Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsDestruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.
Destruction hath come, And they have sought peace, and there is none.
Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, but there shall be none.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentEzekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’
- Author
- Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
- Date
- Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)