Ezekiel 5:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments in you in anger and in fury and in fierce rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְֽהָ֨יְתָ֜ה חֶרְפָּ֤ה וּגְדוּפָה֙ מוּסָ֣ר וּמְשַׁמָּ֔ה לַגּוֹיִ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר סְבִיבוֹתָ֑יִךְ בַּעֲשׂ֩וֹתִי֩ בָ֨ךְ שְׁפָטִ֜ים בְּאַ֤ף וּבְחֵמָה֙ וּבְתֹכְח֣וֹת חֵמָ֔ה אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבַּֽרְתִּי׃

Transliteration

wə-hāyətāh ḥerpāh û-gədûpāh mûsār û-məšammāh la-gôyim ʾăšer səbîbôtāyk ba-ʿăśôtî bāk šəpāṭîm bə-ʾaf û-bə-ḥēmāh û-bə-tōkəḥôt ḥēmāh ʾănî Yahweh dibbartî

Grammar Details

• wə-*hāyətāh*: conjunction + qal perfect 3rd person feminine singular - and it shall be
• *ḥerpāh*: feminine singular noun - a reproach
• û-*gədûpāh*: conjunction + feminine singular noun - and a taunt
• *mûsār*: masculine singular noun - a warning
• û-*məšammāh*: conjunction + feminine singular noun - and an astonishment
• *la-gôyim*: preposition + definite article + masculine plural noun - to the nations
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which
• *səbîbôtāyk*: preposition + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - around you
• *ba-ʿăśôtî*: preposition + qal infinitive construct + 1st person singular suffix - when I execute
• *bāk*: preposition + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - in you
• *šəpāṭîm*: masculine plural noun - judgments
• *bə-ʾaf*: preposition + masculine singular noun - in anger
• û-*bə-ḥēmāh*: conjunction + preposition + feminine singular noun - and in fury
• û-*bə-tōkəḥôt*: conjunction + preposition + feminine plural construct - and in rebukes of
• *ḥēmāh*: feminine singular noun - fury
• *ʾănî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
• *Yahweh*: divine name - YHWH
• *dibbartî*: piel perfect 1st person singular - have spoken

Word Meanings

• *gədûpāh*: taunt/reviling/mockery
• *mûsār*: warning/instruction/chastisement
• *məšammāh*: astonishment/horror/desolation
• *tōkəḥôt*: rebukes/reproofs/corrections

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  You will be a reproach, a mockery, a warning, and a horror to the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and furious rebukes! I, the LORD, have spoken.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  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 on thee in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Jehovah, have spoken it;)

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  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.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  so that when I punysh the in my wrath, in myne anger, and with the plage off my whote displeasure: thou shalt be a very abhominacion, shame, a gasinge and wondringe stocke, amonge the Heithen that lye aboute the. Euen I the LORDE haue spoken it, and it shall come to passe,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  So thou shalt bee a reproche and shame, a chastisement and an astonishment vnto the nations, that are rounde about thee, when I shall execute iudgements in thee, in anger and in wrath, and in sharpe rebukes: I the Lorde haue spoken it.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  So thou shalt be a reproche and shame, a chastisement and a wondryng vnto the nations that are rounde about thee, when I shall execute iudgementes in thee, in anger & in wrath, and in sharpe rebukes, I the Lorde haue spoken it:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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].

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And it hath been a reproach and a reviling, An instruction and an astonishment, To nations that `are' round about thee, In My doing in thee judgments, In anger and fury, and in furious reproofs, I, Jehovah, have spoken.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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 on thee in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Jehovah, have spoken it;)

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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 on thee in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Jehovah, have spoken it;)

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And you will be a name of shame and a cause of bitter words, an example and a wonder to the nations round about you, when I give effect to my judging among you in wrath and in passion and in burning protests: I the Lord have said it:

• World English Bible (2000)

  So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  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!

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 25:17 : 17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon them.
• Jer 22:8-9 : 8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has the LORD done thus to this great city? 9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.
• 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 Then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, I will cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
• Isa 26:9 : 9 With my soul I have desired You in the night; yes, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
• Isa 66:15-16 : 15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
• 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 Now all these things happened to them as examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
• Ps 79:4 : 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
• Deut 29:24-28 : 24 Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean? 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them: 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
• Nah 1:2 : 2 God is jealous, and the LORD avenges; the LORD avenges and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies.