The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #144
144. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 21
1-3 [See above, end of chapter 20.] (3, 5)
4-5 They will all perish by means of falsities of evil.
8-11 Destruction by means of interior falsities of evil. (3, 8)
12-13 Grief of the church because they cannot be converted. (3)
14-17 All things that remain will also perish, owing to falsities still more interior. (3)
18-22 Destruction will come by reasonings from falsities, and yet they will have worship, but from these falsities. (3)
23-24 Their worship will be vain. (3)
25-27 That church will come to its end when the Lord comes. (1, 3)
28-29 It will be the same with those who have falsified the sense of the letter of the Word. (3)
Ezekiel 21:6-7
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Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs and with bitterness you will sigh before their eyes.
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It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.