The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #386
386. Internal Meaning of Psalm 136
1-3 Let them confess the Lord, who alone is God and Lord,6 (16)
4-6 who, by means of the Divine truth, has formed heaven and the church, (12)
7-9 from whom is all truth of doctrine, and good of love, and knowledge (cognitio) of these; (12)
10-22 who delivers the natural man from falsities of evil, and there establishes the church, and dissipates evils of every kind. (11, 12, 17)
23-26 Celebration and confession of Him who delivers from falsities and evils, and grants truths and goods,6, (16, 12)
Exodus 2:23-25
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It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
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God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25
God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.
