Ezekiel 5:15

15 "When I am angry and furious with you and punish you, all the nations around you will be terrified. They will look at you with disgust and make fun of you.

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 "You will feel all the force of my anger and rage until I am satisfied. When all this happens, you will be convinced that I, the Lord, have spoken to you because I am outraged at your unfaithfulness.

14 Everyone from the nations around you who passes by will sneer at you and keep their distance.

15 "When I am angry and furious with you and punish you, all the nations around you will be terrified. They will look at you with disgust and make fun of you.

16 I will cut off your supply of food and let you starve. You will feel the pains of hunger like sharp arrows sent to destroy you.

17 I will send hunger and wild animals to kill your children, and will send sickness, violence, and war to kill you. I, the Lord, have spoken."