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1 Ja sam čovjek što upozna bijedu pod šibom gnjeva njegova.

2 Mene je odveo i natjerao da hodam u tmini i bez svjetlosti.

3 I upravo mene bije i udara bez prestanka njegova ruka.

4 Iscijedio je moje meso, kožu moju, polomio kosti moje.

5 Načinio mi jaram, glavu obrubio tegobama.

6 Pustio me da živim u tminama kao mrtvaci vječiti.

7 Zazidao me, i ja ne mogu izaći, otežao je moje okove.

8 Kada sam vikao i zapomagao, molitvu je moju odbijao.

9 Zazidao mi ceste tesanim kamenom, zakrčio je putove moje.

10 Meni on bijaše medvjed koji vreba, lav u zasjedi.

11 U bespuća me vodio, razdirao, ostavljao me da umirem.

12 Napinjao je luk svoj i gađao me kao metu za svoje strelice.

13 U slabine mi sasuo strelice, sinove svoga tobolca.

14 Postao sam smiješan svome narodu, rugalica svakidašnja.

15 Gorčinom me hranio, pelinom me napajao.

16 Puštao me da zube kršim kamen grizući, zakapao me u pepeo.

17 Duši je mojoj oduzet mir i više ne znam što je sreća!

18 Rekoh: Dotrajao je život moj i nada koja mi od Jahve dolazi.

19 Spomeni se bijede moje i stradanja, pelina i otrova!

20 Bez prestanka na to misli i sahne duša u meni.

21 To nosim u srcu i gojim nadu u sebi.

22 Dobrota Jahvina nije nestala, milosrđe njegovo nije presušilo.

23 Oni se obnavljaju svako jutro: tvoja je vjernost velika!

24 "Jahve je dio moj", veli mi duša, "i zato se u nj pouzdajem."

25 Dobar je Jahve onom koji se u nj pouzdaje, duši koja ga traži.

26 Dobro je u miru čekati spasenje Jahvino!

27 Dobro je čovjeku da nosi jaram za svoje mladosti.

28 Neka sjedi u samoći i šuti, jer mu On to nametnu;

29 neka usne priljubi uz prašinu, možda još ima nade!

30 Neka pruži obraz onome koji ga bije, neka se zasiti porugom.

31 Jer Gospod ne odbacuje nikoga zauvijek:

32 jer ako i rastuži, on se smiluje po svojoj velikoj ljubavi.

33 Jer samo nerado on ponižava i rascvili sinove čovjeka.

34 Kad se gaze nogama svi zemaljski sužnjevi,

35 kad se izvrće pravica čovjeku pred licem Svevišnjeg,

36 kad se krivica nanosi čovjeku u parnici, zar Gospod ne vidi?

37 Tko je rekao nešto i zbilo se? Nije li Gospod to zapovjedio?

38 Ne dolazi li iz usta Svevišnjega i dobro i zlo?

39 Na što se tuže živi ljudi? Svatko na svoj grijeh.

40 Ispitajmo, pretražimo pute svoje i vratimo se Jahvi.

41 Dignimo svoje srce i ruke svoje k Bogu koji je na nebesima.

42 Da, mi smo se odmetali, bili nepokorni, a ti, ti nisi praštao!

43 Obastrt gnjevom svojim, gonio si nas, ubijao i nisi štedio.

44 Oblakom si se obastro da molitva ne prodre do tebe.

45 Načinio si od nas smeće i odmet među narodima.

46 Razjapili usta na nas svi neprijatelji naši.

47 Užas i jama bila nam sudbina, propast i zator!

48 Potoci suza teku iz očiju mojih zbog propasti Kćeri naroda mojega.

49 Moje oči liju suze bez prestanka, jer prestanka nema

50 dok ne pogleda i ne vidi Jahve s nebesa.

51 Moje mi oko bol zadaje zbog kćeri svih mojega grada.

52 Uporno me k'o pticu progone svi što me mrze, a bez razloga.

53 U jamu baciše moj život i zatrpaše je kamenjem.

54 Voda mi dođe preko glave, rekoh sam sebi: "Pogiboh!"

55 I tada zazvah ime tvoje, Jahve, iz najdublje jame.

56 Ti oču moj glas: "Ne začepljuj uši svoje na vapaje moje."

57 Bliz meni bijaše u dan vapaja mog, govoraše: "Ne boj se!"

58 Ti si, Gospode, izborio pravdu za dušu moju, ti si život moj izbavio.

59 Ti, Jahve, vidje kako me tlače, dosudi mi pravdu.

60 Ti vidje svu osvetu njinu, sve podvale protiv mene.

61 Čuo si, Jahve, podrugivanje njihovo, sve podvale protiv mene.

62 Usne protivnika mojih i misli njine protiv mene su cio dan.

63 Kad sjede, kad ustaju, pogledaj samo: ja sam im pjesma-rugalica.

64 Vrati im, Jahve, milo za drago, po djelu ruku njihovih.

65 Učini da srca im otvrdnu, udari ih prokletstvom svojim.

66 Goni ih gnjevno i sve ih istrijebi pod nebesima svojim, Jahve!

   

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Coronis (An Appendix to True Christian Religion) # 58

  
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58. The state of consummation of the Israelitish Church is described in both the historical parts of the Word, and its prophetic parts: in the prophetic, by the atrocious deeds of the kings, first of those of the Israelites, and afterwards of those of the Jews, by whom and under whom the land is said to have been profaned. But it is needless to recite them, because they are well known; only those passages from the prophetic parts shall be adduced in which the consummation and devastation of that Church are treated of. In these passages by "earth" and "land," "Zion," "Jerusalem," "cities," "mountains," "hills," "valleys," and "rivers," similar things are signified as above (n. 55). The following are from the prophetic parts of the Word:

[2] I saw the earth, and behold it was empty and void; and towards the heavens, and their light was not.... I saw, when, behold, Carmel 1 was a desert, and all the cities were desolated at the presence of Jehovah.... For thus hath Jehovah said, The whole land shall be wasteness, yet will I not make a consummation. For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be blackened.

Thou, therefore, that art vastated, what wilt thou do? (Jer. 4:23-31; 5:10, 18).

The lion hath come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of nations... hath gone forth from his place, to reduce the land to a waste.... In that day... the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished (Jer. 4:7, 9).

In that day, every place where there were a thousand vines shall be... for thorns and briars,... because all the land shall be thorns and briars (Isa. 7:23-24).

A voice of the cry of the shepherds and... of the powerful ones of the flock, for Jehovah layeth waste their pastures: whence the sheepfolds of peace were devastated. Jehovah hath forsaken His tabernacle, for their land was reduced to a desolation (Jer. 25:36-38).

This house shall be like Shiloh, and Jerusalem shall be a devastation (Jer. 26:9; 27:17).

Jerusalem, and all the cities of Judah, shall be a desolation and a devastation in this day, because of the wickedness of your works; . . . your land is become a desolation, an astonishment and a curse (Jer. 44:2, 6, 22).

I will give the land to devastation, because they have committed transgression (Ezek. 15:8).

They shall be devastated in the midst of the devastated lands, and her cities in the midst of the desolated cities.... Then I will make the rivers drought,... the land into the hand of the evil, and I will vastate the land and the fulness thereof (Ezek. 30:7, 12).

When I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens, and will make the stars thereof black. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine;... and I will set darkness upon the land... when I shall bring on thy breaking up (Ezek. 32:7-9);

in like manner as the Lord foretold concerning the consummation of the present Christian Church (Matt. 24:29).

[3] I will give Mount Seir to wasteness and to devastation.... I will make thee the wastes of eternity... (Ezek. 35:3-4, 7, 9, 12, 14-15).

In that day they shall bring up a proverb against you... and say, In vastating we are vastated (Micah 2:4).

Fear and the pit have taken hold of us, devastation and breaking up (Lam. 3:47).

The mountain of Zion is vastated (Lam. 5:18).

Thine iniquity is consummated, O daughter of Zion (Lam. 4:22).

Woe to the sinful nation, heavy with iniquity;... they have provoked the Holy One of Israel.... From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness;... your land is a solitude.... The daughter of Zion is left as a tent in a vineyard, as a besieged city (Isa. 1:4-8, and following verses).

What will ye do in the day of visitation and devastation? Consummation is finished, justice is overwhelmed; for the Lord Jehovih is making a consummation and decision in the whole land (Isa. 10:3, etc., Isa. 10:22-23).

I have heard a consummation and decision from the Lord Jehovih of hosts in the whole land (Isa. 28:22).

The prophet fell upon his face, and said, Lord Jehovih! Thou art making a consummation with the remnants of Israel (Ezek. 11:13).

My sanctuary was profaned, and the land of Israel was devastated (Ezek. 25:3).

Were even Noah, Daniel and Job in the midst of it,... they only shall be delivered, but the land shall become a desolation (Ezek. 14:14, 16).

[4] The completion of the consummation of the Israelitish and Jewish Church was accomplished when the Lord our Saviour, after receiving the sponge of vinegar, cried out upon the cross,

It is consummated (John 19:29-30);

for it is said in David:

They gave gall for My meat, and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink:... let their habitation be devastated (Psalm 69:21, 25).

And in another place:

Without cause have they hid for Me the pit of the net; without cause have they digged for My soul. Let devastation come upon him before he is aware;... let him fall into devastation. Rescue My soul from their devastators, and My only one,-that is, the Church-from the lions' whelps (Psalm 35:7-8, 17).

I will make Jerusalem heaps, a habitation of dragons; I will reduce the cities of Judah to a waste;... behold, I am feeding them, even this people, with wormwood, and I will give them waters of gall to drink (Jer. 9:11-15).

Full consummation, after this, is described in Hosea thus:

The sons of Israel shall sit many days: no king, no prince, no sacrifice, no image, no ephod, and no teraphim (Hosea 3:4).

Such is their state at the present day. There is no need to adduce more passages. The passages in which the vastation, desolation and consummation of this Church are further mentioned, shall be only named: as, for example, Isa. 9:13-21; 22:4-14: Jer. 7:31-34; 25:33; 47:4: Ezek. 13:14-15; 14:8, 15; 19:7; 25:12-13; 26:2; 29:9-10, 12; 32:12, 15: Joel 1:15-20; 2:3; 3:19: Nahum 1:8-9: Zeph. 1:15; 2:9: Lam. 1:16: Psalm 73:17-19; 74:3.

The devastated are also called "thrust through" 2 (Ezek. 11:6-7; 21:30, 34; 26:6; 28:8, 23; 31:17-18; 32:20-24, 28-32; 35:8: Zeph. 2:12: Lam. 4:9: Psalm 69:27: and in other places). They are said to be "thrust through" because a "sword," by which this is done, signifies falsity destroying truth.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. See R.V. margin.

2. In most of these passages our ordinary Bibles have "slain"; but Young's Literal Translation of the Bible has "pierced," which, of course, is the same as "thrust through."

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.