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Lamentations 4

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1 [Aleph.] Comment l’or est-il devenu obscur, et le fin or s’est-il changé? Comment les pierres du Sanctuaire sont-elles semées aux coins de toutes les rues?

2 [Beth.] Comment les chers enfants de Sion, qui étaient estimés comme le meilleur or, sont-ils réputés comme des vases de terre qui ne sont que l’ouvrage de la main d’un potier?

3 [Guimel.] Il y a même des monstres marins qui présentent leurs mammelles et qui allaitent leurs petits; mais la fille de mon peuple a à faire à des gens cruels, comme les chats-huants qui sont au désert.

4 [Daleth.] La langue de celui qui têtait s’est attachée à son palais dans sa soif; les petits enfants ont demandé du pain, et personne ne leur en a rompu.

5 [He.] Ceux qui mangeaient des viandes délicates sont demeurés désolés dans les rues; et ceux qui étaient nourris sur l’écarlate ont embrassé l’ordure.

6 [Vau.] Et [la peine de] l’iniquité de la fille de mon peuple est plus grande, que [la peine du] péché de Sodome, qui a été renversée comme en un moment, et à laquelle les mains ne sont point lassées.

7 [Zajin.] Ses hommes honorables étaient plus nets que la neige, plus blancs que le lait; leur teint était plus vermeil que les pierres précieuses , et ils étaient polis comme un saphir.

8 [Heth.] Leur visage est plus noir que les ténèbres, on ne les connaît point par les rues; leur peau tient à leurs os; elle est devenue sèche comme du bois.

9 [Teth.] Ceux qui ont été mis à mort par l’épée, ont été plus heureux que ceux qui sont morts par la famine; à cause que ceux-ci se sont consumés peu à peu, étant transpercés par le défaut du revenu des champs.

10 [Jod.] Les mains des femmes, [naturellement] tendres, ont cuit leurs enfants, et ils leur ont été pour viande dans le temps de la calamité de la fille de mon peuple.

11 [Caph.] L’Eternel a accompli sa fureur, il a répandu l’ardeur de sa colère, et a allumé dans Sion le feu qui a dévoré ses fondements.

12 [Lamed.] Les Rois de la terre, et tous les habitants de la terre habitable n’eussent jamais cru que l’adversaire et l’ennemi fût entré dans les portes de Jérusalem.

13 [Mem.] Cela est arrivé à cause des péchés de ses prophètes, et des iniquités de ses Sacrificateurs, qui répandaient le sang des justes au milieu d’elle.

14 [Nun.] Les aveugles ont erré ça et là par les rues, [et] on était tellement souillé de sang, qu’ils ne pouvaient trouver à qui ils touchassent la robe.

15 [Samech.] On leur criait : retirez-vous, souillé, retirez-vous, retirez-vous, n’[y] touchez point. Certes ils s’en sont envolés, et ils ont été transportés ça et là; on a dit parmi les nations, ils n’y retourneront plus pour y séjourner.

16 [Pe.] La face de l’Eternel les a écartés, il ne continuera plus de les regarder. Ils n’ont point eu de respect pour la personne des Sacrificateurs, ni pitié des vieillards.

17 [Hajin.] Jusqu’ici nos yeux se sont consumés après notre aide de néant; nous avons regardé de dessus nos lieux élevés vers une nation qui ne peut pas délivrer.

18 [Tsadi.] Ils ont épié nos pas, afin que nous ne marchassions point par nos places; notre fin est approchée, nos jours sont accomplis; notre fin, dis-je, est venue.

19 [Koph.] Nos persécuteurs ont été plus légers que les aigles des cieux; ils nous ont poursuivis sur les montagnes, ils ont mis des embûches contre nous au désert.

20 [Resch.] Le souffle de nos narines, l’Oint de l’Eternel, a été pris dans leurs fosses, [celui] duquel nous disions : nous vivrons parmi les nations sous son ombre.

21 [Scin.] Réjouis-toi, et sois dans l’allégresse, fille d’Edom, qui demeures au pays de Huts; la coupe passera aussi vers toi, tu en seras enivrée, et tu t’en découvriras.

22 [Thau.] Fille de Sion, [la peine de] ton iniquité est accomplie, il ne te transportera plus; [mais] il visitera ton iniquité, ô fille d’Edom! il découvrira tes péchés.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 849

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849. Verse 1. And I saw, signifies a manifestation respecting the future separation of the good from the evil before the Last Judgment. This is evident from the signification of "I saw," as being the things seen by John, which now follow; these, regarded in the spiritual sense, treat of the calling together and assembling of the faithful, and their separation from the evil before the Last Judgment; and this is meant by the Lord by these words in Matthew:

They shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and glory; and He shall send His angels and shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other (Matthew 24:30, 31).

