Ezekiel 5:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאֶתְּנֵךְ֙ לְחָרְבָּ֣ה וּלְחֶרְפָּ֔ה בַּגּוֹיִ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר סְבִיבוֹתָ֑יִךְ לְעֵינֵ֖י כָּל־עוֹבֵֽר׃

Transliteration

wə-ʾettənēk lə-ḥorbāh û-lə-ḥerpāh ba-gôyim ʾăšer səbîbôtāyk lə-ʿênê kol-ʿôbēr

Grammar Details

• wə-*ʾettənēk*: conjunction + qal imperfect 1st person singular + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - and I will make you
• *lə-ḥorbāh*: preposition + feminine singular noun - into a waste
• û-*lə-ḥerpāh*: conjunction + preposition + feminine singular noun - and into a reproach
• *ba-gôyim*: preposition + definite article + masculine plural noun - among the nations
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which
• *səbîbôtāyk*: preposition + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - around you
• *lə-ʿênê*: preposition + construct plural noun - in the eyes of
• *kol-ʿôbēr*: construct noun + qal participle masculine singular - all who pass by

Word Meanings

• *ḥorbāh*: waste/desolation/ruins
• *ḥerpāh*: reproach/disgrace/taunt
• *ʿôbēr*: one who passes by/passerby

Referenced Verses

• Neh 2:17 : 17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
• Ps 74:3-9 : 3 Lift up{H8685)} thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy{H8802)} hath done wickedly{H8689)} in the sanctuary. 4 Thine enemies{H8802)} roar{H8804)} in the midst of thy congregations; they set up{H8804)} their ensigns for signs. 5 A man was famous{H8735)} according as he had lifted up{H8688)} axes upon the thick trees. 6 But now they break down{H8799)} the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. 7 They have cast{H8765)} fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled{H8765)} by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. 8 They said{H8804)} in their hearts, Let us destroy{H8799)} them together: they have burned up{H8804)} all the synagogues of God in the land. 9 We see{H8804)} not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth{H8802)} how long. 10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach{H8762)}? shall the enemy{H8802)} blaspheme{H8762)} thy name for ever?
• Ps 79:1-4 : 1 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come{H8804)} into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled{H8765)}; they have laid{H8804)} Jerusalem on heaps. 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given{H8804)} to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed{H8804)} like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury{H8802)} them. 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
• Ezek 22:4 : 4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
• Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
• Lev 26:31-32 : 31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. 32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
• Deut 28:37 : 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
• 2 Chr 7:20-21 : 20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. 21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
• Isa 64:10-11 : 10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
• Jer 19:8 : 8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
• Jer 24:9-9 : 9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
• Jer 42:18 : 18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
• Lam 1:4 : 4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
• Lam 1:8 : 8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
• Lam 2:15-17 : 15 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 men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. 17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
• Lam 5:18 : 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.