Ezekiel 5:14

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

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 ) .

Ezekiel 5:14 In-Context

12 One third of your people will die by plague and be consumed by famine within you; one third will fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter one third to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword [to chase] after them.

13 When My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath on them, I will be appeased. Then, after I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in My jealousy.

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

15 So you will be a disgrace and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and furious rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken.

16 When I shoot deadly arrows of famine at them, arrows for destruction that I will send to destroy you, [inhabitants of Jerusalem], I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of bread.