EZEKIEL 7. THE END IS NIGH.
Ezekiel 7:1. The visions of doom, so vividly described in the three
preceding Chapter s, reach their climax in this chapter, charged with
emotion and palpitating with the sense of the approaching end. That
end was yet more than four years off, but already Ezekiel sees it... [ Continue Reading ]
That dreadful day, which would extinguish their political existence,
would no less bring to an end all their social and commercial life.
The proud blossoms of Judah would soon be smitten and withered. Buyers
need no more rejoice when they made a good bargain, nor need sellers
be sorry when they came... [ Continue Reading ]
In the dread day of the siege, _when_ ruthless Babylonian hands would
profane Yahweh's secret (or rather cherished) place, _i.e._ the
Temple, famine would reign, and then not all their silver and gold, of
which they had been so haughtily proud, could buy for them a bit of
bread, nor could their gilt... [ Continue Reading ]