November 10, 2026, Ezekial 7:1-27
November 10, 2026, Ezekial 7:1-27
7 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.[a] 3 Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. 4 And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
5 “Thus says the Lord God:
Disaster after disaster![b] Behold, it comes. 6 An
end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it
comes. 7 Your doom[c] has come to you, O
inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day is near, a day of
tumult, and not of joyful shouting on the mountains. 8 Now
I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against
you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all
your abominations. 9 And my eye will not spare, nor
will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your
abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am
the Lord, who strikes.
10 “Behold, the day! Behold, it
comes! Your doom has come; the rod has blossomed; pride has
budded. 11 Violence has grown up into a rod of
wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their
wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.[d] 12 The time has
come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller
mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.[e] 13 For the
seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For the
vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his
iniquity, none can maintain his life.[f]
14 “They have blown the trumpet and
made everything ready, but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all
their multitude. 15 The sword is without;
pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the
sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour. 16 And
if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the
valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. 17 All
hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. 18 They
put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces,
and baldness on all their heads. 19 They cast
their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean
thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of
the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their
stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their
iniquity. 20 His beautiful ornament they used for
pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things
of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them. 21 And
I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the
wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it. 22 I
will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured[g] place. Robbers shall
enter and profane it.
23 “Forge a chain![h] For the land is full of bloody
crimes and the city is full of violence. 24 I
will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their
houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy
places[i] shall be profaned. 25 When
anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none. 26 Disaster
comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the
prophet, while the law[j] perishes from the
priest and counsel from the elders. 27 The
king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of
the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to
them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall
know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 7:1-27 is
a sobering prophecy declaring the imminent, inescapable, and complete
destruction of Jerusalem. God emphasizes the finality of His judgment brought
on by centuries of idolatry, violence, and social corruption. Ultimately, this
disaster strips away all human securities like wealth and leadership.
When everything
you rely on (like status, wealth, or human planning) is stripped away, where do
you find your true security? How does this chapter challenge the things we
often treat as our "safe havens"?
In
Ezekiel 7, God punishes the people according to their actions because His
warnings were continually ignored. Are there "warnings" or spiritual
nudges in your own life that you might be ignoring out of apathy or
complacency?
Robin Adams
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