When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none.
He confirms the same doctrine. He says therefore, destruction is come He now adds, there shall be no peace This confirmation was not in vain. For men always hope they shall obtain some advantage by turning their backs; hence they seize on hiding-places whence God draws them into light. Then they form for themselves many hopes of safety when God holds them bound down.
Those who break God's law and cast off His cords will find themselves bound by the chains of His judgments, which they cannot break. The land is full of crimes deserving death; Jerusalem, which should have been the pattern of righteousness, is now full of violence. Bloody crimes will be punished with bloody judgments.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 7:23-27
Mischief shall come upon mischief,.... One misfortune or calamity after another; first one unhappy event, and then another, as was Job's case. The Targum is, "breach upon breach shall come (o):'' and rumour shall be upon rumour; that the Chaldean army is in such a place; and then that it is in another place still nearer; and then that it is but a few miles...