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1 Than ôi! vàng mờ tối, vàng ròng biến đổi dường nào! Ðá nơi thánh đổ ra nơi mọi góc đường phố!

2 Các con trai của Si-ôn quí báu khác nào vàng ròng, Nay coi như bình đất sét là việc của tay thợ gốm làm!

3 Chính các chó rừng còn đưa vú ra cho con nó đặng cho ; Song con gái dân ta trở nên hung dữ như chim đà ở nơi đồng vắng.

4 Con mới đẻ khao khát lắm, lưỡi nó dính với cúa họng. Trẻ nhỏ đòi bánh chẳng ai bẻ cho.

5 Những người quen nếm mùi cao lương đơn chiếc trong các đường phố; Những kẻ dưỡng nuôi trong đồ điều đỏ, nay ôm lấy đống phân tro.

6 Tội lỗi con gái dân ta lớn hơn Tội lỗi Sô-đôm, Là thành bị đổ như trong giây phút, chẳng ai giơ tay ra trên nó.

7 Các người sang trọng của nó tinh hơn tuyết, trắng hơn sữa. Nước da đỏ hồng hơn san hô, mình mẩy sáng ngời như bích ngọc.

8 Nay mặt đen hơn than: chẳng ai nhận biết trong đường phố; Còn xương bọc lấy da; khô ran như khúc gỗ.

9 Những người bị gươm giết may hơn kẻ bị chết đói: Vì thiếu sản vật ngoài đồng, người lần lần hao mòn như bị đâm.

10 Chính tay người đờn bà vẫn có lòng thương xót, nấu chín con cái mình, Dùng làm đồ ăn cho mình giữa khi con gái dân ta bị phá hại.

11 Ðức Giê-hô-va đã làm trọn sự giận của Ngài, đổ cơn thạnh nộ Ngài ra; Ngài đã đốt lửa tại Si-ôn, thiêu nuốt nền nó.

12 Các vua trên đất, cả dân cư thế gian, vốn chẳng ngờ Kẻ thù quân nghịch sẽ tràn vào các cửa thành Giê-ru-sa-lem.

13 Ấy là vì cớ tội lỗi của các tiên tri nó, và sự gian ác của các thầy tế lễ nó. Họ đã đổ giữa nó huyết của người công bình.

14 Họ đi quanh dọc đường như kẻ mù, bị máu làm ô uế, Ðến nỗi không ai có thể rờ đến áo xống họ.

15 Người ta kêu bảo chúng rằng: Hãy xê ra, chẳng sạch. Hãy xê ra! xê ra! đừng rờ đến! Khi họ trốn tránh đi lưu lạc, dân ngoại kêu rằng: Chúng nó sẽ không trú ngụ ở đây nữa.

16 Cơn giận Ðức Giê-hô-va đã làm tan lạc chúng, Ngài chẳng đoái xem nữa. Chúng nó chẳng nể mặt thầy tế lễ, cũng chẳng kính người già cả.

17 Mắt chúng ta mòn mỏi trông sự cứu luống công! chúng ta trông đợi hướng về một dân không thể cứu.

18 Chúng nó dòm ngó chơn chúng ta, đến nỗi chúng ta không bước ra nơi đường phố. Sự cuối cùng chúng ta đã gần! Ngày chúng ta đã trọn! phải, sự cuối cùng chúng ta đã đến!

19 Kẻ đuổi theo chúng ta thật lẹ hơn con chim ưng trên trời. Ðuổi theo chúng ta trên các núi, rình rập chúng ta trong đồng vắng.

20 Hơi thở của mũi chúng ta, tức là kẻ chịu xức dầu của Ðức Giê-hô-va, thì đã mắc bẫy rồi, Về người, chúng ta thường nói rằng: Chúng ta nấp dưới bóng người mà sống giữa các nước.

21 Hỡi con gái Ê-đôm, ở đất Uùt-xơ! Hãy vui mừng hớn hở, Cái chén cũng sẽ trao đến mầy, mầy sẽ say mê và trần truồng.

22 Hỡi con gái Si-ôn, sự phạt tội lỗi mầy đã trọn, Ngài không đày mầy đi làm phu tù nữa! Hỡi con gái Ê-đôm, Ngài sẽ thăm phạt tội mầy; phô bày gian ác mầy!

   

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779. Since oil is mentioned here among sacred ingredients of worship, and symbolizes celestial good, we must say something now about the oil used in anointing, oil which was used by ancient peoples and afterward commanded to the children of Israel.

In ancient times people anointed stones set up as pillars, as is apparent from Genesis 28:18-19, 22. They also anointed weapons of war, shields and bucklers (2 Samuel 1:21, Isaiah 21:5). The Israelites were commanded to prepare holy oil with which to anoint all the sacred ecclesiastical vessels; and they used it to anoint the altar and all its vessels, as well as the Tabernacle and all its vessels (Exodus 30:22-33, 40:9-11; Leviticus 8:10-12; Numbers 7:1). They used it to anoint the men who exercised the functions of the priesthood and their garments (Exodus 29:7, 29, 30:30, 40:13-15; Leviticus 8:12; Psalm 133:1-3). They used it to anoint prophets (1 Kings 19:15, 16). They used it to anoint kings, and kings were called therefore Jehovah's anointed (1 Samuel 10:1, 15:1, 16:3, 6, 12, 24:6, 10, 26:9, 11, 16, 23; 2 Samuel 1:16, 2:4, 7, 5:3, 17, 19:21; 1 Kings 1:34, 35, 19:15, 16; 2 Kings 9:3; 11:12; 23:30; Lamentations 4:20; Habakkuk 3:13; Psalms 2:2, 6; 20:6; 28:8; 45:7; 84:9; 89:20, 38, 51; 132:17).

[2] Anointing with holy oil was commanded because oil symbolized the goodness of love and represented the Lord, who in His humanity is Himself Jehovah's anointed and His only anointed, being anointed not with oil, but with the Divine goodness itself of Divine love. Consequently He is also called the Messiah in the Old Testament and Christ in the New Testament (John 1:41; 4:25), Messiah and Christ meaning "the Anointed."

That is why priests, kings, and all ecclesiastical vessels were anointed, and having been anointed were called holy - not that they were holy in themselves, but because by virtue of the anointing they represented the Lord in His Divine humanity. Consequently it was a sacrilege to harm a king, because he was Jehovah's anointed (1 Samuel 24:6, 10; 26:9).

[3] Furthermore, it was an accepted practice to anoint themselves and others to attest to their gladness of heart and goodwill, but with ordinary oil or some other fine oil, and not with holy oil (Matthew 6:17; Mark 6:13; Luke 7:46; Isaiah 61:3; Amos 6:6; Micah 6:15; Psalms 92:10; 104:15; Daniel 10:3; Deuteronomy 28:40). They were not permitted to anoint themselves or others with holy oil (Exodus 30:31-33).

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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1 Samuel 26

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1 The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn't David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?"

2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

3 Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.

5 David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him.

6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, "Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?" Abishai said, "I will go down with you."

7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.

8 Then Abishai said to David, "God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time."

9 David said to Abishai, "Don't destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless?"

10 David said, "As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

11 Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go."

12 So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head; and they went away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh was fallen on them.

13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them;

14 and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, "Don't you answer, Abner?" Then Abner answered, "Who are you who cries to the king?"

15 David said to Abner, "Aren't you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.

16 This thing isn't good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh's anointed. Now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head."

17 Saul knew David's voice, and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king."

18 He said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

19 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'

20 Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains."

21 Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly."

22 David answered, "Behold the spear, O king! Then let one of the young men come over and get it.

23 Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn't put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed.

24 Behold, as your life was respected this day in my eyes, so let my life be respected in the eyes of Yahweh, and let him deliver me out of all oppression."

25 Then Saul said to David, "You are blessed, my son David. You shall both do mightily, and shall surely prevail." So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.