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Ezekiel 7:2

The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 7:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

An end, etc. The iteration of the word once more gives emphasis. The words read like an echo of . The four corners (Hebrew, "wings") were probably, as with us, the north, east, south, and west.

The phrase had been used before in , and the thought meets us again, in the form of the "four winds," in ; ; ; . The "end" in this case is either that of the siege of Jerusalem, or that of the existence of Israel as a nation.

It was now drawing nigh—was, as we say, within measurable distance.

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