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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

This is a paradox, of course, as Augustine, Luther, Edwards, Pascal and others have pointed out. When individuals rebel against God, they don't achieve freedom. They fall into bondage, because rebellion is sin, and sin is a tyrant. On the other hand, when men and women submit to God, becoming his slaves, they become truly free. They achieve the ability fully to become the special, unique beings that God created them to be.
James Montgomery Boice

Our enemy knows that when he strikes the shepherd, the sheep will scatter (Matt. 26:31), and church leaders – even as the Lord Himself – are Satan’s special targets. The more faithful and fruitful a pastor is, the more his people need to pray for his strength and protection. He is more subject to the devil’s schemes to make him discouraged or self-satisfied, hopeless or superficially optimistic, cowardly or overconfident. Satan uses every situation – favorable or unfavorable, successful or unsuccessful – to try to weaken, distract, and discredit God’s gifted men in their work of “equipping of the saints for the work of service” (Eph. 4:12).
John MacArthur

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 何西阿书 1

何西阿书
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乌西雅约坦亚哈斯希西家犹大王,约阿施的儿子耶罗波安以色列王的时候,耶和华的话临到备利的儿子何西阿
何西阿的妻子和儿女
耶和华初次与何西阿说话,对他说:「你去娶淫妇为妻,也收那从淫乱所生的儿女;因为这地大行淫乱,离弃耶和华。」
于是,何西阿去娶了滴拉音的女儿歌篾。这妇人怀孕,给他生了一个儿子。
耶和华对何西阿说:「给他起名叫耶斯列;因为再过片时,我必讨耶户家在耶斯列杀人流血的罪,也必使以色列家的国灭绝。
到那日,我必在耶斯列平原折断以色列的弓。」
歌篾又怀孕生了一个女儿,耶和华何西阿说:「给她起名叫罗·路哈玛+;因为我必不再怜悯以色列家,决不赦免他们。
我却要怜悯犹大家,使他们靠耶和华—他们的 神得救,不使他们靠弓、刀、争战、马匹,与马兵得救。」
歌篾罗·路哈玛断奶以后,又怀孕生了一个儿子。
耶和华说:「给他起名叫罗·阿米+;因为你们不作我的子民,我也不作你们的 。」
以色列将要复兴
10 然而,以色列的人数必如海沙,不可量,不可数。从前在什么地方对他们说「你们不是我的子民」,将来在那里必对他们说「你们是永生 神的儿子」。
11  犹大人和以色列人必一同聚集,为自己立一个首领,从这地上去+,因为耶斯列的日子必为大日。

+ 1:6 就是不蒙怜悯的意思
+ 1:9 就是非我民的意思
+ 1:11 或译:从被掳之地上来