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Micheáš 3

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1 Protož pravím: Slyštež již přední v Jákobovi, a vůdcové domu Izraelského: Zdaliž vy nemáte povědomi býti soudu?

2 Nenávidí dobrého a milují zlé, sdírají s lidu kůži jejich, a maso jejich s kostí jejich.

3 A jedí maso lidu mého, a kůži jejich s nich svláčejí, i kosti jejich rozlamují, a rozdělují jako do hrnce, a jako maso do kotlíku.

4 Tehdy volati budou k Hospodinu, a nevyslyší jich, ale skryje tvář svou před nimi v ten čas, tak jakž oni vykonávali zlá předsevzetí svá.

5 Takto praví Hospodin o těch prorocích, kteříž v blud uvodí lid můj, a hryzouce zuby svými, vyhlašují pokoj, a proti tomu, kdož by jim nic do úst nedal, válku vyzdvihují.

6 A protož obrátí se vám vidění v noc, a předpovídání vaše v tmu; nebo zajde slunce těm prorokům, a zatmí se jim den.

7 I budou se hanbiti ti vidoucí, a styděti ti věštci, a zastrou bradu svou všickni napořád, proto že nebude žádné odpovědi Boží.

8 Ale já naplněn jsem silou Ducha Hospodinova, a soudem i udatností, abych oznámil Jákobovi zpronevěření jeho, a Izraelovi hřích jeho.

9 Slyštež již toto přední v domě Jákobově, a vůdcové domu Izraelského, kteříž v ošklivosti mají soud, a cožkoli jest pravého, převracejí:

10 Každý vzdělává Sion vraždami, a Jeruzalém nepravostí.

11 Jehož přední podlé darů soudí, a kněží jeho ze mzdy učí, a proroci jeho z peněz hádají, a však na Hospodina zpoléhají, říkajíce: Zdaliž Hospodina není u prostřed nás? Nepřijdeť na nás nic zlého.

12 A protož vaší příčinou Sion jako pole orán bude, a Jeruzalém v hromady obrácen bude, a hora domu toho v vysoké lesy.

   

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Bones

  
"Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones (Ez. 37:1-14)" by Gustave Doré

Bones are strong and supportive, providing a framework for our bodies and making motion and action possible. They are also the least "alive" part of our bodies, with much of their structure made up of a mineral matrix. As such, they represent a strong, supportive, functional but innately nearly dead part of our spiritual makeup: the "proprium."

The proprium is the part of us that feels life as our own, that perceives our loves and our thoughts as originating within ourselves. If we simply follow the proprium without looking to the Lord, it will lead us to a hellish state, in which we believe ourselves to be all-powerful and deny the existence of the Lord altogether.

Bones, on their own, will go dry, brittle and completely dead. If, however, we acknowledge the Lord and follow him, that's like putting flesh on the bones and being alive. In that case the bones – strong, supportive, protective and as alive as they can be – represent the proprium in relation to intellect, the part of us that perceives our thoughts as our own but turns them toward the Lord.

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Micah 4:1-8

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1 But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh's temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it.

2 Many nations will go and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem;

3 and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against Nation, neither will they learn war any more.

4 But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.

5 Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

6 "In that day," says Yahweh, "I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted;

7 and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever."

8 You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, yes, the former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.