Ezekiel 7
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Lutheran reading notes
In Ezekiel chapter 7, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of divine judgment, prophetic visions, and restoration of Israel. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 7:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
Ezekiel 7:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now {is} the end {come} upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. {recompense: Heb. give}
Ezekiel 7:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I {am} the LORD.
Ezekiel 7:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
Ezekiel 7:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. {watcheth for: Heb. awaketh against}
Ezekiel 7:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {sounding...: or, echo}
Ezekiel 7:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 7:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations {that} are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I {am} the LORD that smiteth. {thee according: Heb. upon thee, etc}
Ezekiel 7:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
Ezekiel 7:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them {shall remain}, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither {shall there be} wailing for them. {theirs: or, their tumultuous persons: Heb. tumult}
Ezekiel 7:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath {is} upon all the multitude thereof.
Ezekiel 7:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision {is} touching the whole multitude thereof, {which} shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. {although they...: Heb. though their life were yet among the living} {in the...: or, whose life is in his iniquity} {the iniquity: Heb. his iniquity}
Ezekiel 7:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath {is} upon all the multitude thereof.
Ezekiel 7:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The sword {is} without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that {is} in the field shall die with the sword; and he that {is} in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Ezekiel 7:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
Ezekiel 7:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak {as} water. {be weak...: Heb. go into water}
Ezekiel 7:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They shall also gird {themselves} with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame {shall be} upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
Ezekiel 7:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. {removed: Heb. for a separation, or, uncleanness} {it is...: or, their iniquity is their stumblingblock}
Ezekiel 7:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations {and} of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them. {set it far...: or, made it unto them an unclean thing}
Ezekiel 7:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
Ezekiel 7:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret {place}: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. {robbers: or, burglers}
Ezekiel 7:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Ezekiel 7:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled. {their holy...: or, they shall inherit their holy places}
Ezekiel 7:24 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and {there shall be} none. {Destruction: Heb. Cutting off}
Ezekiel 7:25 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
Ezekiel 7:26 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I {am} the LORD. {according...: Heb. with their judgments}
Ezekiel 7:27 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.