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Giovedi, 28 marzo 2024 - San Castore di Tarso ( Letture di oggi)

Ezekiel 6


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1The word of Yahweh was addressed to me as fol ows,2'Son of man, turn towards the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.3Say, "Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh. The Lord Yahweh says this to mountainsand hil s and ravines and val eys: Look, I am going to summon the sword against you and destroy your highplaces.4Your altars will be wrecked, and your incense burners smashed; I shal fling your butchered inhabitantsdown in front of your foul idols;5I shall lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their foul idols and scatter their bones all round youraltars.6Wherever you live, the towns will be destroyed and the high places wrecked, to the ruin and wrecking ofyour altars, the shattering and abolition of your foul idols, the smashing of your incense burners and the utterdestruction of al your works.7As the butchered fall about you, you wil know that I am Yahweh.8"But I shal spare some of you to escape the sword among the nations, when you have been dispersedin their lands;9and your survivors wil remember me among the nations where they are held captive, since I shal havebroken their adulterous hearts for having deserted me, and destroyed their eyes for having turned adulterouslytowards their foul idols. They wil loathe themselves for al the wrong they have caused by their loathsomepractices.10Then they wil know that I am Yahweh and that I was not talking lightly when I said that I would inflictthese disasters on them."11'The Lord Yahweh says this, "Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and say: Alas for al the loathsomesins of the House of Israel, which is about to fal by sword, famine and plague!12Far off, they wil die by plague; near at hand they will fal by the sword; and any who survive or arespared wil die of famine. This is how I shal sate my fury on them.13Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when their butchered corpses lie among their foul idols, allround their altars, on every high hil , on every mountain top, under every green tree, under every leafy oak,wherever they offer a smel pleasing to al their idols.14I shal point my finger at them and reduce the country to an empty wasteland from the desert to Riblah,everywhere they live, and they wil know that I am Yahweh." '