Ezekiel 5:14
And I will make thee a waste and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
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Leviticus 26:31And I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries; and I will not smell your sweet odours.
2 Chronicles 7:20then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Psalms 74:3Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
Isaiah 64:10Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 24:9And I will give them over to be driven hither and thither unto all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them;
Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly: all her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are in grief; and as for her, she is in bitterness.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 5:6-17
The Guilt of Jerusalem; The Punishment of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 594.) 5 Thus saith the Lord God ; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. 6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round… Read the whole commentary →