"The word that Jehovah spoke concerning Babylon, concerning
the land of the Chaldeans, by means of Jeremiah the prophet: "Tell it among the
nations and publish it.
And lift
up a signal; publish it.
Hide nothing, O men. Say, 'Babylon has been captured. Bel has been put to shame.
Merodach has become terrified. Her images have been put to shame. Her dungy
idols have become terrified.' For against her a nation has come up from the
north. It is the one that makes her land an object of astonishment, so that
there proves to be no one dwelling in her. Both man and domestic animal have
taken flight. They have gone away." "In those days and at that time," is the
utterance of Jehovah, "the sons of Israel, they and the sons of Judah together,
will come. They will walk, weeping as they walk, and for Jehovah their God they
will seek. To Zion they will keep asking the way, with their faces in that
direction, [saying,] 'Come and let us join ourselves to Jehovah in an
indefinitely lasting covenant that will not be forgotten.' A flock of perishing
creatures My people has become. Their own shepherds have caused them to wander
about. On the mountains they have led them away. From mountain to hill they have
gone. They have forgotten their resting place. All those finding them have eaten
them up, and their own adversaries have said, 'We shall not become guilty, due
to the fact that they have sinned against Jehovah the abiding place of
righteousness and the hope of their forefathers, Jehovah.'"" (Jer 50:1 7).
"Turn away, turn away, get out of there, touch nothing unclean;
get out from the midst of her, keep yourselves clean, you who are carrying
the utensils of Jehovah." (Isaiah 52:11). |
"The pronouncement against Babylon that Isaiah the son of A'moz
saw in vision: "Upon a mountain of bare rocks raise up
a signal, you men. Lift up the voice to them, wave the hand, that
they may come into the entrances of the nobles. I Myself have issued the
command to My sanctified ones. I have also called My mighty ones for
expressing My anger, My eminently exultant ones.""
(Isaiah 13:1-3).
THE MERCY OF GOD
TO
NATURAL JEWS.
"For God has shut them all up
together in disobedience, that He might show all of them mercy." (Rom 11:32).
"For I do not want you,
brothers, to be ignorant of this sacred secret, in order for you not to be
discreet in your own eyes: that a dulling of sensibilities has happened in part
to Israel until the full number of people of the nations has come in." (Rom 11:25).
"Jehovah has opened
His storehouse, and He brings forth the weapons of His denunciation. For
there is a work that the Sovereign Lord, Jehovah of armies, has in the land of
the Chaldeans. Come in to her from the farthest part. Open up her granaries.
Bank her up, just like those making heaps, and devote her to destruction. May
she not come to have any remaining ones. Massacre all her young bulls. May they
go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time for
their being given attention!" (Jer 50:25 27).
"For yet a very little
while
and the denunciation will have come to an end,
and My anger, in their wearing away."
(Isaiah 10:25).
THE
"LITTLE SCROLL" CONTAINS
THE
DENUNCIATIONS
OF
GOD. |