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Ezequiel 25

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1 De novo veio a mim a palavra do Senhor, dizendo:

2 Filho do homem, dirige o teu rosto contra os filhos de Amom, e profetiza contra eles.

3 E dize aos amonitas: Ouvi a palavra do Senhor Deus: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Visto que tu disseste: Ah! contra o meu santuário quando foi profanado, e contra a terra de Israel quando foi assolada, e contra a casa de Judá quando foi para o cativeiro;

4 por isso eis que te entregarei em possessão ao povo do Oriente, e em ti estabelecerão os seus acampamentos, e porão em ti as suas moradas. Eles comerão os teus frutos, e beberão o teu leite.

5 E farei de Rabá uma estrebaria de camelos, e dos amonitas um curral de rebanhos; e sabereis que eu sou o Senhor.

6 Porque assim diz o Senhor Deus: Visto como bateste com as mãos, e pateaste com os pés, e te alegraste com todo o despeito do teu coração contra a terra de Israel;

7 portanto eis que eu tenho estendido a minha mão contra ti, e te darei por despojo às nações, e te arrancarei dentre os povos, e te destruirei dentre os países, e de todo acabarei contigo; e saberás que eu sou o Senhor.

8 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Visto como dizem em Moabe. e Seir: Eis que a casa de Judá é como todas as nações;

9 portanto, eis que eu abrirei o lado de Moabe desde as cidades, desde as suas cidades que estão pela banda das fronteiras, a glória do país, Bete-Jesimote, Baal-Meom, e até Quiriataim,

10 e ao povo do Oriente, juntamente com os filhos de Amom, eu o entregarei em possessão, para que não haja mais memória dos filhos de Amom entre as nações.

11 Também executarei juízos contra Moabe; e saberão que eu sou o Senhor.

12 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Pois que Edom se houve vingativamente para com a casa de Judá, e se fez culpadíssimo, vingando-se deles.

13 portanto assim diz o Senhor Deus: Também estenderei a minha mão contra Edom, e arrancarei dele homens e animais; e o tornarei em deserto desde Temã; e cairão à espada até Dedã.

14 E exercerei a minha vingança sobre Edom, pela mão do meu povo de Israel; e farão em Edom segundo a minha ira e segundo o meu furor; e conhecerão a minha vingança, diz o Senhor Deus.

15 Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Porquanto os filisteus se houveram vingativamente, e executaram vingança com despeito de coração, para destruírem com perpétua inimizade;

16 portanto assim diz o Senhor Deus: Eis que estendo a minha mão contra os filisteus, e arrancarei os quereteus, e destruirei o resto da costa do mar.

17 E executarei neles grandes vinganças, com furiosos castigos; e saberão que eu sou o Senhor, quando eu tiver exercido a minha vingança sobre eles.

   

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7523. 'And there will be on man and on beast' means the products of interior and exterior evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'man' as the affection for good, and in the contrary sense as the desire for evil; and 'beast' is similar in meaning. But when 'man' and 'beast' are mentioned together, 'man means interior affection or desire and 'beast' exterior; regarding both, see 7424. Interior good or else interior evil, which is meant by 'man', is that connected with intentions or ends in view, for intentions or ends in view are at a person's core, whereas exterior good or else exterior evil, which is meant by 'beast', is that connected with thought and consequently, if nothing stands in the way, with action. Exterior good is meant by 'beast' because a person is in respect of his external or natural man no different from a beast; for he is endowed with similar desires and also cravings, as well as appetites and senses. And interior good is meant by 'man because it is in respect of his internal or spiritual man that a person is a human being, on which internal level he is endowed with affections for what is good and true such as exist with the angels in heaven, and because he controls his natural or animal man, which is 'a beast', by means of that internal man. Regarding the meaning of 'beast' as the affection for good and in the contrary sense the desire for evil, see 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 715, 719, 776, 2179, 2180, 3218, 3519, 5198.

[2] These things are what are meant by 'man and beast' in the following places too: In Jeremiah,

My anger and My wrath have been poured out on this place, on man and on beast. Jeremiah 7:20

In the same prophet,

I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great pestilence. Jeremiah 21:6.

In the same prophet,

It will make her land a desolation, so that none may dwell in it; both man and beast have scattered themselves, they have gone away. Jeremiah 50:3.

In Ezekiel,

When a land has sinned against Me by committing great transgression, I will cut off from it man and beast. Ezekiel 14:13, 19, 21.

In the same prophet,

I will stretch out My hand over Edom, and cut off from it man and beast, and make it a waste. Ezekiel 25:13.

In Zephaniah,

I will consume man and beast, I will consume the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from the surface of the earth. Zephaniah 1:3.

[3] 'Man and beast' stands for interior and exterior good in the following places: In Jeremiah,

I have made the earth, man and beast, by My great strength. Jeremiah 27:5.

In the same prophet,

Behold, the days are coming, said Jehovah, in which I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. Jeremiah 31:17.

In the same prophet,

A desolation will the earth be, so that man and beast are not there. Jeremiah 32:43.

In the same prophet,

In the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that have been devastated, there is no man and inhabitant, and there is no beast. Jeremiah 33:10; 51:62.

In David,

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, Your judgements a great deep; You preserve man and beast, O Jehovah. Psalms 36:6.

It was because 'man and beast' meant such things that the firstborn of the Egyptians died, not only of men but also of beasts, Exodus 12:29, and that the firstborn were consecrated [to Jehovah], not only of men but also of beasts, Numbers 18:15, and also that the king of Nineveh, following sacred religious practice, commanded that not only man but also beast should fast and also be clothed in sackcloth, Jonah 3:7-8.

  
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