737 THE DENIAL AND ITS CONSEQUENCES; THE REBUILDING OF JERUSALEM, THE CITY Many therefore of His disci- House of Israel with deceit.ples hearing it, said: This saying Os 11, 12 is hard, and who can hear it ?- They have cast away the Word After this many of His disciples of the Lord, and there, is no went back; and walked no more wisdom in them.-Je 8,9 with Him.-Jn 6, 61, 67 Whom hast thou blasphemed, My enemies have surrounded and against Whom thou hast exMy soul. Their mouth hath alted thy voice, and lifted up spoken proudly. They have cast thy eyes on high? Against the Me forth.-Ps 17, 11 Holy One of Israel.-Is 37, 23 They spoke ill of God: they My inheritance is become to said: Can God furnish a Table in Me as a lion in the wood : it hath the wilderness?-Can He also give cried out against Me.-Je 12, 8 Bread, or provide a Table for His The ox knoweth his owner, and people ?-Therefore the Lord the ass his master's crib, but Isheard and was angry because they rael hath not known Me, and My believed not in God.-Ps 77, 19-22 people hath not understood.Ephraim hath compassed Me Is 1,3 about with denials, and the Israel hath cast forth the Thing that is Good.-Os 8, 3 [shall prosper, till the wrath be Their Glory hath flown away accomplished.-Da 11, 36 like a bird.-Os 9, 11 He came unto His own, and The wrong done to Me and My His own received Him not.—Jn 1, Flesh be upon Babylon.-Je 51, 35 11 You rose up against Me with I am come in the Name of My your mouth, and have derogated Father, and you received Me not. from Me by your words: I have―Jn 5, 43 heard them. Thus saith the My people have forsaken Me, Lord God: When the whole the Fountain of Living Water. earth shall rejoice, I will make ―Je 2, 13 thee a wilderness.-Ez 35, 13-14 My brethren have passed by Son of man, behold I take from Me, as the torrent that passeth thee the Desire of thy eyes with swiftly in the valleys.—J6 6, 15 a stroke. Ez 24, 16 It shall come to pass in that They told him, saying: Joseph day, saith the Lord God, that the thy son is living and he is Ruler Sun shall go down at mid-day, in all the land of Egypt. Which and I will make the earth dark in when Jacob heard, he awaked as the day of light.—Am 8, 9 it were out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them.-Ge 44, 26 : Thou hast forsaken Me, thou art gone backward.-Je 15,6 Thou hast been mad against He said to His people: This is Me, and Thy pride hath come up My Rest, refresh the weary, and to My ears therefore I will put this is My Refreshing: and they a ring through thy nose, and a would not hear.*-Is 28, 12 bit between thy lips, and I will I sat alone because thou hast turn thee back by the way, by filled Me with threats.-Je 15, 17 which thou camest.-4 K19, 28 He called the name of that My Tabernacle is laid waste, place Temptation, because of the all My cords are broken: My chiding of the children of Israel, children are gone out from Me, and for that they tempted the and they are not: there is none Lord, saying: Is the Lord to stretch forth My Tent any amongst us or not ?-Ez 17, 7 more, and to set up My curtains. I said: Behold Me, behold Me, -Because the pastors have done to a nation that did not call upon foolishly, and have not sought My Name.-I have spread forth the Lord therefore have they My hands all the day to an unnot understood, and all their believing people, who walk in a flock is scattered.-Je 10, 20-21 way that is not good after their He shall speak great things own thoughts.—Js 65, 12 against the God of gods, and The Priests did not say : * Another rendering of this verse :-Still to this people will He speak.Even He Who said to them: This is the Rest wherewith ye may the weary cause to rest; and This is the Repose; but they refused to hear. "Where is the Lord ?" and they ing lies to My people that believe that held the Law knew Me not. lies.-Ez 13, 19 -Je 2, 8 They have turned their backs to Me, and not their faces.-Je 2, 27 Thou hast burst My bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve.-Je 2, 20. The wrong done to Me and My Flesh be upon Babylon, saith the Habitation of Sion: and My Blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, saith Jerusalem.-Je 51, 35 The children of Israel shall sit You have all forsaken Me, many days without King, and saith the Lord.-Je 2, 29 without Sacrifice, and without Behold all that fight against Altar.-Os 3, 4 Thee shall be confounded and I will destroy out of this place ashamed, they shall be as nothing, them that turn away from foland the men shall perish that lowing the Lord.-So 1, 6strive against Thee.-Thou shalt Their land hath been filled seek them, and shalt not find, with sin against the Holy One of the men that resist Thee: they Israel.-Je 51, 5 shall be as nothing: and as a See that it is an evil and a thing consumed the men that bitter thing for thee to have left war against Thee.-Is 41, 11-12 the Lord thy God.-Je 2, 19 : See ye the Word of the Lord: Wo to them, for they have Am I become a wilderness to departed from Me: they shall be Israel, or a lateward springing wasted because they have transland ? Why then have My gressed against Me: and I repeople said: We are revolted, deemed them and they have we will come to Thee no more ? spoken lies against Me.-And -Je 2, 31 they have not cried to Me with As a woman that despiseth their heart, but they howled in her lover, so hath the House of their beds: they have thought Israel despised Me, saith the upon wheat and wine, they are Lord.-Je 3, 20 departed from Me.-Os 7, 13-14 My foolish people have known Me.-Je 4, 22 a conspiracy.