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13 “Only then will I stop being angry—my burning in anger. Then they’ll know that I’ve spoken out in my arduous anger. Only then will my burning anger[a] against them be exhausted. 14 I’m also going to turn you into a waste and an object of insult among the nations that surround you and in front of every person who passes by. 15 As a result, Jerusalem[b] will become an insult, an object of taunt, an example of chastisement, and a useless waste to all the nations that surround you when I carry out my sentence against you in my anger, my burning rage, and my burning rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken it.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 5:13 The Heb. lacks anger
  2. Ezekiel 5:15 MT reads it; DSS 11QEzek reads you

13 “Then my anger will cease and my wrath(A) against them will subside, and I will be avenged.(B) And when I have spent my wrath on them, they will know that I the Lord have spoken in my zeal.(C)

14 “I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.(D) 15 You will be a reproach(E) and a taunt, a warning(F) and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke.(G) I the Lord have spoken.(H)

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