Ezekiel 5:15

So it shall be a reproach and a taunt ,.... The subject of the reproaches and taunts of the enemy; see Jeremiah 24:9 ; this is repeated for the greater confirmation of it:

an instruction ; or "discipline", or "correction" F24 מוסר "disciplina", Pagninus; "castigatio", Vatablus, Starckius. . The meaning is, that the Gentiles, seeing the judgments of God upon the Jews, would hereby learn righteousness, forsake their sins, amend their ways, and fear, the Lord:

and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee ; being amazed that such judgments should fall upon a people that had been so highly favoured of God; and at their stupidity, hardness, and incorrigibleness under them:

when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury, and in furious rebukes ; a heap of words, not only denoting the certainty of divine judgments, but the greatness and fierceness of divine wrath, in the execution of them; that these were not fatherly chastisements, rebukes in love, but the effects of vindictive justice:

I the Lord have spoken it ; or those things, as the Arabic version; and as sure as I have spoken, I will do. The Targum is,

"I the Lord have decreed in my word;'

and so in Ezekiel 5:13 ; where it is added, and I will confirm or accomplish.