8 Ye have feared the sword and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord God. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. 6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain. 5 And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak Thus saith the Lord Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them. 4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. 2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: 3 Which say, It is not near let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh. c.593.)ฤก Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the Lord's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. Message of Wrath to Jerusalem Presumption of the Princes Awakening Predictions. The vision disappears ( ver 24), and Ezekiel faithfully gives his hearers an account of it, ver 25. And so the glory of God removes further, ver 22, 23. And, as the former are assured that God has judgments in store for them notwithstanding their present security, so the later are assured that God has mercy in store for them notwithstanding their present distress, ver 14-21. A message of comfort to those who were carried captives into Babylon and were there in the depth of despondency, thinking they should never rise. A message of wrath against those who continued still at Jerusalem, and were there in the height of presumption, thinking they should never fall, ver 1-13. This chapter concludes the vision which Ezekiel saw, and this part of it furnished him with two messages:-I.
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