Ezekiel 7:25 “Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.”

Ezekiel 7:25

Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Destruction comes! They will seek peace, and there will be none.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

When destruction commeth, they shall seeke peace, and shall not haue it.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Destruction hath come, And they have sought peace, and there is none.

Bible in Basic English

Shaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for peace, and there will be no peace.

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Cross references

“and they”

Isaiah 57:21 Isaiah 59:8–12 Micah 1:12 Jeremiah 8:15 Jeremiah 8:16 Lamentations 4:17

Isaiah 57:21 · BSB

“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

Isaiah 59:8–12 · BSB

The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.

Micah 1:12 · BSB

For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 8:15 · BSB

We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

Jeremiah 8:16 · BSB

The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.

Lamentations 4:17 · BSB

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

Also

Ezekiel 13:16 Ezekiel 13:10

Ezekiel 13:16 · BSB

those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw a vision of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Lord GOD.’

Ezekiel 13:10 · BSB

Because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

24So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.

26Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.

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