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Ezekiel 7:1-27 The Day of the Wrath of the Lord

[Study Aired March 4, 2024]

Introduction

Today’s study continues with the impending judgment of the people of Israel because of their sins. Here in this study, we are given more information about the Lord’s judgment of our old man. We are made aware that the impending judgment of the Lord is at hand and that it is going to be a final ruin, a complete utter destruction, which would make an end to our old man. We are also made aware that the impending judgment is an unavoidable ruin because we have by sin brought it upon ourselves.

The End Has Come!!!

Eze 7:1  Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 
Eze 7:2  Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. 
Eze 7:3  Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. 
Eze 7:4  And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

The end mentioned in these verses refers to the judgment of our old man being at hand. This is made clear in verse 3 when the end is associated with the sending of the Lord’s anger upon us for the abominations that we have committed. In verse 2, we are given to know the extent of this judgment, that is, the four corners of the land. As we are aware, spiritually, the land refers to our bodies, and therefore in verse 2, we are being told that the judgment of the Lord is on our earthen vessels or our flesh. The fact that the Lord’s judgment is targeted towards the people of Israel in verse 3 and to Ezekiel in verse 3 and 4 means that Ezekiel represents the people of Israel and that Ezekiel and the people of Israel here are symbols of the Lord’s elect. This is because it is the Lord’s elect who are being judged in this age. 

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 
1Pe 4:18  And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 
1Pe 4:19  Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

In verse 4, we are told that our judgment is an irreversible decision by the Lord. In other words, no elect can escape the Lord’s judgment, and the purpose of being judged is that it is through judgment that we come to know Christ. Knowing Christ means being given to know the truth of His words. This implies that all those who know the Lord are the ones being judged in this age.  

Eze 6:14  So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

The examples of those whom the Lord had used in the Old Testament who represent the Lord’s elect show us that we must through much tribulation enter the kingdom of God. For example, let’s look at the life of Joseph. This is how the word of the Lord summarizes what he went through. 

Psa 105:17  He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant: 
Psa 105:18  Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: 
Psa 105:19  Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him. 
Psa 105:20  The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free. 
Psa 105:21  He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance: 
Psa 105:22  To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom. 

Act 14:22  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Eze 7:5  Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
Eze 7:6  An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. 

As we can see in verse 5, the judgment of the Lord’s elect is an evil experience. This implies that the Lord uses evil as part of His arsenal to accomplish His purpose in us. It is the devil who does evil, and therefore this verse is telling us the role the devil plays in our walk with Christ. That is, the Lord uses the devil to destroy our old man. In the Book of Isaiah, we are told clearly that it is the devil who brings about our fiery trials. However, as shown in the Book of Job, the Lord had restrained the devil from destroying Job. This means that the evil that comes to us is measured by the Lord and therefore shall not destroy us. In other words, no weapon formed or fashioned against us shall prosper!!

Isa 54:16  Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster (the devil) to destroy. 
Isa 54:17  No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. 

Isa 45:6  That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

In verse 6, we are told that the end which is coming watches for us. The word “watcheth” in verse 6 means to ‘wake up.’ This means that our judgment is meant to wake us up from our slumber in the Lord and to assure us that our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 

Rom 13:11  And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 
Rom 13:12  The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. 
Rom 13:13  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 
Rom 13:14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Eze 7:7  The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains. 
Eze 7:8  Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. 
Eze 7:9  And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.

As indicated in verse 7, the coming of our day of trouble is also the coming of the morning to us. In other words, our fiery trials also mean that the morning has come to us. The morning is when the daystar rises in our hearts. The daystar is Christ, and so our fiery trials signify Christ rising in our hearts or taking His place in our temple.

2Pe 1:19  We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

The Lord’s fury or anger upon us in verse 8 is expressed in His judgment of our old man, which is good for us in the sense that it brings about righteousness. On the other hand, man’s anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God. 

Jas 1:19  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Jas 1:20  For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 

The reason why we are being judged is that our works are evil and do not please the Lord. The Bible says that the steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord. This means that our evil deeds are all part of the Lord ordering our steps so that He can find an occasion to come to us with His judgment. 

Psa 37:23  The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. 
Psa 37:24  Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. 
Psa 37:25  I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. 
Psa 37:26  He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed. 

