Ezekiel 7:10

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

““‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded.”

— WEB

“Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.”

— KJV

“Behold, the day, behold, it cometh: thy doom is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.”

— ASV

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Isaiah 10:5 "Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!"
James 4:6 "But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”Proverbs 3:34"
1 Thessalonians 5:3 "For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they w…"
Proverbs 16:18 "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."
Isaiah 28:1 "Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the ferti…"
Ezekiel 7:6 "An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes."
Psalms 89:32 "then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes."
Numbers 17:8 "On the next day, Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced …"

Commentary

rod . . . blossomed, pride . . . budded--The "rod" is the Chaldean Nebuchadnezzar, the instrument of God's vengeance (Isa 10:5; Jer 51:20). The rod sprouting (as the word ought to be translated), &c., implies that God does not move precipitately, but in successive steps. He as it were has planted the ministers of His vengeance, and leaves them to grow till all is ripe for executing His purpose. "Pride" refers to the insolence of the Babylonian conqueror (Jer 50:31-32). The parallelism ("pride" answering to "rod") opposes JEROME'S view, that "pride" refers to the Jews who despised God's threats; (also CALVIN'S, "though the rod grew in Chaldea, the root was with the Jews"). The "rod" cannot refer, as GROTIUS thought, to the tribe of Judah, for it evidently refers to the "smiteth" (Eze 7:9) as the instrument of smiting.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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