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Jeremija 49

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1 Ammonlaste kohta: Nõnda ütleb Issand: 'Kas Iisraelil ei ole poegi või ei ole tal pärijat? Miks Milkom on pärinud Gaadi ja ta rahvas on asunud selle linnadesse?

2 Seepärast, vaata, päevad tulevad, ütleb Issand, mil ma toon kuuldavale sõjahüüu ammonlaste Rabba vastu: see muutub hüljatud rusuhunnikuks ja selle tütarlinnad põlevad tules. Siis pärib Iisrael oma pärijad, ütleb Issand.

3 Ulu, Hesbon, sest Ai hävitatakse! Kisendage, Rabba tütred, rõivastage end kotiriidesse! Tehke leinakaebust ja uidake müüridel, sest Milkom läheb vangi koos oma preestrite ja vürstidega!

4 Miks sa kiitled orgudest, et su org voolab üle, sa taganenud tütar, lootes oma varanduste peale: 'Kes tuleb mulle kallale?'

5 Vaata, ma toon sulle hirmu kõigilt su naabreilt, ütleb Issand, vägede Issand, ja teid pillutatakse laiali, igaüks omale poole, ja keegi ei kogu põgenikke.

6 Aga pärast seda pööran ma ammonlaste vangipõlve, ütleb Issand.'

7 Edomi kohta: Nõnda ütleb vägede Issand: 'Kas ei ole enam tarkust Teemanis? Kas on mõistlikel kadunud nõu? Kas nende tarkus on saanud tühjaks?

8 Põgenege, pöörduge, pugege sügavale peitu, Dedani elanikud! Sest ma toon Eesavile õnnetuse, tema karistusaja.

9 Kui sulle tulevad viinamarjakorjajad, ei jäta nad järelnoppimiseks midagi järele. Kui öösel tulevad vargad, varastavad nad just nõndapalju, kui nad tahavad.

10 Jah, mina ise paljastan Eesavi, avastan tema peidupaigad ja ta ei saa ennast peita. Hävitatakse tema sugu ja ta vennad ja naabrid - ja teda ei ole enam.

11 Jäta oma vaeslapsed minu elatada ja su lesknaised lootku minu peale!

12 Sest nõnda ütleb Issand: Vaata, ka need, kelle kohus ei olekski juua seda karikat, peavad jooma, ja sina peaksid jääma karistuseta? Sina ei jää karistuseta, vaid sa pead tõesti jooma!

13 Sest ma olen vandunud iseenesele, ütleb Issand, et Bosra saab hirmutuseks, teotuseks, kõleduseks ja needuseks, ja kõik ta tütarlinnad muutuvad igavesti varemeiks.

14 Ma olen Issandalt kuulnud sõnumit, et käskjalg on läkitatud rahvaste juurde: 'Kogunege ja tulge temale kallale ning hakake sõdima!'

15 Sest vaata, ma teen su pisikeseks rahvaste keskel, põlatuks inimeste seas.

16 Sind on petnud su kardetavus, su südame ülbus, kes elad kaljulõhedes, valitsed kõrgeid künkaid. Kuigi sa pesitseksid kõrgel nagu kotkas, tooksin ma su sealt alla, ütleb Issand.

17 Ja Edom muutub jubeduseks: igaüks, kes läheb sealt mööda, kohkub ja mõnitab teda kõigi tema nuhtluste pärast.

18 Otsekui Soodoma ja Gomorra ja nende naabrite segipaiskamise järel, ütleb Issand, nõnda ei ela seal keegi ega asugi sinna inimlaps.

19 Vaata, otsekui lõvi kargab Jordani padrikust lokkavale karjamaale, nõnda ajan ma tema sealt äkitselt ära, ja selle, kes on valitud, panen ma sinna valitsejaks. Sest kes on minu sarnane? Ja kes võib mind kutsuda kohtusse? Ja kes on karjane, kes võiks seista minu vastu?

20 Seepärast kuulge Issanda nõu, mida ta on pidanud Edomi vastu, ja tema mõtteid, mida ta on mõlgutanud Teemani elanike vastu: tõesti, kõige pisemgi lammas veetakse ära; tõesti, nende karjamaa jääb tühjaks nende eneste pärast.

21 Nende langemise mürinast väriseb maa, hädakisa kaja kostab Kõrkjamereni.

22 Vaata, ta tõuseb üles ja lendab nagu kotkas ja laotab oma tiibu Bosra kohal; ja sel päeval on Edomi kangelaste süda otsekui lapsevaevas oleval naisel.'

23 Damaskuse kohta: 'Häbisse jäävad Hamat ja Arpad, sest nad kuulevad halba sõnumit; nad voogavad nagu rahutu meri, mis ei jää vaikseks.

