Ezekiel 36:3

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Summary

Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

Because

Ezekiel 13:10

Leviticus 26:43

And ye

Taken up in the lips of talkers

1 Corinthians 4:13

Bible References

Because

Because, even because they made My people go astray, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and he builds a wall, and lo, others daubed it with lime.

The land also shall be forsaken by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lies waste without them. And they shall accept the punishment of their iniquities; because, even because they despised My judgments, and because their soul hated My statutes.

And ye

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

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.

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

Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the nations before our eyes by the revenging of the blood of Your servants which is shed.

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.

Do you not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah has chosen, He has even cast them off? So they have despised My people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

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.

Taken up in the lips of talkers

But now those younger laugh at me, whose fathers I would have refused to set with the dogs of my flock.

But in my stumbling they rejoiced, and gathered themselves; the defamers gathered themselves against me, and I knew not; they tore and were not silent,

They who sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

And those who passed by blasphemed Him, shaking their heads,

being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.