Kniha proroka Ezechiela

Biblia - Sväté písmo

(CPDV - Anglický - Catholic PD)

Ez 29, 1-21

1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the eleventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and you shall prophesy about him and about all of Egypt. 3 Speak, and you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, you great dragon, who rests in the midst of your rivers. And you say: ‘Mine is the river, and I have made myself.’ 4 But I will place a bridle in your jaws. And I will adhere the fish of your rivers to your scales. And I will draw you out of the midst of your rivers, and all your fish will adhere to your scales. 5 And I will cast you into the desert, with all the fish of your river. You will fall upon the surface of the earth; you will not be taken up, nor gathered together. I have given you to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the air, to be devoured. 6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord. For you have been a staff made of reed to the house of Israel. 7 When they took hold of you with the hand, you broke, and so you wounded all of their shoulders. And when they leaned on you, you shattered, and so you injured all of their lower backs. 8 Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will lead the sword over you, and I will destroy both man and beast from among you. 9 And the land of Egypt will be a desert and a wilderness. And they shall know that I am the Lord. For you have said, ‘The river is mine, and I have made it.’ 10 Therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers. And I will make the land of Egypt into a wilderness, destroyed by the sword from the tower of Syene all the way to the borders of Ethiopia. 11 The foot of man will not pass through it, and the foot of cattle will not walk in it. And it will be uninhabited for forty years. 12 And I will set the land of Egypt in desolation, in the midst of desolate lands, and its cities in the midst of overturned cites. And they will be desolate for forty years. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and I will disperse them among the lands. 13 For thus says the Lord God: After the end of forty years, I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they had been scattered. 14 And I will lead back the captivity of Egypt, and I will collect them in the land of Pathros, in the land of their nativity. And in that place, they will be a lowly kingdom. 15 It will be the lowest among the other kingdoms, and it will no longer be exalted above the nations. And I will diminish them, lest they rule over the Gentiles. 16 And they will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, teaching iniquity, so that they may flee and follow them. And they shall know that I am the Lord God.” 17 And it happened that, in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 18 “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has caused his army to serve with great servility against Tyre. Every head was shaven, and every shoulder was stripped of hair. And wages have not been paid to him, nor to his army, for Tyre, for the service by which he served for me against it. 19 Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will station Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, in the land of Egypt. And he will take its multitude, and he will prey upon its profits, and he will plunder its spoils. And this shall be the wages for his army 20 and for the work by which he has served against it. I have given to him the land of Egypt, because he has labored for me, says the Lord God. 21 In that day, a horn will spring forth for the house of Israel, and I will give 484 to you an open mouth in their midst. And they shall know that I am the Lord.”

Verš 16

And they will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, teaching iniquity, so that they may flee and follow them. And they shall know that I am the Lord God.”

Nár 4:17 - AIN. While we were still standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively toward a nation that was not able to save.

Verš 3

Speak, and you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, you great dragon, who rests in the midst of your rivers. And you say: ‘Mine is the river, and I have made myself.’

Ž 74:13 -

Iz 27:1 - In that day, the Lord will visit, with his harsh and great and strong sword, against Leviathan, the barred serpent, and against Leviathan, the twisted serpent, and he will slay the whale that is in the sea.

Iz 51:9 - Rise up, Rise up! Clothe yourself in strength, O arm of the Lord! Rise up as in the days of antiquity, as in generations long past. Have you not struck the arrogant one and wounded the dragon?

Verš 6

And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord. For you have been a staff made of reed to the house of Israel.

2Kr 18:21 - Do you hope in Egypt, that staff of a broken reed, which, if a man would lean upon it, breaking, it would pierce his hand? Such is Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to all who would trust in him.

Iz 36:6 - Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, in that broken staff of a reed. But if a man were to lean against it, it would enter his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to all who trust in him.

Ez 29,1 - Keď Ezechiel vyriekol toto proroctvo, totiž asi v januári r. 587 pr. Kr., bol Jeruzalem už rok pod zátvorom babylonského vojska. Faraónom Egypta bol vtedy Hofra; porov. Jer 44,30.

Ez 29,3 - Krokodíl, veľké zviera Nílu, býva symbolom Egypta. Tu prorok prirovnáva k nemu faraóna. Vulg prekladá "drak". – Miesto: "Ja som ho urobil" prekladá Vulg: "Ja som sa urobil", ale prekladateľ sv. Hieronym to vykladá vlastne tiež o rieke: ja som svojím tvorcom, ja som urobil rieku, ktorá zavlažuje celý Egypt.

Ez 29,4 - Ryby sú faraónovi podriadení, teda ľud jeho ríše; pozri aj 2 Kr 19,28.

Ez 29,6 - Obraz o palici pozri Iz 36,6 = 2 Kr 18,21.

Ez 29,10 - O Magdole pozri pozn. k Jer 44,1. – Syene, dnes Assuan, je na pravom brehu Nílu oproti ostrovu Elefantine. Magdola bola na severe, Syene na juhu Egypta.

Ez 29,14 - Patros pozri pozn. k Iz 11,11; porov. Iz 44,15. Podľa Herodota (2,4.15) pochádzali Egypťania naozaj z Horného Egypta, z Téb.

Ez 29,16 - Pozri 17,16–19.

Ez 29,21 - Roh je symbolom moci, porov. Jer 48,25. – Keď sa splní proroctvo proti Egyptu, budú mať Izraeliti záruku, že sa splnia aj jeho proroctvá o mesiášskych časoch, v ktorých Izrael dostane naspäť svoju moc, Ezechiel bude môcť smelo hovoriť ľudu, lebo ten uzná, že sa jeho proroctvá plnia.