Ezekiel 15:8

I will cause your country to become a wasteland because your people have not been loyal to me. That is what I, Yahweh, the Lord, say.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.

In Context

7I will reject [IDM] them. It will be as though they have escaped from a fire, but there will still be a fire that will burn them up. And when I punish [EUP] them, you people who remain alive will know that I, Yahweh, have done it.

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Cross References

Isaiah 6:11Then I said, “How long do you want me to continue to do that?” He replied, “ Do it until their cities are ruined by their enemies, until no one is living in their houses, do it until all the crops are stolen from their fields and the fields are ruined.

Jeremiah 25:10I will cause happy singing and laughing to cease in your land. There will no longer be brides and bridegrooms talking joyfully. There will not be the sound of people grinding grain with millstones. There will be no lamps lit in your houses.

Ezekiel 14:13“You human, if the people of some country sin against me by abandoning me, and I punish [IDM] them by cutting off their food supply and by sending a famine, with the result that people and animals die,

Ezekiel 33:29Then, when I have caused your country to become a desolate wasteland because of all the detestable things that you have done, you will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.’

Zephaniah 1:18At the time that Yahweh shows that he is very angry with you, you will not be able to save yourselves by giving silver or gold to your enemies. Because Yahweh ◄is very jealous/does not want people to worship any other god►, he will send a fire to burn up the entire world, and he will suddenly get rid of all the wicked people who live on the earth.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 15:2-8

Jerusalem a Condemned Vine. ( b. c. 593.) 1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest? 3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less… Read the whole commentary →

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