9:7 他對他們說:「要污穢這殿,使院中充滿被殺的人。你們出去吧!」他們就出去,在城中擊殺。
9:8 他們擊殺的時候,我被留下,我就俯伏在地,說:「哎!主耶和華啊,你將忿怒傾在耶路撒冷,豈要將以色列所剩下的人都滅絕嗎?」
9:9 他對我說:「以色列家和猶大家的罪孽極其重大。遍地有流血的事,滿城有冤屈,因為他們說:『耶和華已經離棄這地,他看不見我們。』
9:10 故此,我眼必不顧惜,也不可憐他們,要照他們所行的報應在他們頭上。」
9:11 那穿細麻衣、腰間帶著墨盒子的人將這事回覆說:「我已經照你所吩咐的行了。」
Then he said to them, "Defile the
house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out." So they went out and
struck in the city. 8 And while they were striking, and I was left alone, I
fell upon my face, and cried, "Ah, Lord God! Will you destroy all the
remnant of Israel in the outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?"
9 Then he said to me, "The guilt of
the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood,
and the city full of injustice. For they say, 'The Lord has forsaken the land,
and the Lord does not see. ' 10 As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I
have pity; I will bring their deeds upon their heads."
11 And behold, the man clothed in linen,
with the writing case at his waist, brought back word, saying, "I have
done as you commanded me."
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上帝用「公義」回應以西結的代求,並不答應以西結。而天使也已經將毀滅的事情執行完畢。而在這一段中,似乎「公平正義」與「是不是把上帝當成上帝」是等同的。如果人真心敬拜神,導致的狀況就是社會的公平正義。
而上帝將以色列人所行的,回報給以色列正如9-10節所說:「以色列家和猶大家的罪孽極其重大。遍地有流血的事,滿城有冤屈,因為他們說:『耶和華已經離棄這地,他看不見我們。』故此,我眼必不顧惜,也不可憐他們,要照他們所行的報應在他們頭上。」
所以一個國家或社會不「行公義、好憐憫」,就得不到上帝的公義與憐憫,這事件非常嚴重的事!也因此,盼望主的福音在這地廣傳,使這地充滿公義與憐憫,上帝永同在!