Ezekiel 5:5-17
“Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.”
King James Version
Jerusalem made a waste and a reproach among the nations for its sins, fulfilled in the Babylonian destruction.
Fulfillment References
Lamentations 2:15 Nehemiah 1:3 Ezekiel 5:14
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