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2 Saamuel 1

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1 Ja pärast Sauli surma, kui Taavet oli tagasi tulnud amalekke löömast ja Taavet oli viibinud kaks päeva Siklagis,

2 vaata, siis tuli kolmandal päeval keegi mees leerist Sauli juurest, riided lõhki käristatud ja mulda pea peal. Ja kui ta jõudis Taaveti juurde, siis ta heitis maha ja kummardas.

3 Ja Taavet küsis temalt: 'Kust sa tuled?' Tema vastas: 'Ma olen Iisraeli leerist pääsenud.'

4 Ja Taavet ütles temale: 'Mis seal juhtus? Jutusta ometi mulle!' Ja ta vastas: 'Rahvas põgenes lahingust ja rahvast on paljud ka langenud ja surnud; ka Saul ja tema poeg Joonatan on surnud.'

5 Siis küsis Taavet noorelt mehelt, kes temale seda jutustas: 'Kuidas sa tead, et Saul ja tema poeg Joonatan on surnud?'

6 Ja noor mees, kes temale seda jutustas, vastas: 'Ma juhtusin kogemata Gilboa mäele, ja vaata, Saul toetas ennast oma piigile; aga vaata, sõjavankrid ja ratsanikud kippusid talle ligi.

7 Kui ta ümber pöördus ja mind nägi, siis ta hüüdis mind. Ja ma vastasin: Siin ma olen!

8 Ta küsis minult: Kes sa oled? Ja ma vastasin talle: Mina olen amalek.

9 Siis ta ütles mulle: Astu nüüd minu juurde ja surma mind, sest mind on tabanud nõrkushoog, kuigi mul on hing alles täiesti sees!

10 Siis ma astusin ta juurde ja surmasin tema, sest ma teadsin, et kui ta kukub, siis ta ei jää elama. Ja ma võtsin laubaehte, mis tal peas oli, ja käevõru, mis tal käsivarre ümber oli, ja tõin need siia oma isandale.'

11 Siis Taavet haaras kinni oma riietest ja käristas need lõhki, nõndasamuti tegid ka kõik mehed, kes ta juures olid.

12 Ja nad kaeblesid, nutsid ja paastusid õhtuni Sauli ja tema poja Joonatani pärast, ja Issanda rahva ja Iisraeli soo pärast, sellepärast et need olid langenud mõõga läbi.

13 Ja Taavet küsis noorelt mehelt, kes oli temale seda jutustanud: 'Kust sa pärit oled?' Ja see vastas: 'Mina olen võõrsil elava amaleki mehe poeg.'

14 Ja Taavet ütles talle: 'Kuidas sa siis ei kartnud sirutada oma kätt Issanda võitu hukkamiseks?'

15 Ja Taavet kutsus ühe noore mehe ning ütles: 'Tule siia ja mine talle kallale!' Ja see lõi ta maha, nõnda et ta suri.

16 Ja Taavet ütles temale: 'Sinu veri tulgu su pea peale, sest su oma suu on tunnistanud sinu vastu, öeldes: Mina olen tapnud Issanda võitu.'

17 Ja Taavet laulis Sauli ja tema poja Joonatani pärast seda nutulaulu

18 ning ütles, et Juuda poegadele tuleks õpetada 'Ammulaulu'. Vaata, see on kirja pandud Õiglase raamatus:

19 'Sinu hiilgus, Iisrael, on maha löödud su küngastel! Kuidas küll on kangelased langenud!

20 Ärge jutustage seda Gatis, ärge kuulutage Askeloni tänavail, et vilistite tütred ei rõõmutseks, et ümberlõikamatute tütred ei rõkataks!

21 Gilboa mäed! Ärgu tulgu teie peale ei kastet ega vihma, te ohvripõllud! Sest seal on rüvetatud kangelaste kilbid, Sauli kilp on õliga võidmata.

22 Mahalöödute verest, kangelaste rasvast ei hoidunud Joonatani amb, Sauli mõõk ei tulnud tühjalt tagasi.

23 Saul ja Joonatan, armastatud ja armsad, lahutamatud elus ja surmas! Nad olid kotkastest kiiremad, lõvidest tugevamad.

24 Iisraeli tütred! Nutke Sauli pärast, kes teid riietas kaunistustega purpurisse, kes kinnitas kuldehteid teie riietele!

25 Kuidas küll on kangelased langenud keset taplust, Joonatan maha löödud su küngastel!

26 Mul on sinu pärast kitsas käes, mu vend Joonatan! Sa olid mulle väga kallis. Naiste armastusest imelisem oli su armastus minu vastu.

27 Kuidas küll on kangelased langenud ja võitlusrelvad hävinud!'

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Apocalypse Revealed # 54

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54. And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as though dead. (1:17) This symbolically means that he experienced a failure of his own life owing to such a presence of the Lord.

A person's own life cannot endure the presence of the Lord such as the Lord is in Himself, indeed such as He is in the inmost constituents of His Word. For His Divine love is altogether like the sun, which no one can endure as it is in itself, because it would consume him.

This is the meaning of the declaration that no one can see God and live (Exodus 33:20, Judges 13:22).

This being the case, the Lord therefore appears to angels in heaven as the sun, at a distance from them, like the world's sun from people. That is because the Lord in that sun is present as He is in Himself.

But still the Lord moderates and tempers His Divinity so as to make it possible for a person to endure His presence. This He does by veilings. It was what He did when He revealed Himself to many people in the Word. Indeed, it is by veilings that He is present in everyone who worships Him. As He says in John,

He who... keeps (My commandments)..., in him (I) will make (My) abode. (John 14:21, 23)

And He says that He must be in them and they in Him (John 15:4-5).

It is apparent from this why, when John saw the Lord in such glory, he fell at His feet as though dead. And why, too, when three of the disciples saw the Lord in His glory, they were "heavy with sleep," and a cloud covered them (Luke 9:32, 34).

  
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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.

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Habakkuk 3

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1 A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.

2 Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

3 God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.

4 His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.

5 Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.

6 He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.

7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.

8 Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation?

9 You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.

10 The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

11 The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.

12 You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.

13 You went forth for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah.

14 You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

15 You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters.

16 I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

17 For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:

18 yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

19 Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer's feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.