Ezekiel 5:15
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
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Gill's Exposition
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt,.... The subject of the reproaches and taunts of the enemy; see Jer 24:9; this is repeated for the greater confirmation of it:
an instruction; or "discipline",…
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
So it shall be So shall she be, i.e. Jerusalem. The ancient versions, however, give: and thou shalt be.
an instruction i.e. a lesson of warning, cf. ch. Eze 23:48, "that all women may be taught (take…
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