What Does Ezekiel 7:6 Mean in the King James?
An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
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
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.
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.
Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.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.THE THREAD
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.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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