◄ Ezekiel 22:5 ►
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Good News Translation
Countries nearby and countries far away sneer at you because of your lawlessness.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.

Contemporary English Version
and people far and near will make fun of your misery.

New American Bible
Those near and those far off will mock you: “Defiled of Name! Queen of Tumult!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall triumph over thee: thou filthy one, infamous, great in destruction.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall triumph over thee: thou filthy one, infamous, great in destruction.

Jeremiah 15:2,3 And if they shall say unto thee: Whither shall we go forth? thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Such as are for death, to death: and such as are for the sword, to the sword: and such as are for famine, to famine: and such as are for captivity, to captivity. . . .

Context
The Sins of Jerusalem
…4Thou 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. 5Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall triumph over thee: thou filthy one, infamous, great in destruction.6Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed his arm in thee to shed blood.…
Cross References
Isaiah 22:2
Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.

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 22:4
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