Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 7:5

"Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil; behold, it cometh." — Ezekiel 7:5 (ASV)

An only evil. —That is, an evil so all-embracing as to be complete in itself, and need no repetition. Compare the same thought in Nahum 1:9, affliction shall not rise up the second time. Some manuscripts, and the Chaldee, by the alteration of one letter, read evil after evil, as in Ezekiel 7:26.