Ezekiel 5:14

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.

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 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 you the 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

• 1. 5:14 ch. 6:6; See Jer. 22:5
• 2. 5:14 ch. 22:4; Neh. 2:17; Ps. 79:4; Jer. 24:9
• 3. 5:14 ver. 5, 6