-Is 8, 12 not They spoke indeed peaceably to Me: and speaking in the All that the people speaketh is anger of the earth they devised guile. And they opened their They violated Me among My mouth wide against Me.-Ps 34, people for a piece of bread, tell- 20 2. THE SINS THAT LED TO HIS DENIAL. He in the contempt of his Lord.-Je 9, 6 pride despised the God of Israel. Babylon hath lifted u herself -Jd 13, 28 against the Lord, against the Through deceit they have Holy One of Israel. Behold I refused to know Me, saith the come against thee, O proud one, saith the Lord.-Je 50, 29 flock, their shepherds have It is a people that provoketh caused them to go astray, and to wrath, and lying children, have made them wander in the children that will not hear the mountains: they have gone from Law of God.-Who say to the mountain to hill, they have forseers: See not; and to them that gotten their Resting Place.-All behold: Behold not for us those that found them, have devoured things that are right: speak them: and their enemies said: unto us pleasant things, see We have not sinned in so doing: errors for us.-Take away from because they have sinned against me the Way, turn away the Path the Lord the Beauty of Justice, from me, let the Holy One of and against the Lord the Hope of Israel cease from before us.-Is their fathers.-Je 50, 6-7 30, 9-11 The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee.-Ab 3 Thy people are as they that contradict the Priest.-Os 4, 4 They forsook Me, and kept not I know thy dwelling, and thy My Law.-Je 16, 11 going out, and thy coming in, Every man's word shall be his and thy rage against Me.-When burden: for you have perverted thou wast mad against Me, thy the words of the Living God. pride came up to My ears :-Je 23, 36 therefore I will put a ring in thy The Prophecy of Isaias is fulnose, and a bit between thy lips, filled in them, who saith: By and I will turn thee back by the hearing you shall hear, and shall way by which thou camest.-Is not understand and seeing you 37, 28-29 shall see, and shall not perceive. The heart of this people is be--For the heart of this people is come hard of belief and provok-grown gross, and with their ears ing, they are revolted and gone they have been dull of hearing, away. Je 5, 23 and their eyes they have shut, The beloved grew fat, and lest at any time they should see kicked he grew fat, and thick with their eyes, and hear with and gross, he forsook God Who their ears, and understand with made him, and departed from their heart, and be converted, God his Saviour.-Dt 32, 15 and I should heal them.-Mt 13, My people hath been a lost 14-15 3. THE CONSEQUENT PROFANATION AND DESTRUCTION OF HIS SANCTUARIES. He commanded the Holy proudly entered into the SancPlaces to be profaned.-1 M 1, 49 tuary, and took away the Golden The keepers of the Walls took Altar, and the Candlestick of away My veil from Me.-Ca 5,7 light, and all the Vessels thereof, He went up to Jerusalem with and the Table of Proposition, great multitude.-And he and the golden ornament that a was before the Temple: and he and hatchet they have brought it broke them all in pieces. And down.-Ps73, 3-6 : he took the silver and gold, and They have set fire to Thy Sancthe Precious Vessels: and he tuary: they have defiled the took the hidden treasures which Dwelling Place of Thy Name on he found and when he had the earth.-They said in their taken all away he departed into heart, the whole kindred of them his own country.-1 M1, 23-24 together: Let us abolish all the They have changed My delight-Festival Days of God from the ful portion into a desolate wil-land.-Ps 73, 7-8 derness. They have laid it waste Our signs we have not seen, and it hath mourned for Me.-there is now no Prophet: and he Je 12, 10-11 will know us no more-How long, Our fathers have sinned and O God, shall the enemy reproach: done evil in the sight of the Lord is the adversary to provoke Thy God, forsaking Him: they have Name for ever ?-Ps 73, 9-10 turned away their faces from the O God, they have defiled Thy Tabernacle of the Lord, and Holy Temple: they have made turned their backs.-They have Jerusalem as a place to keep shut up the doors that were in fruit.-Ps 78, 1 the Porch, and put out the My pastors have destroyed My Lamps, and have not burnt Vineyard, they have trodden My incense, nor offered Holocausts in portion under foot: they have the Sanctuary of the God of changed My delightful portion Israel. Therefore the wrath of into a desolate wilderness.-They the Lord hath been stirred up have laid it waste and it hath against Juda and Jerusalem, and mourned for Me.-Je 12, 10-11 He hath delivered them to The Holy Places are come into trouble, and to destruction, and the hands of strangers: her Temto be hissed at, as you see with ple is become as a man without your eyes.-2 P 29, 6-8 honour.-The Vessels of her glory They shall violate My Secret are carried away captive: her Place. (My inward Sanctuary.) young men are fallen by the -Ez 7, 22 sword of the enemies.- What See what things the enemy nation hath not inherited her hath done wickedly in the Sanc- kingdom, and gotten of her tuary. And they that hate Thee spoils ?-All her ornaments are have made their boasts, in the taken away. She that was free midst of Thy Solemnity. They is made a slave. Behold our have set up their ensigns for Sanctuary and our Glory is laid signs :-And they knew not both waste.-1 M 2, 8-12 in the going out, and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,-They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe Our enemies have trodden down Thy Sanctuary.-Is 63, 18 The City of Thy Sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a |