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以西结书 4

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1 人子啊,你要拿一块砖,摆在你面前,将一座耶路撒冷城画在其上,

2 又围困这城,造台筑垒,安攻击,在四围安设撞锤攻城,

3 又要拿个鏊,放在你和城的中间,作为。你要对面攻击这城,使城被困;这样,好作以色列家的预兆。

4 你要向左侧卧,承当以色列家的罪孽;要按你向左侧卧的日数,担当他们的罪孽。

5 因为我已将他们作孽的年数定为你向左侧卧的日数,就是九十日,你要这样担当以色列家的罪孽。

6 再者,你满了这些日子,还要向右侧卧,担当犹大家的罪孽。我你定规侧卧四十日,一日顶一年。

7 你要露出膀,面向被困的耶路撒冷,说预言攻击这城。

8 我用绳索捆绑你,使你不能辗,直等你满了困城的日子。

9 你要取小麦、大麦、豆子、红豆、小米、粗麦,装在个器皿中,用以为自己做饼;要按你侧卧的九十日这饼。

10 你所的要按分两,每日二十舍客勒,按时而

11 也要按制子,每日分之一,按时而

12 这饼像大麦饼一样,要用人粪在众人眼前烧烤。

13 耶和华以色列人在我所赶他们到的各国中,也必这样不洁净的食物。

14 :哎!耶和华啊,我素未曾被玷污,从幼年到如今没有吃过自死的,或被野兽撕裂的,那可憎的也未曾入我的

15 於是他对我哪,我你牛粪代替人粪,你要将你的饼烤在其上。

16 他又对我:人子啊,我必在耶路撒冷折断他们的杖,就是断绝他们的粮。他们饼要按分两,忧虑而也要按制子,惊惶而

17 使他们缺粮缺,彼此惊惶,因自己的罪孽消灭。

   

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Spiritual Experiences (Interim Diary) #4720

  
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4720. About those who pound

Those who in the life of the body had been righteous and fair in their works and actions, and yet had inwardly acknowledged neither God nor the life after death - thus inwardly had engaged in no worship - appear in the other life to be pounding, but what is thus being pounded is imagined to be flour, but it is human dung, as we read in the prophet [Ezech. 4:12], and tastes urinous. From such a one I also felt a coldness in my ankles, and he was called by spirits a shoemaker, because he abode in outermost earthly qualities, symbolized by shoes.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.