Jdg 14:1  And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. 
Jdg 14:2  And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
Jdg 14:3  Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well. 
Jdg 14:4  But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

The fact that in verse 9 the Lord will not have pity on us means that the Lord will not relent in His decision to come to us with His judgment. As shown in Genesis, the only way that anybody can access the tree of life is to pass through the flaming sword which turns every way. Even our Lord Jesus Christ, who did not sin, passed through the flaming sword, how much more we, His elect!! The flaming sword is the fire of the word of the Lord which is our fiery trials.

Gen 3:24  So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 

Heb 5:7  Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Heb 5:8  Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
Heb 5:9  And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

In verse 9, we are told that in all that we are marked to go through, the end result is that we shall end up knowing the Lord as He who smites our old man. What a blessing therefore, to be judged in this age!!

Isa 5:13  Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Isa 5:14  Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
Isa 5:15  And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: 
Isa 5:16  But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

The Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment in Isaiah 5:16 implies that Christ will be prominent in our lives through judgment and that the Lord being sanctified in righteousness signifies our learning righteousness through judgment.

Eze 7:10  Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. 
Eze 7:11  Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.

These verses show us that it is when our sins have reached their climax that the Lord comes in to judge us. The rod having blossomed in verse 10 means that our judgment is ready to begin. Our judgment comes when our pride has budded, meaning it has spread, and violence has risen to become a rod of wickedness. 

Rev 18:5  For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 
Rev 18:6  Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. 
Rev 18:7  How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Rev 18:8  Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

The first time that violence was used in the Bible was in relation to how, as human beings, we have corrupted ourselves before the Lord. It is when the whole world is filled with violence that the Lord came and judged the earth through water. In a similar vein, it is when the whole world comes together to do violence to the Lord’s elect during the end of the thousand-year reign, when the kingdoms of this world had become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, that the end of all flesh shall come, and judgment shall begin.

Gen 6:11  The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Gen 6:13  And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

To us His elect, it is when our earthen vessels are filled with wickedness, as  every imagination of our hearts have been corrupted by the evil one, that our judgment begins.

Pro 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Gen 6:5  And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Eze 7:12  The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 
Eze 7:13  For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

In this time of adversity, the buyer is advised not to rejoice, and the seller also must not mourn. During Ezekiel’s time, the exiles to which this Book was addressed had a hope that very soon they shall return from exile to possess their prosperity. In this regard, the Lord was telling them through Ezekiel that those who had bought properties during the siege and were taken to exile must not rejoice that they shall return to become more prosperous. At the same time, those who sold properties during the time of adversity must not mourn that they shall return to become impoverished. This is because the exiles shall remain in captivity for a long haul – that is, for a period of seventy years. All the multitude spoken of in verses 12 and 13 refer to the fact that no elect is exempt from the Lord’s judgment of our old man. What the Lord is telling us, His elect, is that we should be content in our current estate as the Lord is working things out for our good during this complete period of our lives (seventy years) where we are under His judgment. This is what Apostle Paul had to say about this:

1Co 7:29  But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; 
1Co 7:30  And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 
1Co 7:31  And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

Eze 7:14  They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 

The trumpet is blown to make people gather together, ready to do battle. However, when the Lord’s judgment is upon a people, blowing the trumpet does not bring about any response. This is therefore to show us the state we find ourselves in when the Lord comes to judge us. We become insensitive to the word of the Lord as signified by the blowing of the trumpet. We therefore do not heed to any warning of impending danger as all we want to hear are smooth things spoken by our “men of God.”

Isa 30:10  Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

Jer 4:5  Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.

Jdg 6:34  But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him.

Eze 7:15  The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. 

Verse 15 shows us that when we are under siege by the devil, orchestrated by the Lord to cause us to surrender to Him, the sword is without while pestilence and famine are within. This implies that in Babylon, we are starved of the word of the Lord (famine) and at the same time plagued with sickness of our whole body (Pestilence). That is to say that our bodies are dominated completely by the old man or the flesh.  

Isa 1:5  Why should ye be stricken anymore? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Isa 1:6  From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

On the other hand, we are not prepared to leave Babylon as we shall face the sword outside. As we indicated in the previous studies, the sword used in the negative sense here refers to bitter words spoken against us, especially by our brothers and sisters in Babylon. 

Psa 64:2  Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
Psa 64:3  Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

Eze 38:21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.

Jdg 7:22 And the three hundred [men with Gideon] blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host [of the Midianites]: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.

The Remnant

Eze 7:16  But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. 
Eze 7:17  All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
Eze 7:18  They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. 

