Ezekiel 7 · Verse 25

Ezekiel 7:25

Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
Ezekiel 7:25, King James Version

Ezekiel 7:25 in other translations

BSBAnguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.
WEBDestruction comes! They will seek peace, and there will be none.
ASVDestruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
YLTDestruction hath come, And they have sought peace, and there is none.
DARBYDestruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, but there shall be none.
BBEShaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for peace, and there will be no peace.
WebsterDestruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

What does Ezekiel 7:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
25. peace, and ... none--(1Th 5:3).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 25 They shall seek peace - They see now that their ceasing to pay the tribute to the king of Babylon has brought the Chaldeans against them; and now they sue for peace in vain. He will not hear: he is resolved on their destruction.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 7:23-27

Whoever break the bands of God's law, will find themselves bound and held by the chains of his judgments. Since they encouraged one another to sin, God would dishearten them. All must needs be in trouble, when God comes to judge them according to their deserts. May the Lord enable us to seek that good part which shall not be taken away.

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Ezekiel 7:25 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

קְפָ֖דָה\־ke.Fa.dah-anguishH7089
בָ֑אVa'it has comeH935
וּבִקְשׁ֥וּu.vik.Shuand they will seekH1245
שָׁל֖וֹםsha.LompeaceH7965
וָאָֽיִן\׃va.'A.yinand notH369

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 7:25

  • Isaiah 59:8-12

    The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. …

  • Jeremiah 8:15-16

    We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

  • Lamentations 4:17-18

    As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

  • Isaiah 57:21

    There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

  • Ezekiel 13:10

    Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:

  • Micah 1:12

    For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem.

  • Ezekiel 13:16

    To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord God.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Destruction. Heb. Cutting off. and they.
Isa 57:21; 59:8-12; Jer 8:15,16; La 4:17,18; Mic 1:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Ezekiel 7:24

    Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

  • Ezekiel 7:25

    Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

  • Ezekiel 7:26

    Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

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Ezekiel 7:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Destrucción viene; y buscarán la paz, y no la habrá.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
La destruction vient; et ils chercheront la paix, mais il n’y en aura point.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Schrecken kommt; und sie werden Frieden suchen, aber da ist keiner.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Angustia superveniente, requirent pacem, et non erit.