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Ezekiel 7

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1 And the word of Jehovah was unto me, saying,

2 And thou son of man, thus says the Lord Jehovih* to the ground of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four wings* of the land.

3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send My anger upon thee, and will judge thee according·​·to thy ways, and will put upon thee all thine abominations.

4 And My eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity; for I will put thy ways on thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and you shall know that I am Jehovah.

5 Thus says the Lord Jehovih; An evil, one evil, behold, has come.

6 An end has come, the end has come; it has awakened upon thee; behold, it is come.

7 The diadem* has come to thee, O thou who dwellest·​·in the land; the time has come, the day of upset is near, and not the heyd* of the mountains.

8 Now will I shortly spill My fury upon thee, and complete My anger on thee; and I will judge thee according·​·to thy ways, and will give thee all thine abominations.

9 And My eye shall not spare, neither will· I ·have·​·pity; I will give to thee according·​·to thy ways and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and you shall know that I am Jehovah that smites.

10 Behold the day, behold, it is come; the diadem is gone·​·out; the rod has flowered, presumptuousness has flourished.

11 Violence has risen·​·up to a rod of wickedness; not one of them shall remain, nor of their crowd, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing over them.

12 The time is come, the day has arrived; let not the buyer be·​·glad, and let not the seller mourn; for fierceness is against all her crowd.

13 For the seller shall not turn·​·back to what is sold, and their life is yet among the living; for the vision is to all the crowd of them, which shall not turn·​·back; and a man shall not confirm himself in the iniquity of his life.

14 They have sounded the trumpet, even to make all prepared; but none goes to the battle; for My fierceness is against all the multitude.

15 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine inside; he that is in the field shall·​·die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

16 But they who escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains as doves of the ravines, all of them making·​·noise, each·​·man by his iniquity.

17 All the hands shall be·​·slack, and all knees shall go into the waters.

18 And they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be to all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be isolated as an abomination; their silver and their gold shall not be·​·able to rescue them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: for their iniquity is their stumblingblock.

20 And the elegance of His decoration, He set it with pride; and they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I put him in isolation from them.

21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for plunder, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil; and they shall profane it.

22 And My face I will turn·​·around from them, and they shall profane My secret place; and they who break·​·through shall come into it, and profane it.

23 Make the chain; for the land is·​·full of the judgment of bloods*, and the city is·​·full of violence.

24 And I will bring the evil ones of the nations, and they shall possess their houses; and I will make the pride of the strong to cease; and their consecrated places shall be profaned.

25 Cutting off* comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

26 Calamity shall come upon calamity, and report shall be upon report; and they shall seek a vision from the prophet; and the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

27 The king shall mourn, and the chief shall be·​·clothed with astonishment, and the hands of the people of the land shall be vexed; I will do to them after their way, and with their judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 374

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374. That 'the voice of blood' 1 means violence done to charity is clear from many places in the Word where 'voice' stands for everything that accuses, and 'blood' for all sin, especially hatred. For anyone who hates his brother murders him in his own heart, as the Lord teaches,

You have heard that it was said to the men of old, You shall not kill, and whoever kills will be liable to judgement. But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without cause will be liable to judgement. Whoever indeed says to his brother, Raca! will be liable to the Sanhedrin. And whoever says You fool! will be liable to the Gehenna of fire. Matthew 5:21-22.

These sayings denote degrees of hatred. Hatred is contrary to charity; and though a person does not actually commit murder, the intention to do so is still there, and by whatever possible method. It is external restraints alone which prevent murder actually being committed. And this is why all hatred is called blood, as in Jeremiah,

How well you direct Your way in the quest for love! Yes, in your skirts the blood of needy innocent souls is found. Jeremiah 2:33-34.

[2] And since hatred is meant by blood, so is every kind of wickedness, for hatred is the source of all wickedness, as in Hosea,

Perjuring, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they commit robbery, and blood' has followed on blood. 1 Therefore the land will mourn and every inhabitant will anguish. Hosea 4:2-3.

And in Ezekiel,

Will you judge the city of blood' and declare to her all her abominations? A City that sheds blood' in the midst of her. By your blood which you have shed you have become guilty. Ezekiel 22:2-4, 6, 9.

This is referring to the lack of compassion. In the same prophet,

The land is full of the judgement of blood, 1 and the city is full of violence. Ezekiel 7:23.

And in Jeremiah,

For the sins of the prophets of Jerusalem, the iniquities of her priests who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous, they wander blind in the streets; they are defiled with blood. Lamentations 4:13-14.

In Isaiah,

When the Lord will have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and wiped away from its midst the blood 1 of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning. Isaiah 4:4.

In the same prophet,

Your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Isaiah 59:3.

In Ezekiel,

I passed by you and saw you weltering in your blood, 1 and I said to you, Live in your blood 1 I indeed said to you, Live in your blood. 1 Ezekiel 16:6, 22.

This refers to the abominations of Jerusalem, which are called 'blood' 1 . Lack of compassion, and hatred, in the last times a real so described as blood in Revelation 16:3-4. The plural 'bloods' is used because all forms of iniquity and abomination well up out of hatred, just as all forms of good and holiness do out of love. Anyone therefore who hates his neighbour would murder him if he could, and he does do so in whatever way he can. That is to say, he does him violence, which is strictly the meaning here of 'voice of blood'. 1

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1. literally, bloods

  
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