What Does Ezekiel 7:6 Mean?
The cutting off has come, the cutting off has come. It stays awake for you. Behold, it has come.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.THE KEY
The word beneath “watcheth” says the end has awakened toward you, making the ending active and near.
THE MEANING
The verse addresses you now with a hard threshold: the end is present, awake, and directed toward you. Its repeated announcement leaves no room to treat what has arrived as a remote possibility.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a warning remains harmlessly distant until its consequences appear: here, the end is already awake and facing you.
THE ROOT
הֵקִיץ
heqits
GROWS FROM
קוּץ
q-w-ts
To awaken or rouse from sleep.
“stays awake” in this verse is heqits. The Hebrew verb beneath “watcheth” comes from the root for waking: the end has awakened toward you. קֵץ (qēṣ, “end”) and הֵקִיץ (heqîṣ, “has awakened”) echo one another in sound, making the announced limit feel suddenly alert and near; they are sound-linked, not the same root.
ALSO GROWS
hāqîṣû: “Awake!” (Isaiah 26:19)
הָקִיצוּ
The same root calls those in the dust to wake, showing its force as a movement from sleep into active presence.
yāqîṣû: “They will awake” (Daniel 12:2)
יָקִיצוּ
Here the root describes sleepers rising, while in Ezekiel the end itself has awakened toward you.
THE PATTERN
When an ending reaches its threshold, the warning stops being distant and meets the present.
Therefore, say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD. I will stop this likeness, and they shall no more speak it as a likeness in Israel. But say to them, The days draw near, and the word of every sight.And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the LORD said to me, The end has come upon my people Israel. I will not again pass over them any more.When they say, "Wholeness and firm footing," then sudden ruin stands over them, like labor pains upon a woman carrying a child in her womb, and they will not escape.THE THREAD
Your dead will live; together with my corpse they will rise. Awake and ring out, you who camp in the dust, for your dew is a dew of lights, and the earth will drop the slackened ones.Isaiah uses the same Hebrew root for “Awake” to call those in the dust into life. In Ezekiel, that awakening belongs to the end itself: the same root’s force can name either rising from sleep or an ending that has come fully alert.
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