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1 Kuidas küll istub üksinda see kord nii rahvarohke linn! Kes rahvaste seas oli suur, on saanud lesknaise sarnaseks. Vürstitar maakondade hulgas peab tegema orjatööd.

2 Ta nutab öösel kibedasti, pisarad voolavad tal üle näo. Pole tal trööstijat ühestki armastajast: kõik ta sõbrad on teda petnud, on saanud ta vaenlasteks.

3 Juuda on sattunud viletsusse ja ränka orjusesse, ta elab paganate seas ega leia hingamist. Kõik jälitajad saavad ta kätte keset kitsikusi.

4 Siioni teed leinavad, et pole pühiks tulijaid. Kõik ta väravad on tühjad, ta preestrid ohkavad. Tema neitsid on kurvad ja tal enesel on kibe käes.

5 Tema rõhujad on saanud võimu, tema vaenlastel käib käsi hästi. Sest Issand on toonud talle häda tema paljude üleastumiste pärast. Tema lastel on tulnud minna vangidena vaenlase ees.

6 Siioni tütrelt on kõik ta toredus läinud. Tema vürstid on nagu hirved, kes ei leia karjamaad; nad astuvad jõuetult tagaajaja ees.

7 Jeruusalemm mõtleb oma viletsuse ja kodutuse päevil kõigile kallistele asjadele, mis tal muistsest ajast on olnud. Et ta rahvas langes vaenlase kätte ja tal ei olnud aitajat, siis näevad vaenlased seda ja naeravad tema lõppu.

8 Jeruusalemm on raskesti patustanud, seepärast on ta saanud jäleduseks. Kõik, kes teda austasid, põlastavad teda, sest nad on näinud ta alastiolekut. Ka tema ise ohkab ja tõmbub pelgu.

9 Tema roojus on ta hõlmadel. Ta ei mõelnud oma lõpule ja on langenud hämmastaval viisil: tal pole trööstijat. Vaata, Issand, mu viletsust, sest vaenlane suurustab!

10 Vaenlane sirutab käe kõigi ta kalliste asjade järele; sest ta sai näha, et ta pühamusse tulid paganad, need, keda sa olid keelanud, et nad ei tuleks su kogudusse.

11 Kogu ta rahvas ohkab ja otsib leiba: nad annavad oma aarded toidu eest, et pidada hinge sees. Vaata, Issand, ja näe, kui põlatud ma olen!

12 Kas see teile ei lähegi korda, kõik, kes te mööda lähete? Vaadake ja nähke! Ons olemas valu, minu valu sarnast, mis mulle on tehtud, millega Issand mind on nuhelnud oma tulise viha päeval?

13 Ta läkitas kõrgusest tule mu luudesse ja vaevas neid; ta laotas mu jalgadele võrgu, ta tõrjus mind tagasi; ta jättis mind üksikuks igavesti haigena.

14 Mu üleastumiste ike on kokku seotud, tema käed põimisid need ühte: need tulid mu turjale, tema murdis mu jõu; Issand andis mu nende kätte, ma ei suuda üles tõusta.

15 Issand heitis kõrvale mu keskelt kõik vägevad; ta kutsus kokku peo minu vastu, et purustada mu noori mehi. Issand sõtkus surutõrt neitsile, Juuda tütrele.

16 Nende asjade pärast ma nutan, mu silmad, mu silmad voolavad vett. Sest kaugel on minust trööstija, kes turgutaks mu hinge. Mu lapsed on hävitatud, sest vaenlane on vägev.

17 Siion laiutab käsi, tal ei ole trööstijat. Issand on käsutanud vaenlastena Jaakobi vastu selle enese naabrid. Jeruusalemm on muutunud nende seas jäleduseks.

18 Õiglane on tema, Issand, sest mina olen tõrkunud tema käsu vastu. Kuulge ometi, kõik rahvad, ja vaadake mu valu: mu neitsid ja noored mehed on läinud vangi.

19 Ma kutsusin oma armastajaid, nad petsid mind. Mu preestrid ja vanemad surid linnas, kui nad otsisid enesele toitu, et turgutada oma hinge.

20 Vaata, Issand, kuidas mul on kitsas käes: mu sisemus käärib, mu süda pööritab sees, sest ma olen kõvasti tõrkunud. Väljas teeb mõõk mind lastetuks, sees on päris surm.

21 Nad on kuulnud, et ma ägan. Mul pole trööstijat. Kõik mu vaenlased on kuulnud mu õnnetusest, nad rõõmutsevad, et sina seda tegid. Too ometi päev, millest sa kuulutasid, et nende käsi käib samuti kui mul!

22 Tulgu kõik nende kurjus su palge ette, ja talita nendega, nagu sa talitasid minuga kõigi mu üleastumiste pärast! Jah, mu ohkeid on palju ja mu süda on haige.

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Arcana Coelestia # 3542

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3542. 'And on the smooth of his neck' means so that truth which disjoined was not apparent. This is clear from 'smooth' or 'the smooth' having reference to truth, dealt with in 3527, and from the meaning of 'the neck' as that which joins together, dealt with below. Here therefore, since the appearance was 'on the smooth of his neck' it means so that truth which disjoins was not apparent. The implications of all this may be seen from what has been stated and shown above in 3539, to the effect that the good and the truths which flow from the understanding but not at the same time from the will are neither good nor truths, no matter how much they seem to be so to outward appearance. And if the will is bent on evil, good and truths are disjoined and do not join together. But if the will is in some measure desirous of good, they do not in that case disjoin but join together, even though the order in which they stand is the reverse of proper order; for it is by means of such good and truths that a person is regenerated. And because such good and truths standing thus serve first in the regeneration of man it is said that truth which disjoined would not be apparent. But more of this in what follows below.

[2] The reason why 'the neck' means that which joins together is that higher things with man which belong to the head communicate with lower that belong to the body by means of the neck between. Consequently both influx and communication, and therefore conjunction, are meant by that which lies between. This will be seen far more clearly from the correspondences of the Grand Man with the parts of the human body, to be dealt with at the ends of chapters. The same is consequently meant in the Word by 'the neck', as in Isaiah,

His spirit, like an overflowing stream, will divide even at the neck. Isaiah 30:28.

Here 'an overflowing stream' stands for falsity flowing over in this fashion. 'Dividing at the neck' stands for blocking and cutting off the communication and consequent joining together of higher things with lower ones, which are blocked and cut off when spiritual good and truth are not being received.

[3] In Habakkuk,

You crushed the head from the house of the wicked, laying bare the foundation even at the neck. Habakkuk 3:13.

'Crushing the head from the house of the wicked' stands for destroying false assumptions. 'Laying bare the foundation even at the neck' stands for preventing thereby any joining together. In Jeremiah,

Entangled transgressions have risen up above my neck. He has struck at my strength; the Lord has given me into [their] hands; I am unable to rise up again. Lamentations 1:14.

'Entangled transgressions have risen up above my neck' stands for falsities coming up towards interior or rational things.

[4] Because 'the neck' meant that communication and joining together, 'bands around the neck' therefore meant the cutting off and so the destruction of truth, which occurs when spiritual things that are flowing in constantly from the Lord are no longer allowed to pass into the rational part of a person's mind, nor as a consequence into the natural part. It is this cutting off or destruction that is represented by Jeremiah's being told to make bands and bars for himself and put them on his neck; to send them to different peoples and say that they would be serving Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babel; and to say that those who did not place their necks under his yoke would be visited by sword, famine, and pestilence; but those who did bring their necks under it would be left in the land, Jeremiah 27:2-3, 8, 11. 'Placing the neck under the yoke of the king of Babel and serving him' stands for being made desolate as regards truth and vastated as regards good. For 'Babel' means one who lays waste, see 1327 (end); and people undergo vastation to prevent holy things from being profaned, 301-303, 1327, 1328, 2426, 3398, 3399, 3402. And since evil and falsity come to be served once the influx of good and truth has been cut off, 'placing the neck under the yoke' also means serving. In the same prophet,

Jehovah said, I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel from over the neck of all nations within two years. Jeremiah 28:11.

This stands for their being delivered from vastation. In Isaiah,

Shake yourself from the dust, arise, sit, O Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. Isaiah 52:2.

'Loosing the bonds from the neck' stands for letting in and receiving good and truth In Micah,

Behold, against this family I am devising this evil from which you will not remove your necks nor go erect, for that will be a time of evil. Micah 2:3.

'Not removing necks from evil' stands for not letting truth in. 'Not going erect' stands for not looking up to higher things, that is, to those of heaven, 248.

  
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