people as though it were not serious, who said “Peace, peace” when there was no peace (Jer. 8:10–11), he was certainly not thinking of his younger contemporary, Ezekiel. The third theme of the book grows out of the first two: the inescapable coming of judgment. That judgment will come first of all on Judah and Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be made a ruin and a reproach among the nations. Its destruction will be almost total and its people will be scattered to the four winds (Ezek. 5). It is literally