Ezekiel 5:15

15 Then the nations around you will shame you and make fun of you. You will be a warning and a terror to them. This will happen when I punish you in my great anger. 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 Then my anger will come to an end. I will use it up against them, and then I will be satisfied. Then they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken. After I have carried out my anger against them, they will know how strongly I felt.

14 "I will make you a ruin and a shame among the nations around you, to be seen by all who pass by.

15 Then the nations around you will shame you and make fun of you. You will be a warning and a terror to them. This will happen when I punish you in my great anger. I, the Lord, have spoken.

16 I will send a time of hunger to destroy you, and then I will make your hunger get even worse, and I will cut off your supply of food.

17 I will send a time of hunger and wild animals against you, and they will kill your children. Disease and death will sweep through your people, and I will bring the sword against you to kill you. I, the Lord, have spoken."