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Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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Green's Literal Translation

Ezekiel 7:5

So says the Lord Jehovah: An evil! An only evil! Behold, it has come!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Wicked (People);  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is what the Lord God says:
Hebrew Names Version
Thus says the Lord GOD: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes.
King James Version
Thus saith the Lord God ; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
English Standard Version
"Thus says the Lord God : Disaster after disaster! Behold, it comes.
New American Standard Bible
"This is what the Lord GOD says: 'A disaster, a unique disaster, behold, it is coming!
New Century Version
"This is what the Lord God says: Disaster on top of disaster is coming.
Amplified Bible
"Thus says the Lord GOD, 'A disaster is coming, [one so destructive and injurious, so sudden and violent, that it stands alone,] a unique disaster, look it is coming!
World English Bible
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde, one euil, euen one euill is come.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Thus says the Lord GOD, 'A disaster, unique disaster, behold it is coming!
Legacy Standard Bible
"Thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘A calamitous evil, a unique calamitous evil, behold, it is coming!
Berean Standard Bible
This is what the Lord GOD says: 'Disaster! An unprecedented disaster-behold, it is coming!
Contemporary English Version
There's never been anything like the coming disaster.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘Disaster, unique disaster — here it comes!
Darby Translation
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil! behold, it is come.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is what the Lord God said: "There will be one disaster after another!
George Lamsa Translation
Thus says the LORD God: Behold, an evil is coming for every evil which you have committed.
Good News Translation
This is what the Sovereign Lord is saying: "One disaster after another is coming on you.
Lexham English Bible
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Look! Disaster after disaster is coming!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, one mysery and plage shall come after another:
American Standard Version
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil; behold, it cometh.
Bible in Basic English
This is what the Lord has said: An evil, even one evil; see, it is coming.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus saith the Lord GOD: An evil, a singular evil, behold, it cometh.
King James Version (1611)
Thus sayth the Lord God, An euill, an onely euill, behold, is come.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde, one euyll shall come after another:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For thus saith the Lord; Behold, the end is come.
English Revised Version
Thus saith the Lord GOD: An evil, an only evil; behold, it cometh.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord God seith these thingis, O turment, lo!
Update Bible Version
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; look, it comes.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
New English Translation
"This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster—a one-of-a-kind disaster—is coming!
New King James Version
"Thus says the Lord GOD: "A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come!
New Living Translation
"This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Disaster after disaster is coming your way!
New Life Bible
"The Lord God says, ‘See, much trouble is coming!
New Revised Standard
Thus says the Lord God : Disaster after disaster! See, it comes.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus saith My Lord Yahweh:A calamity, a sole calamity, lo! it hath come.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord God: One affliction, behold an affliction is come.
Revised Standard Version
"Thus says the Lord GOD: Disaster after disaster! Behold, it comes.
Young's Literal Translation
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Evil, a single evil, lo, it hath come.
THE MESSAGE
"I, God , the Master, say: ‘Disaster after disaster! Look, it comes! Endtime— the end comes. The end is ripe. Watch out, it's coming! This is your fate, you who live in this land. Time's up. It's zero hour. No dragging of feet now, no bargaining for more time. Soon now I'll pour my wrath on you, pay out my anger against you, Render my verdict on the way you've lived, make you pay for your disgusting obscenities. I won't look the other way, I won't feel sorry for you. I'll make you pay for the way you've lived. Your disgusting obscenities will boomerang on you. Then you'll realize that it is I, God , who have hit you.

Contextual Overview

1 And it happened, the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying, 2 And you, son of man, so says the Lord Jehovah to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land. 3 The end is now on you, and I will send My anger on you and will judge you according to your ways and will lay on you all your abominations. 4 And My eye shall not spare you, and I will not have pity. But I will lay your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in your midst, and you shall know that I am Jehovah. 5 So says the Lord Jehovah: An evil! An only evil! Behold, it has come! 6 An end has come, the end has come! It has awakened against you, behold, it has come! 7 The encirclement has come to you, O dwellers of the land. The time has come, the day of tumult is near, and not a shout of the hills. 8 I will soon pour out My fury on you and fulfill My anger on you. And I will judge you according to your ways and will put on you all your abominations. 9 And My eye shall not spare, and I will not have pity; I will put on you according to your ways and your abominations that are in your midst. And you shall know that I am Jehovah who strikes. 10 Behold the day! Behold, it has come, the encirclement has gone out, the rod has blossomed, and pride has budded.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 5:9, 2 Kings 21:12, 2 Kings 21:13, Daniel 9:12, Amos 3:2, Nahum 1:9, Matthew 24:21

Reciprocal: Isaiah 21:12 - The morning Jeremiah 11:11 - I will bring Jeremiah 47:4 - the day Jeremiah 50:27 - their day Ezekiel 7:2 - An end Ezekiel 7:12 - time Ezekiel 12:23 - The days Joel 2:1 - for the Matthew 24:14 - and then

Cross-References

Genesis 6:22
And Noah did so, according to all that God commanded him, so he did.
Exodus 39:32
And all the work of the tabernacle of the congregation was finished, And the sons of Israel did according to all which Jehovah commanded Moses; so they did.
Exodus 40:16
And Moses did so, according to all that Jehovah commanded him; so he did.
Psalms 119:6
Then I shall not be ashamed, when I look to all Your Commands.
Matthew 3:15
But answering, Jesus said to him, Allow it now, for it is becoming to us this way to fulfill all righteousness. Then he allows Him.
Luke 8:21
And answering, He said to them, My mother and My brothers are these: the ones hearing the Word of God, and doing it.
John 2:5
His mother said to the servants, Whatever He says to you, do.
John 13:17
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Philippians 2:8
and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, having become obedient until death, even the death of a cross.
Hebrews 5:8
though being a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord God,.... Here should be a stop, a colon, requiring attention to what follows, it being something awful and terrible:

an evil, an only evil, behold, it cometh; meaning the destruction of the city and temple; which, though but one, was such an one as was never known before nor was there any like it. The Targum is,

"evil after evil, lo, it cometh;''

one evil after another; when one evil is gone, another comes, as in Ezekiel 7:26. The Syriac version is, "behold, evil for evil comes"; the evil of punishment for the evil of sin.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

An only evil - An evil singular and remarkable above all others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 7:5. An evil, an only evil — The great, the sovereign, the last exterminating evil, is come: the sword, the pestilence, the famine, and the captivity. Many MSS. read אחר achar, after. So evil cometh after evil; one instantly succeeds another.


 
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