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Ezekiel 22:5

in Ezekiel 22

Those near and far will mock you, O infamous city, full of turmoil.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, thou infamous one and full of tumult.

KJV

Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.

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This verse in Ezekiel 22

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it

on Ezekiel 22:3-5

The city sheds blood in her own midst and makes idols to defile herself. Clarke reads the phrase that her time may come as judicial language, blood guilt hastening the very judgment the city fears. JFB notes the mockery from nations near and far answers Jerusalem's earlier fame.

This site's exposition

Those near and far will mock you

Lamentations 2:15 records the mockery after the fall, as those who pass by ask whether this is the city once called the perfection of beauty. Barnes sets the reproach of Jerusalem beside that of Ammon at 21:28. The turmoil was inside the walls.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter 22, Verses 1 onwards) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: And you, son of man, do you not judge the city of blood, and show her all her abominations? And say: Thus says the Lord God: The city that sheds blood within herself, so that her time may come, and that has made idols against herself to defile herself. In your blood that was shed, you have sinned, and you have defiled yourself with your idols that you have made.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

); they shall all mock thee. While they were reproached by their neighbours for their adherence to God it was their honour, and they might be sure that God would roll away their reproach. But, now that they are laughed at for their revolt from God, they must lie down in their shame, and must say, The Lord is righteous.

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Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Those that be near - Both distant as well as neighboring provinces consider thee the most abandoned of characters; and through thee many have been involved in distress and ruin.
i. e., Countries near and afar oft shall mock thee, saying, “Ah! defiled in name; Ah! full of turbulence!”

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • הַקְּרֹב֛וֹתthe [nations] nearby

    hakerovotH7138 →77 times

  • וְהָרְחֹק֥וֹתand the [nations] far off

    veharechokotH7350 →84 times

  • מִמֵּ֖ךְfrom you

    mimekhH4480 →1188 times

  • יִתְקַלְּסוּ־they will deride

    yitkalesu-H7046 →

  • בָ֑ךְ<in> you

    vakh

  • טְמֵאַ֣תO unclean of

    temeatH2931 →88 times

  • הַשֵּׁ֔ם<the> name

    hashemH8034 →864 times

  • רַבַּ֖תO great [one] of

    rabatH7227 →454 times

  • הַמְּהוּמָֽה׃<the> turmoil

    hamehumahH4103 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 22:2

    O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 32:13

      and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

    • Lamentations 2:20

      Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

    • Jeremiah 14:18

      If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land…

    • Isaiah 23:7

      Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?

    • Jeremiah 52:6

      By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel: the study guide →Read Ezekiel 22 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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