Ezekiel 5:14
Good News Translation
Everyone from the nations around you who passes by will sneer at you and keep their distance.

New Revised Standard Version
Moreover I will make you a desolation and an object of mocking among the nations around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

Contemporary English Version
Every passerby will laugh at your destruction. Foreign nations

New American Bible
I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of every passerby.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will make thee desolate, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of every one that passeth by.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will make thee desolate, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of every one that passeth by.

I will

Ezekiel 22:4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood which thou hast shed: and thou art defiled in thy idols which thou hast made: and thou hast made thy days to draw near, and hast brought on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all countries.

Leviticus 26:31,32 Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness: and I will make your sanctuaries desolate: and will receive no more your sweet odours. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:37 And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people, among whom the Lord shall bring thee in.

2 Chronicles 7:20,21 I will pluck you up by the root out of my land which I have given you: and this house which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast away from before my face, and will make it a byword, and an example among all nations. . . .

Nehemiah 2:17 Then I said to them: You know the affliction wherein we are, because Jerusalem is desolate, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire: come, and let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let us be no longer a reproach.

Psalm 74:3-10 Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. . . .

Psalm 79:1-4 A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit. . . .

Isaiah 64:10,11 The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a desert, Jerusalem is desolate. . . .

Jeremiah 19:8 And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

Jeremiah 24:9,10 And I will deliver them up to vexation, and affliction, to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a reproach, and a byword, and a proverb, and to be a curse in all places, to which I have cast them out. . . .

Jeremiah 42:18 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my indignation hath been kindled against the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so shall my indignation be kindled against you, when you shall enter into Egypt, and you shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach: and you shall see this place no more.

Lamentations 1:4,8 Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down; her priests sigh; her virgins are in affliction; and she is oppressed with bitterness. . . .

Lamentations 2:15-17 Samech. All they that passed by the way have clapped their hands at thee: they have hissed, and wagged their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of all the earth? . . .

Lamentations 5:18 For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.

Lamentations 5:18 For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.

Micah 3:12 Her princes have judged for bribes: and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come among us.

the nations

Ezekiel 5:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, and I myself will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the Gentiles.

Context
Famine, Sword, and Dispersion
13And I will accomplish my fury, and will cause my indignation 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 shall have accomplished my indignation in them. 14And I will make thee desolate, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of every one that passeth by.15And thou shalt be a reproach, and a scoff, an example, and an astonishment amongst the nations that are round about thee, when I shall have executed judgments in thee in anger, and in indignation, and in wrathful rebukes.…
Cross References
Psalm 74:3
Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Psalm 79:1
A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.

Jeremiah 23:40
And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame which shall never be forgotten.

Ezekiel 6:6
In all your dwelling places. The cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be thrown down, and destroyed, and your altars shall be abolished, and shall be broken in pieces: and your idols shall be no more, and your temples shall be destroyed, and your works shall be defaced.

Ezekiel 12:20
And the cities that are now inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:57
Before thy malice was laid open: as it is at this time, making thee a reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all the daughters of Palestine round about thee, that encompass thee on all sides.

Ezekiel 22:4
Thou art become guilty in thy blood which thou hast shed: and thou art defiled in thy idols which thou hast made: and thou hast made thy days to draw near, and hast brought on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all countries.

Ezekiel 23:32
Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's cup, deep and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very much.

Ezekiel 33:28
And I will make the land a wilderness, and a desert, and the proud strength thereof shall fail, and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, because there is none to pass by them,

Daniel 9:16
O Lord, against all thy justice: let thy wrath and thy indignation be turned away, I beseech thee, from thy city, Jerusalem, and from thy holy mountain. For by reason of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem, and thy people, are a reproach to all that are round about us.

Ezekiel 5:13
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