As we indicated in the previous study, those who escape from the looming danger represent the Lord’s elect. The fact that the remnant will escape the sword, famine and pestilence does not mean that they would not be judged by the Lord. However, as the Lord’s elect, we shall not be tempted beyond what we can bear, and the Lord will, in all that we go through, provide a way of escape so that we bear His judgment. The remnant escaping the sword therefore means that the Lord will provide a way of escape for us so that we can bear the judgment of the sword.   

1Co 10:13  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

In verse 16, those who escape shall be on the mountains like doves in the valleys. Mountains in this case represent the New Jerusalem or the church of the elect as shown in the following verses:

Isa 2:2  And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 
Isa 2:3  And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 

Mic 4:1  But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. 

As we flee to the house of the Lord from Babylon, we are like doves in the valleys. That is to say that we become lonely as we begin to tread the narrow way which is marked for only very few people. 

Mat 7:14  Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Being called and chosen is like putting on a sackcloth of mourning as shown in verses 16 and 18 as we go through the Lord’s judgment because of our iniquities.

Rev 11:3  And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

Through the Lord’s judgment, our hands become feeble and our knees as weak as water, as indicated in verse 16. The Lord puts us in this situation so that He can be a present help in times of need. 

Heb 12:11  Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. 
Heb 12:12  Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; 
Heb 12:13  And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

Having knees as weak as water means recognizing that we cannot walk by our own walk with Christ unless He comes to help us. Our hands being feeble signifies our inability to do any work for the Lord unless He comes to assist us. It is when we come to accept our inability to do anything that we become strong in Christ!!

2Co 12:8  For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 
2Co 12:9  And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2Co 12:10  Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.   

In verse 18, the horror that covers us speaks of the fears of what we are going through as a result of the judgment of the Lord. The shame that we bear is because we come to see our iniquities in this period of judgment.  The baldness upon all our heads signifies our mourning state when we are under the Lord’s judgment.

Isa 15:2  He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

Isa 22:12  And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

The Sins We Have Committed

Eze 7:19  They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity.
Eze 7:20  As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
Eze 7:21  And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
Eze 7:22  My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

In these verses, we are being told of our sins which had set the stage for our judgment by the Lord. The silver and gold mentioned in verse 19 pertains to the truth of the word of the Lord which we have exchanged for the false doctrines of man’s wisdom and traditions which had become our idols of our hearts and therefore become a stumbling block of our iniquity.

Eze 14:1  Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. 
Eze 14:2  And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 
Eze 14:3  Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them? 
Eze 14:4  Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; 

In verse 20, we are told that we have destroyed the beauty of the Lord’s ornament by making images of them. As a result, the Lord has set His ornament far from us. The beauty of the Lord’s ornament is again the truth of His words, which we have exchanged for the false doctrines of man’s wisdom and tradition. As a result, the Lord has taken away His truth far from us. The strangers and the wicked of the earth in verse 21, of whom the Lord has given the beauty of His ornament, represent those who are not invited to the wedding feast of the bride but see the opportunity to come in and make merchandise of us, thus polluting the truth of the Lord’s words. As a result, our temple, which is our bodies and is represented here in verse 22 as the Lord’s secret place, becomes exposed to these robbers who come and defile it.

Jud 1:4  For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jud 1:8  Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 
Jud 1:9  Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Jud 1:10  But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 
Jud 1:11  Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. 
Jud 1:12  These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 
Jud 1:13  Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

Eze 7:23  Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. 
Eze 7:24  Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled. 
Eze 7:25  Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. 
Eze 7:26  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. 
Eze 7:27  The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

The land being full of bloody crimes and full of violence in verse 23 refers to us being guilty of the blood of Christ and His saints.

Luk 11:49  Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: 
Luk 11:50  That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 
Luk 11:51  From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.

In verse 24, we are made aware that the Lord will use the people of the world as one of His tools of judging us. The absence of peace is also one of the tools the Lord uses to judge us as shown in verse 25.  It is this absence of peace that brings us to our wits’ end as we cry to the Lord to intervene in our circumstance. In our desperation, we seek men of God for visions, counsel and the word of the Lord, but none shall be able to help us. It is very comforting to know that in verse 27, we are again told that in the final analysis, our judgment shall draw us closer to the Lord as we come to know who our Lord really is.

Psa 107:25  For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. 
Psa 107:26  They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. 
Psa 107:27  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end. 
Psa 107:28  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. 
Psa 107:29  He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. 
Psa 107:30  Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven. 
Psa 107:31  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 

May His Name be glorified for His wonderful work of salvation. Amen!!