Ezekiel 14:8

Jehovah's answer to the idolatrous inquirer: he will make him a sign and a proverb, and cut him off from his people.

make him a sign This is the traditional reading (Baer's Ezek. hiph. of sîm, cf. Ezekiel 21:16; Job 4:20). R.V. follows a different text. On "sign" &c. cf. Numbers 26:10; Deuteronomy 28:37.