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Habakkuk 2

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1 Sur mia gardista posteno mi staris; kaj, starigxinte sur turo, mi observis, por vidi, kion Li diros al mi kaj kion mi devas respondi al la riprocxo kontraux mi.

2 Kaj la Eternulo ekparolis al mi, kaj diris:Enskribu la vizion, kaj desegnu bone sur la tabeloj, por ke leganto povu facile tralegi.

3 CXar la vizio koncernas tempon difinitan kaj parolas pri la fino, sed gxi ne mensogas; se gxi prokrastigxus, atendu gxin, cxar gxi nepre plenumigxos, ne estos fordecidita.

4 Vidu, kiu estas malhumila, ties animo ne estos trankvila en li; sed virtulo vivos per sia fideleco.

5 La vino trompas viron fieran, kaj li ne humiligxas; li largxigas sian animon kiel SXeol, kaj kiel la morto li estas nesatigebla, li kolektas al si cxiujn naciojn kaj kaptas al si cxiujn popolojn.

6 Sed ili ja cxiuj parolos pri li alegorion kaj mokan enigmon, kaj diros:Ve al tiu, kiu tro multigas al si fremdajxon sen fino kaj metas sur sin tro grandan sxargxon de sxuldoj!

7 Subite ja levigxos viaj pikontoj kaj vekigxos viaj pusxontoj, kaj vi farigxos ilia rabatajxo.

8 CXar vi prirabis multe da nacioj, tial ankaux vin prirabos la ceteraj popoloj, pro la sango de homoj, pro la premado de la lando, de la urbo, kaj de cxiuj gxiaj logxantoj.

9 Ve al tiu, kiu kolektas por sia domo maljustan akirajxon, por arangxi alte sian neston, por defendi sin kontraux mano de malbonulo!

10 Vi elpensis malhonoron por via domo, disbatante multe da popoloj kaj pekigante vian animon.

11 La sxtonoj el la muroj krias, kaj la lignaj traboj respondas al ili.

12 Ve al tiu, kiu konstruas urbon per sangoversxado kaj pretigas fortikajxon per maljusteco!

13 Tio venas ja de la Eternulo Cebaot, ke la popoloj klopodas por la fajro kaj la gentoj lacigas sin vane.

14 CXar la tero plenigxos de konado de la gloro de la Eternulo, kiel la akvo plenigas la maron.

15 Ve al vi, kiu drinkigas sian proksimulon, por elversxi vian koleron, kaj ebriigas lin, por vidi lian honton!

16 Vi satigxis per honto anstataux per honoro; drinku do ankaux vi, kaj kovru vin per honto; ankaux al vi venos la kaliko el la dekstra mano de la Eternulo, kaj neniigo de via gloro.

17 CXar via perforteco sur Lebanon falos sur vin, kaj atakate de bestoj vi estos terurata pro la sango de homoj, pro la premado de la lando, de la urbo, kaj de cxiuj gxiaj logxantoj.

18 Kion helpos la skulptajxo, kiun skulptis la artisto, la fanditajxo kaj malvera instruanto, kvankam la majstro fidis sian propran faritajxon, farante mutajn idolojn?

19 Ve al tiu, kiu diras al ligno:Levigxu, kaj al muta sxtono:Vekigxu! CXu gxi povas instrui? gxi estas ja tegita per oro kaj argxento, sed havas en si nenian spiriton.

20 Sed la Eternulo estas en Sia sankta templo; la tuta tero silentu antaux Li!

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 213

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213. "'That the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed.'" This symbolically means, so as not to profane and adulterate the goodness of heavenly love.

No one can know the symbolic meaning of the shame of nakedness unless he knows that the reproductive organs in both sexes, called also the genitalia, correspond to celestial love.

To be shown that the human body and all its constituents have a correspondence with the heavens, see the book Heaven and Hell, published in London in , nos. 87-102. And to be shown that the reproductive organs correspond to celestial love, see Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven), also published in London, nos. 5050-5062.

Now because these organs correspond to celestial love, which is the love found in the third or inmost heaven, and because a person is born of his parents into loves contrary to that love, it is apparent that if he does not acquire for himself the goodness of love and the truth of wisdom from the Lord, which are symbolically meant by gold refined in fire and white garments, he will be seen to be impelled by a contrary love, which in itself is profane.

[2] This latter circumstance is symbolically meant by uncovering nakedness and manifesting the shame of it, in the following places:

Blessed is he who watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and his private parts be seen. (Revelation 16:15)

...daughter of Babylon (and of the Chaldeans), sit on the ground... Uncover your hair..., uncover the thigh, pass through the rivers. Let your nakedness be uncovered; yes, let your shame be seen. (Isaiah 47:1-3)

Woe to the bloody city! ...Because of the multitude of (her) harlotries... I will uncover your skirts in front of you, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your disgrace. (Nahum 3:1, 4-5)

Contend with your mother... lest I strip her naked... (Hosea 2:2-4)

When I passed by you... I covered your nakedness... Then I washed you... and... I clothed you... But you... played the harlot... not remembering your youth, when you were naked and bare... (Therefore) your nakedness was uncovered... (Ezekiel 16:6ff.)

Jerusalem has sinned gravely; therefore... all... despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. (Lamentations 1:8)

Jerusalem, of which these things were said, means the church; and to play the harlot means, symbolically, to adulterate and falsify the Word (no. 134).

Woe to him who makes his neighbor drink..., making him drunk, that you may look on his nakedness! ...Drink, you too, that your uncircumcised foreskin may be exposed! (Habakkuk 2:15-16)

[3] Someone who knows what nakedness symbolizes can understand what is symbolically meant by the statement that when Noah was drunk from drinking wine he lay uncovered inside his tent, and Ham saw and laughed at his nakedness, but Shem and Japheth covered his nakedness, turning their faces away so as not to see it (Genesis 9:21-23). He can understand also why it was decreed that Aaron and his sons should not go up by steps to the altar, that their nakedness might not be exposed (Exodus 20:26). And so, too, why it was decreed that they should make for them linen trousers to cover their naked flesh, that they should have these on when they came near the altar, and that otherwise they would bear their iniquity and die (Exodus 28:42-43).

Nakedness in these places symbolizes the evils into which a person is born, which, because they are contrary to the goodness of celestial love, are in themselves profane and are removed only by truths and by living in accordance with those truths. Linen also symbolizes truth (no. 671[1-2]).

[4] Nakedness in addition symbolizes innocence, and also ignorance of goodness and truth. Innocence is symbolized by the statement, "they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they had no cause for shame" (Genesis 2:25). Ignorance of goodness and truth is symbolized by the following:

...this... fast that I choose: ...to break bread with the hungry..., and... when you see the naked man, to cover him. (Isaiah 58:6-7)

He gives his bread to the hungry man, and covers the naked one with clothing. (Ezekiel 18:7)

...I was hungry and you gave Me food...; I was naked and you clothed Me. (Matthew 25:35-36)

  
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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.