Ezekiel 5:15

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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

And all the nations will say, '{Why} has Yahweh done {such a thing} to this land? What [caused] the fierceness of this great anger?'

then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land that I have given to them, [even] the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast away from my face; and Israel shall become a proverb and an object of taunting among all the peoples.

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.

I desire you [with all] my soul in the night; also I seek you [with] my spirit within me, for when your judgments [are] {upon} the earth, [the] inhabitants of [the] world learn righteousness.

And many nations will pass by this city and they will say each one to his neighbor, '{Why} has Yahweh done in this manner to this great city?'

Now these [things] happened to those [people] as an example, but are written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

When

And I will execute on them great vengeance with punishments of rage, and they will know that I [am] Yahweh when I exact my vengeance on them!"

For look! Yahweh will come in fire, and his chariots like the storm wind, to {give back} his anger in wrath, and his rebuke in flames of fire.

Yahweh is a jealous God and avenging; Yahweh is avenging and {full of wrath}. Yahweh takes vengeance against his enemies; he rages against his adversaries.

General references

and I will bring upon you {an everlasting disgrace} and {an everlasting shame} that will not be forgotten."

And I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the plague, until they perish from the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.'"

And I will execute judgments in Egypt, and they will know that I [am] Yahweh."