Ezekiel 5:15

15 So you will be ^[a] a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.

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 And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.

14 I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

15 So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.

16 When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.

17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

Footnotes

• [a] DSS, LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate; MT So it will be