Arcana Coelestia # 2687
2687. For she said, Let me not see the death of the child. That this signifies grief that it should so perish, is evident from the signification of “seeing the death,” as being to perish; and from the signification of the “child,” as being spiritual truth-explained above. Hence, and from the feeling of despair on account of the desolation of truth, it is manifest that it is interior grief that is within these words.
Jeremiah 50:41-42
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Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
42
They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.
