Ezekiel 5:15
ContextNETBible | You will be 1 an object of scorn and taunting, 2 a prime example of destruction 3 among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. 4 I, the Lord, have spoken! |
XREF | De 29:24-28; 1Ki 9:7; Ps 79:4; Isa 26:9; Isa 66:15,16; Jer 22:8,9; Eze 25:17; Na 1:2; 1Co 10:11 |
NET © Notes |
1 tc This reading is supported by the versions and by the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QEzek). Most Masoretic Hebrew 2 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT. A related verb means “revile, taunt” (see Ps 44:16). 3 tn Heb “discipline and devastation.” These words are omitted in the Old Greek. The first term pictures Jerusalem as a recipient or example of divine discipline; the second depicts her as a desolate ruin (see Ezek 6:14). 4 tn Heb “in anger and in fury and in rebukes of fury.” The heaping up of synonyms emphasizes the degree of God’s anger. |