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耶利米書 48

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1 摩押。萬軍之耶和華以色列的如此:尼波有禍了!因變為荒場。基列亭蒙羞被攻取。米斯迦蒙羞被毀壞;

2 摩押不再被稱讚。有人在希實本設計謀害他,說:來罷!我們將他剪除,不再成國。瑪得緬哪,你也必默默無聲;刀必追趕你。

3 從何羅念有喊荒涼毀滅的哀聲:

4 摩押毀滅了!他的孩童(或譯:家僮)發哀聲,使人見。

5 人上魯希坡隨走隨哭,因為在何羅念的下坡見毀滅的哀聲。

6 你們要奔逃,自性命,獨自居住,好像曠野的杜松。

7 你因倚靠自己所做的和自己的財寶必被攻取。基抹和屬他的祭司、首領也要一同被擄去。

8 行毀滅的必到各城,並無一城得免。山谷必致敗落,平原必被毀壞;正如耶和華的。

9 要將翅膀摩押,使他可以飛去。他的城邑必致荒涼,無人居住

10 (懶惰為耶和華行事的,必受咒詛;禁止刀不經血的,必受咒詛。)

11 摩押自幼年以來常享安逸,如酒在渣滓上澄清,沒有從這器皿倒在那器皿裡,也未曾被擄去。因此,他的原味尚存,香氣未變。

12 耶和華:日子將到,我必打發倒酒的往他那裡去,將他倒出,倒空他的器皿,打碎他的罈子。

13 摩押必因基抹羞愧,像以色列家從前倚靠伯特利的神羞愧一樣。

14 你們怎麼:我們是勇士,是有勇力打仗的呢?

15 摩押變為荒場,敵人上去進了他的城邑。他所特選的少年人去遭了殺戮;這是君王─名為萬軍之耶和華的。

16 摩押的災殃臨近;他的苦難速速到。

17 凡在他四圍的和認識他名的,你們都要為他悲傷,:那結實的杖和那美好的棍,何竟折斷了呢?

18 在底本的民哪(原文是女子),要從你榮耀的位上來,受乾渴;因毀滅摩押的上來攻擊你,毀壞了你的保障。

19 住亞羅珥的啊,要站在道旁觀望,問逃避的男人和逃脫的女人:是甚麼事呢?

20 摩押因毀壞蒙羞;你們要哀號呼喊,要在亞嫩旁報告說:摩押變為荒場!

21 刑罰臨到平原之的何倫、雅雜、米法押、

22 底本、尼波、伯•低比拉太音、

23 基列亭、伯迦末、伯•米恩、

24 加略、波斯拉,和摩押遠近所有的城邑。

25 摩押的角砍斷了,摩押的膀折斷了。這是耶和華的。

26 你們要使摩押沉醉,因他向耶和華誇大。他要在自己所吐之中打滾,又要被人嗤笑。

27 摩押啊,你不曾嗤笑以色列麼?他豈是在賊中查出來的呢?你每逢提到他便搖頭。

28 摩押居民哪,要離開城邑,在山崖裡,像鴿子在深淵上搭窩。

29 我們摩押人驕傲,是極其驕傲;說他自高自傲,並且狂妄,居自大。

30 耶和華:我知道他的忿怒是虛空的;他誇大的話一無所成。

31 因此,我要為摩押哀號,為摩押全地呼喊;人必為吉珥•哈列設人歎息。

32 西比瑪的葡萄樹啊,我為你哀哭,甚於雅謝人哀哭。你的枝子蔓延過,直長到雅謝。那行毀滅的已經臨到你夏天的果子和你所摘的葡萄。

33 肥田和摩押的歡喜快樂都被奪去;我使酒醡的酒絕流,無人踹酒歡呼;那歡呼卻變為仇敵的吶喊(原文是那歡呼卻不是歡呼)。

34 希實本人發的哀聲達到以利亞利,直達到雅雜;從瑣珥達到何羅念,直到伊基拉施利施亞,因為寧林的水必然乾涸。

35 耶和華:我必在摩押地使那在邱壇獻祭的,和那向他的燒香的都斷絕了。

36 腹為摩押哀鳴如簫,我腸為吉珥•哈列設人也是如此,因摩押人所得的財物都滅沒了。

37 各人上光禿,鬍鬚剪短,有劃傷,腰束麻布

38 摩押的各房頂上和街市上處處有人哀哭;因我打碎摩押,好像打碎無人喜悅的器皿。這是耶和華的。

39 摩押何等毀壞!何等哀號!何等羞愧背!這樣,摩押必令四圍的人嗤笑驚駭。

40 耶和華如此:仇敵必如大飛起,展開翅膀,攻擊摩押

41 加略被攻取,保障也被佔據。到那日,摩押的勇士中疼痛如臨產的婦人。

42 摩押必被毀滅,不再成國,因他向耶和華誇大。

43 耶和華摩押的居民哪,恐懼、陷坑、網羅都臨近你。

44 躲避恐懼的必墜入陷坑;從陷坑上的必被網羅纏住;因我必使追討之年臨到摩押。這是耶和華的。

45 躲避的人無力站在希實本的影;因為有從希實本發出,有燄出於西宏的城,燒盡摩押的角和鬨嚷人的頭頂。

46 摩押啊,你有禍了!屬基抹的民滅亡了!因你的眾子都被擄去,你的眾女也被擄去。

47 耶和華:到末後,我還要使被擄的摩押人歸回。摩押受審判的話到此為止。

   

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12 摩押人朝見的時候,在處疲乏,又到他聖所祈禱,也不蒙應允。

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Apocalypse Revealed # 194

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194. "'And the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem.'" This symbolically means that they will have the doctrine of the New Church engraved on their hearts.

The New Jerusalem symbolizes the New Church, and when it is called a city, it symbolizes the New Church in respect to its doctrine. Therefore to "write on him the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem," means, symbolically, that they will have the doctrine of the New Church engraved on their hearts.

To be shown that Jerusalem symbolizes the church, and that as a city it means the church in respect to its doctrine, see nos. 880, 881, below.

A city symbolizes doctrine because a land, and particularly the land of Canaan, symbolizes a church in its entirety; and the inheritances into which the land of Canaan was divided consequently symbolized various components of the church, and the cities in it doctrines. Because of this, when cities are mentioned in the Word, the angels understand them to mean nothing else. I have also had this attested for me through a good deal of experience.

The case with this is the same as with the symbolic meanings of mountains, hills, valleys, springs, and rivers, all of which symbolize such things as have to do with the church.

[2] That cities symbolize doctrines can be seen to some extent from the following passages:

The land shall be... emptied..., the land shall be turned upside down..., the land shall be profaned... The empty city shall be broken down... What is left in the city shall be waste, and the gate shall be stricken even to its destruction. (Isaiah 3; 4; 5; 10; 11; 12)

The lion has come up from his thicket..., to make your land a wasteland. Your cities will be destroyed... I beheld... Carmel a wilderness, and all its cities desolate... ...the land shall mourn... The whole city shall flee..., forsaken... (Jeremiah 4:7, 26-29)

The land there is the church, and the city is its doctrine. The devastation of the church by doctrinal falsities is described in this way.

The despoiler shall come upon every city, so that no city escapes. The valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed... (Jeremiah 48:8)

Likewise:

Behold, I have made you this day as a fortified city... against the whole land... (Jeremiah 1:18)

This was addressed to the prophet because a prophet symbolizes the doctrine of the church (no. 8).

On that day they will sing... in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks." (Isaiah 26:1-2)

...the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. (Revelation 16:18-19)

(The prophet saw) on a very high mountain... the structure of a city to the south... (And an angel measured the wall, the gates, their chambers, and the vestibule of the gate,) and the name of the city... shall be JEHOVAH IS THERE. (Ezekiel 40:1ff., 48:35)

There is a river whose streams have made glad the city of God? (Psalms 46:4-5)

I will embroil Egypt with Egypt, so that... city (fights) against city, and kingdom against kingdom. (Isaiah 19:2)

Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city... divided against itself will not stand. (Matthew 12:25)

Cities in these passages mean, in the spiritual sense, doctrines, as is the case also in Isaiah 6:11; 14:4, 17, 21; 19:18-19; 25:1-3; 33:8-9; 54:3; 64:10, and elsewhere.

[3] From the symbolic meaning of a city it can be seen what cities mean in this parable of the Lord:

A... nobleman (going) into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom..., delivered to (his servants) minas (with which to) do business... ...when he returned..., he (called the) servants... The first came, saying, ."..your mina has earned ten minas," and he said to him, ."..good servant..., you shall have authority over ten cities." And the second came, saying, ."..your mina has earned five minas." And he said... to him, "You also be over five cities." (Luke 19:12-19)

Cities here likewise symbolize doctrines or doctrinal truths, and to be over them is to be intelligent and wise. Thus to give power over them is to impart intelligence and wisdom. Ten symbolizes much, and five some. It is apparent that to do business and earn a profit means to acquire intelligence for oneself by making use of one's abilities.

[4] That the holy city Jerusalem symbolizes the doctrine of the New Church is clearly apparent from its description in chapter 21 of the book of Revelation, for it is described in respect to its dimensions, its gates, and its wall and foundations, and inasmuch as Jerusalem symbolizes the church, these can symbolize nothing other than matters having to do with its doctrine. Neither is the church a church on any other basis.

Because the city Jerusalem means the church in respect to doctrine, it is therefore called the City of Truth (Zechariah 8:3-4), and in many places a holy city, and this because holiness is predicated of truths derived from the Lord (no. 173).

  
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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.