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

Thou hast made thyself guilty in the blood that thou hast shed, and defiled thee in the Idols, which thou hast made. Thou hast caused thy days to draw nigh, and made the time of thy years to come. Therefore will I make thee to be confounded among the heathen, and to be despised in all the lands.

And I will make your cities desolate, and bring your sanctuaries unto nought, and will not smell the savours of your sweet odours.

And thou shalt go to waste and be made an example and a jestingstock unto all nations whither the LORD shall carry thee.

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

And I said unto them, "Ye see the misery that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and how the gates thereof are burnt with fire. Come, let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, that we be no more a rebuke."

Lift up thy feet, that thou mayest utterly destroy every enemy which hath done evil in thy sanctuary.

{A Psalm of Asaph} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled, and made Jerusalem a heap of stones.

The cities of thy Sanctuary lie waste: Zion is a wilderness, and Jerusalem a desert.

And I will make this city so desolate, and despised: that whoso goeth thereby, shall be abashed and jest upon her, because of all her plagues.

And will make them to be a reproof, a common byword, a laughingstock and shame, in all the places where I shall scatter them.

For thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Like as my wrath and indignation is come upon the inhabiters of Jerusalem, so shall my displeasure go forth upon you also, if ye go into Egypt: For there ye shall be reviled, abhorred, brought to shame and confusion: and as for this place, ye shall never see it more.

{Daleth} The streets of Zion mourn, because no man cometh to the solemn feasts. All her gates are desolate; her priests make lamentation; her maidens are careful; and she herself is in great heaviness.

{Samekh} All they that go by thee clap their hands at thee - hissing and wagging their heads upon the daughter Jerusalem - and say, "Is this the city that men call so fair, wherein the whole land rejoiceth?"

because of the hill of Zion that is destroyed: Insomuch that the foxes run upon it.

Therefore shall Zion, for your sakes, be plowed like a field: Jerusalem shall become a heap of stones, and the hill of the temple shall be turned to a high wood.

The nations

Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: I will also come upon thee, for in the midst of thee will I sit in judgment, in the sight of the Heathen,

General references

And will bring you to an everlasting confusion, and into such a shame, as shall never be forgotten.

I will send the sword, hunger and pestilence among them, until I have clean consumed them out of the land, that I gave unto them and their fathers."

He answered and said to him, "Master, all these I have observed from my youth."