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以色列人哪，你们全家是我从埃及地领上来的，当听耶和华攻击你们的话：
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在地上万族中，我只认识你们；因此，我必追讨你们的一切罪孽。
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狮子若非抓食，岂能在林中咆哮呢？少壮狮子若无所得，岂能从洞中发声呢？
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若没有机槛，雀鸟岂能陷在网罗里呢？网罗若无所得，岂能从地上翻起呢？
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城中若吹角，百姓岂不惊恐呢？灾祸若临到一城，岂非耶和华所降的麽？
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要在亚实突的宫殿中和埃及地的宫殿里传扬说：你们要聚集在撒玛利亚的山上，就看见城中有何等大的扰乱与欺压的事。
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那些以强暴抢夺财物、积蓄在自己家中的人不知道行正直的事。这是耶和华说的。
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所以主耶和华如此说：敌人必来围攻这地，使你的势力衰微，抢掠你的家宅。
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耶和华如此说：牧人怎样从狮子口中抢回两条羊腿或半个耳朵，住撒玛利亚的以色列人躺卧在床角上或铺绣花毯的榻上，他们得救也不过如此。
270. Having seven horns. This symbolizes the Lord's omnipotence.
The Word often mentions horns, and a horn everywhere symbolizes power. Consequently, when a horn is mentioned in connection with the Lord, it symbolizes omnipotence. Seven horns are specified, because seven symbolizes all (no. 10), thus all power or omnipotence.
That a horn symbolizes power, and when mentioned in connection with the Lord, omnipotence, can be seen from the following passages:
You who rejoice over nothing, who say, "Have we not taken horns for ourselves by our own strength?" (Amos 6:13)
I said... to the wicked, "Do not lift up the horn. Do not lift up your horn on high...." All the horns of the wicked I will cut off; the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. (Psalms 75:4-5, 10)
Jehovah... has exalted the horn of your adversaries. (Lamentations 2:17)
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken... (Jeremiah 48:25)
...you have pushed with side and shoulder, and struck all the weak sheep with your horns... (Ezekiel 34:21)
(Jehovah) has exalted the horn of His people... (Psalms 148:14)
(Jehovah God of hosts,) the glory of their strength..., He has exalted our horn. (Psalms 89:17)
The brightness (of Jehovah God) will be like the light; He will have horns 1 coming from His hand, and the hiding of His power there. (Habakkuk 3:4)
...My arm shall strengthen (David)..., and in My name his horn shall be exalted. (Psalms 89:21, 24)
...Jehovah, my strength..., my rock...(my) horn... (Psalms 18:1-2, cf. 2 Samuel 22:3)
Arise..., O daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron..., that you may break in pieces many peoples. (Micah 4:13)
(The Lord) has destroyed in His wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah..., (and) He has cut off... every horn of Israel. (Lamentations 2:2-3)
Powers are also symbolized by the horns of the dragon in Revelation 12:3; by the horns of the beast rising up out of the sea in Revelation 13:1; by the horns of the scarlet beast upon which the woman sat in Revelation 17:3, 7, 12; by the horns of the ram and the goat in Daniel 8:3-12, 20-22. The last symbolized the power of Divine truth in the church. And conversely, that that power would perish, by the horns of the altars in Bethel, in Amos:
...I will visit punishment on the transgressions of Israel, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel, so that the horns of the altar are cut off and fall to the ground. (Amos 3:14)
Footnotes:
1. Probably descriptive of rays of light.
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