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Lamentadoj 4

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1 Kiele senbriligxis la oro, sxangxigxis la bonega metalo! La sxtonoj de la sanktejo kusxas disjxetitaj en la komenco de cxiuj stratoj!

2 La karaj filoj de Cion, havantaj la valoron de plej pura oro, Kiele ili similigxis al argilaj potoj, faritajxo de potisto!

3 Ecx sxakaloj donas siajn mamojn kaj nutras siajn idojn; Sed la filino de mia popolo farigxis kruela, kiel strutoj en la dezerto.

4 La lango de sucxinfano algluigxis al gxia palato pro soifo; Infanoj petas panon, sed neniu donas al ili.

5 Kiuj antauxe mangxadis frandajxojn, tiuj senfortigxas nun pro malsato sur la stratoj; Kiuj estis edukitaj sur purpuro, tiuj ruligxas nun sur sterko.

6 La pekoj de la filino de mia popolo estas pli grandaj, ol la pekoj de Sodom, Kiu estis renversita momente, kaj manoj gxin ne turmentis.

7 SXiaj princoj estis pli puraj ol negxo, pli klaraj ol lakto; Ilia vizagxo estis pli rugxa ol koraloj, ili aspektis kiel safiro;

8 Nun ilia vizagxo estas pli nigra ol karbo; oni ne rekonas ilin sur la stratoj; Ilia hauxto alpendigxis al iliaj ostoj, velksekigxis kiel ligno.

9 Pli bone estis al tiuj, kiuj mortis de glavo, ol al tiuj, kiuj mortas de malsato, Kiuj senfortigxas kaj pereas pro manko de produktajxoj de kampo.

10 La manoj de kompatemaj virinoj kuiris iliajn infanojn; Kaj cxi tiuj farigxis ilia mangxajxo en la mizerego de la filino de mia popolo.

11 La Eternulo plene elcxerpis Sian koleron, Li elversxis la flamon de Sia indigno; Li ekbruligis en Cion fajron, kiu ekstermis gxiajn fundamentojn.

12 Ne kredis la regxoj de la tero, nek cxiuj logxantoj de la mondo, Ke malamiko kaj kontrauxulo eniros en la pordegojn de Jerusalem.

13 Tio farigxis pro la pekoj de gxiaj profetoj, pro la malbonagoj de gxiaj pastroj, Kiuj versxadis en gxi sangon de virtuloj.

14 Kiel blinduloj ili vagadis sur la stratoj, Malpurigis sin per sango tiel, ke oni ne povis tusxi iliajn vestojn.

15 Oni kriis al ili:For, malpuruloj! for, for, ne altusxigxu! Kiam ili forigxadis kaj vagadis, oni diradis inter la nacioj:Ili ne plu logxos tie.

16 La vizagxo de la Eternulo ilin disjxetis, kaj jam ne volas rigardi ilin; Pastrojn ili ne respektis, plejagxulojn ili ne kompatis.

17 Ankoraux lacigxadis niaj okuloj, atendante senvaloran helpon; Strecxe ni atendis nacion, kiu ne povas helpi.

18 Ili glitigis niajn pasxojn, ke ni ne povu iri sur niaj stratoj. Alproksimigxis nia fino; plenigxis nia tempo, cxar venis nia fino.

19 Pli rapidaj ol agloj de la cxielo estis niaj persekutantoj; Sur la montoj ili postkuris nin, en la dezerto ili faris embuskojn kontraux ni.

20 La spiro de nia vivo, la sanktoleito de la Eternulo, kaptigxis en iliajn kavojn, Pri kiu ni diris:Sub lia ombro ni vivos inter la nacioj.

21 GXoju kaj estu gaja, ho filino de Edom, kiu logxas en la lando Uc; Ankaux al vi venos la kaliko, vi ebriigxos kaj nudigxos.

22 Finigxis viaj malbonagoj, ho filino de Cion; Li vin ne plu forkondukigos; Sed viajn malbonagojn, ho filino de Edom, Li punos, Li malkovros viajn pekojn.

