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Ezechiël 38

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1 Wijders geschiedde des HEEREN woord tot mij, zeggende:

2 Mensenkind! zet uw aangezicht tegen Gog, het land van Magog, den hoofdvorst van Mesech en Tubal; en profeteer tegen hem,

3 En zeg: Zo zegt de Heere Heere: Zie, Ik wil aan u, o Gog, gij hoofdvorst van Mesech en Tubal!

4 En Ik zal u omwenden, en haken in uw kaken leggen, en Ik zal u uitvoeren, mitsgaders uw ganse heir, paarden en ruiteren, die altemaal volkomen wel gekleed zijn, een grote vergadering, met rondas en schild, die altemaal zwaarden handelen;

5 Perzen, Moren en Puteers met hen, die altemaal schild en helm voeren;

6 Gomer en al zijn benden, en het huis van Togarma, aan de zijden van het noorden, en al zijn benden; vele volken met u.

7 Zijt bereid en maakt u gereed, gij en uw ganse vergadering, die tot u vergaderd zijn; en wees gij hun tot een wacht.

8 Na vele dagen zult gij bezocht worden; in het laatste der jaren zult gij komen in het land, dat wedergebracht is van het zwaard, dat vergaderd is uit vele volken, op de bergen Israels, die steeds tot verwoesting geweest zijn; als hetzelve land uit de volken zal uitgevoerd zijn, en zij allemaal zeker zullen wonen.

9 Dan zult gij optrekken, gij zult aankomen als een onstuimige verwoesting, gij zult zijn als een wolk, om het land te bedekken; gij en al uw benden, en vele volken met u.

10 Alzo zegt de Heere Heere: Te dien dage zal het ook geschieden, dat er raadslagen in uw hart zullen opkomen, en gij zult een kwade gedachte denken,

11 En zult zeggen: Ik zal optrekken naar dat dorpland, ik zal komen tot degenen, die in rust zijn, die zeker wonen, die altemaal wonen zonder muur, en grendel noch deuren hebben.

12 Om buit te buiten, en om roof te roven; om uw hand te wenden tegen de woeste plaatsen, die nu bewoond zijn, en tegen een volk, dat uit de heidenen verzameld is, dat vee en have verkregen heeft, wonende in het midden des lands.

13 Scheba, en Dedan, en de kooplieden van Tarsis, en alle hun jonge leeuwen zullen tot u zeggen: Komt gij, om buit te buiten? hebt gij uw vergadering vergaderd, om roof te roven? om zilver en goud weg te voeren, om vee en have weg te nemen, om een groten buit te buiten?

14 Daarom profeteer, o mensenkind! en zeg tot Gog: Zo zegt de Heere Heere: Zult gij het, te dien dage, als Mijn volk Israel zeker woont, niet gewaar worden?

15 Gij zult dan komen uit uw plaats, uit de zijden van het noorden, gij en vele volken met u; die altemaal op paarden zullen rijden, een grote vergadering, en een machtig heir;

16 En gij zult optrekken tegen Mijn volk Israel, als een wolk, om het land te bedekken; in het laatste der dagen zal het geschieden; dan zal Ik u aanbrengen tegen Mijn land, opdat de heidenen Mij kennen, als Ik aan u, o Gog! voor hun ogen zal geheiligd worden.

17 Zo zegt de Heere Heere: Zijt gij die, van welken Ik in verleden dagen gesproken heb, door den dienst Mijner knechten, de profeten Israels, die in die dagen geprofeteerd hebben, jaren lang, dat Ik u tegen hen zou aanbrengen?

18 Maar het zal geschieden te dien dage, ten dage als Gog tegen het land Israels zal aankomen, spreekt de Heere Heere, dat Mijn grimmigheid in Mijn neus zal opkomen.

19 Want Ik heb gesproken in Mijn ijver, in het vuur Mijner verbolgenheid: Zo er niet, te dien dage, een groot beven zal zijn in het land Israels!

20 Zodat van Mijn aangezicht beven zullen de vissen der zee, en het gevogelte des hemels, en het gedierte des velds, en al het kruipend gedierte, dat op het aardrijk kruipt, en alle mensen, die op den aardbodem zijn; en de bergen zullen nedergeworpen worden, en de steile plaatsen zullen nedervallen, en alle muren zullen ter aarde nedervallen.

21 Want Ik zal het zwaard over hem roepen op al Mijn bergen, spreekt de Heere Heere; het zwaard van een ieder zal tegen zijn broeder zijn.

22 En Ik zal met hem rechten, door pestilentie en door bloed; en Ik zal een overstelpenden plasregen, en grote hagelstenen, vuur en zwavel regenen op hem, en op zijn benden, en op de vele volken, die met hem zullen zijn.

23 Alzo zal Ik Mij groot maken, en Mij heiligen, en bekend worden voor de ogen van vele heidenen; en zij zullen weten, dat Ik de HEERE ben.

   

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As with many common verbs, the meaning of “to say” in the Bible is highly dependent on context. Who is speaking? Who is hearing? What is it about? Is it a command, a message, an apology, instruction? All these things enter into the meaning of “say.” In general, though, “saying” has to do with sharing truth at various levels -- from the most exalted power people can have to perceive the Lord's desires directly to the most basic of orders issued to people at their lowest.

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Psalms 78

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1 Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

4 We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

6 that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

7 that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

8 and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

10 They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

11 They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.

12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

14 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

15 He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

17 Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

18 They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

19 Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

20 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"

21 Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

22 because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation.

23 Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

24 He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

25 Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

26 He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

27 He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

28 He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.

29 So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

30 They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

31 when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.

32 For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his wondrous works.

33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

35 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

38 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up all his wrath.

39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

41 They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

42 They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

43 how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

44 he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

47 He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

48 He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

50 He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

51 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

53 He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

54 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

55 He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;

57 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

59 When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;

60 So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

61 and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand.

62 He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

63 Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.

65 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

66 He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

67 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,

68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

70 He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

71 from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. A Psalm by Asaph.