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Mika 2

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1 Ve dessa som tänka ut vad fördärvligt är och bereda vad ont är på sina läger, och som sätta det i verket, så snart morgonen gryr, allenast det står i deras makt;

2 dessa som hava begärelse till sin nästas åkrar och röva dem, eller till hans hus och tillägna sig dem; dessa som öva våld mot både människor och hus, mot både ägare och egendom!

3 Därför säger HERREN så: Se, jag tänker ut mot detta släkte vad ont är; och I skolen icke kunna draga eder hals därur, ej heller skolen I sedan så stolta, ty det bliver en ond tid.

4 På den dagen skall man stämma upp en visa över eder och sjunga en sorgesång; man skall säga: »Det är ute med oss, vi äro förstörda i grund! Mitt folks arvslott bliver nu given åt en annan. Ja i sanning, den ryckes ifrån mig, och åt avfällingar utskiftas våra åkrar.»

5 Så sker det att hos dig icke mer finnes någon som får spänna mätsnöre över en lott i HERRENS församling.

6 »Hören då upp att predika», så är deras predikan; »om sådant får man icke predika; det är ju ingen ände på smädelser!»

7 Är detta ett tillbörligt tal, du Jakobs hus? Har då HERREN varit snar till vrede? Hava hans gärningar visat något sådant? Äro icke fastmer mina ord milda mot den som vandrar redligt?

8 Men nu sedan en tid uppreser sig mitt folk såsom en fiende. I sliten manteln bort ifrån kläderna på människor som trygga gå sin väg fram och ej vilja veta av strid.

9 Mitt folks kvinnor driven I ut från de hem där de hade sin lust; deras barn beröven I för alltid den berömmelse de hade av mig.

10 Stån upp och gån eder väg! Här skolen I icke hava någon vilostad, för eder orenhets skull, som drager i fördärv, ja, i gruvligt fördärv.

11 Om någon som fore med munväder och falskhet sade i sin lögnaktighet: »Jag vill predika för dig om vin och starka drycker» -- det vore en predikare för detta folk!

12 Jag vill församla dig, Jakob, ja, hela ditt folk. Jag vill hämta tillhopa Israels kvarlevor, jag vill föra dem tillsammans såsom fåren till fållan, såsom en hjord till dess betesmark, så att där uppstår ett gny av människor.

13 En vägbrytare drager ut framför dem; de bryta sig igenom och tåga fram, genom porten vandra de ut. Deras konung tågar framför dem, HERREN går i spetsen för dem.

   

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Jesaja 48:1

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1 Hören detta, I av Jakobs hus, I som ären uppkallade med Israels namn och flutna ur Juda källa, I som svärjen vid HERRENS namn och prisen Israels Gud -- dock icke i sanning och rättfärdighet,

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Apocalypse Revealed # 939

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939. The fact that seeing the Lord's face does not mean seeing His face, but knowing and acknowledging Him as He is in respect to His Divine attributes, of which there are many, and that people conjoined with Him by love know Him and in that way see His face, can be seen from the following passages:

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me... ...When you come to see the face of Jehovah... (Isaiah 1:11-12)

My heart said..., "Seek my face. Your face, Jehovah, I am seeking." (Psalms 27:8)

We will shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His face with confession. (Psalms 95:1-2)

My soul thirsts... for the living God. When shall I come to see the face of God? ...yet shall I confess to Him the salvation of His countenance. (Psalms 42:2, 5)

They shall not see My face empty-handed. (Exodus 23:15)

...to come... to placate the face of Jehovah. (Zechariah 8:21-22, cf. Malachi 1:9)

Make Your face shine upon Your servant. (Psalms 31:16)

Who will show us any good? Lift up the light of Your countenance upon us, Jehovah. (Psalms 4:6)

They shall walk, O Jehovah, in the light of Your countenance. (Psalms 89:15)

...O God, cause Your face to shine, that we may be saved! (Psalms 80:3, 7, 19)

God be merciful to us and bless us. May He cause His face to shine upon us. (Psalms 67:1)

Jehovah bless you and keep you; Jehovah make His face shine upon you and be merciful to you; Jehovah lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. (Numbers 6:24-26)

You hide them in the secret place of Your countenance... (Psalms 31:20)

You have set... our hidden secret in the light of Your countenance. (Psalms 90:8)

(Jehovah) said (to Moses), "My countenance will go... (Moses) said..., "If Your countenance does not go..., do not bring us down from here." (Exodus 33:14-15)

The bread on the table in the Tabernacle was called [literally] "the bread of faces" (Exodus 25:30, Numbers 4:7).

[2] We are often told, too, that Jehovah hid His face or turned His face away, as in the following:

...for (their) wickedness I have hidden My face from (them). (Jeremiah 33:5, cf. Ezekiel 7:22)

Your sins have hidden (God's) face from you... (Isaiah 59:2)

The face of Jehovah... will no longer regard them. (Lamentations 4:16)

(Jehovah) will hide His face from them..., according as they have made their works evil. (Micah 3:4)

You hid Your face... (Psalms 30:7, cf. 44:24; 104:29)

I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them... I will surely hide My face... because of all the evil which they have done... (Deuteronomy 31:17-18)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 8:17; Ezekiel 39:23, 28-29; Deuteronomy 32:20.

[3] In an opposite sense, the face of Jehovah symbolizes anger and aversion, because an evil person turns away from the Lord, and when he turns away, it seems to him as though the Lord had turned away and was angry, as is clear from the following passages:

...I have set My face against this city for its evil... (Jeremiah 21:10, cf. 44:11)

I will set My face against that man and... devastate him... (Ezekiel 14:7-8)

I will set My face against them... and... fire shall devour them..., when I set My face against them. (Ezekiel 15:7)

...(he) who eats any blood, I will set My face against that soul... (Leviticus 17:10)

At the rebuke of Your countenance they perished. (Psalms 80:16)

The face of Jehovah is against those who do evil... (Psalms 34:16)

...I send an angel before you... Beware of his face..., for he will not endure your transgression. (Exodus 23:20-21)

Let Your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate You flee from Your countenance. (Numbers 10:35)

(I saw one sitting on the throne) from whose face the earth and heaven fled away. (Revelation 20:11)

That no one can see the Lord as He is in Himself, as we said above, is apparent from the following:

(Jehovah said to Moses,) "You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live." (Exodus 33:18-23)

That people nevertheless saw the Lord and lived, because He appeared by means of an angel, is apparent from Genesis 32:30, 1 Judges 13:22-23, 2 and elsewhere.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: "For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."

2. Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God!" But his wife said to him, "If Jehovah had desired to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have told us such things as these at this time."

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