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

And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? And you shall make her know all her abominations.

And also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing the evil in the sight of Jehovah.

And thou hast

And behold, you are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to add still more to the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel.

and you fill up the measure of your fathers.

forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

Have i

And I will make you a waste and a curse among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of your reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all her neighbors, the daughters of the Philistines who hated you from all around.

And you, son of man, prophesy and say, So says the Lord Jehovah concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their shame. Even say: The sword, the sword is drawn, polished for slaughter to make an end, that it may be like lightning;

And I will turn the land into wasteland. And your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word among all nations where Jehovah shall lead you.

even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land? For what is the heat of this great anger?

then I will cut off Israel from the face of the land which I have given them. And this house which I have made holy for My name I will cast out of My sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.

then I will pluck them up by the roots out of My land which I have given them. And this house which I have sanctified for My name, I will cast out of My sight, and I will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

You make us a curse to our neighbors, a scorn and a mockery to those who are round about us.

We have become a shame to our neighbors, a scorn and mockery to those who are around us.

All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a curse to his neighbors.

to make their land desolate and a hissing forever. Everyone who passes by will be amazed, and will wag his head.

and I will even make them a horror for evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and a proverb, a gibe and a curse, there in all places where I shall drive them.

in that you provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to live, that you might cut yourselves off and that you might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which they called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?

O Lord, I pray You, according to all Your righteousness let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. Because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a curse to all those who are around us.

General references

You have multiplied your dead in this city, and you have filled its streets with the dead.