The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
The morning is come. So the Chaldaic and Syriac versions (cf. Joel 2:2, "A day of clouds and of thick The morning is come. So the Chaldaic and Syriac versions (cf. Joel 2:2, "A day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning (not the same Hebrew word as here) spread upon the mountains"). Ezekiel wishes to awaken them from their lethargy, whereby they were promising to themselves an uninterrupted night, as if they were never to be called to account (1 Thessalonians 5:5-7) (Calvin). The expression "morning" refers to the fact that this was the usual time for magistrates giving sentence against offenders (cf. Ezekiel 7:10, below; Psalms 101:8; Jeremiah 21:12). Gesenius, less probably, translates, 'the order of fate'-literally, the circuit х tsªpiyraah (H6843)], thy turn to be punished. Henderson, with the Targum, here and Ezekiel 7:10, translates, 'the crown
(i:e., the crowned invader, Nebuchadnezzar) is come.' So in Ezekiel 7:10 the same Hebrew word is parallel to "rod" or sceptre, as he understands it. So also the Hebrew is translated Isaiah 28:5. I prefer the English version.
Not the sounding again - not an empty echo, such as is produced by the reverberation of sounds in "the mountains;" but a real cry of tumult is coming (Calvin). Perhaps it alludes to the joyous cries of the grape gatherers at vintage on the hills (Grotius), or of the idolaters in their dances on "the high places and mountains" (Ezekiel 6:3; Ezekiel 6:13) at their festivals in honour of their false (Tirinus). х heed (H1906), contracted for heedaad, the cry of joy of those celebrating the harvest]. Havernick translates, 'no brightness' (cf. Joel 2:2).