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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;)
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A Public Lesson for All Nations
Commentators explain that Jerusalem's punishment was designed to be a public spectacle for the surrounding nations. It would be a "reproach" and a "taunt," but also an "instruction" and an "astonishment." The nations would see the terrifying consequences of sin, even for God's chosen people, and be horrified. This public judgment served as a severe warning to all who would witness it.
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Ezekiel
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16th Century
Protestant
He further explains how the Jews should be devastated and become a reproach among the nations. Now, he does not speak of their dispersion, but uses…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt The subject of the reproaches and taunts of the enemy; see ([Reference Jeremia…
Presbyterian
The sentence passed upon Jerusalem is very dreadful, the manner of expression makes it still more so. Who is able to stand in God's sight when He i…