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# General Information:
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Yahweh continues to speak through Ezekiel to the people of Jerusalem.
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# by the blood that you have poured out
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"because you murdered innocent people"
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# You have drawn your days to a close, and the end of your years has come
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"You are bringing your existence to an end". The images of days being brought to a close and years coming to an end are representing ending by death or by destruction. By saying that Jerusalem has brough her days to a close, Yahweh implies that Jerusalem would soon be destroyed because of the people's sin.
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# have drawn your days to a close
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"have brought your days to an end" or "have ended your life"
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# I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the lands
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"I will make the nations scorn you and all the lands ridicule you"
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# an object of scorn
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someone whom people disapprove of or treat with disgust
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# a laughingstock
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a person whom people ridicule or mock
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# to all the lands
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"of the people of every nearby land" |