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1 耶和华的临到我说:

2 人子啊,你要向以色列的牧人发预言,攻击他们,耶和华如此:祸哉!以色列的牧人只知牧养自己。牧人岂不当牧养麽?

3 你们脂油、穿毛、宰肥壮的,却不牧养

4 瘦弱的,你们没有养壮;有病的,你们没有医治;受伤的,你们没有缠裹;被逐的,你们没有领回;失丧的,你们没有寻找;但用强暴严严地辖制。

5 因无牧人,羊就分散;既分散,便作了一切野兽的食物。

6 我的在诸间、在各冈上流离,在全分散,无人去寻,无人去找。

7 所以,你们这些牧人要耶和华的

8 耶和华:我指着我的永生起誓,我的因无牧人就成为掠物,也作了一切野兽的食物。我的牧人不寻找我的;这些牧人只知牧养自己,并不牧养我的

9 所以你们这些牧人要耶和华的

10 耶和华如此:我必与牧人为敌,必向他们的追讨我的,使他们不再牧放;牧人也不再牧养自己。我必救我的脱离他们的,不再作他们的食物。

11 耶和华如此:看哪,我必亲自寻找我的,将他们寻见。

12 牧人在羊群四散的日子怎样寻找他的,我必照样寻找我的。这些在密黑暗的日子散到各处,我必从那里救回他们来。

13 我必从万民中领出他们,从各国内聚集他们,引导他们归回故土,也必在以色列上─一切溪水旁边、境内一切可居之处─牧养他们。

14 我必在美场牧养他们。他们的圈必在以色列处的上,他们必在佳美之圈中躺卧,也在以色列肥美的场吃

15 耶和华:我必亲自作我的牧人,使他们得以躺卧。

16 失丧的,我必寻找;被逐的,我必领回;受伤的,我必缠裹;有病的,我必医治;只是肥的壮的,我必除灭,也要秉公牧养他们。

17 我的羊群哪,论到你们,耶和华如此:我必在中间、公绵与公山中间施行判断

18 你们这些肥壮的羊,在美场吃还以为小事麽?下的,你们竟用蹄践踏了;你们下的,你们竟用蹄搅浑了。

19 至於我的,只得吃你们所践踏的,你们所搅浑的。

20 所以,耶和华如此:我必在肥羊和瘦羊中间施行判断

21 因为你们用胁用拥挤一切瘦弱的,又用角抵触,以致使他们四散。

22 所以,我必拯我的不再作掠物;我也必在中间施行判断

23 我必立牧人照管他们,牧养他们,就是我的仆人大卫。他必牧养他们,作他们的牧人。

24 我─耶和华必作他们的,我的仆人大卫必在他们中间作王。这是耶和华的。

25 我必与他们立平安的约,使恶兽从境内断绝,他们就必安居在旷野,躺卧在林中。

26 我必使他们与我山的四围成为福源,我也必叫时雨落,必有福如甘霖而降。

27 田野的必结果,也必有出产;他们必在故土安然居住。我折断他们所负的轭,救他们脱离那以他们为奴之人的;那时,他们就知道我是耶和华

28 他们必不再作外邦人的掠物,上的野兽也不再吞他们;却要安然居住,无人惊吓。

29 我必给他们兴起有名的植物;他们在境内不再为饥荒所灭,也不再受外邦人羞辱

30 知道我、耶和华─他们的是与他们同在的,并知道他们─以色列家是我的民。这是耶和华的。

31 你们作我的,我草场上的,乃是以色列人,我也是你们的。这是耶和华的。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 336

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336. And every mountain and island was moved out of its place. This symbolically means that all goodness of love and truth of faith vanished.

No one can see that this is the symbolic meaning except by recourse to the spiritual sense. It is the symbolic meaning because mountains mean people who possess the goodness of love, inasmuch as angels dwell upon mountains - those motivated by love toward the Lord on loftier mountains, and those motivated by love for the neighbor on less lofty ones. Consequently "every mountain" symbolizes all goodness of love. Islands mean people relatively removed from the worship of God, as may be seen in no. 34 above - here people who are impelled by faith, and not so much by the goodness of love. Therefore in an abstract sense "every island" means, symbolically, all truth of faith. To be moved out of their places means, symbolically, to go away.

