Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.
This is an explanation of the words, that pride had budded: now he adds violence to pride, which is its fruit: for contempt of God always begets cruelty and savagery, and rapine, and all injustice. But he speaks, as I have said, concerning the Israelites.
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
The time is come, the day draweth near,.... According to the Targum, the time of the recompence of iniquities, and the day of punishment of sins; of the sins of the Jews, by the Chaldean army, which no doubt is true; but it seems chiefly to refer to what follows: and the sense is, the time was coming on, in which let not the buyer...