Ezekiel 5:14

Ezekiel Dramatizes Jerusalem's Fall

¹³ Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them. ¹⁴ Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by. ¹⁵ And you shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; I, the LORD, have spoken;

Among the Nations

Nehemiah 2:17

Then I said to them, "You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won't be disgraced."

Psalm 74:3-10

Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

Psalm 79:1-4

God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Ezekiel 22:4

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

Leviticus 26:31-32

I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where the LORD shall lead you away.

2 Chronicles 7:20-21

then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my 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 I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Isaiah 64:10-11

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

Jeremiah 19:8

I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

Jeremiah 24:9-10

I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

Jeremiah 42:18

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

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests groan: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she has become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she groans, and turns away.

Lamentations 2:15-17

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 called 'The perfection of beauty,' 'The joy of the whole earth'?"

Lamentations 5:18

For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.

Micah 3:12

Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.