Ezekiel 5:15

15 You will become an object of mockery and taunting and horror. You will be a warning to all the nations around you. They will see what happens when the LORD punishes a nation in anger and rebukes it, says the LORD .

Ezekiel 5:15 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 5:15

So it shall be a reproach and a taunt
The subject of the reproaches and taunts of the enemy; see ( Jeremiah 24:9 ) ; this is repeated for the greater confirmation of it: an instruction;
or "discipline", or "correction" ^F24. The meaning is, that the Gentiles, seeing the judgments of God upon the Jews, would hereby learn righteousness, forsake their sins, amend their ways, and fear, the Lord: and an astonishment unto the nations that [are] round about thee;
being amazed that such judgments should fall upon a people that had been so highly favoured of God; and at their stupidity, hardness, and incorrigibleness under them: when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury, and in
furious rebukes;
a heap of words, not only denoting the certainty of divine judgments, but the greatness and fierceness of divine wrath, in the execution of them; that these were not fatherly chastisements, rebukes in love, but the effects of vindictive justice: I the Lord have spoken [it];
or those things, as the Arabic version; and as sure as I have spoken, I will do. The Targum is,

``I the Lord have decreed in my word;''

and so in ( Ezekiel 5:13 ) ; where it is added, and I will confirm or accomplish.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 (rowm) "disciplina", Pagninus; "castigatio", Vatablus, Starckius.

Ezekiel 5:15 In-Context

13 Then at last my anger will be spent, and I will be satisfied. And when my fury against them has subsided, all Israel will know that I, the LORD, have spoken to them in my jealous anger.

14 “So I will turn you into a ruin, a mockery in the eyes of the surrounding nations and to all who pass by.

15 You will become an object of mockery and taunting and horror. You will be a warning to all the nations around you. They will see what happens when the LORD punishes a nation in anger and rebukes it, says the LORD .

16 “I will shower you with the deadly arrows of famine to destroy you. The famine will become more and more severe until every crumb of food is gone.

17 And along with the famine, wild animals will attack you and rob you of your children. Disease and war will stalk your land, and I will bring the sword of the enemy against you. I, the LORD, have spoken!”