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Jeremia 48

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1 Pri Moab:Tiele diras la Eternulo Cebaot, Dio de Izrael:Ve al Nebo! cxar gxi estas ruinigita; hontigita kaj venkoprenita estas Kirjataim; hontigita kaj tremigita estas la fortikajxo.

2 Jam ne ekzistas la gloro de Moab; en HXesxbon oni intencas kontraux gxi malbonon, dirante:Ni iru, kaj Ni ekstermu gxin, ke gxi ne plu estu popolo. Ankaux vi, ho Madmen, eksilentu; vin persekutos glavo.

3 Kriadon oni auxdas de HXoronaim, tie estas ruinigado kaj granda malfelicxo.

4 Disbatita estas Moab; gxiaj infanoj lauxte krias.

5 Kiuj supreniras al Luhxit, tiuj iras kun plorado; cxe la malsuprenirado de HXoronaim la malamikoj auxdas kriadon de malfelicxo.

6 Forkuru, savu vian vivon, kaj estu kiel seknudigxinta arbo en la dezerto.

7 CXar vi fidis viajn faritajxojn kaj viajn trezorojn, vi ankaux estos venkoprenita; kaj Kemosx iros en kaptitecon kune kun siaj pastroj kaj eminentuloj.

8 Venos ruiniganto en cxiun urbon, neniu urbo savigxos; pereos la valo kaj dezertigxos la ebenajxo, kiel diris la Eternulo.

9 Donu flugilojn al Moab, cxar li devas forflugi; liaj urboj dezertigxos tiel, ke neniu en ili logxos.

10 Malbenita estu tiu, kiu plenumas malgxuste la faron de la Eternulo, kaj malbenita estu tiu, kiu detenas sian glavon de sango.

11 De sia juneco Moab havis trankvilecon kaj ripozadis sur sia fecxo, li ne estis transversxata el unu vazo en alian, kaj en kaptitecon li ne iris; tial lia gusto restis en li kaj lia odoro ne sxangxigxis.

12 Tial jen venos tempo, diras la Eternulo, kiam Mi sendos al li versxistojn, kaj ili versxos lin, malplenigos liajn vazojn, kaj disrompos liajn krucxojn.

13 Kaj Moab estos hontigita pro Kemosx, kiel la domo de Izrael estis hontigita pro Bet-El, kiun ili fidis.

14 Kiel vi povas diri:Ni estas herooj kaj kapabluloj por la milito?

15 Ruinigita estas Moab, liaj urboj falis, kaj liaj plej bravaj junuloj iris al bucxo, diras al Regxo, kies nomo estas Eternulo Cebaot.

16 Baldaux venos pereo al Moab, kaj lia malfelicxo tre rapidas.

17 Bedauxru lin cxiuj liaj cxirkauxantoj, kaj cxiuj, kiuj konas lian nomon, diru:Kiele disrompigxis la forta vergo, la belega bastono!

18 Iru malsupren de via majesto, sidu en senakva loko, ho logxantino, filino de Dibon; cxar la ruiniganto de Moab elpasxis kontraux vin kaj detruis viajn fortikajxojn.

19 Staru cxe la vojo kaj rigardu, ho logxantino de Aroer; demandu la forkuranton kaj la forsavigxanton, kaj diru:Kio farigxis?

20 Hontigita estas Moab, cxar li estas frapita; ploru kaj kriu, sciigu en Arnon, ke Moab estas ruinigita.

21 Jugxo venis kontraux la lando de la ebenajxo, kontraux HXolon, Jahac, kaj Mefaat,

22 kontraux Dibon, Nebo, kaj Bet-Diblataim,

23 kontraux Kirjataim, Bet-Gamul, kaj Bet-Meon,

24 kontraux Keriot kaj Bocra, kaj kontraux cxiuj urboj de la lando de Moab, la malproksimaj kaj la proksimaj.

25 Dehakita estas la korno de Moab, kaj lia brako estas rompita, diras la Eternulo.

26 Ebriigu lin, cxar li levigxis kontraux la Eternulo; Moab plauxdos en sia vomajxo, kaj li mem estos objekto de mokado.

27 CXu vi ne mokis Izraelon? cxu oni trovis lin inter sxtelistoj, ke cxiufoje, kiam vi parolas pri li, vi balancas la kapon?

28 Forlasu la urbojn kaj eklogxu sur roko, ho logxantoj de Moab, kaj farigxu kiel kolomboj, kiuj nestas en truoj de kavernoj.

29 Ni auxdis pri la fiereco de Moab, granda fiereco, pri lia malmodesteco, fiereco, aroganteco, kaj pri la malhumileco de lia koro.

30 Mi konas, diras la Eternulo, lian koleremecon, la nesincerecon de liaj vortoj kaj la nesincerecon de liaj agoj.

31 Tial Mi devas plori pri Moab, gxemi pri cxiuj Moabidoj, priplori la logxantojn de Kir-HXeres.

32 Per pli ol la plorado de Jazer Mi ploros pri vi, ho vinbergxardeno de Sibma; viaj brancxoj etendigxis trans la maron, atingis la maron de Jazer; rabisto atakis viajn somerajn fruktojn kaj vian rikolton.

33 Forigxis gxojo kaj gajeco de la fruktodona kampo kaj de la lando de Moab; Mi malaperigis vinon en la vinpremejoj, oni ne premos tie kun gxojo vinon, triumfaj kantoj ne plu sonos.

34 Pro la kriado, kiu auxdigxas de HXesxbon gxis Eleale kaj gxis Jahac, ili lauxte ekploris de Coar gxis HXoronaim kaj gxis la tria Eglat; cxar ankaux la akvo de Nimrim sekmalaperis.

35 Mi ekstermos cxe Moab, diras la Eternulo, cxiun, kiu supreniras sur altajxon kaj incensas al siaj dioj.

36 Tial Mia koro gxemas pri Moab kiel fluto, kaj pri la logxantoj de Kir- HXeres Mia koro gxemas kiel fluto; cxar la abundajxo, kiun ili akiris, pereis.

37 CXar cxiu kapo kalvigxis, kaj cxiu barbo estas fortondita, sur cxiuj manoj estas trancxoj, kaj sur la lumboj estas sakajxo.

38 Sur cxiuj tegmentoj de Moab kaj sur liaj stratoj cxie estas plorado; cxar Mi disrompis Moabon kiel senvaloran vazon, diras la Eternulo.

39 Kiele disbatita li estas, kiele ili ploregas! kiele Moab turnis sian nukon, estas hontigita, kaj Moab farigxis objekto de mokado kaj de teruro por cxiuj siaj cxirkauxantoj!

40 CXar tiele diras la Eternulo:Jen li alflugos kiel aglo kaj etendos siajn flugilojn super Moab.

41 Prenita estas Keriot, kaj la fortikigitaj urboj estas kaptitaj; kaj la koro de la herooj de Moab en tiu tago estos kiel la koro de virino dum la doloroj de naskado.

42 Kaj Moab estos ekstermita, ke li ne plu estos popolo, cxar li levigxis kontraux la Eternulo.

43 Teruro, kavo, kaj kaptilo trafos vin, ho logxanto de Moab, diras la Eternulo.

44 Kiu forkuros de la teruro, tiu falos en la kavon; kaj kiu eliros el la kavo, tiu trafos en kaptilon; cxar Mi venigos sur lin, sur Moabon, la jaron de lia puno, diras la Eternulo.

45 Sub la ombro de HXesxbon starigxos tiuj, kiuj forkuros de la forto; sed fajro eliros el HXesxbon kaj flamo el la mezo de Sihxon, kaj gxi mangxegos la flankon de Moab kaj la verton de la filoj malkvietaj.

46 Ve al vi, ho Moab! pereis la popolo de Kemosx; cxar viaj filoj estas prenitaj en kaptitecon kaj viaj filinoj estas forkondukitaj.

47 Sed en la tempo estonta Mi revenigos la kaptitojn de Moab, diras la Eternulo. GXis cxi tie estas la verdikto pri Moab.

   

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Jeremia 22:28

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28 CXu cxi tiu homo, Konja, estas objekto malestimata, forpusxita? cxu li estas vazo neamata? kial ili estas forjxetitaj, li kaj lia idaro, jxetitaj en landon, kiun ili ne konis?

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9348. 'For it will be a snare to you' means owing to evils that are enticing and deceptive. This is clear from the meaning of 'a snare', when it has reference to evils, as enticement and deception. The reason why evils are enticing and deceptive is that all evils spring from self-love and love of the world, 9335, and self-love and love of the world are born together within a person. These are the source of what the person feels as the delight of his life right from when he is first born; indeed the life that is his comes from them. Those loves therefore, like the hidden currents in a river, are constantly drawing the person's thought and will away from the Lord to self, and away from heaven to the world, thus away from the truths and forms of the good of faith to falsities and evils. At this time reasonings based on the illusions of the senses are especially predominant, and also the literal sense of the Word wrongly explained and used.

[2] These two things are what 'snares', 'traps', 'pits', 'nets', 'ropes', 'fetters', and also 'pretences' and 'deceits' are used to mean in the spiritual sense of the Word, as in Isaiah,

Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth. Consequently it will happen, that he who is fleeing from the sound of terror will fall into the pit, and he who is climbing out of the pit will be caught in the snare, for the floodgates from on high have been opened, and the foundations of the earth have been shaken. Isaiah 24:17-19.

And in Jeremiah,

Fear, the pit, and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of Moab. He who flees from the fear will fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare. Jeremiah 48:43-44.

'Terror' and 'fear' are the disturbance and commotion in the mind when it is held fast between evils and forms of good, and consequently between falsities and truths. 'The pit' is falsity created by reasonings based on the illusions of the senses to lend support to delights that are attributable to self-love and love of the world; 'the snare' is the enticement and deception of evil that results from it.

[3] In Isaiah,

They will go and stumble 1 backwards, and be broken, and snared, and caught. Isaiah 28:13.

'Falling backwards' stands for turning oneself away from goodness and truth; 'being broken' stands for dispensing with truths and forms of good; 'being snared' stands for being enticed by the evils of self-love and love of the world; and 'being caught' stands for being carried away by them.

[4] In Ezekiel,

The mother of the princes of Israel is a lioness. One of her cubs learned to seize prey; he devoured men (homo). The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they led him away with hooks to the land of Egypt. Later on he ravished widows 2 and devastated cities; the land and its fullness was desolated by the sound of his roaring. Therefore the nations from the provinces round about lay in ambush against him, and spread their net over him; he was caught in their pit. They put him in a cage with hooks, and led him to the king of Babel; [they led him away] in nets, that his voice should no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel. Ezekiel 19:2-4, 7-9.

This describes the profanation of truth in successive stages by the enticements of falsities arising from evils. 'The mother of the princes of Israel' is the Church where primary truths are, 'the mother' being the Church, see 289, 2691, 2717, 4257, 5581, 8897, and 'the princes of Israel' primary truths, 1482, 2089, 5044. 'A lioness' is falsity that arises from evil and that perverts the Church's truths; 'a lion's cub' is evil in its power, 6367. 'Seizing prey' and 'devouring men' mean destroying truths and forms of good, for 'man' is the Church's good, 4287, 7424, 7523. 'The nations' are evils, 1259, 1260, 1849, 2588 (end), 4444, 6306. 'A pit', in which the nations caught him, is falsity arising from evil, 4728, 4744, 5038, 9086. 'The land of Egypt', to which he was led away with hooks, is factual knowledge through which falsity comes, 9340. 'Ravishing widows' means perverting forms of good which have the desire for truth, for 'ravishing' means perverting, 2466, 2729, 4865, 8904, and 'widows' forms of good that have the desire for truth, 9198, 9200. 'Devastating cities' means destroying the Church's teachings that present the truth, 402, 2268, 2449, 2943, 3216, 4478, 4492, 4493. 'Desolating the land and its fullness' means destroying all things of the Church, 9325. 'The sound of the lion's roaring' is falsity. 'Spreading a net over him' means enticing by means of delights belonging to earthly kinds of love and by means of reasonings attributable to them. 'Leading away to the king of Babel' is the profaning of truth, 1182, 1283, 1295, 1304, 1307, 1308, 1321, 1322, 1326.

[5] The fact that such things do not happen when a person does not love self and the world above all things is described in the following manner in Amos,

Will a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Will a bird fall into a snare on the earth if there is no trap for it? Will a snare spring up from the earth if it has certainly not caught [anything]? Amos 3:4-5.

[6] It is evident to anyone that 'a snare' in the spiritual sense means enticement and deception effected by means of the delights of self-love and love of the world, thus the enticement and deception of evils, which operate through reasonings that are based on the illusions of the senses and lend support to those delights. For the ensnarement and capturing of people is brought about by nothing else. When the devil's crew makes its attack on a person it concentrates on his loves, which they charm in every way until they have captivated him; and when he has been captivated that person reasons from falsities against truths, and from evils against forms of good. Yet he does not remain content to do that; he also takes delight in snaring others and enticing them towards falsities and evils. The reason why he also takes delight in doing this is that he too is now one of the devil's crew.

[7] Since 'a snare', 'a trap', and 'a net' mean such things they also mean the destruction and so annihilation of spiritual life; for the delights belonging to those loves are what destroy it and annihilate it, since those loves, as stated above, are the source from which all evils spring. From self-love springs disdain for others in comparison with self, then mockery and denigration of them, followed by enmity if they disagree with oneself, and finally by the delight that goes with hatred, vengeance, and so with inhumanity, indeed barbarity. This love in the next life rises to such a height that unless the Lord shows such people favour and grants them dominion over others, they are not only disdainful of Him but also mock the Word which speaks of Him. At length they are stirred by hatred and vengeance to act against Him; and insofar as they are unable to do so they carry out their hatred and vengeance with inhumanity and barbarity against everyone who confesses Him. All this shows where the essential nature of the devil's crew springs from, namely from self-love. Therefore since 'a snare' means the delight of selfish and worldly love, it means the destruction and annihilation of spiritual life; for the whole of love and faith to the Lord, and the whole of love towards the neighbour are destroyed by the delight of selfish and worldly love where it reigns supreme; see the places referred to in 9335.

[8] The fact that those loves are the origins of all evils, that hell arises from them and lies within them, and that those loves are the fires of hell is not known in the world at the present day. Yet people could have known this from the consideration that those loves are the opposites of love towards the neighbour and love to God, and the opposites of humility of heart, and from the consideration that from those loves alone spring all disdain, all hatred, all vengeance, and all inhumanity and barbarity, as anyone may realize who gives any thought to the matter.

[9] The fact that 'a snare' therefore means the destruction and annihilation of spiritual life is evident from the following places: In David,

Jehovah will rain on the wicked, snares, fire and brimstone. Psalms 11:6.

'Fire and brimstone' are the evils of selfish and worldly love. For this meaning of 'fire', see 1297, 1861, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324, 7575, 9144, and for 'brimstone', 2446, from which it is evident what 'snares' mean. In Luke,

... lest that day comes on you suddenly, 3 for it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Luke 21:34-35.

This refers to the last phase of the Church, when there is no faith because there is no charity, since self-love and love of the world will reign. This is followed by annihilation, which is meant by 'a snare'. In Jeremiah,

Among My people are found wicked ones. They keep watch, like fowlers laying [snares]; they set a gin to catch human beings. Jeremiah 5:26.

In David,

Those seeking my life 4 lay snares, and those seeking my hurt speak of ways to annihilate, and contemplate deceits all the day. Psalms 38:12.

In the same author,

Keep me from the hands of the trap they have set for me, and from the snares of the workers of iniquity. Let them fall into their own nets, 5 the wicked together, until I pass by. Psalms 141:9-10.

In Isaiah,

He will be as a sanctuary, though He will be as a stone to strike against and as a rock to stumble over, 6 for both houses of Israel; He will be as a snare and as a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Many among them will trip, and fall, and be broken to pieces, and be snared and caught. Isaiah 8:14-15.

This refers to the Lord. 'A stone to strike against' and 'a rock to stumble over' stand for stumbling blocks that are laid; and 'a snare' and 'a trap' for the annihilation accomplished by those who attack and try to destroy truths and forms of the good of faith in the Lord by means of falsities that lend support to self-love and love of the world. For to all proud people the very fact that the Divine appeared in a human form, and that He did so not in royal majesty but in a guise that was despised, is not only a stumbling block but also a snare.

From all this it is now evident that 'it will be a snare' means the enticement and deception of evils, and consequent annihilation, as in other places in Moses,

... lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land onto which you will come, lest it becomes a snare in your midst. Exodus 34:12.

In the same author,

You shall not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you. Deuteronomy 7:16.

In the same author,

Beware lest perhaps you are ensnared to follow 7 the nations, and lest perhaps you inquire after their gods. Deuteronomy 12:30.

'The nations' are evils and the falsities arising from them.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, trip

2. The Hebrew text here, which means literally And he knows his widows, is thought to be corrupt. As a consequence English versions of the Scriptures are based on textual emendations and therefore read somewhat differently.

3. literally, lest that sudden day stands upon you

4. literally, soul

5. literally, into his nets. The singular is used possibly to imply each one of the wicked. Sebastian Schmidt, in his Latin version of the Bible which Swedenborg draws on here, regarded them as God's nets.

6. literally, as a stone of striking and as a rock of stumbling

7. literally, ensnared after

  
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