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 in your blood that you have shed; and have defiled yourself in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and have come even unto your years: therefore have I made you a reproach unto the nations, and a mocking to all countries.

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the aroma of your sweet odors.

And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.

Then will I 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, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

Then said I unto them, You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we are no more a reproach.

Lift up your feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.

[A Psalm of Asaph.] O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

And I will make this city desolate, and a hissing; everyone that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their harm, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As my anger and my fury has been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when you shall enter into Egypt: and you shall be an oath, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.

The roads to Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

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

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the forest.

The nations

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against you, and will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.

General references

And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

And he answered and said unto him, Teacher, all these have I observed from my youth.