What Does Ezekiel 7:25 Mean in the King James?

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

Ezekiel 7:25 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

Here, “peace” is wholeness, and the verse shows destruction arriving as people reach for it, with none to be found.

THE MEANING

The verse speaks now wherever destruction is pressing in: the search for wholeness becomes urgent, yet urgency alone does not make it available. It names the painful gap plainly, people seek peace, and there is none.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The verse undoes the belief that wanting peace or searching for it guarantees that it is present: here the search meets absence.

THE ROOT

שָׁלוֹם

shalom

GROWS FROM

שלם

sh-l-m

Completeness, wholeness, soundness.

The root carries the sense of completeness and soundness, so “peace” reaches beyond quiet: it is wholeness. The seekers reach for that wholeness as destruction comes, and the verse states plainly that it is absent.

ALSO GROWS

shalem: Complete, whole.

שָׁלֵם

This branch shows that shalom is a condition of wholeness, not simply the absence of conflict.

shillem: Repay, recompense, make good.

שִׁלֵּם

The same root links wholeness with making good what is owed; the missing shalom points to a deeper rupture, not merely a lack of calm.

THE PATTERN

At the point of crisis, seeking or proclaiming peace does not guarantee that wholeness is present.

Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:

Ezekiel 13:10 · KJVPeace is announced over a wall that cannot hold, and the verse names the absence beneath the claim.

They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Jeremiah 6:14 · KJVRepeated assurances of peace do not make the wound whole; the crisis exposes what remains absent.

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 · KJVThe declaration of safety does not stop destruction from arriving.

THE THREAD

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

Psalm 34:14 · KJV

The same Hebrew word, shalom, appears in both verses, alongside the same verb for seeking. Ezekiel shows the search meeting absence as destruction comes; the psalm joins seeking wholeness with pursuing it.

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