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Read›Ezekiel›Chapter 7

The Hour of Doom

Ezekiel 7:5

In 11 translations

BSB
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster — behold, it is coming!Or A unique disaster, as in most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac Disaster after disaster
KJV
Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
WEB
“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘A disaster! A unique disaster! Behold, it comes.
ASV
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil; behold, it cometh.
LSV
Thus said Lord YHWH: Calamity, a single calamity, behold, it has come.
YLT
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Evil, a single evil, lo, it hath come.
DBY
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil! behold, it is come.
DRC
Thus saith the Lord God: One affliction, behold an affliction is come.
GNV
Thus saith the Lord God, Beholde, one euil, euen one euill is come.
JPS
Thus saith the Lord GOD: An evil, a singular evil, behold, it cometh.
LXXE7:9
For thus saith the Lord; Behold, the end is come.

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Original-language editions

WLC
כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה רָעָ֛ה אַחַ֥ת רָעָ֖ה הִנֵּ֥ה בָאָֽה׃
LXX-Br7:9
Διότι τάδε λέγει Κύριος, ἰδοὺ τὸ πέρας ἥκει.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 2 Kings 21:12–13this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it. I will stretch out over Jerusalem the…
  • Ezekiel 5:9Because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.
  • Nahum 1:9Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
  • Amos 3:2“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
  • Matthew 24:21For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.
  • Daniel 9:12You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 7:9 in some Bibles
  • 7:5 in most Bibles

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