Ezekiel 5
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God then listed the people’s sins and the judgments that would soon fall upon Jerusalem. Among the judgments would be hunger so severe that parents would eat their children (Deuteronomy 28:53; Jeremiah 19:9). All this would happen because the people of Jerusalem had broken their covenant with God; as a result, God would withdraw from them His favor, His covenant blessings (see Leviticus 26:3–39).
13–17 Here the Lord says that when His people have been punished, then they will know that He has spoken (verse 13). This is the first of many places in Ezekiel’s book where the Lord says that He will be known by His judgments. If the people could not be taught by God’s words, then they would have to be taught by God’s actions!
What must the people have thought when they saw Ezekiel’s strange behavior? Ezekiel probably acted out these prophecies just in front of his house; one can imagine how the bystanders must have laughed at his behavior. But Ezekiel surely got their attention! And once he had their attention, he proclaimed to them the words of the Lord.