# General Information:

Yahweh continues to speak through Ezekiel to the people of Jerusalem.

# by the blood that you have poured out

"because you murdered innocent people"

# You have drawn your days to a close, and the end of your years has come

"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.

# have drawn your days to a close

"have brought your days to an end" or "have ended your life"

# I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the lands

"I will make the nations scorn you and all the lands ridicule you"

# an object of scorn 

someone whom people disapprove of or treat with disgust 

# a laughingstock

a person whom people ridicule or mock

# to all the lands

"of the people of every nearby land"