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Ézéchiel 5

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1 Et toi, fils de l'homme, prends un instrument tranchant, un rasoir de barbier; prends-le, et passe-le sur ta tête et sur ta barbe. Prends ensuite une balance à peser, et partage les cheveux.

2 Brûles-en un tiers dans le feu, au milieu de la ville, lorsque les jours du siège seront accomplis; prends-en un tiers, et frappe-le avec le rasoir tout autour de la ville; disperses-en un tiers au vent, et je tirerai l'épée derrière eux.

3 Tu en prendras une petite quantité, que tu serreras dans les bords de ton vêtement.

4 Et de ceux-là tu en prendras encore quelques-uns, que tu jetteras au feu et que tu brûleras dans le feu. De là sortira un feu contre toute la maison d'Israël.

5 Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l'Eternel: C'est là cette Jérusalem que j'avais placée au milieu des nations et des pays d'alentour.

6 Elle a violé mes lois et mes ordonnances, et s'est rendue plus coupable que les nations et les pays d'alentour; car elle a méprisé mes lois, elle n'a pas suivi mes ordonnances.

7 C'est pourquoi ainsi parle le Seigneur, l'Eternel: Parce que vous avez été plus rebelles que les nations qui vous entourent, parce que vous n'avez pas suivi mes ordonnances et pratiqué mes lois, et que vous n'avez pas agi selon les lois des nations qui vous entourent; -

8 cause de cela, ainsi parle le Seigneur, l'Eternel: Voici, j'en veux à toi, et j'exécuterai au milieu de toi mes jugements sous les yeux des nations.

9 A cause de toutes tes abominations, je te ferai ce que je n'ai point encore fait, ce que je ne ferai jamais.

10 C'est pourquoi des pères mangeront leurs enfants au milieu de toi, et des enfants mangeront leurs pères; j'exercerai mes jugements contre toi, et je disperserai à tous les vents tout ce qui restera de toi.

11 C'est pourquoi, je suis vivant! dit le Seigneur, l'Eternel, parce que tu as souillé mon sanctuaire par toutes tes idoles et toutes tes abominations, moi aussi je retirerai mon oeil, et mon oeil sera sans pitié, moi aussi je n'aurai point de miséricorde.

12 Un tiers de tes habitants mourra de la peste et sera consumé par la famine au milieu de toi; un tiers tombera par l'épée autour de toi; et j'en disperserai un tiers à tous les vents, et je tirerai l'épée derrière eux.

13 J'assouvirai ainsi ma colère, je ferai reposer ma fureur sur eux, je me donnerai satisfaction; et ils sauront que moi, l'Eternel, j'ai parlé dans ma colère, en répandant sur eux ma fureur.

14 Je ferai de toi un désert, un sujet d'opprobre parmi les nations qui t'entourent, aux yeux de tous les passants.

15 Tu seras un sujet d'opprobre et de honte, un exemple et un objet d'effroi pour les nations qui t'entourent, quand j'exécuterai contre toi mes jugements, avec colère, avec fureur, et par des châtiments rigoureux, -c'est moi, l'Eternel, qui parle, -

16 quand je lancerai sur eux les flèches pernicieuses de la famine, qui donnent la mort, et que j'enverrai pour vous détruire; car j'ajouterai la famine à vos maux, je briserai pour vous le bâton du pain.

17 J'enverrai contre vous la famine et les bêtes féroces, qui te priveront d'enfants; la peste et le sang passeront au milieu de toi; je ferai venir l'épée sur toi. C'est moi, l'Eternel, qui parle.

   

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Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture # 16

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16. Without the spiritual sense no one would know why the prophet Jeremiah was commanded to buy himself a sash and put it around his waist, not to drag it through water, and to hide it in a hole in the rock by the Euphrates (Jeremiah 13:1-7).

Or why the prophet Isaiah was commanded to loose the sackcloth from upon his loins and put off the sandals upon his feet, and to go naked and barefoot three years (Isaiah 20:2-3).

Or why the prophet Ezekiel was commanded to pass a razor over his head and his beard, and then to divide the hair, burn a third part in the midst of the city, strike a third part with a sword, and scatter a third part in the wind, and to bind a few of the hairs in the edges of his garment, and finally throw them into the midst of the fire (Ezekiel 5:1-4).

Or why the same prophet was commanded to lie three hundred and ninety days on his left side and forty days on his right side, and to make himself bread of wheat, barley, millet and spelt mixed with cow dung and eat it; and in the meantime to put up a wall and a mound against Jerusalem and lay siege to it (Ezekiel 4:1-15).

Or why the prophet Hosea was twice commanded to take to himself a harlot as a wife (Hosea 1:2-9, 3:2-3).

And many other passages of a similar kind.

[2] Furthermore, without the spiritual sense, who would know the symbolic meanings of everything connected with the Tabernacle, such as the ark, the mercy seat, the cherubim, the lampstand, the altar of incense, the showbread upon the table, and the Tabernacle’s veils and curtains?

Without the spiritual sense, who would know the symbolic meanings of Aaron’s holy vestments — of his tunic, robe, ephod, urim and thummim, turban, and more?

Without the spiritual sense, who would know the symbolic meanings of all the commandments regarding the whole burnt offerings, other burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings? Or regarding the sabbaths and feasts?

The truth is that not the least of these particulars was commanded that did not symbolize something having to do with the Lord, heaven and the church.

It may be plainly seen from these few examples that there is a spiritual meaning present in each and every constituent of the Word.

  
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Thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Ezekiel 4:1-15

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1 You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:

2 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.

3 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

4 Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

6 Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.

7 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

8 Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

9 Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.

10 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.

11 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.

12 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.

13 Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.

14 Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

15 Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.