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Woe to you that flatter yourselves that the day of darkness and misery foretold is far off! See Poole "Eze_12:27". These were great ones too, that the prophet here threateneth, who thus postponed the day of Israel’s and Judah’s calamities.
The evil day; not as if it should be a short calamity, as a day; but it speaks the determinate, fixed time, and the haste wherewith the execution shall be made.
The seat; the throne, or judgment-seat, which should relieve the oppressed, condemn the wicked, and acquit the innocent, this is made a seat of violence, where unjust judges condemn the just and take bribes.
To come near; thus you draw the judgments of God on yourselves, by acting violence against the poor, and contemning the threats of the prophets.