Ezekiel 5:14

Ezekiel 5:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)“I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
• New Living Translation (NLT)“So I will turn you into a ruin, a mockery in the eyes of the surrounding nations and to all who pass by.

Context of Ezekiel 5:14

12One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. 13‘Thus shall My anger be spent, and I will cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be avenged; and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them. Moreover I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by. 15‘So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken. 16When I send against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread.

Ezekiel 5:14 word by word

וְאֶתְּנֵךְ֙ לְחָרְבָּ֣ה וּלְחֶרְפָּ֔ה בַּגּוֹיִ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר סְבִיבוֹתָ֑יִךְ לְעֵינֵ֖י כָּל־עוֹבֵֽר׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Moreover I will makeנָתַןnâthan · to give: makeH5414
• thee wasteחׇרְבָּהchorbâh · desolationH2723
• and a reproachחֶרְפָּהcherpâh · reproachH2781
• among the nationsגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
• round aboutסָבִיבsâbîyb sebîybâh · aroundH5439
• thee, in the sightעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eye: seeingH5869
• of all that pass byעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674

Cross-references for Ezekiel 5:14

• Ezekiel 22:4You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all countries.
• Leviticus 26:31I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet aromas.
• Deuteronomy 28:37And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the Lord will drive you.
• 2 Chronicles 7:20then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
• Nehemiah 2:17Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.”
• Psalms 74:3Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations. The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
• Psalms 79:1O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; Your holy temple they have defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
• Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
• Jeremiah 19:8I will make this city desolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
• Jeremiah 24:9I will deliver them to trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, to be a reproach and a byword, 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 fury have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so will My fury be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.’
• Lamentations 1:4The roads to Zion mourn Because no one comes to the set feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted, And she is in bitterness.
• Lamentations 2:15All who pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that is called ‘The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth’?”
• Lamentations 5:18Because of Mount Zion which is desolate, With foxes walking about on it.
• Micah 3:12Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the temple Like the bare hills of the forest.
• Ezekiel 5:8therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 5:14

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-17Verses 5-17 The sentence passed upon Jerusalem is very dreadful, the manner of expression makes it still more so. Who is able to stand in God's sight when he is angry? Those who live and die impenitent, will perish for ever unpitied; there is a day coming when the Lord will not spare. Let not persons or churches, who change the Lord's statutes, expect to escape the doom of Jerusalem. Let us endeavour to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-17These chapters discuss words and actions that warned of disaster for Jerusalem (Ezekiel 4–5) and the land of Judah (Ezekiel 6–7).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. reproach among the nations--They whose idolatries Israel had adopted, instead of comforting, would only exult in their calamities brought on by those idolatries (compare Lu 15:15).Read the comment

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Commentaries on Ezekiel 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings