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Jeremia 49

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1 Pri la Amonidoj:Tiele diras la Eternulo:CXu Izrael ne havas filojn? cxu li ne havas heredanton? kial do Malkam heredis Gadon kaj lia popolo logxas en la urboj de cxi tiu?

2 Tial jen venos tempo, diras la Eternulo, kaj Mi eksonigos militan trumpetadon super Raba de la Amonidoj; kaj gxi farigxos amaso da ruinoj, kaj gxiaj filinoj forbrulos en fajro, kaj Izrael ekposedos siajn posedintojn, diras la Eternulo.

3 Ploregu, ho HXesxbon, cxar Aj estas ruinigita. Kriu, ho filinoj de Raba, zonu vin per sakajxo, ploru kaj vagadu inter la bariloj; cxar Malkam iras en kaptitecon kune kun siaj pastroj kaj eminentuloj.

4 Kial vi fanfaronas pri viaj valoj? sangon fluigas via valo, ho filino malobeema, kiu fidas siajn trezorojn, kaj diras:Kiu povas veni al mi?

5 Jen Mi venigos sur vin timon, diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo Cebaot, de cxiuj viaj cxirkauxajxoj; kaj vi estos dispelitaj cxiu aparte, kaj neniu kolektos la vagantojn.

6 Tamen poste Mi revenigos la forkaptitajn Amonidojn, diras la Eternulo.

7 Pri Edom:Tiele diras la Eternulo Cebaot:CXu jam ne ekzistas sagxo en Teman? cxu la filoj jam ne havas konsilon? cxu ilia sagxeco malaperis?

8 Forkuras, turnis sian dorson, kaj profunde sin kasxas la logxantoj de Dedan; cxar malfelicxon de Esav Mi venigis sur lin, la tempon de lia puno.

9 Kiam venos al vi vinberkolektantoj, ili ne restigos forgesitajn berojn; se venos sxtelistoj en la nokto, ili rabos plenan kvanton.

10 CXar Mi nudigis Esavon, Mi malkasxis liajn sekretajn rifugxejojn, por ke li ne povu sin kasxi; ekstermitaj estas lia idaro, liaj fratoj, kaj liaj najbaroj, kaj li jam ne ekzistas.

11 Restigu viajn orfojn, Mi konservos ilian vivon; kaj viaj vidvinoj fidu Min.

12 CXar tiele diras la Eternulo:Jen tiuj, kiuj ne meritis trinki la pokalon, tamen gxin trinkos; cxu vi do povas resti nepunita? vi ne restos nepunita, sed vi nepre trinkos.

13 CXar Mi jxuris per Mi, diras la Eternulo, ke Bocra farigxos objekto de teruro, honto, ruinigo, kaj malbeno; kaj cxiuj gxiaj urboj farigxos ruinoj por eterne.

14 Diron mi auxdis de la Eternulo, kaj kuriero estas sendita al la nacioj:Kolektigxu kaj iru kontraux gxin, kaj levigxu por batalo.

15 CXar jen Mi faris vin malgranda inter la nacioj, malestimata inter la homoj.

16 Via malhumileco kaj la fiereco de via koro trompis vin, kiu logxas en la fendegoj de la rokoj kaj okupas suprojn de montoj; sed se vi ecx arangxus vian neston tiel alte, kiel aglo, ecx de tie Mi jxetos vin malsupren, diras la Eternulo.

17 Edom farigxos objekto de teruro; cxiu, kiu pasos preter li, miros kaj fajfos pri cxiuj liaj vundoj.

18 Kiel renversitaj estas Sodom kaj Gomora kaj iliaj najbarlokoj, diras la Eternulo, tiel ankaux tie neniu restos, neniu homido tie logxos.

19 Jen kiel leono li supreniras de la majesta Jordan kontraux la fortikan logxejon; cxar Mi rapide forpelos ilin de tie, kaj Mi estrigos tie tiun, kiu estas elektita. CXar kiu estas simila al Mi? kiu donos al Mi decidojn? kiu estas la pasxtisto, kiu povas kontrauxstari al Mi?

