Ezekiel 7:25
Good News Translation
Despair is coming. You will look for peace and never find it.

New Revised Standard Version
When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none.

Contemporary English Version
You will be terrified and will desperately look for peace--but there will be no peace.

New American Bible
When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there is none.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When distress cometh upon them, they will seek for peace and there shall be none.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When distress cometh upon them, they will seek for peace and there shall be none.

Destruction [heb] Cutting off

Isaiah 57:21 There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord God.

Isaiah 59:8-12 They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps: their paths are become crooked to them, every one that treadeth in them knoweth no peace. . . .

Jeremiah 8:15,16 We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and behold fear. . . .

Lamentations 4:17,18 Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save. . . .

Micah 1:12 And pass away, O thou that dwellest in the beautiful place, covered with thy shame: she went not forth that dwelleth in the confines: the house adjoining shall receive mourning from you, which stood by herself.

Context
The Desolation of Israel
24And I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: and I will make the pride of the mighty to cease, and they shall possess their sanctuary. 25When distress cometh upon them, they will seek for peace and there shall be none.26Trouble shall come upon trouble, and rumour upon rumour, and they shall seek a vision of the prophet, and the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 13:10
Because they have deceived my people, saying: Peace, and there is no peace: and the people built up a wall, and they daubed it with dirt without straw.

Ezekiel 13:16
Even the prophets of Israel that prophesy to Jerusalem, and that see visions of peace for her: and there is no peace, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 7:24
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