Psaumes 137
1
Nous nous sommes assis auprès des fleuves de Babylone, et nous y avons pleuré, nous souvenant de Sion.
2
Nous avons pendu nos harpes aux saules, au milieu d'elle.
3
Quand ceux qui nous avaient emmenés prisonniers, nous ont demandé des paroles de Cantique, et de les réjouir de nos harpes que nous avions pendues, [en nous disant] : Chantez-nous quelque chose des cantiques de Sion; [nous avons répondu] :
4
Comment chanterions-nous les Cantiques de l'Eternel dans une terre d’étrangèrs?
5
Si je t'oublie, Jérusalem, que ma droite s'oublie elle-même.
6
Que ma langue soit attachée à mon palais, si je ne me souviens de toi, [et] si je ne fais de Jérusalem le [principal] sujet de ma réjouissance.
7
Ô Eternel, souviens-toi des enfants d'Edom, qui en la journée de Jérusalem disaient : découvrez, découvrez jusqu’à ses fondements.
8
Fille de Babylone, [qui va être] détruite, heureux celui qui te rendra la pareille [de ce] que tu nous as fait!
9
Heureux celui qui saisira tes petits enfants et qui les froissera contre les pierres!
Jerusalem
Jerusalem, on Mount Zion, signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. Jerusalem first comes to our attention in 2 Samuel 5, when King David takes the city from the Jebusites and makes it his capital. In the next chapter he brings the Ark of the Covenant there, and later it is where Solomon builds the temple, and his own palace. From then on Jerusalem is the center of worship of the Israelitish church. It is the place where the Lord was presented in the temple as a baby, where He tarried to talk to the priests at age twelve, where He cleansed the temple, had the last supper, was crucified and then rose. It is a central place in both the old and new Testaments. The city was built on Mount Zion, the highest point of the mountains of Judea. A city, in the Word, represents doctrine, the organized knowledge of the truths of the church. Mountains represent love of the Lord and the consequent worship. If you put those things together, Jerusalem on Mount Zion signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. This is why David was led to make Jerusalem the most important city of the land, and why all worship was conducted there. And this is also why Jeroboam was condemned for introducing idol worship in Samaria. In the Book of Revelation, John's vision of the city New Jerusalem descending from God is a prophecy of a new dispensation of doctrine coming from the Lord.
(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 4539, 8938; The Apocalypse Explained 365 [35-38])
