Ezekiel 22:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

That thou

Ezekiel 22:2

2 Kings 21:16

And thou hast

Numbers 32:14

Matthew 23:32

1 Thessalonians 2:16

Have i

General references

Ezekiel 11:6

Bible References

That thou

Son of man will you judge? Will you judge the city of murderers (the bloodguilty)? Then tell it about all the disgusting things that it has done.

Even more, Manasseh killed many innocent men. He filled Jerusalem from one end to the other with blood. He also caused Judah to sin and do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

And thou hast

You are just like your parents! You are a bunch of sinners trying to make Jehovah angry at Israel again.

Fill up the (guilt) measure of your fathers.

They hindered us from speaking to the nations so that they may be saved. The result was that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

Have i

I will turn you into a wasteland and an object of ridicule among the nations around you and in the presence of everyone who passes by you.

You did not mention her before your wickedness was revealed. Now the daughters of Aram and their neighbors despise you. The daughters of the Philistines also despise you. Those around you hate you.

O son of man, prophesy. Announce what I, the Lord Jehovah, am saying to the Ammonites, who are insulting Israel. Say to them: A sword is ready to destroy. It is polished to kill and to flash like lightning.

I will make your land so deserted that your enemies will be shocked as they settle in it.

You will become a thing of revulsion. All the nations where Jehovah will send you will make an example of you and laugh at you.

All the nations will say: Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'

I will have Israel cut off from the land I gave them. I will abandon this house even though I have made it holy for myself. I will put you out of my sight. Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

I will uproot Israel from the land I gave them. I will reject this Temple that I declared holy for my name. I will make it an example and an object of ridicule for all the people of the world.

You made us a reproach to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.

We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.

Everyone who passed by robbed him. He has become the object of his neighbors' scorn.

They make their land desolation. It becomes an object of perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and shake his head.

I will make them a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth. They will be a disgrace and an example. They will become something ridiculed and cursed wherever I scatter them.

Why do you make me angry by worshiping idols and by sacrificing to other gods here in Egypt, where you have come to live? Are you doing this just to destroy yourselves, so that every nation on earth will make fun of you and use your name as a curse?

All who go by make a noise with their hands at you. They make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem. They say: Is this the town that was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

O Jehovah, according to all your righteousness, let your anger, I pray you, be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. Because of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all those who are round about us.

General references

You have killed many people in this city and have filled its streets with corpses.'