   

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8286. 'And with the wind of Your nostrils the waters were heaped up' means falsities gathered together through heaven's presence. This is clear from the meaning of 'the wind of Your nostrils' as heaven, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'being heaped up' as being gathered into one; and from the meaning of 'the waters' as falsities, dealt with in 7307, 8137, 8138. Damnation and being cast into hell involves having all the falsities arising from evil gathered together, and then being hemmed in by them, see 8146, 8210, 8232; and this happens as a result simply of the Lord's presence, 8265. The reason why 'the wind of Jehovah's, or the Lord's, nostrils' means heaven is that the expression is used to denote the breath of life, that is, God's life; and since God's life constitutes heaven's life, heaven is meant by 'the wind of Jehovah's nostrils'. This also explains why the same word in the original language means both wind and spirit.

[2] The fact that Jehovah's wind or His breath means heaven's life, and the life of a person in heaven, that is, of one who has been regenerated, is clear in David,

By the Word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all their host by the spirit (wind) of His mouth. Psalms 33:6.

In the same author,

You gather up their spirit, they breathe their last and fall back into their dust. You send forth Your spirit (wind), they are created. Psalms 104:29-30.

In Ezekiel,

Jehovah said to me, Will these bones live? Then He said, Prophesy over the spirit, prophesy, O son of man, and say to the wind, Thus said the Lord Jehovih, Come from the four winds, O spirit, and breathe into these killed, that they may live. And the spirit came into them, and they lived again. Ezekiel 37:3, 9-10.

In John,

I saw four angels standing over the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, in order that the wind should not blow onto the earth, nor onto the sea, nor onto any tree. Revelation 7:1.

Here 'the wind' stands for heaven's life, which is God's life, as also in Job,

The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of Shaddai 1 has given me life. Job 33:4.

[3] Since 'wind' meant life the Lord also says, in His teaching about a person's regeneration,

The spirit (or wind) blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or goes away to; so it is with everyone who has been born from the spirit. John 3:8.

And since life from God was meant by 'Jehovah's wind' or 'His breath' it therefore says of Jehovah, when Adam's new life is the subject, that

He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7.

The word 'nostrils' is used because a person breathes by means of them and by means of breathing has life, as in Isaiah,

Turn yourselves away from the person in whose nostrils there is breath. 2 Isaiah 2:22.

In Jeremiah,

The Breath 3 Lamentations 4:20Job 27:3.

[4] Since therefore 'the wind of Jehovah's nostrils' means life which comes from the Lord, and so in the universal sense means heaven, and since through the Lord's presence - or through the presence of heaven, where the Lord is - evils and falsities are cast into hell, 8265, so also is the accomplishment of this meant by 'the wind of Jehovah's nostrils', as in David,

The channels of the sea were seen, the foundations of the world were revealed, because of Jehovah's rebuke, at the blast of breath from His nostrils. 4 Psalms 18:8, 15; 2 Samuel 22:16. 5

In Isaiah,

The breath of Jehovah like a stream 6 of brimstone sets it alight. Isaiah 30:33.

In the same prophet,

Indeed they are not planted, indeed they are not sown, indeed their trunk does not take root in the earth, and also He breathes onto them and they wither, so that the whirlwind may bear them away like stubble. Isaiah 40:24Psalms 147:1718

In addition this explains why 'the nose', when used in reference to Jehovah or the Lord, also means wrath, and so the punishment, vastation, and damnation suffered by those ruled by evils and falsities, as in Numbers 25:4; Deuteronomy 7:4; Judges 2:14; Isaiah 9:12; Jeremiah 4:8Hosea 14:4; Psalms 6:1; 86:15; 103:8; 145:8; and very many other times elsewhere. It explains too why 'breathing with the nostrils' or 'breathing out' means being angry, Deuteronomy 4:21; Isaiah 12:1; Psalms 2:12; 6:1; 60:1; 79:5; 85:5.

  
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