Ezekiel 5:13-15

13 “Then my anger will cease and my wrath against them will subside, and I will be avenged. And when I have spent my wrath on them, they will know that I the LORD have spoken in my zeal.

14 “I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

15 You will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke. I the LORD have spoken.

Ezekiel 5:13-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 5

This chapter is of the same argument with the former; and contains a type of Jerusalem's destruction; an explanation of that type; what were the reasons of God's judgments on that city; and the nature, rise, and end of them. The type is in Eze 5:1-4; the explanation of that type is in Eze 5:5; the reasons of the severe judgments threatened are changing the statutes of the Lord, and not walking in them, and defiling the sanctuary with their abominations, Eze 5:6-11; an account of the judgments of God, answerable to each of the parts in the type, Eze 5:12; the ends of these judgments are, with respect to God, the accomplishment of his anger, and the satisfaction of his justice; with respect to the Jews, bringing them to an acknowledgment that he had spoken in his zeal; and, with respect to the nations, their instruction and astonishment, Eze 5:13-15; and the chapter is concluded with an assurance that these judgments would be sent, Eze 5:16,17.

Cross References

• 1. S 2 Chronicles 12:7; S Job 20:23; Ezekiel 21:17; Ezekiel 24:13; Ezekiel 36:6
• 2. S Isaiah 1:24
• 3. S Isaiah 59:17; Ezekiel 16:42; Ezekiel 38:19; Hosea 10:10; Zechariah 6:8
• 4. S Leviticus 26:32; Nehemiah 2:17; Psalms 74:3-10; Psalms 79:1-4; Isaiah 64:11; Ezekiel 6:6; Ezekiel 22:4; Daniel 9:16; Micah 3:12
• 5. S Isaiah 43:28
• 6. S Deuteronomy 28:46
• 7. S Deuteronomy 28:20; S 1 Kings 9:7; S Jeremiah 22:8-9; Jeremiah 24:9; Ezekiel 14:8
• 8. S Jeremiah 23:40; Ezekiel 25:17