Ezekiel 7:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

Ezekiel 7:10 —

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Cross-References

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Isaiah 10:5
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
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.
James 4:6
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Psalms 89:32
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-15)

We have here fair warning given of the destruction of the land of Israel, which was now hastening on apace. God, by the prophet, not only sends notice of it, but will have it inculcated in the same expressions, to show that the thing is certain, that it is near, that the prophet is himself affected with it and desires they should be so too, but finds them deaf, and stupid, and unaffected. When the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. rod ... blossomed, pride ... budded--The “rod” is the Chaldean Nebuchadnezzar, the instrument of God’s vengeance (Is 10:5; Jr 51:20). The rod sprouting (as the word ought to be translated), &c., implies that God does not move precipitately, but in successive steps. He as it were has planted the ministers of His vengeance, and leaves them to grow till all is ripe for executing His purpose. “Pri…