Ezekiel 5:15

So 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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In The King James Version

So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.

In Context

14And I will deliver thee up to desolation and reproach, among the nations that are round about thee,—in the eyes of every passer-by.

16In that I have sent the malignant arrows of famine among them which were for destruction, which I will send to destroy you,—and famine, will I increase upon you, and will break for you the staff of bread.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:37Thus shalt thou become a horror, a byword, and a mockery, among all the peoples whither Yahweh thy God will drive thee.

1 Kings 9:7then will I cut off Israel, from the face of the soil, which I have given unto them, and, the house which I have hallowed for my Name, will I suffer to be carried away from before me,—and Israel shall become a byword and a mockery, among all the peoples;

Psalms 79:4We have become, A reproach to our neighbours,—A mockery and a derision, to them who are round about us.

Isaiah 66:15For lo! Yahweh, with fire, doth come, And like a storm-wind, [are] his chariots,—To render with fury, his anger, And his rebuke with flames of fire.

Jeremiah 29:18Therefore will I pursue them with sword with famine and with pestilence,—And will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth A curse and an astonishment and a hissing and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

Lamentations 2:16All thy foes, have opened wide, over thee their mouth, They have hissed, and gnashed their teeth, They have said—We have swallowed [her] up! Surely, this, is the day for which we have waited, We have found! We have seen!

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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