Ezekiel 5:14
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New International Version (©2011)
"I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"So I will turn you into a ruin, a mockery in the eyes of the surrounding nations and to all who pass by.

English Standard Version (©2001)
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 American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

International Standard Version (©2012)
I'm also going to turn you into a waste and an object of insult among the nations that surround you and in front of every person who passes by.

NET Bible (©2006)
"I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I will turn you into a wasteland and an object of ridicule among the nations around you and in the presence of everyone who passes by you.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Moreover I will make you a waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by.

American King James Version
Moreover I will make you waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by.

American Standard Version
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.

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.

Darby Bible Translation
And 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.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are around thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
And I give thee for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that are round about thee, Before the eyes of every passer by.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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 God our Saviour in all things. Sooner or later God's word will prove itself true.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 14. - In the sight of them that pass by. The phrase reminds us of Lamentations 1:12; Lamentations 2:15: and the latter was probably a conscious reproduction of it. The scorn and mockery of the heathen who rejoiced in her humiliation were to be the keenest pang in the punishment of the guilty city.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Moreover I will make thee waste,.... That is, their land; which, being without inhabitants, lay untilled; and so became barren and unfruitful:

and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by; who, seeing it in this desolate condition, shall throw out their taunts and jeers upon it, as in Lamentations 2:15.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

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).

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Famine, Sword, and Dispersion
12A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the middle of you: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. 13Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest on 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. 14Moreover I will make you waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by. …

Psalm 74:3 Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.
Psalm 79:1 A psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
Jeremiah 23:40 I will bring on you everlasting disgrace--everlasting shame that will not be forgotten."
Ezekiel 6:6 Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out.
Ezekiel 12:20 The inhabited towns will be laid waste and the land will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.'"
Ezekiel 16:57 before your wickedness was uncovered. Even so, you are now scorned by the daughters of Edom and all her neighbors and the daughters of the Philistines--all those around you who despise you.
Ezekiel 22:4 you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries.
Ezekiel 23:32 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "You will drink your sister's cup, a cup large and deep; it will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.
Ezekiel 33:28 I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them.
Daniel 9:16 Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts, turn away your anger and your wrath from Jerusalem, your city, your holy hill. Our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors have made Jerusalem and your people an object of scorn to all those around us.