![]() ![]() At the prophet’s words, the bones sew themselves back together, and flesh and skin cover them. (It’s the source for “ Dem Dry Bones“!) God tells him to summon the bones back to life. God leads Ezekiel to a valley filled with desiccated bones. This is God as aggrieved hip-hop star.Ĭhapter 37 Now we know how God will raise the dead. He’s only doing it to restore His divine good name. God vows to restore Israel, but not for our sake. When other nations see that His people worship idols, ignore the Sabbath, and maltreat each other, God’s reputation suffers. I’m tryin’ real hard to be the shepherd.Ĭhapter 36 God is upset with His people for an entirely new reason: They are making him look bad. Or, it could mean you’re the righteous man and I’m the shepherd and it’s the world that’s evil and selfish. ![]() 9 mm here, he’s the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. See, now I’m thinkin’, maybe it means you’re the evil man, and I’m the righteous man. But I saw some shit this mornin’ made me think twice. I just thought it was some cold-blooded shit to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass. I never gave much thought to what it meant. And if you heard it, that meant your ass. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.” I been sayin’ that shit for years. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. For he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Jackson, quotes it as his motto (caution: salty language ahead): Jules Winnfield, the hit man played by Samuel L. Why is this chapter important in American pop-cultural history? I didn’t know, either, but several readers gave me a heads-up. Unlike icy and vengeful Jeremiah and Isaiah, Ezekiel is fully human, and thus a much more tragic figure.Ĭhapter 25 The Lord vows revenge against the Edomites, Moabites, Philistines, and Ammonites. In any case, this episode is a reminder of what a mensch Ezekiel is. If you’re searching for a pleasant interpretation of the story, tell yourself that Ezekiel is a workaholic and perhaps he found solace in returning immediately to prophecy. All Ezekiel may do, God says, is “sigh, but not aloud.” God immediately dispatches the new widower to preach to the Jerusalemites, and Ezekiel obediently does it. The dreadful part is that God forbids him from mourning or weeping. Ezekiel’s wife dies during the siege of Jerusalem. The books of prophets are not in chronological order, and the events in Job and Daniel actually occur before the events of Ezekiel, as reader Jesse Bangs explains deftly here.Ĭhapter 24 Unlike Jeremiah, who was celibate by God’s order (or, more likely, because no woman could stand his foul temper), Ezekiel is a family man-which is why this chapter is so sad. Lots of you countered that this is no anomaly at all. Vincent's death speaks as much to his own bad luck as it does to Butch's powerful motivation to make off with his ill-gotten gains.In the last entry, I mentioned a supposed anomaly in Ezekiel 14:14-the reference to Daniel and Job, whose books come after Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible. Knowing that Marsellus Wallace would be prepared to kill him for his betrayal, and knowing that there was someone in his home likely waiting to do just that, Butch opened fire in an act of self-preservation. Though it might seem that Butch had some greater purpose for killing Vincent, he's mostly acting on instinct. Though the unlucky bathroom breaks of Pulp Fiction's Vincent Vega are something of a joke, his death is both sudden and surprising. It's then that Butch returns home, finds Marsellus's gun, and uses it to kill a surprised Vincent Vega as he emerges from the bathroom. Marsellus leaves and Vincent decides to use Butch's bathroom (a side effect of his heroin addiction is constipation, and it's something of a running joke that bad things happen when Vincent goes to the bathroom). After Butch betrays Marsellus by stealing his money and winning the fight he was supposed to lose, Marsellus and Vincent stake out Butch's home to try to catch him. One of the more shocking narrative twists in Pulp Fiction is the death of Vincent Vega. ![]()
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