That chapter treats also of the Last Judgment, which is there meant by "the consummation of the age and the coming of the Lord." The gathering together of the good and their separation from the evil is there described by those words, as well as in this chapter (verses 14, 16), where the Son of man is described as sitting upon a white cloud with a sickle in His hand reaping the earth.

[2] Similar things in this chapter are meant also by these words of the Lord in Matthew:

The kingdom of the heavens is like unto a man that sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept his enemy came and sowed tares and went away. But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit then appeared the tares. And the servants came and said, Wilt thou then that going we gather them up? But he said, Nay, lest haply while ye gather up the tares ye root up at the same time the wheat with them. Rather let both grow together until the harvest; and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Collect first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn (Matthew 13:24-30).

Here the separation of the good from the evil, which was to take place at the time of the Last Judgment, is foretold by the Lord, and is meant by "Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Collect the tares to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn." The "tares" mean the evil, who will then be cast into hell, and the "wheat" means the good, who having been separated from the evil will be raised up into heaven. Similar things are meant in this chapter where it is said:

The hour for thee to reap is come; for the harvest is dried up. And he that sat upon the cloud cast in his sickle upon the earth; and the earth was reaped (verses 15, 16, and what follows).

Why the good were not separated from the evil previous to the time of the Last Judgment, and the good raised up to heaven and the evil cast into hell, can be seen in the work on The Last Judgment, and also above (n. 391, 392, 394, 397, 411, 413, 418, 419, 426, 489, 493, 497, 668, 669, 670, 674, 675, 676, 754).

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 10438

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10438. 'For evil He led them out, to kill them in the mountains' means that those with whom good exists will be destroyed. This is clear from the meaning of 'leading out to kill' as destroying, though when such words are used in reference to Jehovah, who never destroys anyone, being destroyed by their own evil is meant; and from the meaning of 'the mountains' as heaven, consequently the good of love. The origin of the meaning of 'the mountains' as heaven lies in representatives in the next life. Mountains, hills, rocks, valleys, and many more objects appear there, as on earth; and on the mountains there are those who abide in celestial love, on the hills those who abide in spiritual love, on the rocks those who abide in faith, and in the valleys those who have not as yet been raised up to the good of love and faith.

[2] Consequently by 'mountains' those in whom the good of celestial love exists, and so who inhabit the inmost heaven, are meant, and in the abstract sense forms of the good of celestial love, and so the heaven which abides in that love; by 'hills' those in whom the good of spiritual love exists, and so who inhabit the middle heaven, are meant, and in the abstract sense the good of that love and the heaven which abides in it; by 'rocks' those in whom the good of faith exists, and who consequently inhabit the lowest heaven, are meant, and in the abstract sense that good and that heaven; and by 'valleys' those who have not as yet been raised up to those kinds of good and so to heaven are meant. Because such objects appear in the next life and such realities are consequently meant by them, those objects have a like meaning in the Word, as do the mountains, hills, rocks, and valleys in the land of Canaan, by which heaven in its entirety was therefore represented.

[3] The fact that the heaven where the good of celestial love exists is meant by 'mountains' is evident from a large number of places in the Word, such as the following: In Isaiah,

In the latter days it will be, that the mountain of Jehovah will be on the top of the mountains, and raised above the hills. Isaiah 2:2; Micah 4:1.

In David,

The mountains will bring peace, and the hills, in righteousness. Psalms 72:3.

In the same author,

Praise Jehovah, mountains and all hills. Psalms 148:7, 9.

In the same author,

A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of hills is the mountain of Bashan. Why do you leap up, O mountains, hills of mountains? God desires to inhabit it; yes, Jehovah will inhabit it perpetually. Psalms 68:15-16.

In Moses,

... in regard to the firstfruits of the mountains of the east, and to the precious things of the everlasting hills 1 ... Let them come upon the head of Joseph. Deuteronomy 33:15-16.

Other places besides these contain the same meaning, see 795, 6435, 8327, 8658, 8758, 9422, 9434. All this explains why the Lord came down onto Mount Sinai; why the city of David was built on a mountain, and that mountain, which was called Mount Zion, means the inmost heaven; and also why the ancients performed holy acts of worship on mountains and hills, 2722.

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1. literally, the hills of the age

  
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