Ezekiel 7:5

Thus saith the Lord God ,.... Here should be a stop, a colon, requiring attention to what follows, it being something awful and terrible:

an evil, an only evil, behold, it cometh ; meaning the destruction of the city and temple; which, though but one, was such an one as was never known before nor was there any like it. The Targum is,

"evil after evil, lo, it cometh;'

one evil after another; when one evil is gone, another comes, as in Ezekiel 7:26 . The Syriac version is, "behold, evil for evil comes"; the evil of punishment for the evil of sin.