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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 7:7 - 7:7
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The morning - so Chaldean and Syriac versions (compare Joe 2:2). Ezekiel wishes to awaken them from their lethargy, whereby they were promising to themselves an uninterrupted night (1Th 5:5-7), as if they were never to be called to account [Calvin]. The expression, “morning,” refers to the fact that this was the usual time for magistrates giving sentence against offenders (compare Eze 7:10, below; Psa 101:8; Jer 21:12). Gesenius, less probably, translates, “the order of fate”; thy turn to be punished.
not the sounding again - not an empty echo, such as is produced by the reverberation of sounds in “the mountains,” but a real cry of tumult is coming [Calvin]. Perhaps it alludes to the joyous cries of the grape-gatherers at vintage on the hills [Grotius], or of the idolaters in their dances on their festivals in honor of their false gods [Tirinus]. Havernick translates, “no brightness.”