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Ezekiel 5:14

I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

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ASV

Moreover 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.

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.

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9 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
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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Ezekiel 22:4you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.Psalms 74:3–10Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.Psalms 79:1–4The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.Nehemiah 2:17Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”Ezekiel 6:6Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.Isaiah 24:1Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—Lamentations 5:18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.Leviticus 26:31–32I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.Jeremiah 42:18For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.Jeremiah 24:9–10I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.Jeremiah 19:8I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.Lamentations 1:8Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.2 Chronicles 7:20–21then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.Micah 3:12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.Isaiah 64:10–11Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.Lamentations 1:4The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.Lamentations 2:15–17All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

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The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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