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Your doom is come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is near, [a day of] tumult, and not [of] joyful shouting, on the mountains.
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The Sudden Dawn of Judgment
Commentators highlight the powerful imagery of the word for "doom," often translated as "morning." While the people were comfortable in a spiritual "night" of sin, God's judgment would break upon them suddenly and terrifyingly, like an unwanted dawn. As John Calvin suggests, this "morning" would expose their deeds and rouse them from their slumber when it was too late.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The morning - Rather, “The conclusion”: a whole series (literally circle) of events is being brought to a close. Others render it: Fate.
19th Century
Anglican
The morning is come unto thee. —The word here used is not the usual one for morning. This word occurs elsewhere …
16th Century
Protestant
Now he uses another word. He says, the morning is come, though some translate it as kingdom, but erroneously. For although צפירה, tzep…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The morning is come upon thee, O thou that dwellest in the land That is, early ruin was co…
The abruptness of this prophecy, and the many repetitions, show that the prophet was deeply affected by the prospect of these calamities. Such will…
