Ezekiel 21:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,

And thou, profane wicked prince - as having desecrated by idolatry and perjury his office as the Lord's anointed. Havernick translates х chaalaal (H2491)], as in Ezekiel 21:14, 'slain' - i:e., not literally, but virtually; to Ezekiel's idealizing view Zedekiah was the grand victim pierced through" by God's sword of judgments, as his sons were slain before his eyes, which were then put out, and he was led a captive in chains to Babylon. The English version is better; so Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, Gesenius (2 Chronicles 36:13; Jeremiah 52:2).

Whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end - (Ezekiel 21:29). When thine iniquity, having reached its last stage of guilt, shall be put an end to by judgment (Ezekiel 35:5).

Ezekiel 21:25

25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,