Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 5:14
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.
14. reproach among the nations ] Lam 2:15-16, “All that pass by clap their hands at thee, they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that they called the perfection of beauty?”
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Judgments should empty the land of men that might till and manure it, and so your fruitful land shall be turned and continued a waste and desolate land.
A reproach, Jer 24:9; 29:18,22; a reproach or curse; men should taunt at them, and, in wishing the worst they can, wish their enemies like the Jews. So it was Lam 2:15,16.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
14. reproach among the nationsTheywhose idolatries Israel had adopted, instead of comforting, wouldonly exult in their calamities brought on by those idolatries(compare Lu 15:15).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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 La 2:15.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
He explains what we saw before more at length, whence also we understand that in the next verse God had not softened his anger, but proclaimed the ultimate destruction of the nation. He says therefore, that the Jews shall be desolate, as they translate it: it also signifies dryness, and hence is the name for a desert. But it suits this place to say, the Jews shall be laid waste, and a reproach among the nations: for they were formerly a celebrated nation: God had ennobled them with remarkable gifts, so that they excelled in dignity in the sight of all the nations. Now he says, they should be like a vast desert, and in utter ruin, and a reproach; and not only is this rumor spread abroad, but all travelers through that land are witnesses of this reproach. But in the next verse this is followed out more at length.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
14, 15. I will make thee waste, a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations (Deu 28:37; Lam 2:15-16) These warnings of Jehovah were intended to move the people to repentance, but, failing in that, they were sorrowfully fulfilled. In the light of history no one dare affirm that this prophecy has not been literally accomplished. The history of the Jews is the history of fulfilled prophecy.
In anger and in fury and in furious rebukes No doubt there were limitations to Ezekiel’s conception of God. This revelation of Jehovah’s nature does not read like the one given in the Gospels. Yet we can now see that it is the reverse side of a perfect being. The “wrath of the Lamb” is most furious. No anger is like that of insulted love. Ezekiel had need to arouse “the terrifying sense of divine anger against sin” in order to make a place for the Gospel of pardon and eternal love (Eze 23:11-20; Lev 26:6; Lev 26:22; Deu 32:24).
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
“Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations who are round about you, in the sight of all who pass by. So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments in you in anger and in fury, and in furious rebukes. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”
The catalogue of woes continues. All around would see their desolation, all would note that Yahweh’s people, who had boasted in their God and His power, had been humbled and devastated. All who passed by (see Lam 1:12) would reproach and taunt them, and would learn from what had happened to them of God’s hatred of sin. Indeed they would be astonished at what had happened to them. They were the people of Yahweh whom Sennacherib had been unable to conquer (2Ki 19:35-36) because of what Yahweh had done. How then could this have happened to them? And the answer would be, because of the anger and fury and furious rebukes of Yahweh against their sin. Note the piling up of the verbs. The nations would be totally amazed.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 5:14 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.
Ver. 14. Moreover, I will make thee waste. ] In ariditatem, a dry and barren wilderness, whose fruitfulness and pleasantness is so much celebrated, not only by divine, but profane authors also. See Psa 107:34 . See Trapp on “ Psa 107:34 “
In the sight of all.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
I will make thee waste. Reference to Pentateuch (Lev 26:31, Lev 26:32). App-92,
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Eze 5:14
Ezekiel 5:14
“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.”
“The object here was to make Judah and Jerusalem a warning to the nations around about them.”
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
I will: Eze 22:4, Lev 26:31, Lev 26:32, Deu 28:37, 2Ch 7:20, 2Ch 7:21, Neh 2:17, Psa 74:3-10, Psa 79:1-4, Isa 64:10, Isa 64:11, Jer 19:8, Jer 24:9, Jer 24:10, Jer 42:18, Lam 1:4, Lam 1:8, Lam 2:15-17, Lam 5:18, Mic 3:12
the nations: Eze 5:8
Reciprocal: Psa 89:41 – he is Isa 24:1 – maketh the Jer 2:15 – they made Jer 23:40 – General Eze 6:6 – the cities Mar 10:20 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 5:14. National “pride” is not endorsed by the Lord at any time, for pride is always condemned wherever it exists. Yet it is a strong punishment upon any nation to humiliate it before the eyes of other nations, and that was to be one form of divine judgment upon Jerusalem and her people.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
The Lord would desolate the people and make them an abhorrence to the observing nations. They would revile the Jews and use them as a warning of the consequences of covenant unfaithfulness, Yahweh promised.