Ezekiel 7:25
New International Version
When terror comes, they will seek peace in vain.

New Living Translation
Terror and trembling will overcome my people. They will look for peace but not find it.

English Standard Version
When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none.

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

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

New King James Version
Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none.

New American Standard Bible
When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there will be none.

NASB 1995
‘When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there will be none.

NASB 1977
‘When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there will be none.

Legacy Standard Bible
Anguish has come, and they will seek peace, but there will be none.

Amplified Bible
When anguish comes, they [of Judah] shall seek peace, but there will be none.

Christian Standard Bible
Anguish is coming! They will look for peace, but there will be none.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but there will be none.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Wrath is coming and they shall seek peace, and it shall not be found

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And though propitiation shall come, and one shall seek peace, yet there shall be none.

Contemporary English Version
You will be terrified and will desperately look for peace--but there will be no peace.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When distress cometh upon them, they will seek for peace and there shall be none.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Anguish is coming. People will look for peace, but there will be none.

Good News Translation
Despair is coming. You will look for peace and never find it.

International Standard Version
"When destruction comes, they'll seek peace, but there will be none to be found.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Horror cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

Literal Standard Version
Destruction has come, | And they have sought peace, and there is none.

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

New American Bible
When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there is none.

NET Bible
Terror is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

New Revised Standard Version
When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none.

New Heart English Bible
Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
Destruction hath come, And they have sought peace, and there is none.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Desolation of Israel
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. 25Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none. 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.…

Cross References
Ezekiel 13:10
Because they have led My people astray, saying, 'Peace,' when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built,

Ezekiel 13:16
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.'


Treasury of Scripture

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

Destruction [heb] Cutting off

Isaiah 57:21
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

Isaiah 59:8-12
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace…

Jeremiah 8:15,16
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! …

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Ezekiel 7
1. The final desolation of Israel
16. The mournful repentance from that escape
20. The enemies defile the sanctuary because of the Israelites' abominations
23. Under the type of a chain is shown the miserable captivity of all orders of men














(25) Destruction cometh.--This is another of the peculiar words occurring only in this chapter. It is generally explained of the dismay and horror accompanying great judgments, and vividly described by our Lord as "men's hearts failing them for fear" (Luke 21:26).

Verse 25. - They shall seek peace, etc. The noun is probably to be taken in its wider sense as including safety and prosperity, but may also include specific overtures for peace made to the Chaldean generals.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Anguish
קְפָ֖דָה־ (qə·p̄ā·ḏāh-)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7089: Shrinking, terror

is coming!
בָ֑א (ḇā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

They will seek
וּבִקְשׁ֥וּ (ū·ḇiq·šū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1245: To search out, to strive after

peace,
שָׁל֖וֹם (šā·lō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7965: Safe, well, happy, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity, peace

but find none.
וָאָֽיִן׃ (wā·’ā·yin)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle


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