Jerusalem, on Mount Zion, signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. Jerusalem first comes to our attention in 2 Samuel 5, when King David takes the city from the Jebusites and makes it his capital. In the next chapter he brings the Ark of the Covenant there, and later it is where Solomon builds the temple, and his own palace. From then on Jerusalem is the center of worship of the Israelitish church. It is the place where the Lord was presented in the temple as a baby, where He tarried to talk to the priests at age twelve, where He cleansed the temple, had the last supper, was crucified and then rose. It is a central place in both the old and new Testaments. The city was built on Mount Zion, the highest point of the mountains of Judea. A city, in the Word, represents doctrine, the organized knowledge of the truths of the church. Mountains represent love of the Lord and the consequent worship. If you put those things together, Jerusalem on Mount Zion signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. This is why David was led to make Jerusalem the most important city of the land, and why all worship was conducted there. And this is also why Jeroboam was condemned for introducing idol worship in Samaria. In the Book of Revelation, John's vision of the city New Jerusalem descending from God is a prophecy of a new dispensation of doctrine coming from the Lord.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 4539, 8938; The Apocalypse Explained 365 [35-38])

885. That crying is mentioned in the Word in reference to grief over and fear of falsities from hell, and so of being devastated by them, is apparent from the following passages:

...the former distresses shall be forgotten, and... hidden from My eyes... Then the sound of weeping shall not be heard in her, nor the sound of crying. (Isaiah 65:16, 19)

This, too, is said in reference to Jerusalem, as in the present instance in the book of Revelation.

They are dark upon the land, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up. (Jeremiah 14:2ff.)

The reference here is to sorrow over falsities that are devastating the church.

(Jehovah) looked for judgment, but behold, scabies; for righteousness, but behold, a cry. (Isaiah 5:7)

The sound of the cry of the shepherds... For Jehovah is laying waste their pasture. (Jeremiah 25:36)

The sound of a cry from the Fish Gate..., (because) their goods shall become booty, and their houses a desolation. (Zephaniah 1:10, 13)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 14:31; 15:4-6, 8; 24:11; 30:19, Jeremiah 46:12, 17.

It should be known, however, that crying in the Word is mentioned in reference to every affection of the heart that bursts out. It is consequently the sound of lamentation, of imploring, of supplicating out of grief, of calling to witness, of indignation, of confession, even of exultation.