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1 先前滿有人民的城,現在何竟獨!先前在列國中為大的,現在竟如寡婦;先前在諸省中為王后的,現在成為進貢的。

2 她夜間痛哭,淚流滿腮;在一切所親的中間沒有一個安慰她的。她的朋友都以詭詐待她,成為她的仇敵。

3 猶大因遭遇苦難,又因多服勞苦就遷到外邦。她在列國中,尋不著安息;追逼她的都在狹窄之地將她追上。

4 錫安的徑因無人守聖節就悲傷;她的城淒涼;她的祭司歎息;她的處女受艱難,自己也愁苦。

5 她的敵人為首;她的仇敵亨通;因耶和華為她許多的罪過使她受苦;她的孩童被敵人擄去。

6 錫安城(原文是女子;下同)的威榮全都失去。她的首領像不著場的鹿;在追趕的人前無力行走。

7 耶路撒冷在困苦窘迫之時,就追想古時一切的樂境。她百姓落在敵人中,無人救濟;敵人見,就因她的荒涼嗤笑。

8 耶路撒冷大大犯罪,所以成為不潔之物;素來尊敬她的,見她赤露就都藐視她;她自己也歎息退後。

9 她的污穢是在衣襟上;她不思想自己的結局,所以非常地敗落,無人安慰她。她說:耶和華啊,求你我的苦難,因為仇敵誇大。

10 敵人伸,奪取她的美物;她眼見外邦人進入她的聖所─論這外邦人,你曾吩咐不可入你的會中。

11 她的民都歎息,尋求食物;他們用美物換糧食,要救性命。他們說:耶和華啊,求你觀,因為我甚是卑賤。

12 你們一切過的人哪,這事你們不介意麼?你們要觀:有像這臨到我的痛苦沒有─就是耶和華在他發烈怒的日子使我所受的苦?

13 他從使進入我的骨頭,剋制了我;他鋪下羅,絆我的,使我回;他使我終日淒涼發昏。

14 我罪過的軛是他所綁的,猶如軛繩縛在我頸項上;他使我的力量衰敗。主將我交在我所不能敵擋的人中。

15 主輕棄我中間的一切勇士,招聚多人(原文是大會)攻擊我,要壓碎我的少年人。主將猶大居民踹下,像在酒醡中一樣。

16 我因這些事哭泣;我眼淚汪汪;因為那當安慰我、救我性命的,離我甚遠。我的兒女孤苦,因為仇敵得了勝。

17 錫安舉,無人安慰耶和華雅各已經出令,使四圍的人作他仇敵;耶路撒冷在他們中間像不潔之物。

18 耶和華是公的!他這樣待我,是因我違背他的命令。眾民哪,請我的話,我的痛苦;我的處女和少年人都被擄去。

19 我招呼我所親的,他們卻愚弄我。我的祭司長老正尋求食物、救性命的時候,就在城中絕氣。

20 耶和華啊,求你觀,因為我在急難中。我腸擾亂;我在我裡面翻,因我大大悖逆。在外,刀使人喪子;在家,猶如死亡。

21 見我歎息的有人;安慰我的卻無人!我的仇敵都見我所遭的患難;因你做這事,他們都喜樂。你必使你報告的日子到,他們就像我一樣。

22 願他們的惡行都呈在你面前;你怎樣因我的一切罪過待我,求你照樣待他們;因我歎息甚多,中發昏。

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Apocalypse Revealed # 789

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789. "'In which all who had ships on the sea were made rich by her wealth!' because in one hour they were destroyed." This symbolically means, because by the sanctities of the Roman Catholic religion they all gained absolution, as many as were willing to purchase it, and instead of worldly and temporal riches they received spiritual and eternal ones, and now no one did.

To be made rich by her wealth means, symbolically, to gain absolution before God by the sanctities of the Roman Catholic religion, or to believe that in exchange for their temporal and temporary merchandise or riches, they receive spiritual and eternal merchandise or riches; or in other words, that in exchange for gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, purple, and all the other valuables enumerated in verses 12 and 13, they gain blessings and felicities after death. These are what are meant by the wealth of that city by which they say they were made rich. This is also the way they speak, as people know. Because in one hour they were destroyed, means symbolically that because of the destruction of that religion, no one could buy their sanctities after that. It is apparent from this that these words have the symbolical meaning stated above.

That the sanctities of the church are meant by things of value is apparent from the following passages:

Blessed of Jehovah is (Joseph's) land, with the precious things of heaven..., with the precious fruits of the sun, with the precious produce of the months..., with the precious things of the ancient hills, with the precious things of the earth... (Deuteronomy 33:13-16)

...Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful son... (Jeremiah 31:20)

An understanding of the Word is meant by Ephraim.

The precious sons of Zion were valued more than fine gold... (Lamentations 4:2)

The sons of Zion are the church's truths. And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 13:12; 43:4; Psalms 36:7; 45:9; 49:8; 116:15.

That, now, is why we are told that all those of that city who had ships on the sea were made rich by her wealth.

  
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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.