Ezekiel 5 · Verse 14

Ezekiel 5:14

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.
Ezekiel 5:14, King James Version

Ezekiel 5:14 in other translations

BSBI will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
WEB“‘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.
ASVMoreover I will make thee a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
YLTAnd I give thee for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that are round about thee, Before the eyes of every passer by.
DARBYAnd I will make thee a waste and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
BBEAnd I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.
WebsterMoreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are around thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

What does Ezekiel 5:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
14. 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).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 5:5-17

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…

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Ezekiel 5:14 in the original Hebrew

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וְאֶתְּנֵךְ֙ve.'e.te.neKhand I will make youH5414
לְחָרְבָּ֣הle.cha.re.Bahinto a ruinH2723
וּלְחֶרְפָּ֔הu.le.cher.Pahand into a reproachH2781
בַּגּוֹיִ֖םba.go.Yimamong the nationsH1471
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhichH834
סְבִיבוֹתָ֑יִךְse.vi.vo.Ta.yikh[are] around youH5439
לְעֵינֵ֖יle.'ei.Neito [the] eyes ofH5869
כָּל\־kol-everyH3605
עוֹבֵֽר\׃o.Ver[one who] passes byH5674

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Cross references for Ezekiel 5:14

  • Psalms 79:1-4

    A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

  • Psalms 74:3-10

    Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. …

  • Ezekiel 22:4

    Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

  • Nehemiah 2:17

    Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

  • Lamentations 1:4

    The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

  • Micah 3:12

    Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • Lamentations 1:8

    Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

  • Jeremiah 42:18

    For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

  • Isaiah 64:10-11

    Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

  • 2 Chronicles 7:20-21

    Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

  • Lamentations 5:18

    Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

  • Leviticus 26:31-32

    And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I will.
22:4; Le 26:31,32; De 28:37; 2Ch 7:20,21; Ne 2:17; Ps 74:3-10
Ps 79:1-4; Isa 64:10,11; Jer 19:8; 24:9,10; 42:18; La 1:4,8
La 2:15-17; 5:18; Mic 3:12
the nations.
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Context

  • Ezekiel 5:13

    Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

  • Ezekiel 5:14

    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.

  • Ezekiel 5:15

    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.

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Ezekiel 5:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y te tornaré en desierto y en oprobio entre las gentes que están alrededor de ti, á los ojos de todo transeunte.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et je ferai de toi un désert et un opprobre parmi les nations qui sont autour de toi, aux yeux de tout passant.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ich werde dich zur Einöde machen und zum Hohne unter den Nationen, die rings um dich her sind, vor den Augen jedes Vorübergehenden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et dabo te in desertum, et in opprobrium gentibus quæ in circuitu tuo sunt, in conspectu omnis prætereuntis: