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حزقيال 27

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1 وكان اليّ كلام الرب قائلا

2 وانت يا ابن آدم فارفع مرثاة على صور

3 وقل لصور ايتها الساكنة عند مداخل البحر تاجرة الشعوب الى جزائر كثيرة هكذا قال السيد الرب. يا صور انت قلت انا كاملة الجمال.

4 تخومك في قلب البحور. بنّاؤوك تمموا جمالك.

5 عملوا كل الواحك من سرو سنير. اخذوا ارزا من لبنان ليصنعوه لك سواري.

6 صنعوا من بلوط باشان مجاديفك. صنعوا مقاعدك من عاج مطعّم في البقس من جزائر كتيم.

7 كتان مطرز من مصر هو شراعك ليكون لك راية. الاسمانجوني والارجوان من جزائر اليشة كانا غطاءك.

8 اهل صيدون وارواد كانوا ملاحيك. حكماؤك يا صور الذين كانوا فيك هم ربابينك.

9 شيوخ جبيل وحكماؤها كانوا فيك قلافوك. جميع سفن البحر وملاحوها كانوا فيك ليتاجروا بتجارتك.

10 فارس ولود وفوط كانوا في جيشك رجال حربك. علقوا فيك ترسا وخوذة. هم صيّروا بهاءك.

11 بنو ارواد مع جيشك على الاسوار من حولك والابطال كانوا في بروجك. علقوا اتراسهم على اسوارك من حولك. هم تمموا جمالك.

12 ترشيش تاجرتك بكثرة كل غنى بالفضة والحديد والقصدير والرصاص اقاموا اسواقك.

13 ياوان وتوبال وماشك هم تجارك. بنفوس الناس وبآنية النحاس اقاموا تجارتك.

14 ومن بيت توجرمة بالخيل والفرسان والبغال اقاموا اسواقك.

15 بنو ددان تجارك. جزائر كثيرة تجار يدك. ادّوا هديتك قرونا من العاج والآبنوس.

16 ارام تاجرتك بكثرة صنائعك تاجروا في اسواقك بالبهرمان والارجوان والمطرز والبوص والمرجان والياقوت.

17 يهوذا وارض اسرائيل هم تجارك. تاجروا في سوقك بحنطة منّيت وحلاوى وعسل وزيت وبلسان.

18 دمشق تاجرتك بكثرة صنائعك وكثرة كل غنى بخمر حلبون والصوف الابيض.

19 ودان وياوان قدموا غزلا في اسواقك. حديد مشغول وسليخة وقصب الذريرة كانت في سوقك.

20 ددان تاجرتك بطنافس للركوب.

21 العرب وكل رؤساء قيدار هم تجار يدك بالخرفان والكباش والاعتدة. في هذه كانوا تجارك.

22 تجار شبا ورعمة هم تجارك. بافخر كل انواع الطيب وبكل حجر كريم والذهب اقاموا اسواقك.

23 حران وكنّة وعدن تجار شبا واشور وكلمد تجارك.

24 هؤلاء تجارك بنفائس بأردية اسمانجونية ومطرزة واصونة مبرم معكومة بالحبال مصنوعة من الارز بين بضائعك

25 سفن ترشيش قوافلك لتجارتك فامتلأت وتمجدت جدا في قلب البحار.

26 ملاحوك قد اتوا بك الى مياه كثيرة. كسرتك الريح الشرقية في قلب البحار.

27 ثروتك واسواقك وبضاعتك وملاحوك وربابينك وقلافوك والمتاجرون بمتجرك وجميع رجال حربك الذين فيك وكل جمعك الذي في وسطك يسقطون في قلب البحار في يوم سقوطك.

28 من صوت صراخ ربابينك تتزلزل المسارح.

29 وكل ممسكي المجذاف والملاحون وكل ربابين البحر ينزلون من سفنهم ويقفون على البر

30 ويسمعون صوتهم عليك ويصرخون بمرارة ويذرّون ترابا فوق رؤوسهم ويتمرغون في الرماد.

31 ويجعلون في انفسهم قرعة عليك ويتنطقون بالمسوح ويبكون عليك بمرارة نفس نحيبا مرّا.

32 وفي نوحهم يرفعون عليك مناحة ويرثونك ويقولون اية مدينة كصور كالمسكتة في قلب البحر.

33 عند خروج بضائعك من البحار اشبعت شعوبا كثيرة. بكثرة ثروتك وتجارتك اغنيت ملوك الارض.

34 حين انكسارك من البحار في اعماق المياه سقط متجرك وكل جمعك.

35 كل سكان الجزائر يتحيرون عليك وملوكهنّ يقشعرون اقشعرارا يضطربون في الوجوه.

36 التجار بين الشعوب يصفرون عليك فتكونين اهوالا ولا تكونين بعد الى الابد

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 788

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788. 18:19 "And they put dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, and saying, 'Woe, woe, that great city!'" This symbolizes their interior and exterior grief and mourning, which is a lamentation that so eminent a religion was completely destroyed and condemned.

Putting dust on their heads symbolizes their interior and exterior grief and mourning over the destruction and damnation, as we will show below. To cry out, weeping and mourning, symbolizes their exterior grief and mourning - to weep symbolizing a mourning of the soul, and to grieve a grief of the heart. "Woe, woe, that great city!" symbolizes a grievous lamentation over the destruction and damnation. That "woe" symbolizes a lamentation over a calamity, misfortune, or damnation, and that "woe, woe," therefore symbolizes a grievous lamentation, may be seen in nos. 416, 769, 785; and that the city symbolizes the Roman Catholic religion may be seen in no. 785 and elsewhere.

That putting dust on the head symbolizes an interior grief and mourning over a destruction and damnation is clear from the following passages:

They will cry bitterly and cast dust on their heads; they will roll about in ashes. (Ezekiel 27:30)

(The daughters) of Zion sit on the ground...; they have cast dust on their heads... (Lamentations 2:10)

(Job's friends) rent their tunics and sprinkled dust upon their heads... (Job 2:12)

Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne... (Isaiah 47:1)

And so on elsewhere.

The people put dust on their heads when they grieved deeply, because dust symbolized something damned, as is apparent from Genesis 3:14, Matthew 10:14, Mark 6:11, Luke 10:10-12, and dust on the head represented the people's acknowledgment that of themselves they were damned, and thus their repentance, as in Matthew 11:21, Luke 10:13.

Dust symbolizes something damned because the land over the hells in the spiritual world consists of nothing but dust, without grass or plants.

  
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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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Revelation 18

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1 After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.

2 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."

4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don't receive of her plagues,

5 for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

6 Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.

7 However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.'

8 Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.

9 The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,

10 standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, Woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.'

11 The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more;

12 merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;

13 and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people's bodies and souls.

14 The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.

15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;

16 saying, 'Woe, Woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!

17 For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,

18 and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What is like the great city?'

19 They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, Woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!' For in one hour is she made desolate.

20 "Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her."

21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.

22 The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.

23 The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.

24 In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth."