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

even all the nations shall say, "Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?"

then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

When

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.

For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.

General references

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

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

Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.