Those who are near, and those who are far from you, will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.
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Those who are near, and those who are far from you, will mock you, you infamous one, full of tumult.
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Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
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Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, thou defiled of name and full of tumult.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 22:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 22:2 You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.
- Jeremiah 15:2-3 It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.” ’ “I will appoint over them four kinds,” says Yahweh: “the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Whose very name all men hate.
Whose very name all men hate.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 22:5 [Those that be] near, and [those that…
Eze 22:5 [Those that be] near, and [those that be] far from thee, shall mock thee, [which art] infamous [and] much vexed.
Ver. 5. Shall mock thee, which are infamous.] This was forethreatened. {Deu 28:37} Our natures are most impatient of reproach; for there is none so mean but thinks himself worthy of some regard. Gens haec, saith Giraldus Cambrensis of the wild Irish, sicut et natio quaevis barbara, &c.; No nation is so barbarous, but that although they know not what belongeth to honour, yet do they exceedingly affect to be honoured, and will not abide to be reproached.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Those that be near; as the Idumeans or Edomites,…
Those that be near; as the Idumeans or Edomites, who insulted over Jerusalem when it was taken, Ammonites, and Moabites, and Philistines.
Those that be far from thee; the barbarous Medes, Iberians, Hyrcanians, &c., to whom thou shalt be carried captive, whose land is far off.
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Infamous; of a most infamous name.
Much vexed; afflicted, impoverished, and ruinated above what was ever done to any city.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Those that be near, and those that be far…
Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee,.... The neighbouring nations, as the Edomites, Philistines, Moabites, and Ammonites; and distant ones, as the Babylonians, Medes, and Persians; all that either hear of, or see their misery, shall rejoice at it, and triumph over them:
which art infamous and much vexed; or they shall say, O thou of an infamous name and character; who hast defiled thy name, got a blot upon it, and lost thy credit by thy conduct and behaviour; and now fretting and vexing under the afflictions and calamities that lie upon thee: or whose tumults are many, as the Targum; who hast been full of noise, and factions, and tumults; thou art now come to a righteous end.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Much vexed - Afflicted, impoverished, and ruined.
Much vexed - Afflicted, impoverished, and ruined.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 5. Those that be near] Both distant as…
Verse 5. Those that be near] Both distant as well as neighbouring provinces consider thee the most abandoned of characters; and through thee many have been involved in distress and ruin.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain i. e., Countries near and afar oft shall mock…
i. e., Countries near and afar oft shall mock thee, saying, “Ah! defiled in name; Ah! full of turbulence!”
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain infamous--They mockingly call thee, "Thou polluted one in name…
infamous--They mockingly call thee, "Thou polluted one in name (Margin), and full of confusion" [FAIRBAIRN], (referring to the tumultuous violence prevalent in it). Thus the nations "far and near" mocked her as at once sullied in character and in actual fact lawless. What a sad contrast to the Jerusalem once designated "'the holy city!"
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 5. Infamous and much vexed — Literally, defiled in…
5. Infamous and much vexed — Literally, defiled in name and full of turmoil. The city which was to have been the joy of the whole earth has now become the scorn of the heathen.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. much vexed] full of tumults, Amo_3:9, and on…
5. much vexed] full of tumults, Amo_3:9, and on ch. Eze_5:7.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (5) Infamous and much vexed.—It is better to omit…
(5) Infamous and much vexed.—It is better to omit the words in italics, which art. The literal meaning of “infamous” is given in the margin; but the “much vexed” refers to the internal confusion, commotions, and social disorders which characterised the decaying state of the kingdom.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Those that be near, etc. The Hebrew words are…
Those that be near, etc. The Hebrew words are both feminine, and refer to the neighboring and distant cities which took up their proverbs of reproach against the city, once holy and faithful, now infamous (Hebrew, defiled in name) and much vexed. The last words point to another form of punishment. Jerusalem is described as in a state of moral tumult and disorder as the consequence of its guilt (comp. Amo_3:9; Deu_7:23; Zec_14:13, where the same word is rendered by "tumults" and "destruction
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