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彌迦書 7

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1 哀哉!我(或譯:以色列)好像夏天的果子已被收盡,又像摘了葡萄所剩下的,沒有一掛可的;我心羨慕初熟的無花果。

2 上虔誠滅盡;世間沒有正直;各埋伏,要殺流血,都用網羅獵取弟兄。

3 他們雙手作惡;君王徇情面,審判官要賄賂;位分的吐出惡意,都彼此結聯行惡。

4 他們最好的,不過是蒺藜;最正直的,不過是荊棘籬笆。你守望者說,降罰的日子已經到。他們必擾亂不安。

5 不要倚賴鄰舍;不要信靠密友。要守住你的;不要向你中的妻提說。

6 因為,兒子藐視父親;女兒抗拒母親;媳婦抗拒婆婆;的仇敵就是自己家裡的

7 至於我,我要仰望耶和華,要等候那我的;我的必應允我。

8 我的仇敵啊,不要向我誇耀。我雖跌倒,卻要起來;我雖黑暗裡,耶和華卻作我的

9 我要忍受耶和華的惱怒;因我得罪了他,直等他為我辨屈,為我伸冤。他必領我到明中;我必得見他的公

10 那時我的仇敵,就是曾對我耶和華─你在哪裡的,他一見這事就被羞愧遮蓋。我必親眼見他遭報;他必被踐踏,如同街上的泥土。

11 以色列啊,日子必到,你的垣必重修;到那日,你的境界必開展(或譯:命令必傳到遠方)。

12 當那日,人必從亞述,從埃及的城邑,從埃及到大,從這到那,從這到那,都歸到你這裡。

13 然而,這居民的緣故,又因他們行事的結果,必然荒涼。

14 求耶和華在迦密山的樹林中,用你的杖牧放你獨居的民,就是你產業的羊群。求你容他們在巴珊和基列得食物,像古時一樣。

15 耶和華說:我要把奇事顯給他們,好像出埃及的時候一樣。

16 列國見這事,就必為自己的勢力慚愧;他們必用,掩耳不聽。

17 他們必舔土如,又如土中腹行的物,戰戰兢兢出他們的營寨。他們必戰懼投降耶和華,也必因我們的而懼

18 神啊,有何神像你,赦免罪孽,饒恕你產業之餘民的罪過,不永遠懷怒,喜愛施恩?

19 必再憐憫我們,將我們孽踏在腳,又將我們的一切投於

20 你必按古時起誓應許我們列祖的話,向雅各發誠實,向亞伯拉罕施慈愛。

   

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'A hedge,' as mentioned in Matthew 21:33, signifies preservation from falsities of evil which are from hell.

In Genesis 49:6, this signifies that from a depraved will they enfeebled the external good of charity. (Arcana Coelestia 6357)

In Genesis 49:22, this signifies to fight against falsity.

In Exodus 14:22, a wall signifies something that holds back falsities on all sides. (Arcana Coelestia 8206, 8235)

In Joel 2:9, this represents essential falsity. (Arcana Coelestia 8906[3])

In Ezekiel 13:10, 14, this signifies falsity adopted as a principle and made to appear as truth. (Apocalypse Explained 237[5])

In Ezekiel 8:10, this signifies the interior natural where man's filthy things reside. (Apocalypse Explained 650[66])

In Revelation 21:12, this signifies the Word in its literal sense, which protects the doctrine of the Lord's New Church. (Apocalypse Revealed 898)

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 922)

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Arcana Coelestia # 6357

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6357. 'And in their pleasure they hamstrung an ox' means that motivated by a wicked will they crippled completely the external good of charity. This is clear from the meaning of 'good pleasure' as the will, here a wicked will; from the meaning of 'hamstringing' as crippling; and from the meaning of 'an ox' as the natural or external good of charity, dealt with in 2180, 2566, 2781. The reason why 'an ox' is spoken of here, and 'a man' immediately before, is that 'a man' means the truth of faith and 'an ox' the good of charity; and they are both spoken of so that when good is the subject, truth too is dealt with, on account of the heavenly marriage present in every detail of the Word, 6343.

  
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