“See!
The day!
See!
It comes!
Your doom
Has gone out.
The rod
Has blossomed.
Pride
Has budded.
Violence
Has grown
Into a rod
Of wickedness.
None of them
Shall remain.
Their abundance
Shall not remain.
Their wealth
Shall not remain.
There will be
No preeminence
Among them.”
As usual in Ezekiel, there is repetition. Yahweh talked about the coming doom as the day was at hand. Pride had budded and blossomed as violence grew into more wickedness. No one would keep their abundance or wealth. No one would be greater than another. There would be no more prominent people.