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彌迦書 3

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1 雅各的首領,以色列家的官長啊,你們要!你們不當知道公平麼?

2 你們惡善惡,從人身上剝,從人骨頭上剔肉,

3 我民的,剝他們的,打折他們的骨頭,分成塊子像要下,又像釜中的

4 到了遭災的時候,這些人必哀求耶和華,他卻不應允他們。那時他必照他們所行的惡事向他們掩面。

5 論到使我民走差先知─他們牙齒有所嚼的,他們就呼喊:平安了!凡不供他們吃的,他們就預備攻擊他(預備攻擊他:或譯必遭遇刀兵)─耶和華如此

6 你們必遭遇黑夜,以致不見異象;又必遭遇幽暗,以致不能占卜。日頭必向你們沉落,白晝變為黑暗。

7 先見必抱愧,占卜的必蒙羞,都必摀著嘴唇,因為不應允他們。

8 至於我,我藉耶和華的靈,滿有力量、公平、才能,可以向雅各說明他的過犯,向以色列指出他的惡。

9 雅各家的首領、以色列家的官長啊,當我的話!你們厭惡公平,在一切事上屈枉正直;

10 以人血建立錫安,以罪孽建造耶路撒冷

11 首領為賄賂行審判;祭司為雇價施訓誨;先知行占卜。他們卻倚賴耶和華耶和華不是在我們中間麼?災禍必不臨到我們

12 所以因你們的緣故,錫安必被耕種像一塊田,耶路撒冷必變為亂堆;這殿的必像叢林的處。

   

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詩篇 79:1

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1 (亞薩的詩。)啊,外邦人進入你的產業,污穢你的殿,使耶路撒冷變成荒堆,

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Scriptural Confirmations #57

  
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57. 29. Jerusalem is called the gate of the people (Micah 1:9).

(Thus said Jehovah against the prophets that seduce my people, Whosoever does not fondly kiss their mouth, against him they sanctify war. Therefore it shall be night unto you instead of vision, and darkness shall arise upon you instead of divining, and the sun shall set over the prophets, and the day shall grow black over them (Micah 3:5-6). The "prophets" are those who teach the things of the church.)

In the last days it shall come to pass that the mountains of the house of Jehovah shall be established in the top of the mountains, and people shall flow into it. Many nations shall come and say, Come, and we will go up to the mountain of Jehovah that He may teach us of His ways, and we may walk in His paths, for out of Zion shall go forth doctrine, and the Word of Jehovah from Jerusalem. Then they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, none making them afraid. All peoples will walk in the name of their God, and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and to eternity. In that day Jehovah, shall reign over them in Mount Zion from henceforth and forever. Thou hillside of the daughter of Zion, the former kingdom shall come unto thee, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem (Micah 4:1-8).

The day for building thy walls; this day the statute shall be far removed; this day when they shall come thence to thee from Assyria, to the cities of Egypt, from sea to sea, from mountain to mountain (Micah 7:11-12).

  
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