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| 1 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying: |
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| 2 Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place. |
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| 3 For thus said Jehovah, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, And of their mothers those bearing them, And of their fathers those begetting them in this land: |
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| 4 Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth. |
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| 5 For thus said Jehovah: Do not enter the house of a mourning-feast, Nor go to lament nor bemoan for them, For I have removed My peace from this people, An affirmation of Jehovah, The kindness and the mercies. |
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| 6 And died have great and small in this land, They are not buried, and none lament for them, Nor doth any cut himself, nor become bald for them. |
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| 7 Nor do they deal out to them for mourning, To comfort him concerning the dead, Nor cause them to drink a cup of consolations For his father and for his mother. |
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| 8 A house of banqueting thou dost not enter, To sit with them, to eat and to drink, |
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| 9 For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing to cease from this place, Before your eyes, and in your days, The voice of joy, and the voice of rejoicing, The voice of bridegroom and voice of bride. |
Out of this place – Scattered and persecuted among all nations. B216
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| 10 And it hath come to pass when thou declarest to this people all these words, and they have said unto thee, 'For what hath Jehovah spoken against us all this great evil yea, what [is] our iniquity, and what our sin, that we have sinned against Jehovah our God ' |
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| 11 Then thou hast said unto them: Because that your fathers have forsaken Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, And go after other gods, and serve them, And they bow themselves to them, And Me have forsaken, and My law not kept, |
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| 12 Ye also have done evil above your fathers, And lo, ye are walking each after the stubbornness of his evil heart, So as not to hearken unto Me. |
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| 13 And I have cast you from off this land, On to a land that ye have not known, Ye and your fathers, And ye have served there other gods by day and by night, Where I do not give to you grace. |
Will I cast – In chastening, correcting, forgiving, restoring and promising to bless and fully reinstate them to his favor, God illustrates his great love and mercy toward the whole world. R1373:4
Out of this land – This was to be their punishment, to be driven out of their own land and to receive no favor from God. R599:3, R4782:2
Into a land – Europe. R1378:6
Nor your fathers – Their fathers had been in Egypt and Babylon, but never in Europe. R1378:6
This prophecy positively marks Israel's present dispersion among all nations. B217
Serve other gods – Other rulers, elohim, mighty ones. B216; R421:3, R599:3, R1378:6, R1410:3
Not shew you favour – The Jews have been shown no favor since their rejection of Christ. B216; OV75:5; R1364:6
They will not forever remain cast off, but shall be regathered and blessed. R1378:6
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| 14 Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And it is not said any more: 'Jehovah liveth, who brought up The sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,' |
The days come – Favor would return again in some form to the Jew in 1878. R357:1, R1364:6
No more be said – The hand of providence is about to work out such a deliverance as Israel never knew before. R1405:6, R1652:2, R1063:2*
The land of Egypt – The deliverance from Egypt was a great and marvelous sign of God's favor to them; but their deliverance soon to be consummated will quite eclipse it. R599:3, R608:4, R384:6
That deliverance was but a type of the one to come. R1652:4
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| 15 But, 'Jehovah liveth, who brought up The sons of Israel out of the land of the north, And out of all the lands whither He drove them,' And I have brought them back to their land, That I gave to their fathers. |
Land of the north – Russia, where nearly half of the Hebrew race resides. B217; D553; R599:3, R608:4; OV76:1
From all the lands – Their later blessing would be their regathering out of all nations, and is being accomplished in our day. R4782:2, R1374:1
Bring them again – We have strong testimonies of God through the prophets that he will gather them again. OV76:1
The hope of the world's peace being cemented by the Jews occupying the lands of their fathers. R83:6*
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| 16 Lo, I am sending for many fishers, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they have fished them, And after this I send for many hunters, And they have hunted them from off every mountain, And from off every hill, and from holes of the rocks. |
For many fishers – The Zionist movement. R3855:1-3, R1288:2*
Teachers. C215
Shall hunt them – Persecution by revolutionaries, forceable expulsion. R3855:2, R1288:4*
From every mountain – Kingdom. A318
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| 17 For Mine eyes [are] upon all their ways, They have not been hidden from My face, Nor hath their iniquity been concealed from before Mine eyes. |
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| 18 And I have recompensed a first A second time their iniquity and their sin, Because of their polluting My land, With the carcase of their detestable things, Yea, their abominable things have filled Mine inheritance. |
And first – Before the time of favor will come. B218; R599:4
Recompense – Some of the recompense with favor, and some without favor. SM399:2; CR104:5
Their sin double – Mishneh, a second portion, a repetition; implying a casting off from all favor for as long a period as they had enjoyed favor, namely, 1845 years, from AD33 to 1878, when the Berlin Congress of Nations was held, which greatly ameliorated the conditions of the Jews. B218; CR104:4; R599:4, R1202:1; HG53:4
The double's being accomplished is the reason for the great awakening among the Jews and for the Zionist movement. R5920:6
"Even today do I declare that I will render double unto thee." (Zech. 9:12) "She hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins." (Isa. 40:2) B225, B227
The double of Israel's experiences would reach full accomplishment in 1915. R4623:1
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| 19 O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable. |
Gentiles – As well as the Jews. A59
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| 20 Doth man make for himself gods, And they no gods |
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| 21 Therefore, lo, I am causing them to know at this time, I cause them to know My hand and My might, And they have known that My name [is] Jehovah! |
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