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're guilty because of the blood that you've shed. You were defiled by the idols that you've made. You've caused your judgment day to draw near and have even come to the end of your life. Therefore, I've made you an object of derision among the nations and to other lands.

I'll lay your cities to waste and destroy your sanctuaries so I don't have to smell the scent of your soothing odors.

You'll become a desolation and a proverb, and you'll be mocked among the people where the LORD will drive you."

then I will tear them up by the roots from the ground that I had given them! And as for this Temple that I have set apart for my name, I will throw it out of my sight and make it the butt of jokes and a means of ridicule among people worldwide!

Later I told them, "You all are watching the predicament we're in, how Jerusalem lies desolate, with its gates burned by fire. Let's rebuild the Jerusalem wall so we're no longer a disgrace."

Hurry! Look at the permanent ruins every calamity the enemy brought upon the Holy Place.

God, nations have invaded your land to desecrate your holy Temple, to destroy Jerusalem,

Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like a desert, Jerusalem a desolation.

I'll make this city into a desolate place and an object of scorn. All who pass by it will be astonished and will scoff because of all its wounds.

I'll make them into a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth; into a cause for contempt, into a byword, into a taunt, and into a curse in all the places to which I drive them.

For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Just as my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. You will be a curse and an object of horror, ridicule, and scorn, and you will never again see this place.'

The roads that lead to Zion are in mourning, because no one travels to the festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests are moaning. Her young women are grieving, and she is bitter.

Everyone who passes by on the road shake their fists at you. They hiss and shake their heads at cherished Jerusalem: "Is this the city men used to call "The Perfection of Beauty,' and "The Joy of the Entire Earth'"?

Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it.

"Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the Temple Mount like a forest high place."

The nations

"Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "Watch out! I that's right, even I am against you. I'll carry out my sentence among you right in front of the nations.

General references

I'll bring on you everlasting reproach and everlasting humiliation that won't ever be forgotten."

I'll send the sword, famine, and plague against them until they're completely destroyed from the land which I gave them and their ancestors.'"

The man replied to him, "Teacher, I have obeyed all of these since I was a young man."