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.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
We have here the explanation of the foregoing similitude: This is Jerusalem. Thus it is usual in scripture language to give the name of the thing signified to the sign; as when Christ said, This is my…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
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…
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