Ezekiel 5:14
12 A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.
13 And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.
I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
15 So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.
16 When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
- KJV
- Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
- WEB
- “‘Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.
- ASV
- Moreover I will make thee a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
- DARBY
- And I will make thee a waste and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
- BLB
- And I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that [are] around you, before the eyes of everyone passing by.
- ÅB
- Og jeg vil gjøre deg[^1] til en ørken og til en spott blant folkene som bor rundt omkring deg, for øynene på hver den som går forbi.
- OTB
- Jeg vil gjøre deg til en ruin og en skam blant nasjonene rundt deg, for øynene på alle som går forbi.
- B1930
- Og jeg vil gjøre dig til en ørken og til en spott blandt folkene som bor rundt omkring dig, for øinene på hver den som går forbi. / < Jerusalem.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 79:1–4
The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
Read in contextPsalms 74:3–10
Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:4
you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.
Read in contextNehemiah 2:17
Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”
Read in contextLamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
Read in contextMicah 3:12
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
Read in contextLamentations 1:8
Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
Read in contextJeremiah 42:18
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’
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