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Amos 8

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1 Herra, Herra osoitti minulle näyssä, ja katso, siellä oli kori suvituloa.

2 Ja hän sanoi: mitäs näet, Amos? minä vastasin: korin suvituloa. Niin Herra sanoi minulle: minun kansani Israelin loppu on tullut, en minä tahdo enään mennä häntä ohitse.

3 Ja sinä päivänä pitää veisut templissä itkuksi kääntymän, sanoo Herra, Herra; monta kuollutta ruumista pitää joka paikassa makaaman, jotka viedään salassa pois.

4 Kuulkaat tätä te, jotka köyhää sorratte, ja vaivaisia maakunnassa hävitätte,

5 Ja sanotte: koska uusi kuu loppuu, että me saisimme jyviä myydä; ja sabbati, että me ohria kauppaisimme, ja mitan vähentäisimme, ja hinnan korottaisimme, ja vaa'at vääriksi tekisimme;

6 Että me saisimme köyhät rahallamme haltuumme ja hätäytyneet kenkäparilla, ja myisimme akanat jyväin edestä?

7 Herra on vannonut Jakobin korkeutta vastaan: mitämaks, jos minä ikänä kaikki ne heidän työnsä unohdan.

8 Eikö maan sentähden pitäisi vapiseman, ja kaikki sen asuvaiset murehtiman? Ja pitää nouseman kaiken sen päälle niinkuin virta, vietämän pois ja upotettaman niinkuin Egyptin virralla.

9 Sillä ajalla, sanoo Herra, Herra, tahdon minä laskea auringon alas puolipäivästä, ja pimittää maan valkialla päivällä.

10 Minä tahdon teidän juhlapäivänne kääntää murheeksi, ja kaikki teidän veisunne valitukseksi, ja tahdon antaa säkin jokaisen kupeisiin tulla, ja kaikki päät paljaaksi tehdä; ja tahdon heille murheen saattaa, niinkuin joku ainoaa poikaa murehtii; ja heidän pitää surkian lopun saaman.

11 Katso, ne päivät tulevat, sanoo Herra, Herra, että minä lähetän nälän maan päälle; ei nälkää leivän perään, eli janoa veden perään, vaan Herran sanan kuulemisen jälkeen,

12 Niin että heidän pitää juokseman yhdestä merestä niin toiseen, pohjasta niin itään; heidän pitää juoksenteleman etsimään Herran sanaa, ja ei kuitenkaan pidä löytämän.

13 Sinä päivänä pitää kauniit neitseet ja nuorukaiset nääntymän janosta.

14 Ja jotka nyt Samarian rikoksen kautta vannovat ja sanovat: niin totta kuin sinun jumalas Danissa elää, niin totta kuin sinun jumalas Bersebassa elää: niiden pitää niin lankeeman, ettei he voi jälleen nousta ylös.

   


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Apocalypse Revealed # 492

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492. "Clothed in sackcloth." This symbolizes the grief experienced meanwhile over the truth's not being accepted.

Being clothed in sackcloth symbolizes grief over the destruction of truth in the church, for garments symbolize truths (nos. 166, 212, 328, 378, 379). Consequently to be clothed in sackcloth, which is not a garment, symbolizes grief over the lack of truth, and where there is no truth, there is no church.

The children of Israel represented grief in various ways, which, because of their correspondence, were symbolic. For example, they would put ash on their heads, roll around in the dust, sit on the ground for a long time in silence, shave themselves, beat their breasts and wail, rend their garments, and also clothe themselves in sackcloth, and so on. Each action symbolized some evil in the church among them for which they were being punished. Then, when they were being punished, they put on a representation of repentance in these ways, and because of their representation of repentance, and at the same time then of their humbling themselves, they were heard.

[2] That putting on sackcloth represented grief over the destruction of truth in the church may be seen from the following passages:

The lion has come up from his thicket... He has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate... For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament, wail. (Jeremiah 4:7-8)

O daughter of my people, gird yourself in sackcloth and roll about in ashes! ...For the destroyer will suddenly come upon us. (Jeremiah 6:26)

Woe to you, Chorazin (and) Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented... in sackcloth and ashes. (Matthew 11:21, Luke 10:13)

After the king of Nineveh heard the words of Jonah, he "laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes." Moreover, he proclaimed a fast and ordered that "man and beast be covered with sackcloth." (Jonah 3:5-8)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 3:24; 15:2-3; 22:12; 37:1-2; 50:3; Jeremiah 48:37-38; 49:3; Lamentations 2:10; Ezekiel 7:17-18; 27:31; Daniel 9:3; Joel 1:8, 13; Amos 8:10; Job 16:15-16; Psalms 30:11; Psalms 35:13; 69:10-11; 2 Samuel 3:31; 1 Kings 21:27; 2 Kings 6:30; 19:1-2.

  
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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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Isaiah 3

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1 For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;

2 the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder,

3 the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.

4 I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.

5 The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

6 Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand."

7 In that day he will cry out, saying, "I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people."

8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

9 The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

10 Tell the righteous "Good!" For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

13 Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

14 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

15 What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

16 Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;

17 therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald."

18 In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,

19 the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,

20 the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms,

21 the signet rings, the nose rings,

22 the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses,

23 the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.

24 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

25 Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.

26 Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.