“Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded.
Now Ezekiel uses another figure, but to the same purpose. He repeats what he had said before: the day is come, and he adds another part, that the morning had advanced But we said that the impious, when God connives at their sins, exult as it were in darkness without shame or fear.
When the town is on fire, men cry "Fire! fire!" through the streets with a loud voice, not quaint expressions. So I proclaim: An end! An end! It has come, it has come. This is the end they were warned of so often, the one they flattered themselves would never arrive. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 7:1-15
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness,.... Some understand this of the Chaldeans, who came with great violence against the Jews, and were a rod in the hand of the Lord, to scourge them for their wickedness; and this seems to be the sense of the Targum, "spoilers are risen up to visit the wicked;'' but rather the violence, oppression, and rapine of...