Ezekiel 7:10
New International Version
“’See, the day! See, it comes! Doom has burst forth, the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed!

New Living Translation
“The day of judgment is here; your destruction awaits! The people’s wickedness and pride have blossomed to full flower.

English Standard Version
“Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded.

Berean Standard Bible
Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed.

King James Bible
Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

New King James Version
‘Behold, the day! Behold, it has come! Doom has gone out; The rod has blossomed, Pride has budded.

New American Standard Bible
‘Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed.

NASB 1995
Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed.

NASB 1977
‘Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod has blossomed; arrogance has budded.

Amplified Bible
‘Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth, the rod has blossomed, arrogance has sprouted.

Christian Standard Bible
Here is the day! Here it comes! Doom is on its way. The rod has blossomed; arrogance has bloomed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Look, the day is coming! Doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed; arrogance has bloomed.

American Standard Version
Behold, the day, behold, it cometh: thy doom is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

Contemporary English Version
Disaster is near! Injustice and arrogance are everywhere,

English Revised Version
Behold, the day, behold, it cometh: thy doom is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"The day is near! It is coming! Destruction is coming! Wrongdoing has blossomed. Arrogance has flourished.

Good News Translation
The day of disaster is coming. Violence is flourishing. Pride is at its height.

International Standard Version
"Look out! The day! "Look out! It's coming! "Doom has blossomed. "Arrogance has sprouted!

Majority Standard Bible
Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed.

NET Bible
"Look, the day! Look, it is coming! Doom has gone out! The staff has budded, pride has blossomed!

New Heart English Bible
Look, the day, look, it comes: your doom is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.'

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold the day, behold, it is come; the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

World English Bible
“‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Behold, the day, behold, it has come, "" The circlet has gone forth, "" The rod has blossomed, the pride has flourished.

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, the day, lo, it hath come, Gone forth hath the morning, Blossomed hath the rod, flourished the pride.

Smith's Literal Translation
Behold the day, behold, it came: the circle shall go forth; the rod blossomed, pride flourished.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold the day, behold it is come: destruction is gone forth, the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Behold, the day! Behold, it approaches! Destruction has gone forth, the rod has blossomed, arrogance has germinated.

New American Bible
The day is here! Look! it is coming! The crisis has come! Lawlessness is blooming, insolence budding;

New Revised Standard Version
See, the day! See, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed, pride has budded.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Behold the day is come, the dawn is gone forth; the staff has blossomed, the shame has budded.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Behold, the day has come! The dawn has gone forth and the rod has blossomed and disgrace has borne fruit!
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Behold the day; behold, it cometh; the turn is come forth; the rod hath blossomed, arrogancy hath budded.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Behold, the day of the Lord! although the rod has blossomed,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Hour of Doom
9I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow. 10Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed. 11Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.…

Cross References
Isaiah 59:4-8
No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. / They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched. / Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands. ...

Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”

Micah 7:3-4
Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together. / The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.

Isaiah 5:20-23
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter. / Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. / Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink, ...

Jeremiah 6:13-15
“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit. / They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all. / Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.

Amos 8:2
“Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”

Zephaniah 1:14-18
The great Day of the LORD is near—near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter. / That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness, / a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers. ...

Isaiah 10:5-6
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. / I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Jeremiah 8:10-12
Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit. / They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all. / Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.

Hosea 10:13
You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

Matthew 24:12
Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.

Romans 1:29-31
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, / slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. / They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

2 Timothy 3:1-5
But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. / For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, / unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, ...

James 5:1-6
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. / Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes. / Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days. ...

1 Thessalonians 5:3
While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.


Treasury of Scripture

Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.

behold, it

Ezekiel 7:6
An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

the morning

Ezekiel 7:7
The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.

the rod

Ezekiel 19:14
And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

Ezekiel 21:10,13
It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree…

Numbers 17:8
And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

pride

Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

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Ezekiel 7
1. The final desolation of Israel
16. The mournful repentance from that escape
20. The enemies defile the sanctuary because of the Israelites' abominations
23. Under the type of a chain is shown the miserable captivity of all orders of men














Behold, the day!
The Hebrew word for "behold" is "הִנֵּה" (hinneh), which serves as an imperative to pay attention or to look. It is a call to awareness, urging the listener to recognize the immediacy and certainty of what is about to occur. In the context of Ezekiel, this is a divine announcement, emphasizing the urgency and inevitability of God's judgment. The "day" refers to the day of the Lord, a time of reckoning and divine intervention. Historically, this would have resonated with the Israelites as a moment of significant change, often associated with both judgment and deliverance.

