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以西结书第20章

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1 第七年五初十日,有以色列的几个长老求问耶和华在我面前。

2 耶和华的临到我说:

3 人子啊,你要告诉以色列的长老耶和华如此:你们是求问我麽?耶和华:我指着我的永生起誓,我必不被你们求问。

4 人子啊,你要审问审问他们麽?你当使他们知道他们列祖那些可憎的事,

5 对他们耶和华如此:当日我拣选以色列,向雅各家的後裔起誓,在埃及将自己向他们显现,:我是耶和华─你们的

6 那日我向他们起誓,必领他们出埃及,到我为他们察看的流奶与蜜之;那在万国中是有荣耀的。

7 我对他们,你们各要抛弃眼所喜爱那可憎之物,不可因埃及偶像玷污自己。我是耶和华─你们的

8 他们却悖逆我,不肯从我,不抛弃他们眼所喜爱那可憎之物,不离弃埃及偶像。我就,我要将我的忿怒倾在他们身上,在埃及向他们成就我怒中所定的。

9 我却为我名的缘故没有这样行,免得我名在他们所住的列国人眼前被亵渎;我领他们出埃及,在这列国人的眼前将自己向他们显现。

10 这样,我就使他们出埃及,领他们到旷野

11 将我的律例赐他们,将我的典章指示他们;人若遵行就必因此活着。

12 又将我的安息日赐他们,好在我与他们中间为证据,使他们知道我─耶和华是叫他们成为的。

13 以色列家却在旷野悖逆我,不顺从我的律例,厌弃我的典章(人若遵行就必因此活着),大大干犯我的安息日。我就,要在旷野将我的忿怒倾在他们身上,灭绝他们。

14 我却为我名的缘故,没有这样行,免得我的名在我领他们出埃及的列国人眼前被亵渎。

15 并且我在旷野向他们起誓,必不领他们进入我所赐他们流奶与蜜之(那在万国中是有荣耀的);

16 因为他们厌弃我的典章,不顺从我的律例,干犯我的安息日,他们的随从自己的偶像

17 虽然如此,我眼仍顾惜他们,不毁灭他们,不在旷野将他们灭绝净尽。

18 我在旷野对他们的儿女:不要遵行你们父亲的律例,不要谨守他们的恶规,也不要因他们的偶像玷污自己。

19 我是耶和华─你们的,你们要顺从我的律例,谨守遵行我的典章,

20 且以我的安息日为。这日在我与你们中间为证据,使你们知道我是耶和华─你们的

21 只是他们的儿女悖逆我,不顺从我的律例,也不谨守遵行我的典章(人若遵行就必因此活着),干犯我的安息日。我就,要将我的忿怒倾在他们身上,在旷野向他们成就我怒中所定的。

22 虽然如此,我却为我名的缘故缩没有这样行,免得我的名在我领他们出埃及的列国人眼前被亵渎。

23 并且我在旷野向他们起誓,必将他们分散在列国,四散在列邦;

24 因为他们不遵行我的典章,竟厌弃我的律例,干犯我的安息日,眼目仰望他们父亲偶像

25 我也任他们遵行不美的律例,谨守不能使人活着的恶规。

26 因他们将一切头生的经火,我就任凭他们在这供献的事上玷污自己,好叫他们凄凉,使他们知道我是耶和华

27 人子啊,你要告诉以色列耶和华如此:你们的列祖在得罪我的事上亵渎我;

28 因为我领他们到了我起誓应许赐他们的,他们见各山、各茂密,就在那里献祭,奉上惹我发怒的供物,也在那里焚烧馨的祭牲,并浇上奠祭。

29 我就对他们:你们所上的那甚麽呢?(那处的名字巴麻直到今日。)

30 所以你要对以色列耶和华如此:你们仍照你们列祖所行的玷污自己麽?仍照他们可憎的事行邪淫麽?

31 你们奉上供物使你们儿子的时候,仍将一切偶像玷污自己,直到今日麽?以色列家啊,我岂被你们求问麽?耶和华:我指着我的永生起誓,我必不被你们求问。

32 你们:我们要像外邦人和列国的宗族一样,去事奉头与石头。你们所起的这心意万不能成就。

33 耶和华:我指着我的永生起誓,我总要作王,用大能的和伸出来的膀,并倾出来的忿怒,治理你们。

34 我必用大能的和伸出来的膀,并倾出来的忿怒,将你们从万民中领出来,从分散的列国内聚集你们。

35 我必你们到外邦人的旷野,在那里当面刑罚你们。

36 我怎样在埃及旷野刑罚你们的列祖,也必照样刑罚你们。这是耶和华的。

37 我必使你们从杖经过,使你们被约拘束。

38 我必从你们中间除净叛逆和得罪我的人,将他们从所寄居的方领出,他们却不得入以色列。你们就知道我是耶和华

39 以色列家啊,至於你们,耶和华如此:从此以若不从我,就任凭你们去事奉偶像,只是不可再因你们的供物和偶像亵渎我的名。

40 耶和华:在我的,就是以色列处的,所有以色列的全家都要事奉我。我要在那里悦纳你们,向你们要供物和初熟的土产,并一切的物。

41 我从万民中领你们出来,从分散的列国内聚集你们,那时我必悦纳你们好像馨之祭,要在外邦人眼前在你们身上显为

42 我领你们进入以色列,就是我起誓应许赐你们列祖之,那时你们就知道我是耶和华

43 你们在那里要追念玷污自己的行动作为,又要因所做的一切恶事厌恶自己。

44 耶和华以色列家啊,我为我名的缘故,不照着你们的恶行和你们的坏事待你们;你们就知道我是耶和华

45 耶和华的临到我说:

46 人子啊,你要面向南方,向南滴下预言攻击方田野的树林。

47 方的,要耶和华的耶和华如此:我必使在你中间着起,烧灭你中间的一切青和枯,猛烈的焰必不熄灭。从,人的脸面都被烧焦。

48 凡有血气的都必知道是我─耶和华使火着起,这火必不熄灭。

49 於是我:哎!耶和华啊,人都指着我:他岂不是比喻的麽?

   

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48. 2. Since our life varies depending on our state, “spirit” means the variable attitude we take toward life. For example:

a. Living wisely.

Bezalel was filled with the spirit of wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge. (Exodus 31:3)

You shall speak to all who are wise at heart, everyone whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom. (Exodus 28:3)

Joshua was filled with the spirit of wisdom. (Deuteronomy 34:9)

Nebuchadnezzar said of Daniel that [the spirit of the holy gods was in him]. (Daniel 4:8)

[Belshazzar’s queen said of Daniel that] there was an excellent spirit of knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom in him. (Daniel 5:12)

Those who go astray in spirit will know intelligence. (Isaiah 29:24)

[2] b. Living [under the influence of some particular] inspiration.

Jehovah has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. (Jeremiah 51:11)

Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. (Haggai 1:14)

I am putting the spirit into the king of Assyria [to cause him] to hear a rumor and return to his own land. (Isaiah 37:7)

Jehovah hardened the spirit of King Sihon. (Deuteronomy 2:30)

What is rising up in your spirit will never happen. (Ezekiel 20:32)

[3] c. Living in a state of freedom.

The four beasts seen by the prophet, which were angel guardians, went wherever the spirit wanted to go. (Ezekiel 1:12, 20)

[4] d. Living in fear, sorrow, or anger.

... so that every heart will melt, all hands will slacken, and every spirit will recoil. (Ezekiel 21:7)

My spirit has fainted within me; my heart is stupefied inside me. (Psalms 142:3; Psalms 143:4)

My spirit is wasting away. (Psalms 143:7)

I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit. (Daniel 7:15)

The spirit of Pharaoh was disturbed. (Genesis 41:8)

Nebuchadnezzar said, “My spirit is troubled.” (Daniel 2:3)

I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit. (Ezekiel 3:14)

[5] e. Living in subjection to various evil mental states.

... who has no guile in his spirit. (Psalms 32:2)

Jehovah has mixed together in their midst a spirit of perversities. (Isaiah 19:14)

[The Lord Jehovih] says, “[Woe] to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit.” (Ezekiel 13:3)

The prophet is foolish; the man of the spirit is insane. (Hosea 9:7)

Keep watch over your spirit, and do not act treacherously. (Malachi 2:16)

A spirit of whoredom has led them astray. (Hosea 4:12)

There is a spirit of whoredom in their midst. (Hosea 5:4)

When a spirit of jealousy has come over him... (Numbers 5:14)

A man who is a wanderer in spirit and speaks lies... (Micah 2:11)

... a generation whose spirit was not constant with God... (Psalms 78:8)

He has poured a spirit of sleepiness over them. (Isaiah 29:10)

Conceive chaff and give birth to stubble. As for your spirit, fire will devour you. (Isaiah 33:11)

[6] f. Living in subjection to hell.

I will make the unclean spirit depart from the land. (Zechariah 13:2)

When an unclean spirit goes out of someone, it wanders through dry places, and then recruits seven spirits worse than itself, and they come in and live there. (Matthew 12:43-45)

Babylon has become a refuge for every unclean spirit. (Revelation 18:2)

[7] g. Then there are the hellish spirits by whom we are tormented: Matthew 8:16; 10:1; 12:43-45; Mark 1:23-28; 9:17-29; Luke 4:33, 36; 6:17-18; 7:21; 8:2, 29; 9:39, 42, 55; 11:24-26; 13:11; Revelation 13:15; 16:13-14.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.