Ezekiel 7:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor; they shall keep seeking a vision from the prophet; instruction shall perish from the priest and counsel from the elders.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Calamity shall come upon calamity and rumor shall be upon rumor, and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; and the law and instruction shall cease from the [distracted] priest and counsel from the [dismayed] elders. [Ps. 74:9; Lam. 2:9.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

Common English Bible

²⁶ One disaster comes after another, and rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet. Instruction disappears from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Disturbance will follow after disturbance, and rumor after rumor. And they will seek the vision of the prophet, and the law will perish from the priest, and counsel will perish from the elders.

Ezekiel 7:26 Cross References

Jeremiah 4:20

Disaster overtakes disaster; the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my curtains in a moment.

Micah 3:6

Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without revelation. The sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;

Ezekiel 14:1

Certain elders of Israel came to me and sat down before me.

Psalm 74:9

We do not see our emblems; there is no longer any prophet, and there is no one among us who knows how long.

Jeremiah 37:17

Then King Zedekiah sent for him and received him. The king questioned him secretly in his house and said, “Is there any word from the Lord?” Jeremiah said, “There is!” Then he said, “You shall be handed over to the king of Babylon.”

Jeremiah 21:2

“Please inquire of the Lord on our behalf, for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon is making war against us; perhaps the Lord will perform a wonderful deed for us, as he has often done, and Nebuchadrezzar will withdraw.”

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him, and let us not heed any of his words.”

Ezekiel 33:31

They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not obey them. For flattery is on their lips, but their heart is set on their gain.

Ezekiel 8:1

In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there.

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; guidance is no more, and her prophets obtain no vision from the Lord.

Isaiah 47:11

But evil shall come upon you, which you cannot charm away; disaster shall fall upon you, which you will not be able to ward off, and ruin shall come on you suddenly, of which you know nothing.

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will heap disasters upon them, spend my arrows against them:

Leviticus 26:28

I will continue hostile to you in fury; I in turn will punish you myself sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:24

then I, too, will continue hostile to you: I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:21

“If you continue hostile to me and will not obey me, I will continue to plague you sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:18

And if in spite of this you will not obey me, I will continue to punish you sevenfold for your sins.

1 Samuel 3:1

Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. The word of the Lord was rare in those days; visions were not widespread.

Ezekiel 11:2

He said to me, “Mortal, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city;

Ezekiel 12:22

Mortal, what is this proverb of yours about the land of Israel that says, “The days are prolonged, and every vision comes to nothing”?

Ezekiel 21:7

And when they say to you, “Why do you moan?” you shall say, “Because of the news that has come. Every heart will melt, and all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will turn to water. See, it comes and it will be fulfilled,” says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:26

Its priests have done violence to my teaching and have profaned my holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 2:9

so I make you despised and humbled before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in your instruction.