Behold, it is coming!
The repetition of "behold" underscores the certainty and imminence of the event. The phrase "it is coming" uses the Hebrew verb "בּוֹא" (bo), which means to come or to arrive. This conveys the unstoppable nature of God's decree. In the prophetic tradition, such declarations are meant to awaken the people to the reality of their situation and the need for repentance. The historical context here is the impending Babylonian invasion, a direct consequence of Israel's disobedience.

Doom has gone out
"Doom" is translated from the Hebrew word "צְפִירָה" (tzefirah), which can mean wrath or disaster. The phrase "has gone out" suggests that the decree of judgment has been issued and is now in motion. This reflects the biblical principle that God's justice, once pronounced, will be executed. Theologically, it serves as a reminder of the seriousness of sin and the certainty of divine justice.

the rod has budded
The "rod" (Hebrew: "מַטֶּה" - matteh) often symbolizes authority or discipline. In this context, it represents the instrument of God's judgment. The imagery of budding suggests that what was once dormant or potential has now come to fruition. This can be seen as a metaphor for the growth of sin and rebellion, which has now reached its full measure and will be addressed by God. Historically, this could be linked to the rise of Babylon as the instrument of God's judgment against Israel.

arrogance has blossomed
"Arrogance" (Hebrew: "זָדוֹן" - zadon) refers to pride or insolence, a recurring theme in the prophetic literature as a root cause of Israel's downfall. The term "blossomed" (Hebrew: "פָּרַח" - parach) indicates that arrogance has reached its peak, much like a flower in full bloom. This serves as a vivid illustration of how unchecked pride leads to destruction. Scripturally, it echoes the warnings found throughout the Bible about the dangers of pride and the need for humility before God.

(10) The morning is gone forth.--The same word as in Ezekiel 7:7, and in the same sense--the circle is complete, the end is reached, sin hath brought forth death. "The rod" is commonly understood of the Chaldaean conqueror; but as the word is the same for rod and for tribe, and is very often used in the latter sense, it will be more in accordance with the connection to understand here a play upon the word. There will be then an allusion to the rods of the tribes in Numbers 17:8. There the rod of Aaron was made to bud and blossom by Divine power in evidence of his having been chosen of God; here the rod representing the tribe at Jerusalem in its self-will and pride has budded and blossomed to its destruction. So the description continues in the next verse, "Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness." Not a rod for the punishment of wickedness; but into a wicked people.

Verse 10. - It is come. Read, as before, it cometh; and for morning, doom (see note on ver. 7). The rod hath blossomed, etc. The three verbs imply a climax. The "doom" springs out of the earth; the rod of vengeance blossoms (the word is the same as that which describes the blooming of Aaron's rod (Numbers 17:8), and the phrase was probably suggested by the history); pride (either that of the Chaldean ministers of vengeance, or of Israel as working out its own punishment; I incline to the latter) buds and bears fruit. In Isaiah 27:6 the word follows on "blossom," and therefore seems applicable to the formation of the fruit rather than the flower. (For the image of the rod, comp. Psalm 110:2; Isaiah 10:26; Micah 6:9.)

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Behold,
הִנֵּ֥ה (hin·nêh)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

the day
הַיּ֖וֹם (hay·yō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

is here!
הִנֵּ֣ה (hin·nêh)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

It has come!
בָאָ֑ה (ḇā·’āh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

Doom
הַצְּפִרָ֔ה (haṣ·ṣə·p̄i·rāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6843: A plait, chaplet, perhaps doom

has gone out,
יָֽצְאָה֙ (yā·ṣə·’āh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

the rod
הַמַּטֶּ֔ה (ham·maṭ·ṭeh)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4294: A staff, rod, shaft, branch, a tribe

has budded,
פָּרַ֖ח (pā·raḥ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6524: To break forth as a, bud, bloom, to spread, to fly, to flourish

arrogance
הַזָּדֽוֹן׃ (haz·zā·ḏō·wn)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2087: Insolence, presumptuousness

has bloomed.
צָ֚ץ (ṣāṣ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6692: To twinkle, glance, to blossom


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