Ezekiel 5:14

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Summary

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.

I will

The nations

Ezekiel 5:8

General references

Jeremiah 23:40

Jeremiah 24:10

Mark 10:20

Bible References

I will

You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and defiled by your idols which you have made. Thus you have brought your day near and have come to your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the lands.

I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.

You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the Lord drives you.

then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem is desolate and its gates burned by fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a reproach.”

Turn Your footsteps toward the perpetual ruins;

The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.

A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance;
They have defiled Your holy temple;
They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

Your holy cities have become a wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.

I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “As My anger and wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.”

The roads of Zion are in mourning
Because no one comes to the appointed feasts.
All her gates are desolate;
Her priests are groaning,
Her virgins are afflicted,
And she herself is bitter.

All who pass along the way

Clap their hands in derision at you;

They hiss and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem,
“Is this the city of which they said,
‘The perfection of beauty,

A joy to all the earth’?”

Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate,

Foxes prowl in it.

Therefore, on account of you

Zion will be plowed as a field,

Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,

And the mountain of the temple will become high places of a forest.

The nations

therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

General references

I will put an everlasting reproach on you and an everlasting humiliation which will not be forgotten.”

I will send the sword, the famine and the pestilence upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’”

And he said to Him, “Teacher, I have kept all these things from my youth up.”