up from its past slumber against thee ( Psalms 78:65-66...
The Desolation of the Land of Israel This is a final message of doom upon the whole land ( Ezekiel 7:2 ). God's wrath against Israel's sin is relentless, and the judgment is inevitable and close a...
THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1-17 - Ezekiel 7:1-27 WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of abo...
The second denunciation dealt with the completeness of judgment. Its keynote was expressed in the words, "an end." The prophet declared that an end on the land and the people had been determined on,...
The same alarm is here given under another figure, to rouse Israel. The evil come, and the morning arrived, when sentence is to be carried into execution: these are strong intimations to work upon th...
An end is come, the end is come ,.... These words, so often repeated, show the eagerness and concern of the prophet's mind; the speed and haste destruction was making; and the great stupidity of the...
An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. Ver. 6. An end is come, the end is come. ] Still the prophet ringeth this doleful knell in their ears, whom sin and Satan...
Thus saith the Lord, An evil, an only evil A sore affliction, a singular and uncommon one. An end is come A destruction, which shall be fatal to a great part of those that go into captivity, as w...
The Desolation of Israel. B. C. 594. 1 Moreover the word of the L ORD came unto me, say...
Thus frequently is it repeated to show the certainty of the thing, the heaviness of the judgment, the great apprehensions they should have of it, and yet the great security they are under. God's veng...
‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “An evil, an only evil, behold it comes. An end is come, the end is come, it awakes against you, behold it comes. Your doom is come to you, O inhabitant of the land, the t...
5. LAMENTATION OVER THE DESOLATED LAND (Chap. 7) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—In this chapter we have not so much an additional prophecy as a re-statement of principles and denunciations which had been alrea...
Ezekiel 7:2 . An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. The end is come at once on the whole land of Judea and of Israel. The crown is fallen from the heads of David's house: they...
EXPOSITION Ezekiel 7:1 The absence of any fresh date, and the fact that it is simply tacked on to the previous chapter by the copulative conjunction, shows that what follows belongs to the...
The Approaching Ruin
2 Peter 2:5 ; Ezekiel 21:25 ; Ezekiel 39:8 ; Ezekiel 7:10 ; Ezekiel 7:3 ; Jeremiah 44:27 ; Zechariah 13:7
An end — When the end is come upon the wicked world, then an only evil comes upon it. The sorest of temporal judgments have their allays; but the torments of the damned are an evil, an only evil.