Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law perishes from the priest and counsel from the elders.
Calamities shall come in endless succession, one the forerunner of another, because God will not cease to add evils to evils. The wicked think themselves escaped when one trouble passes, but the Prophet announces God will exercise vengeance so relentlessly that they perish a hundred times rather than escape with impunity.
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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.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 7:23-27
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation,.... Meaning one and the same person, Zedekiah not being able to save himself and his people; and who falling into the hands of the king of Babylon, his children were slain before him; then his own eyes put out, and he bound in chains, and carried captive to Babylon, Jer 39:6; and the...