Ezekiel 7:24 · KJV
“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
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and {there shall be} none. {Destruction: Heb. Cutting off}
Ezekiel 7 — Context
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}
23Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
24Wherefore 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}
25Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and {there shall be} none. {Destruction: Heb. Cutting off}
26Mischief 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.
Cross References
Ezekiel 28:7
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
Ezekiel 21:31
And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, {and} skilful to destroy. {brutish: or, burning}
Psalms 106:41
And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.
Ezekiel 33:28
For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through. {most...: Heb. desolation and desolation}
Jeremiah 12:12
The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the {one} end of the land even to the {other} end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Jeremiah 4:7
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; {and} thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
Ezekiel 21:2
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop {thy word} toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
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