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Ezekijel 7

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1 Opet mi dođe riječ Jahvina i reče:

2 "Ti, sine čovječji, reci: Ovako govori Jahve Gospod zemlji Izraelovoj: 'Primiče se kraj: bliži se konac zemlji na sve četiri strane svijeta!

3 Sada je i tebi kraj: gnjev ću svoj na te izliti, sudit ću ti prema putovima tvojim i na te ću oboriti sve gadosti tvoje!

4 I moje te oči neće požaliti, neću ti se smilovati, nego ću te nagraditi prema putovima tvojim, tvoje će gadosti u tebi ostati. I znat ćete da sam ja Jahve.'"

5 Ovako govori Jahve: "Jedna nesreća, evo, dolazi!

6 Kraj dolazi, dolazi ti kraj, evo, dolazi!

7 Kolo ti udesa dolazi, stanovniče zemlje! dolazi tvoj čas, bliži se dan: strava je, a ne radost u gorama.

8 Eto, uskoro ću na te izliti gnjev i iskalit ću na tebi srdžbu svoju! Sudit ću ti prema putovima tvojim i oborit ću na te sve gadosti tvoje.

9 I moje te oči neće požaliti, neću ti se smilovati, nego ću ti platiti prema putovima tvojim i tvoje će gadosti u tebi ostati! I spoznat ćete da sam ja Jahve koji bije.

10 Evo, evo dolazi, kolo ti udesa dolazi, prut već cvjeta i oholost pupa,

11 a nasilje se podiže kao žezlo bezbožnosti! I nitko neće ostati od njih, nitko od njihova mnoštva. Ništa od njihove buke, nema u njima vrijednosti.

12 Ide vrijeme, bliži se dan! Tko kupuje, neka se ne raduje, a tko prodaje, neka ne tuguje, jer se gnjev izlijeva na sve bogatstvo njegovo.

13 Jer tko proda, neće više dobiti što je prodao, i nitko neće bezakonjem ojačati život!

14 Trube trublje i sve je spremno, ali nitko ne kreće u boj, jer gnjev se moj izlijeva na sve bučno mnoštvo.

15 Vani - mač, a unutra - kuga i glad! I tko je u polju, od mača će poginuti, a tko u gradu, glad će ga i kuga uništiti.

16 Koji uteku, sklonit će se u gore kao dolinski golubovi, a ja ću ih sve istrijebiti, svakoga zbog bezakonja njegova,

17 i sve će ruke klonuti, a koljena će svima malaksati.

18 U kostrijet će se odjenuti, trepet će ih obuzeti, sva će lica sramota pokriti, sve će im glave oćelavjeti!

19 Srebro svoje pobacat će na ulice, a zlato će smatrati izmetom: u dan srdžbe Jahvine ni Srebro ni zlato neće ih izbaviti, duše im neće moći nasititi ni trbuha napuniti, jer se o to spotakoše na grijeh.

20 Uzoholiše se zbog divnoga nakita svojega; od njega napraviše kumire - grozote i gadosti svoje: zato im ga pretvorih u izmet.

21 Dat ću ga u ruke tuđincima da oplijene, razgrabe i oskvrnu.

22 Odvratit ću od njih lice svoje: i neka se samo oskvrnjuje moja dragocjenost, neka u nju uđu provalnici i neka je oskvrnu!

23 Spremaj lance, jer je zemlja puna krvi i zločina koji zaslužuju smrt i grad prepun nasilja!

24 Zato ću dovesti najgore narode da baštine njihove domove. Slomit ću oholost nasilnika, i svetišta njihova bit će oskvrnjena.

25 Dolazi tjeskoba! Tražit će mir, a mira biti neće!

26 Dolazit će nevolja za nevoljom, jedna zla vijest za drugom! I tražit će se viđenje u proroka; u svećenika neće više biti Zakona ni u starješina savjeta!

27 Kralj će protužiti, a kneza će spopasti užas i ruke će puku zadrhtati, jer ću ih nagraditi prema putovima njihovim i sudit ću im prema sudovima njihovim. I znat će da sam ja Jahve."

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #939

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939. The fact that seeing the Lord's face does not mean seeing His face, but knowing and acknowledging Him as He is in respect to His Divine attributes, of which there are many, and that people conjoined with Him by love know Him and in that way see His face, can be seen from the following passages:

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me... ...When you come to see the face of Jehovah... (Isaiah 1:11-12)

My heart said..., "Seek my face. Your face, Jehovah, I am seeking." (Psalms 27:8)

We will shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His face with confession. (Psalms 95:1-2)

My soul thirsts... for the living God. When shall I come to see the face of God? ...yet shall I confess to Him the salvation of His countenance. (Psalms 42:2, 5)

They shall not see My face empty-handed. (Exodus 23:15)

...to come... to placate the face of Jehovah. (Zechariah 8:21-22, cf. Malachi 1:9)

Make Your face shine upon Your servant. (Psalms 31:16)

Who will show us any good? Lift up the light of Your countenance upon us, Jehovah. (Psalms 4:6)

They shall walk, O Jehovah, in the light of Your countenance. (Psalms 89:15)

...O God, cause Your face to shine, that we may be saved! (Psalms 80:3, 7, 19)

God be merciful to us and bless us. May He cause His face to shine upon us. (Psalms 67:1)

Jehovah bless you and keep you; Jehovah make His face shine upon you and be merciful to you; Jehovah lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. (Numbers 6:24-26)

You hide them in the secret place of Your countenance... (Psalms 31:20)

You have set... our hidden secret in the light of Your countenance. (Psalms 90:8)

(Jehovah) said (to Moses), "My countenance will go... (Moses) said..., "If Your countenance does not go..., do not bring us down from here." (Exodus 33:14-15)

The bread on the table in the Tabernacle was called [literally] "the bread of faces" (Exodus 25:30, Numbers 4:7).

[2] We are often told, too, that Jehovah hid His face or turned His face away, as in the following:

...for (their) wickedness I have hidden My face from (them). (Jeremiah 33:5, cf. Ezekiel 7:22)

Your sins have hidden (God's) face from you... (Isaiah 59:2)

The face of Jehovah... will no longer regard them. (Lamentations 4:16)

(Jehovah) will hide His face from them..., according as they have made their works evil. (Micah 3:4)

You hid Your face... (Psalms 30:7, cf. 44:24; 104:29)

I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them... I will surely hide My face... because of all the evil which they have done... (Deuteronomy 31:17-18)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 8:17; Ezekiel 39:23, 28-29; Deuteronomy 32:20.

[3] In an opposite sense, the face of Jehovah symbolizes anger and aversion, because an evil person turns away from the Lord, and when he turns away, it seems to him as though the Lord had turned away and was angry, as is clear from the following passages:

...I have set My face against this city for its evil... (Jeremiah 21:10, cf. 44:11)

I will set My face against that man and... devastate him... (Ezekiel 14:7-8)

I will set My face against them... and... fire shall devour them..., when I set My face against them. (Ezekiel 15:7)

...(he) who eats any blood, I will set My face against that soul... (Leviticus 17:10)

At the rebuke of Your countenance they perished. (Psalms 80:16)

The face of Jehovah is against those who do evil... (Psalms 34:16)

...I send an angel before you... Beware of his face..., for he will not endure your transgression. (Exodus 23:20-21)

Let Your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate You flee from Your countenance. (Numbers 10:35)

(I saw one sitting on the throne) from whose face the earth and heaven fled away. (Revelation 20:11)

That no one can see the Lord as He is in Himself, as we said above, is apparent from the following:

(Jehovah said to Moses,) "You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live." (Exodus 33:18-23)

That people nevertheless saw the Lord and lived, because He appeared by means of an angel, is apparent from Genesis 32:30, 1 Judges 13:22-23, 2 and elsewhere.

Footnotes:

1. Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: "For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."

2. Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God!" But his wife said to him, "If Jehovah had desired to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have told us such things as these at this time."

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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