24 Damaskus muutub araks, pöördub põgenema, teda haarab hirm; teda valdab ahastus ja valu nagu sünnitajat.

25 Kuidas küll on maha jäetud see ülistatud linn, mu rõõmulinn!

26 Jah, tema turgudel langevad ta noored mehed ja sel päeval hukkuvad kõik sõjamehed, ütleb vägede Issand.

27 Ja ma süütan Damaskuse müüridesse tule, et see põletaks Ben-Hadadi paleed.'

28 Keedari ja Haasori kuningriikide kohta, mis Paabeli kuningas Nebukadnetsar vallutab: Nõnda ütleb Issand: 'Tõuske, minge kallale Keedarile ja hävitage idamaalased!

29 Nende telgid ja karjad võetakse ära, nende telgivaibad ja kõik nende riistad; neilt viiakse nende kaamelid ja neile hüütakse: 'Hirm on igal pool!'

30 Põgenege, rännake kaugele, pugege sügavale, Haasori elanikud! ütleb Issand. Sest Paabeli kuningas Nebukadnetsar on pidanud nõu teie vastu ja on mõlgutanud mõtteid.

31 Tõuske, minge kallale muretule rahvale, kes elab julgesti, ütleb Issand; tal ei ole uksi ega riive, ta elab üksinda.

32 Nende kaamelid jäävad riisutavaiks ja nende veiste hulk võitjate saagiks; ma pillutan need pöetudoimulised kõigi tuulte poole ja toon neile igast küljest õnnetuse, ütleb Issand.

33 Ja Haasor jääb ðaakalite pesapaigaks, igavesti laastatuks. Keegi ei ela seal ega asugi sinna inimlaps.'

34 Issanda sõna, mis tuli prohvet Jeremijale Eelami kohta Juuda kuninga Sidkija valitsemise alguses; ta ütles:

35 'Nõnda ütleb vägede Issand: Vaata, ma murran Eelami ammu, nende peamise jõu.

36 Ma toon Eelami vastu neli tuult neljast taevakaarest; ja ma hajutan nad kõigi nende tuulte kätte ega ole rahvast, kelle juurde ei tule Eelami hajutatud.

37 Ma hirmutan eelamlasi nende vaenlaste ees, nende hinge püüdjate ees ja toon neile õnnetuse - oma tulise viha, ütleb Issand; ja ma läkitan mõõga neile järele, kuni olen teinud neile lõpu.

38 Ja ma asetan oma aujärje Eelamisse ning hävitan sealt kuninga ja vürstid, ütleb Issand.

39 Aga viimseil päevil ma pööran Eelami vangipõlve, ütleb Issand.'

   

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True Christian Religion #689

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689. The reason why John's baptising prepared the way was that by this means, as shown above, people were introduced into the coming church of the Lord, and brought into the company of those in heaven who were awaiting and longing for the Messiah. They were thus protected by angels to prevent devils breaking out of hell and destroying them. This is why it says in Malachi, 'Who will endure the day of his coming' and 'so that Jehovah may not come and strike the land with a curse' (Malachi 4:6). Likewise in Isaiah:

Look, the cruel day of Jehovah is coming, a day of wrath and an explosion of anger. I shall make the heaven tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place on the day of the explosion of His anger, Isaiah 13:6, 9, 13, 22; 22:5, 12.

Also in Jeremiah that day is called a day of laying waste, of revenge and ruin (Jeremiah 4:9; 7:32; 46:10, 21; 47:4; 49:8, 26). In Ezekiel it is called a day of wrath, of cloud and thick darkness (Ezekiel 13:5; 30:2-3, 9; 34:11-12; 38:14, 16, 18-19). Equally in Amos (Amos 5:13, 18, 20; 8:3, 9, 13); in Joel, the great and terrible day of Jehovah, and who will endure it? (Joel 2:1-2, 11; 3:2, 4). In Zephaniah:

On that day there will be a shout. The great day of Jehovah is at hand, the day of the explosion of His anger is that day, the day of anguish and affliction, the day of laying waste and devastation. On the day of the explosion of Jehovah's anger the whole earth will be consumed, and He will bring about an ending with all the inhabitants of the earth, Zephaniah 1:7-18.

There are other passages too.

[2] From these it is plain that if the way had not been prepared by baptism for Jehovah to come down into the world, the effect of which in the heavens was to shut off the hells and to protect the Jews from total extinction, [all there would have been struck with a curse and would have perished] 1 . Jehovah also says to Moses:

In a single moment, if I were to go up in your midst, I should consume the people, Exodus 33:5.

The truth of this is clearly to be seen from John's words to the crowds who came out to be baptised by him:

You brood of vipers, who has warned you to run away from the wrath to come? Matthew 3:7; Luke 3:7.

For John also teaching about Christ and His coming when he baptised, see Luke 3:16; John 1:25-26, 31-33; 3:26. These passages make it plain how John prepared the way.

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1. The sentence is incomplete; the words in brackets are restored from 688.

  
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Ezekiel 34

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1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?

3 You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.

4 You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.

5 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.

7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:

8 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;

9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:

10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.

11 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

13 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

14 I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.

15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.

16 I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

17 As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.

18 Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?

19 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.

20 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

21 Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;

22 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.

23 I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

24 I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

25 I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

26 I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.

27 The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.

28 They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.

29 I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more.

30 They shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh.

31 You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord Yahweh.