20 Tial auxskultu la decidon de la Eternulo, kiun Li decidis pri Edom, kaj Liajn intencojn, kiujn Li havas pri la logxantoj de Teman:la knaboj- pasxtistoj ilin fortrenos kaj detruos super ili ilian logxejon.

21 De la bruo de ilia falo ektremos la tero, ilian kriadon oni auxdos cxe la Rugxa Maro.

22 Jen li levigxos kiel aglo, ekflugos kaj etendos siajn flugilojn super Bocra; kaj la koro de la herooj de Edom en tiu tago estos kiel la koro de virino cxe la naskodoloroj.

23 Pri Damasko:Hontigitaj estas HXamat kaj Arpad, cxar, auxdinte malbonan sciigon, ili senkuragxigxis; cxe la maro ili tiel ektremis, ke ili ne povas trankviligxi.

24 Damasko senkuragxigxis, turnis sin, por forkuri; tremo atakis gxin, doloro kaj turmentoj gxin kaptis, kiel naskantinon.

25 Kial ne estas riparita la glora urbo, la gaja urbo?

26 Tial gxiaj junuloj falos sur gxiaj stratoj, kaj cxiuj militistoj pereos en tiu tago, diras la Eternulo Cebaot.

27 Kaj Mi ekbruligos fajron sur la murego de Damasko, kaj gxi ekstermos la palacojn de Ben-Hadad.

28 Pri Kedar, kaj pri la regnoj de HXacor, kiujn venkobatis Nebukadnecar, regxo de Babel: Tiele diras la Eternulo:Levigxu, iru kontraux Kedaron, kaj ruinigu la filojn de la oriento.

29 Iliaj tendoj kaj sxafaroj estos prenitaj; iliajn tapisxojn kaj cxiujn iliajn vazojn kaj iliajn kamelojn oni forprenos, kaj oni kriados al ili:Teruro cxirkauxe.

30 Forkuru, forigxu rapide, kasxu vin profunde, ho logxantoj de HXacor, diras la Eternulo; cxar Nebukadnecar, regxo de Babel, faras pri vi decidon kaj havas intencon kontraux vi.

31 Levigxu, iru kontraux popolon trankvilan, kiu sidas en sendangxereco, diras la Eternulo; gxi ne havas pordojn nek riglilojn, ili vivas izolite.

32 Kaj iliaj kameloj estos forrabitaj, kaj la multo de iliaj brutoj farigxos rabakiro; kaj Mi dispelos ilin al cxiuj ventoj, ilin, kiuj tondas la harojn sur la tempioj, kaj de cxiuj flankoj Mi venigos ilian malfelicxon, diras la Eternulo.

33 Kaj HXacor farigxos logxejo de sxakaloj, eterna dezerto; neniu tie restos, kaj neniu homido tie logxos.

34 Jen estas la vorto de la Eternulo, kiu aperis al la profeto Jeremia pri Elam, en la komenco de la regxado de Cidkija, regxo de Judujo:

35 Tiele diras la Eternulo Cebaot:Jen Mi rompos la pafarkon de Elam, ilian cxefan forton.

36 Kaj Mi venigos sur Elamon kvar ventojn de la kvar finoj de la cxielo, kaj Mi dispelos ilin al cxiuj tiuj ventoj; kaj ne ekzistos popolo, al kiu ne venus la dispelitoj el Elam.

37 Kaj Mi senkuragxigos Elamon antaux iliaj malamikoj, kaj antaux tiuj, kiuj celas ilian morton; kaj Mi venigos sur ilin malbonon, la flamon de Mia kolero, diras la Eternulo, kaj Mi persekutos ilin per la glavo, gxis Mi ekstermos ilin.

38 Kaj Mi starigos Mian tronon en Elam, kaj Mi pereigos tie la regxon kaj la eminentulojn, diras la Eternulo.

39 Tamen en la tempo estonta Mi revenigos la forkaptitojn de Elam, diras la Eternulo.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 237

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237. And knowest not that thou are wretched, signifies that they do not know that their falsities have no coherence with truths. This is evident from the signification of "wretchedness," as meaning the breaking up of truth by means of falsities, and also no coherence; this shows what is meant by "the wretched." They are so because their doctrine is founded on two false principles, which are faith alone and justification by faith; consequently falsities flow in from these in constant succession, and the truths which they adduce from the sense of the letter of the Word to confirm these are weakened and falsified, and truths when falsified are in themselves falsities. This is described in many passages in the Word, and is meant by the "vanities" that the prophets see, and the "lies" that they speak. It is described also by the "breaches" in the walls and houses so that they fall; likewise by "idols" and "graven images" that the artificer makes and connects by chains that they may cohere; for "idols" and "graven images" signify the falsities of doctrine; the like is signified by "breaches of the walls" and "of the houses," and by "the prophets who see vanities and speak lies;" for "prophets" mean doctrines, "vanities" such things as are of no account, and "lies" falsities. But as these things are mentioned in many passages in the Word they cannot be cited here on account of their abundance; they will therefore be omitted, and a few only quoted here in which "wretchedness" and "wall" are mentioned, that it may be known that these signify the weakening of truth by falsities, and thus no coherence.

[2] In Isaiah:

Thy wisdom and thy knowledge it hath misled thee, when thou hast said in thine heart, I, and none like me besides. Therefore shall wretchedness fall upon thee, and devastation shall come upon thee (Isaiah 47:10-11).

Here also those are described who believe that they know all things and that they are more intelligent than all others, when yet they know and understand nothing of truth; and that therefore the understanding of truth is taken away from them. Their belief that they are more intelligent than all others is meant by "Thy wisdom and thy knowledge it hath misled thee, when thou hast said in thine heart, I, and none like me besides;" and the loss of all understanding of truth is meant by "wretchedness shall fall upon thee, devastation shall come upon thee."

[3] In Ezekiel:

Wretchedness shall come upon wretchedness; therefore they shall seek a vision from the prophets; but the law hath perished from the priest, and counsel from the elders. The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with astonishment (Ezekiel 7:26-27).

Here the vastation of the church is treated of, which takes place when there is no truth that is not falsified. Falsity from falsity is meant by "wretchedness upon wretchedness;" "a vision from the prophet" is doctrine, here the doctrine of falsity; "the law hath perished from the priest" means that the Word is not understood, for "law" signifies the Word, and the "priest" one who teaches; "counsel hath perished from the elders" means that right has perished from the intelligent, "counsel" signifying right, and "elders" the intelligent; "the king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with astonishment," means that there is no longer any truth, "king" signifying truth, and "prince" truths that are primarily of service.

[4] In David:

Right is not in their mouth, wretchedness is in their inward part (Psalms 5:9);

where "wretchedness" likewise stands for falsities not cohering with any truth. So too in Jeremiah:

Lament, and wander among the walls; for their king is gone into exile, and his priests and his princes together (Jeremiah 49:3).

"Wandering among the walls" is among truths destroyed by falsities; "the king gone into exile" signifies truth; and "his priests and princes together" signify the goods and truths of life and doctrine (See above).

[5] In Ezekiel:

When they build a wall [maceriem], behold they daub it with untempered mortar. Say to them which daub it with untempered mortar, that the wall [paries] shall fall. Is it not said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? (Ezekiel 13:10-12).

"The wall which they daub with untempered mortar" signifies falsity assumed as a principle, and by application of the Word from the sense of the letter made to appear as truth; "daubing" is application and seeming confirmation thereby; "untempered mortar" is what has been falsified; and because the truth of the Word is thus destroyed, and the truths used to confirm become truths falsified, which in themselves are falsities, and these with the false principle perish together, it is said, "Behold, the wall shall fall. Is it not said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?"

[6] In Hosea:

Behold, I obstruct thy way with thorns, and I will encompass wall with wall, that she shall not find thy 1 paths (Hosea 2:6).

"To obstruct the way with thorns" is to obstruct all thoughts by falsities of evil, that truths be not seen; falsities of evil are "thorns;" "to encompass wall with wall" is to heap falsities upon falsities; "that she shall not find thy paths" means that nothing of truth can be seen; this comes to pass because truths and falsities of evil cannot be together, as heaven cannot be with hell; for truths are from heaven, and falsities of evil are from hell; therefore when falsities from evil reign communication with heaven is taken away, and when that is taken away truths cannot be seen, and if presented by others they are rejected. For this reason, those who are in false principles, as those who are in the principles of faith alone and justification by faith, cannot be in any truths (as may be seen above, n. 235, 236).

[7] But let examples illustrate this. Those who have adopted faith alone and justification by faith as a principle of religion, when they read the Word and see that the Lord says that man shall be recompensed according to his deeds and works, and that he who has done good, shall come into heaven, and he who has done evils into hell, call the good things that they do fruits of faith, not knowing or not wanting to know, that the good things called fruits are all from charity, and none of them from faith separate, which is called faith alone; every good also is of charity, and truth is of the faith therefrom. From this it is clear that they pervert the Word; and they do this because they cannot otherwise apply truth to their principle, believing still that the two may thus cohere; but the result is that truth perishes and becomes falsity, and not only falsity but also evil.

[8] From this falsities evidently follow in constant succession, for they teach that the good works that man does are meritorious, not being willing to see that as faith with its truths are from the Lord, and thus not meritorious, so are charity with its goods. They teach also that as soon as a man receives faith he is reconciled to God the Father through the Son, and that the evils thenceforth done, as well as those done before, are not imputed; for they say that all are saved however they have lived, if only they receive faith, even though it be in the hours before death. But these, and many other things which are deductions from the falsity of the principle, do not cohere with the truths from the Word, but destroy them, and truths destroyed are falsities, even such falsities as emit a bad odor. From these a grievous smell is perceived in the other life, which is such that it cannot be endured by any good spirit; it is like the stench of purulent matter from the lungs. Many other examples might be adduced; there is an abundance of them; for whatever is deduced from a false principle becomes thereby a falsity, since in the deduction the principle only is regarded to which it clings because from this it flows and to this it is applied.

[9] What the religion of faith alone and of justification by faith is can be inferred from the simple fact that all who have confirmed these tenets in themselves by doctrine and life, send out from themselves in the other life a sphere of abominable adultery like that of a mother or stepmother with a son; this abominable adultery corresponds to such, and is also perceived from them wherever they go; from that sphere I have a thousand times recognized their presence. Such a sphere flows out from them because they adulterate the goods of charity and of the Word, and adulteries correspond to adulterations of good, while whoredoms correspond to the falsifications of truth (See Arcana Coelestia 2466, 2729, 3399, 4865, 6348, 8904, 10648).

[10] There is a like meaning in:

Reuben's lying with Bilhah, of whom his father begat Dan and Naphtali (Genesis 35:22);

And therefore he was also accursed (Genesis 49:4);

And because he defiled his father's couch the primogeniture was taken away from him and given to Joseph (1 Chronicles 5:1). For by "Reuben" in the Word faith is meant here faith alone (See Arcana Coelestia 3325, 3861, 3866, 3870, 4601, 4605, 4731, 4734, 4761, 6342, 6350); and by "Joseph," the good of faith (See 3969, 3971, 4669, 6417).

[11] That such things are to take place at the end of the church is predicted in Daniel, where the statue that Nebuchadnezzar saw in a dream is described in these words:

Whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of man; but they shall not cleave one to the other, even as iron doth not mingle with clay (Daniel 2:43).

By "iron" truth without good is meant; by "miry clay" the falsity that is from self-intelligence; by "the seed of man" the Word of the Lord (Matthew 13:24, 37). That these do not cohere is meant by "they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle with clay."

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1. For "thy" the Hebrew has "her," as found in Arcana Coelestia 9144.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.