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Ezekiel 5:14

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14 Moreover, I will make you 1a desolation and 2an object of reproach among 3the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
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Ezekiel 5:14 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 5:14

Moreover I will make thee waste
That is, their land; which, being without inhabitants, lay untilled; and so became barren and unfruitful: and a reproach among the nations that [are] round about thee, in the
sight of all that pass by;
who, seeing it in this desolate condition, shall throw out their taunts and jeers upon it, as in ( Lamentations 2:15 Lamentations 2:16 ) .

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Ezekiel 5:14 In-Context

12 A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
13 "Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the LORD--that I have spoken in my jealousy--when I spend my fury upon them.
14 Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
15 You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes--I am the LORD; I have spoken--
16 when I send against youthe deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread.

Cross References 3

  • 1. Ezekiel 6:6; See Jeremiah 22:5
  • 2. Ezekiel 22:4; Nehemiah 2:17; Psalms 79:4; Jeremiah 24:9
  • 3. ver. 5, 6
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.