The Meaning of Ezekiel 5:15 Explained

Ezekiel 5:15

KJV: 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.

YLT: 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.

Darby: And 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 upon thee in anger, and in fury, and in furious rebukes: I, Jehovah, have spoken.

ASV: 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;)

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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]. 

What does Ezekiel 5:15 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Ezekiel 5

1  Under the type of hair
5  is shown the judgment of Jerusalem for their rebellion
12  by famine, sword, and dispersion

What do the individual words in Ezekiel 5:15 mean?

So it shall be a reproach and a taunt a lesson and an astonishment to the nations that [are] all around you when I execute among you judgments in anger and in fury and in rebukes Furious I Yahweh have spoken
וְֽהָ֨יְתָ֜ה חֶרְפָּ֤ה וּגְדוּפָה֙ מוּסָ֣ר וּמְשַׁמָּ֔ה לַגּוֹיִ֖ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר סְבִיבוֹתָ֑יִךְ בַּעֲשׂוֹתִי֩ בָ֨ךְ שְׁפָטִ֜ים בְּאַ֤ף וּבְחֵמָה֙ וּבְתֹכְח֣וֹת חֵמָ֔ה אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבַּֽרְתִּי

וְֽהָ֨יְתָ֜ה  So  it  shall  be 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
חֶרְפָּ֤ה  a  reproach 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: חֶרְפָּה  
Sense: reproach, scorn.
וּגְדוּפָה֙  and  a  taunt 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular
Root: גְּדוּפָה  
Sense: a taunt.
מוּסָ֣ר  a  lesson 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: מוּסָר  
Sense: discipline, chastening, correction.
וּמְשַׁמָּ֔ה  and  an  astonishment 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular
Root: מְשַׁמָּה  
Sense: devastation, horror.
לַגּוֹיִ֖ם  to  the  nations 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: גֹּוי 
Sense: nation, people.
אֲשֶׁ֣ר  that  [are] 
Parse: Pronoun, relative
Root: אֲשֶׁר 
Sense: (relative part.).
סְבִיבוֹתָ֑יִךְ  all  around  you 
Parse: Adverb, second person feminine singular
Root: מוּסָב 
Sense: places round about, circuit, round about adv.
בַּעֲשׂוֹתִי֩  when  I  execute 
Parse: Preposition-b, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct, first person common singular
Root: עָשָׂה 
Sense: to do, fashion, accomplish, make.
בָ֨ךְ  among  you 
Parse: Preposition, second person feminine singular
שְׁפָטִ֜ים  judgments 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: שֶׁפֶט  
Sense: judgment, act of judgment.
בְּאַ֤ף  in  anger 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular
Root: אַף 
Sense: nostril, nose, face.
וּבְחֵמָה֙  and  in  fury 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Noun, feminine singular
Root: חֵמָא 
Sense: heat, rage, hot displeasure, indignation, anger, wrath, poison, bottles.
וּבְתֹכְח֣וֹת  and  in  rebukes 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Noun, feminine plural construct
Root: תֹּוכֵחָה 
Sense: rebuke, correction, reproof, punishment, chastisement.
חֵמָ֔ה  Furious 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: חֵמָא 
Sense: heat, rage, hot displeasure, indignation, anger, wrath, poison, bottles.
יְהוָ֖ה  Yahweh 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
דִּבַּֽרְתִּי  have  spoken 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, first person common singular
Root: דָּבַר 
Sense: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing.