Ezekiel 5:14

And I will deliver thee up to desolation and reproach, among the nations that are round about thee,—in the eyes of every passer-by.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

In Context

13So shall mine anger have an end, And I will cause mine indignation, to find rest, upon them, and will console myself,- And they shall know that, I, Yahweh, have spoken in my jealousy, when mine indignation hath come to an end, upon them.

15So shall it become a reproach and an insult a warning and an astonishment, to the nations that are round about thee,—in that I have executed upon thee judgments in anger and in indignation and in rebukes of indignation, I, Yahweh have spoken:

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:31And I will give your cities unto desolation, And make your holy places dumb,—And will find no fragrance in your satisfying odour;

2 Chronicles 7:20then will I root you out from off the soil, which I have given to you, and, this house, which I have hallowed for my Name, will I cast off from before my face,—and will appoint it for a by-word and a mockery, among all the peoples;

Psalms 74:3Lift up thy steps unto the places utterly unsafe, All the mischief!—the foe in the sanctuary!

Isaiah 64:10Thy holy cities, have become a wilderness,—Zion, a wilderness, hath become, Jerusalem, a desolation!

Jeremiah 24:9yea I will deliver them up, as a terror of calamity, to all the kingdoms of the earth,—as a reproach and as a byword, as a mockery and as a contempt, in every place whither I will drive them;

Lamentations 1:4The ways to Zion, are mourning, because none come to her appointed feasts, All her gates, are desolate, her priests, are sighing,—her virgins, are grieved, and, she, it is bitter for her.

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 →

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