John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 7:27
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation ,.... Meaning one and the same person, Zedekiah not being able to save himself and his people; and who falling into the hands of the king of Babylon, his children were slain before him; then his own eyes put out, and he bound in chains, and carried captive to Babylon, Jeremiah 39:6 ; and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled ; weakened through fear and distress; incapable of business, and unable to... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 7:23-27
Here is, I. The prisoner arraigned: Make a chain, in which to drag the criminal to the bar, and set him before the tribunal of divine justice; let him stand in fetters (as a notorious malefactor), stand pinioned to receive his doom. Note, Those that break the bands of God's law asunder, and cast away those cords from them, will find themselves bound and held by the chains of his judgments, which they cannot break nor cast from them. The chain signified the siege of Jerusalem, or the slavery of... read more