Read Ezekiel 5.5-17
God sums up the theology of punishment that Ezekiel's symbolic actions illustrate.
Charging that Israel acts like the nations (see 1 Sam 8.4-5) by defiling the Temple, God states that the people will suffer war and exile, and will perish by pestilence, famine, and sword.
God's threat to make Israel a desolation and an object of mocking among the nations and to unleash famine, wild animals, etc., against the people recalls threats made in Jer 24.9-10
(see also Deut 28.37; 1 Kings 9.7).
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