It derives from the abodes of angels on mountains and hills, therefore, that mountains and hills in the Word symbolize heaven and the church where love toward the Lord and love for the neighbor are found, and in an opposite sense, hell where self-love and love of the world are found.

[2] It is apparent from the following passages that mountains and hills symbolize heaven and the church where love toward the Lord and love for the neighbor are found, thus where the Lord is present:

Lift up your eyes to the mountains, whence comes your help. (Psalms 121:1)

Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who proclaims... peace! (Nahum 1:15, cf. Isaiah 52:7)

Praise Jehovah..., you mountains and... hills...! (Psalms 148:7, 9)

A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of hills is the mountain of Bashan. Why do you leap, you mountains, you hills of the mountain? Jehovah has desired to inhabit them; (Jehovah) also will inhabit them forever. (Psalms 68:15-16)

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like the young of the flock... You travail, O earth, at the presence of the Lord... (Psalms 114:4-7)

I will bring forth a seed from Jacob, and from Judah an heir of My mountains, that My elect may inherit them, and My servants dwell there. (Isaiah 65:9)

(In the consummation of the age:) then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. (Matthew 24:16)

(O Jehovah,) Your righteousness is as the mountains of God. (Psalms 36:6)

Jehovah will go forth and fight... In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, opposite Jerusalem on the east. (Zechariah 14:3-4)

[3] Since the Mount of Olives symbolized Divine love, therefore during the days the Lord preached in the Temple, but during the nights He went out and spent the night on the Mount of Olives (Luke 21:37; 22:39, John 8:1). And therefore the Lord spoke upon that mountain with His disciples regarding His coming and the end of the age (Matthew 24:3, Mark 13:3-4).

Since a mountain symbolized heaven and love, therefore Jehovah came down upon the top of Mount Sinai and proclaimed the Law (Exodus 19:20; 24:17). And therefore the Lord was transfigured before Peter, James and John on a high mountain (Matthew 17:1). Therefore Zion also was located on a mountain, and so, too, Jerusalem, and the two were called the mountain of Jehovah and the mountain of holiness in many places in the Word.

Mountains and hills have similar symbolic meanings elsewhere, as in Isaiah 7:25; 30:25; 40:9; 44:23; 49:11, 13; 55:12; Jeremiah 16:15-16; Psalms 65:6; 80:10; 104:5-10, 13.

[4] That mountains and hills symbolize these loves can be seen still more clearly from their opposite meaning, in which they symbolize hellish loves, namely, self-love and a love of the world, as is apparent from the following passages:

...the day of Jehovah... shall come... upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up... (Isaiah 2:12, 14)

Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill brought low. (Isaiah 40:4)

The mountains shall be overthrown, and its ascents shall fall... (Ezekiel 38:20-21)

Behold, I am against you, O... mountain, that destroys all the earth... ...I will make you a burnt mountain. (Jeremiah 51:25)

I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they are shaken, and all the hills are overthrown. (Jeremiah 4:23-25)

...a fire is kindled in my anger..., and it will set on fire the foundations of the mountains. (Deuteronomy 32:22)

I will lay waste the mountains and hills... (Isaiah 42:15)

Behold, (O Jacob,) I will make you like a threshing sledge... that you may thresh the mountains and crush them, and make the hills like chaff..., that the wind may carry them away. (Isaiah 41:15-16)

Give glory to Jehovah... before your feet stumble on the dark mountains... (Jeremiah 13:16)

Nor is anything else meant by the seven mountains on which the woman - namely Babylon - sat (Revelation 17:9). And so also elsewhere, as in Isaiah 14:13; Jeremiah 50:6; 9:10; Ezekiel 6:2-3; 34:6.

It can now be seen from this what is meant by the statement that "every mountain and island was moved out of its place," and later by the statement that "every island fled away, and the mountains were not found" (Revelation 16:20, no. 714).

  
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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.