Eze 5:15 | NET2full | STEP | You will be an object of scorn and taunting , a prime example of destruction among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury . I , the Lord , have spoken !

‏ Ezekiel 5:15

15 You will be ^{▼▼tc This reading is supported by the versions and by the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QEzek). Most Masoretic Hebrew mss read: “it will be,” but if the final he (ה) is read as a mater lectionis, as it can be with the second masculine singular perfect, then they are in agreement. In either case the subject refers to Jerusalem.} an object of scorn and taunting, ^{▼▼tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT. A related verb means “revile, taunt” (see Ps 44:16).} a prime example of destruction ^{▼▼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).} among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. ^{▼▼tn Heb “in anger and in fury and in rebukes of fury.” The heaping up of synonyms emphasizes the degree of God’s anger.} I, the Lord, have spoken!