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耶利米書 51

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1 耶和華如此:我必使毀滅的颳起,攻擊巴比倫和在立加米的人。

2 我要打發外邦人來到巴比倫,簸揚他,使他的空虛。在他遭禍的日子,他們要周圍攻擊他。

3 的,要向拉的和貫甲挺身的射箭。不要憐惜他的少年人;要滅盡他的全軍。

4 他們必在迦勒底人被殺仆倒,在巴比倫的街上被刺透。

5 以色列猶大雖然境內充滿違背以色列聖者的罪,卻沒有被他的─萬軍之耶和華丟棄。

6 你們要從巴比倫中逃奔,各自己的性命!不要陷在他的罪孽中一同滅亡;因為這是耶和華報仇的時候,他必向巴比倫施行報應。

7 巴比倫素來是耶和華中的杯,使天下沉;萬國了他的酒就顛狂了。

8 巴比倫忽然傾覆毀壞;要為他哀號;為止他的疼痛,拿乳香或者可以治好。

9 我們想醫治巴比倫,他卻沒有治好。離開他罷!我們歸回本國;因為他受的審判通於上,達到穹蒼。

10 耶和華已經彰顯我們的公罷!我們可以在錫安報告耶和華我們的作為。

11 你們要磨尖了箭頭,抓住盾牌。耶和華定意攻擊巴比倫,將他毀滅,所以激動了瑪代君的心;因這是耶和華報仇,就是為自己的殿報仇。

12 你們要豎立大旗,攻擊巴比倫的城牆;要堅固瞭望臺,派定守望的設下埋伏;因為耶和華指著巴比倫居民的話、所定的意,他已經作成。

13 住在眾水之上多有財寶的啊,你的結局到了!你貪婪之量滿了!

14 萬軍之耶和華指著自己起誓說:我必使敵人充滿你,像螞蚱一樣;他們必吶喊攻擊你。

15 耶和華用能力創造大,用智慧建立世界,用聰明鋪張穹蒼。

16 他一發聲,空中便有多水激動;他使雲霧從極上騰。他造電隨而閃,從他府中帶出來。

17 各人都成了畜類,毫無知識。各銀匠都因他的偶像羞愧;他所鑄的偶像本是虛假的,其中並無氣息,

18 都是虛無的,是迷惑人的工作,到追討的時候,必被除滅。

19 雅各的分不像這些,因他是造作萬有的;以色列也是他產業的支派。萬軍之耶和華是他的名。

20 你是我爭戰的斧子和打仗的兵器;我要用你打碎列國,用你毀滅列邦;

21 用你打碎和騎的;用你打碎戰車和坐在其上的;

22 用你打碎男人女人;用你打碎老年和少年;用你打碎壯丁和處女;

23 用你打碎牧人和他的群畜;用你打碎農夫和他一對牛;用你打碎省長和副省長。

24 耶和華:我必在你們眼前報復巴比倫人和迦勒底居民在錫安所行的諸惡。

25 耶和華:你這行毀滅的哪,就是毀滅天下的,我與你反對。我必向你伸,將你從巖滾下去,使你成為燒燬的

26 人必不從你那裡取石頭為房角,也不取石頭根基;你必永遠荒涼。這是耶和華的。

27 要在境內豎立大旗,在各國中吹角,使列國預備攻擊巴比倫,將亞拉臘、米尼、亞實基拿各國招來攻擊他;又派軍長來攻擊他,使馬匹上來如螞蚱,

28 使列國和瑪代君,與省長和副省長,並他們所管全之人,都預備攻擊他。

29 必震動而瘠苦;因耶和華向巴比倫所定的旨意成立了,使巴比倫之荒涼,無人居住

30 巴比倫的勇士止息爭戰,藏在堅壘之中。他們的勇力衰盡,好像婦女一樣。巴比倫的處有火著起,門閂都折斷了。

31 通報的要彼此相遇,送信的要互相迎接,報告巴比倫王說:城的四方被攻取了,

32 渡口被佔據了,葦塘被燒了,兵丁也驚慌了。

33 萬軍之耶和華以色列的如此:巴比倫城(原文作女子)好像踹穀的禾場;再過片時,收割他的時候就到了。

34 以色列人說:巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒滅我,壓碎我,使我成為空虛的器皿。他像大魚將我吞下,用我的美物充滿他的肚腹,又將我趕出去。

35 錫安的居民:巴比倫以強暴待我,損害我的身體,願這罪歸給他。耶路撒冷人要:願流我們血的罪歸到迦勒底居民

36 所以,耶和華如此:我必為你伸冤,為你報仇;我必使巴比倫的枯竭,使他的泉源乾涸。

37 巴比倫必成為亂,為野狗的處,令人驚駭、嗤笑,並且無人居住

38 他們要像少壯獅子咆哮,像小獅子吼叫。

39 他們火熱的時候,我必為他們設擺酒席,使他們沉醉,好叫他們快樂,睡了長覺,永不醒起。這是耶和華的。

40 我必使他們像羊羔、像公綿羊和公山羊到宰殺之地。

41 示沙克(就是巴比倫)何竟被攻取,天下所稱讚的何竟被佔據?巴比倫在列國中何竟變為荒場?

42 水漲起,漫過巴比倫;他被許多浪遮蓋。

43 他的城邑變為荒場、旱、沙漠,無居住,無經過之

44 我必刑罰巴比倫的彼勒,使他吐出所吞的。萬民必不再流歸他那裡;巴比倫的城牆也必坍塌了。

45 我的民哪,你們要從其中出去!各自己,躲避耶和華的烈怒。

46 你們不要心驚膽怯,也不要因境內所見的風聲懼;因為這年有風聲傳;那年也有風聲傳,境內有強暴的事,官長攻擊官長。

47 日子將到,我必刑罰巴比倫雕刻的偶像。他全必然抱愧;他被殺的人必在其中仆倒。

48 那時,和其中所有的,必因巴比倫歡呼,因為行毀滅的要從北方到他那裡。這是耶和華的。

49 巴比倫怎樣使以色列被殺的人仆倒,照樣他全被殺的人也必在巴比倫仆倒。

50 你們躲避刀的要快走,不要站住!要在遠方記念耶和華,心中追想耶路撒冷

51 我們見辱罵就蒙羞,滿面慚愧,因為外邦人進入耶和華殿的聖所。

52 耶和華:日子將到,我必刑罰巴比倫雕刻的偶像,通國受傷的人必唉哼。

53 巴比倫雖升到上,雖使他堅固的處更堅固,還有行毀滅的從我這裡到他那裡。這是耶和華的。

54 有哀號的聲音從巴比倫出來;有毀滅的響聲從迦勒底人發出。

55 耶和華使巴比倫變為荒場,使其中的聲滅絕。仇敵彷彿眾水,波浪匉訇,響聲已經發出。

56 這是行毀滅的臨到巴比倫。巴比倫的勇士被捉住,他們的折斷了;因為耶和華是施行報應的神,必定施行報應。

57 君王─名為萬軍之耶和華的:我必使巴比倫的首領、智慧人、省長、副省長,和勇士都沉醉,使他們睡了長覺,永不醒起。

58 萬軍之耶和華如此:巴比倫寬闊的城牆必全然傾倒;他大的城必被焚燒。眾民所勞碌的必致虛空;列國所勞碌的被焚燒,他們都必困乏。

59 猶大王西底家在位第四年,上巴比倫去的時候,瑪西雅的孫子、尼利亞的兒子西萊雅與王同去(西萊雅是王宮的大臣),先知耶利米吩咐他。

60 耶利米切要臨到巴比倫的災禍,就是論到巴比倫的上。

61 耶利米對西萊雅:你到了巴比倫務要念這書上的

62 耶和華啊,你曾論到這地方:要剪除,甚至連人帶牲畜沒有在這裡居住的,必永遠荒涼。

63 你念完了這,就把一塊石頭拴在上,扔在伯拉中,

64 :巴比倫因耶和華所要降與他的災禍,必如此沉下去,不再興起,人民也必困乏。耶利米到此為止。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 238

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238. Before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal. (4:6) This symbolizes a new heaven formed of Christians who possessed general truths taken from the literal sense of the Word.

Atmospheres are seen in the spiritual world, and also bodies of water, as in our world - ethereal atmospheres seemingly where angels of the highest heaven dwell, airy atmospheres seemingly where angels of the intermediate heaven dwell, and watery ones seemingly where angels of the lowest heaven dwell. These watery atmospheres, moreover, are seas that are seen at the borders of heaven, and the inhabitants there are people who possess general truths taken from the literal sense of the Word. To be shown that waters symbolize truths, see no. 50 above.

As the place where waters terminate and are collected, a sea therefore symbolizes Divine truth in its terminal expressions.

Accordingly, since the One sitting on the throne means the Lord (no. 230), and since the seven lamps which are the seven spirits of God before the throne mean a new church which will possess Divine truth from the Lord (no. 237), it is apparent that the sea of glass that was before the throne means the church with people who are at its peripheries.

[2] Seas at the borders of the heavens are something I have been granted to see, and it has been given me to speak with the inhabitants there and so to learn the truth of this matter through personal experience. The inhabitants appeared to me to be living in a sea, but they said that they did not live in a sea but in an atmosphere. It was apparent to me from this that a sea is an appearance of the Divine truth emanating from the Lord in its terminal expressions.

The existence of seas in the spiritual world is clearly apparent from the fact that they were often seen by John, as in the present instance, and in 5:13 verses; 7:1-3; 8:8-9; 10:2, 8; 13:1; 14:7; 15:2; 16:3; 18:17, 19, 21; 20:13.

The sea is called a sea of glass like crystal owing to the translucence of the Divine truth emanating from the Lord.

[3] Since Divine truth in its terminal expressions produces the appearance of a sea in the spiritual world, therefore a sea elsewhere in the Word has a similar symbolic meaning, as in the following passages:

On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, part of them to the eastern sea and part of them to the western sea. (Zechariah 14:8)

Living waters from Jerusalem are the church's Divine truths from the Lord. The sea is consequently where they terminate.

(Jehovah,) Your way was in the sea, and Your path in many waters. (Psalms 77:19)

Thus said Jehovah, who made a way in the sea, and a path through the many waters... (Isaiah 43:16)

(Jehovah) has founded (the world) on the seas, and established it on the rivers. (Psalms 24:2)

(Jehovah) set the earth on its foundations, so that it should not be moved to eternity. You covered it with the deep (or sea) as with a garment. (Psalms 104:5-6)

The earth was "founded on the sea" because the church, which is meant by the earth, is founded on general truths. For these are its footings and foundations.

[4] I will dry up (Babylon's) sea and make her spring dry... The sea will come up over Babylon; she will be covered with the multitude of its waves. (Jeremiah 51:36, 42)

To dry up Babylon's sea and make her spring dry means, symbolically, to extinguish all the church's truth from the firsts to the lasts of it.

They shall walk after Jehovah..., and His sons shall come with honor from the sea. (Hosea 11:10)

The sons from the sea are people who possess general truths or truths in their terminal expressions.

(Jehovah,) who builds His ascents in the heavens..., who calls the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth... (Amos 9:6)

By the word of Jehovah the heavens were made... He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap, putting the depths in storehouses. (Psalms 33:6-7)

...by My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness. (Isaiah 50:2)

And so likewise in other places.

[5] Since a sea symbolizes Divine truth with people who live on the borders of heaven, therefore Tyre and Sidon, which were on the seacoast, symbolized the church in respect to its learned concepts of goodness and truth. And therefore "the islands of the sea" 1 likewise symbolize people engaged in a relatively remote Divine worship (no. 34).

For the same reason, too, the word used for the sea in Hebrew is "the west," that is, the direction in which the sun's light turns into its evening state, or truth into haziness.

We will see in subsequent discussions that a sea also symbolizes the natural component of a person divorced from his spiritual one, thus also hell.

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1. Also called "the isles of the sea" and "the coastlands of the sea." See Isaiah 11:11; 24:15

  
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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.