Ezekiel 5:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.

An instruction

When

Ezekiel 25:17

Isaiah 66:15

Nahum 1:2

General references

Jeremiah 23:40

Jeremiah 24:10

Ezekiel 30:19

Bible References

An instruction

all the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?'

then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.

My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

"'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?"

Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

When

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon them."

"For behold, the LORD will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and wrathful; the LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.

General references

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

And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers."

Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the LORD."