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以西结书 5

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1 人子啊,你要拿一把快刀,当作剃刀,用这刀剃你的发和你的胡须,用天平将须发平分。

2 围困城的日子满了,你要将分之一在城中用火焚烧,将分之一在城的四围用刀砍碎,将分之一任吹散;我也要拔刀追赶。

3 你要从其中取几根包在衣襟里,

4 再从这几根中取些扔在中焚烧,从里面必有出来烧入以色列全家。

5 耶和华如此:这就是耶路撒冷。我曾将他安置在列邦之中;列国都在他的四围。

6 他行恶,违背我的典章,过於列国;干犯我的律例,过於四围的列邦,因为他弃掉我的典章。至於我的律例,他并没有遵行。

7 所以耶和华如此:因为你们纷争过於四围的列国,也不遵行我的律例,不谨守我的典章,并以遵从四围列国的恶规尚不满意,

8 所以耶和华如此:看哪,我与你反对,必在列国的眼前,在你中间,施行审判;

9 并且因你一切可憎的事,我要在你中间行我所未曾行的,以後我也不再照着行。

10 在你中间父亲儿子,儿子要父亲。我必向你施行审判,我必将你所剩下的分散四方(方:原文是)。

11 耶和华:我指着我的永生起誓,因你用一切可憎的物、可厌的事玷污了我的圣所,故此,我定要使你人数减少,我眼必不顾惜你,也不可怜你。

12 你的民分之一必遭瘟疫,在你中间必因饥荒消灭;分之一必在你四围倒在刀下;我必将分之一分散四方(方:原文是),并要拔刀追赶他们。

13 我要这样成就怒中所定的;我向他们发的忿怒止息了,自己就得着安慰。我在他们身上成就怒中所定的那时,他们就知道我─耶和华的是出於热心;

14 并且我必使你在四围的列国中,在经过的众人眼前,成了荒凉和羞辱。

15 这样,我必以怒气和忿怒,并烈怒的责备,向你施行审判。那时,你就在四围的列国中成为羞辱、讥刺、警戒、惊骇。这是我─耶和华的。

16 那时,我要将灭人、使人饥荒的恶,就是射去灭人的,射在你们身上,并要加增你们的饥荒,断绝你们所倚靠的粮食;

17 又要使饥荒和恶兽到你那里,叫你丧子,瘟疫和流血的事也必盛行在你那里;我也要使刀临到你。这是我─耶和华的。

   

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Scriptural Confirmations #52

  
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52. 24. (The Lord is described as to the Word, appearing above the expanse of the cherubim (Ezekiel 1:26-28); and is called Lord Jehovih (2:4; 3:11, 27; 4:14; 5:5, 7-8, 11; 6:3, 11; 7:2, 5; 8:1 seq.; also the God of Israel (8:4).) (That they may want bread and water; and a man and his brother be desolated; and fade away on account of their iniquity (Ezekiel 4:17).

In all your habitations the cities shall be devastated, also the high places (Ezekiel 6:6).

The end is come, the end upon the four corners of the land; I will send My anger upon thee, and I will judge thee according to thy ways. The end is come, the end is come, the mourning is come upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth, the time is come, the day of tumult is near (Ezekiel 7:2-12).

(They shall eat their bread with solicitude, and drink their waters with astonishment, that her land may be devastated from the fullness thereof; the cities that are inhabited shall be devastated, and the land shall be a desolation (Ezekiel 12:19-20).)

The vision which the prophet seeth after many days, and prophesying it in times that are far off (Ezekiel 12:27).

That [he is against] the pillows under the hands, through lies, etc. (Ezekiel 13:20-23).

Let the land of Egypt be a solitude and a waste; it shall be made an utter waste and desolation; a solitude in the midst of desolate lands, and its cities shall be a solitude in the midst of cities that have been devastated (Ezekiel 29:9-10, 12, concerning Egypt).

(They shall be devastated in the midst of the lands that are devastated, and her cities in the midst of the cities that are desolate; I will lay waste the land and the fullness thereof (Ezekiel 30:7, 12).)

(When I shall extinguish thee I will cover the heavens, and will make the stars thereof black; I will cover the sun with a cloud; I will make black all the luminaries of light in the heavens above thee, and will set darkness upon the land (Ezekiel 32:7-8).)

(The violent of the nations shall devastate the pride of Egypt, so that all the multitude thereof may be destroyed. I will make the land of Egypt a waste, so that it is a land desolated of that whereof it was full (Ezekiel 32:12, 15).)

  
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