Eze 7:7 | KingComments | STEP | The Lord GOD ( Adonai Yahweh ) lets Ezekiel – and through him the people – know that the time of His patience is over ( ). His patience with them has run out. One disaster will follow another in rapid succession and it is coming! These disasters announce the end ( ). “The end” is presented as a person awakening, moving and taking action. When the end comes, it means the downfall of the “inhabitant of the land” ( ). Then “the day” has come when confusion will prevail and joy will be silenced. For those who think that day will bring them joy, it is a disillusionment, for that day brings judgment, terror and dismay ( ). “The day” is the day of the LORD, the day when He will judge openly and no longer hide Himself. “Shortly” that will happen, then the LORD will pour out His wrath on the land ( ). He will no longer withhold His anger, but execute it and judge the land in accordance with the sinful ways it has gone. His anger is completely justified. He will repay the land for all its abominations. When He brings His judgments on the land, He will show no pity and spare nothing ( ). When He brings disaster upon disaster upon the land, the Israelites will know that He, the LORD, does the smiting ( ). The actions of the LORD are presented in short sentences in the preceding verses. are largely a repetition of . It is a double testimony and they are, as it were, exclamations made in great emotion. They are to impress upon the people the horrors of the coming judgments which are approaching with great speed and inescapably.

‏ Ezekiel 7:7

The Judgment Is Near

The Lord GOD (Adonai Yahweh) lets Ezekiel – and through him the people – know that the time of His patience is over (Eze 7:5). His patience with them has run out. One disaster will follow another in rapid succession and it is coming! These disasters announce the end (Eze 7:6). “The end” is presented as a person awakening, moving and taking action.

When the end comes, it means the downfall of the “inhabitant of the land” (Eze 7:7). Then “the day” has come when confusion will prevail and joy will be silenced. For those who think that day will bring them joy, it is a disillusionment, for that day brings judgment, terror and dismay (Amos 5:16-20). “The day” is the day of the LORD, the day when He will judge openly and no longer hide Himself.

“Shortly” that will happen, then the LORD will pour out His wrath on the land (Eze 7:8). He will no longer withhold His anger, but execute it and judge the land in accordance with the sinful ways it has gone. His anger is completely justified. He will repay the land for all its abominations.

When He brings His judgments on the land, He will show no pity and spare nothing (Eze 7:9). When He brings disaster upon disaster upon the land, the Israelites will know that He, the LORD, does the smiting (Eze 7:4 ; 27).

The actions of the LORD are presented in short sentences in the preceding verses. Eze 7:5-9 are largely a repetition of Eze 7:1-4. It is a double testimony and they are, as it were, exclamations made in great emotion. They are to impress upon the people the horrors of the coming judgments which are approaching with great speed and inescapably.