Ezekiel 7:11-12

7:11 Violence ¹  has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left ²  – not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence. ³  7:12 The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath ⁴  comes against their whole crowd.

Ezekiel 7:14

7:14 “They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd. ⁵ 

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¹ tn Heb “the violence.”

² tc The LXX reads “he will crush the wicked rod without confusion or haste.”

tn The verb has been supplied for the Hebrew text to clarify the sense.

³ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

⁴ tn Heb “wrath.” Context clarifies that God’s wrath is in view.

⁵ tn The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.