The World English Bible (WEB): Ezekiel
Among the most haunting and visually staggering books of the Hebrew Bible, Ezekiel unfolds during the Babylonian exile as a priest-turned-prophet receives visions that blur the line between the cosmic and the grotesque. The reader is thrust into scenes of terrifying beauty: a wheel within a wheel, covered in eyes, moving alongside creatures with four faces; a valley of dry bones that rattle and flesh and breathe at God's command; the slow, ritualized siege of Jerusalem rendered in devastating detail. Ezekiel himself becomes an enacted parable, eating a scroll that tastes like honey, lying on his side for hundreds of days, shaving his beard with a sword. The book moves through three bracing movements: fierce judgment against Israel and the nations, a period of despair, and finally, unexpectedly, a vision of restoration. The final chapters imagine a river flowing from a future temple, healing the waters, trees bearing fruit each month. For readers willing to sit with its strangeness, Ezekiel offers not comfort in the usual sense, but something more ancient: the assurance that even in exile, even in the valley of death, the glory of God moves.
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“Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.””
— Anonymous
“I believe in happy endings,” I tell him. “And it feels like this movie has gone on forthe right amount of time.”“Movie?” Dr. Patel says, and I think he would look exactly like Gandhi if he had thosewire-rim glasses and a shaved head, which is weird, especially since we are in leatherrecliners in such a bright, happy room and well, Gandhi is dead, right?“Yeah,” I say. “Haven’t you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?””
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“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.””
— Anonymous
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.””
— Anonymous
“Blessed are the peacemakers:for they shall be called the children of God.””
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“To you, Pharisees, teachers of law, hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices and mint. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law”
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“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.””
— Anonymous
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.””
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“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.””
— Anonymous
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