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耶利米哀歌 2

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1 主何竟发怒,使黑云遮蔽锡安城!他将以色列的华美从扔在上;在他发怒的日子并不记念自己的脚凳

2 雅各一切的住处,并不顾惜。他发怒倾覆犹大民的保障,使这保障坍倒在;他辱没这国和其中的首领。

3 他发烈怒,把以色列的角全然砍断,在仇敌面前收回右手。他像焰四围吞灭,将雅各烧毁。

4 他张好像仇敌;他站着举起右手,如同敌人将悦人眼目的,尽行杀戮。在锡安百姓的帐棚上倒出他的忿怒,像一样。

5 主如仇敌以色列和锡安的一切宫殿,拆毁百姓的保障;在犹大民中加增悲伤哭号。

6 他强取自己的帐幕,好像是园中的窝棚,毁坏他的聚会之处。耶和华使圣节和安息日在锡安都被忘记,又在怒气的愤恨中藐视君王和祭司。

7 耶和华丢弃自己的祭坛,憎恶自己的圣所,将宫殿的墙垣交付仇敌。他们在耶和华的殿中喧嚷,像在圣会之日一样。

8 耶和华定意拆毁锡安的城墙;他拉了准绳,不将收回,定要毁灭。他使外郭和城墙都悲哀,一同衰败。

9 锡安的都陷入内;将她的闩毁坏,折断。她的君王和首领落在没有律法的列国中;她的先知不得见耶和华的异象

10 锡安城的长老上默默无声;他们扬起尘土落在上,腰束麻布耶路撒冷处女

11 我眼中流泪,以致失明,我的心肠扰乱,胆涂,都因我众民遭毁灭,又因孩童和吃奶的在城内街上发昏。

12 那时,他们在城内街上发昏,好像受伤的,在母亲的怀里,将要丧命;对母亲:谷、酒在哪里呢?

13 耶路撒冷的民哪,我可用甚麽向你证明呢?我可用甚麽与你相比呢?锡安的民哪,我可拿甚麽和你比较,好安慰你呢?因为你的裂口,谁能医治你呢?

14 你的先知为你见虚假和愚昧的异象,并没有显露你的罪孽,使你被掳的归回;却为你见虚假的默示和使你被赶出本境的缘故。

15 凡过的都向你拍掌。他们向耶路撒冷城嗤笑,摇:难道人所称为全美的,称为全所喜悦的,就是这城吗?

16 你的仇敌都向你大大张;他们嗤笑,又切齿:我们灭她。这真是我们所盼望的日子临到了!我们亲眼见了!

17 耶和华成就了他所定的,应验了他古时所命定的。他倾覆了,并不顾惜,使你的仇敌向你夸耀;使你敌人的角也被高举。

18 锡安民的哀求主。锡安的城墙啊,愿你泪如,昼夜不息;愿你眼中的瞳人泪不止。

19 夜间,每逢交更的时候要起来呼喊,在主面前倾。你的孩童在各市口上受饿发昏;你要为他们的性命向主举手祷告。

20 耶和华啊,求你观!见你向谁这样行?妇人岂可自己所生育手里所摇弄的婴孩吗?祭司和先知岂可在主的圣所中被杀戮吗?

21 少年人和老年人都在街上躺卧;我的处女和壮丁都倒在刀下;你发怒的日子杀死他们。你杀了,并不顾惜。

22 你招聚四围惊吓我的,像在大会的日子招聚人一样。耶和华发怒的日子,无人逃脱,无人存留。我所摇弄所养育的婴孩,仇敌都杀净了。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 285

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285. We are told they "will reign upon the earth" because the earth here and elsewhere means the Lord's church in heaven and on earth. The church in both worlds is the Lord's kingdom. Therefore, lest anyone suppose that people who are redeemed by the Lord all become kings and priests who will reign upon the earth, it is important that we demonstrate from the Word that the earth or land symbolizes the church. This can be seen from the following passages:

Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes (the earth) waste, and will overturn its surface... The land shall be entirely emptied... The (habitable) earth will mourn and... be turned upside down... The earth will be profaned under its inhabitants... Therefore a curse shall devour the earth... and... the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men will be left... ...in the midst of the land... it shall be like the stripping of an olive tree... ...the cataracts on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth are shaken. The earth is violently broken, the earth is utterly split open, the earth is shaken exceedingly. The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard... (Isaiah 24:1-23.)

[2] The lion has come up from his thicket... to make your land desolate... I beheld the earth (when) lo, it was empty and void... ...Jehovah has said, "The whole land shall be desolate... For this shall the earth mourn... (Jeremiah 4:7, 23-28)

How long will the land mourn...? The whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart. (Jeremiah 12:4, 11-13)

The earth mourns and languishes, Lebanon is shamed and withered away. (Isaiah 33:9)

Its land shall become burning pitch...(and) it shall lie waste. (Isaiah 34:9-10)

...I have heard from the Lord... a destruction decreed upon the whole earth. (Isaiah 28:22)

Behold, the day of Jehovah comes... to lay the land desolate..., and the earth will be shaken out of its place... (Isaiah 13:9-13)

The earth shook and trembled, and the foundations of the mountains quaked... (Psalms 18:7)

...we will not fear when the earth is transformed... When He uttered His voice, the earth melted. (Psalms 46:2-3, 6, 8)

Have you not understood the foundations of the earth? (Isaiah 40:21)

O God, You have forsaken us... You have made the earth tremble...; heal its breaches, for it is shaken. (Psalms 60:1-2)

[3] The earth and all its inhabitants will melt away; I will firm up its pillars. (Psalms 75:3)

Woe to a land overshadowed by wings... Go, ...messengers, to... a nation... trodden down, whose land rivers have despoiled. (Isaiah 18:1-2)

By the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts the land is darkened... (Isaiah 9:19)

...you will be a delightful land... (Malachi 3:12)

...I have given You as a covenant of the people to restore the earth... Sing, O heavens! And exult, O earth! (Isaiah 49:8, 13)

I shall not see Yah... in the land of the living. (Isaiah 38:11)

...who caused terror in the land of the living. (Ezekiel 32:23-27)

I would not have believed I would see the goodness... in the land of life. (Psalms 27:13)

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. (Matthew 5:5)

I am Jehovah, who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens alone, who spreads out the earth by Myself. (Isaiah 44,24, cf. Zechariah 12:1, Jeremiah 10:11-13; 51:15, Psalm. 136:6)

Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation... ...thus said Jehovah, who created the heavens..., who formed the earth... (Isaiah 45:8, 12, 18-19)

...behold, I create new heavens and a new earth... (Isaiah 65:17, cf. 66:22)

And in many other places as well, which, if I were to cite them, would fill a page.

[4] The earth or land symbolizes the church for the reason that it very often means the land of Canaan, which is where the church was. That is the heavenly Canaan. Moreover, when the earth or land is mentioned, angels, being spiritual, do not think of the earth or land, but of the human race dwelling upon it and its spiritual state; and its spiritual state is the state of the church.

The earth or land also has an opposite meaning, and in that sense it symbolizes damnation, since when the church is not present in a person, damnation is. The earth or land is mentioned in that sense in Isaiah 14:12; 21:9; 26:19, 21; 29:4; 47:1; 63:6, Lamentations 2:2, 10, Ezekiel 26:20; 32:24, Numbers 16:29-33; 26:10, and elsewhere.

  
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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.