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1 Wie sitzt einsam die volkreiche Stadt, ist einer Witwe gleich geworden die Große unter den Nationen; die Fürstin unter den Landschaften ist zinsbar geworden!

2 Bitterlich weint sie des Nachts, und ihre Tränen sind auf ihren Wangen; sie hat keinen Tröster unter allen, die sie liebten; alle ihre Freunde haben treulos an ihr gehandelt, sind ihr zu Feinden geworden.

3 Juda ist ausgewandert vor Elend und vor schwerer Dienstbarkeit; es wohnt unter den Nationen, hat keine Ruhe gefunden; seine Verfolger haben es in der Bedrängnis ergriffen.

4 Die Wege Zions trauern, weil niemand zum Feste kommt; alle ihre Tore sind öde; ihre Priester seufzen; ihre Jungfrauen sind betrübt, und ihr selbst ist es bitter.

5 Ihre Bedränger sind zum Haupte geworden, ihre Feinde sind wohlgemut; denn Jehova hat sie betrübt wegen der Menge ihrer Übertretungen; vor dem Bedränger her sind ihre Kinder in Gefangenschaft gezogen.

6 Und von der Tochter Zion ist all ihre Pracht gewichen; ihre Fürsten sind wie Hirsche geworden, die keine Weide finden, und kraftlos gingen sie vor dem Verfolger einher.

7 In den Tagen ihres Elends und ihres Umherirrens gedenkt Jerusalem all ihrer Kostbarkeiten, die seit den Tagen der Vorzeit waren, da nun ihr Volk durch die Hand des Bedrängers gefallen ist und sie keinen Helfer hat: Die Bedränger sehen sie an, spotten ihres Feierns.

8 Jerusalem hat schwer gesündigt, darum ist sie wie eine Unreine geworden; alle, die sie ehrten, verachten sie, weil sie ihre Blöße gesehen haben; auch sie selbst seufzt und wendet sich ab.

9 Ihre Unreinigkeit ist an ihren Säumen; sie hat ihr Ende nicht bedacht und ist wunderbar heruntergekommen: Da ist niemand, der sie tröste. Sieh, Jehova, mein Elend, denn der Feind hat großgetan!

10 Der Bedränger hat seine Hand ausgebreitet über alle ihre Kostbarkeiten; denn sie hat gesehen, daß Nationen in ihr Heiligtum gekommen sind, von welchen du geboten hast: Sie sollen nicht in deine Versammlung kommen!

11 All ihr Volk seufzt, sucht nach Brot; sie geben ihre Kostbarkeiten für Speise hin, um sich zu erquicken. Sieh, Jehova, und schaue, daß ich verachtet bin!

12 Merket ihr es nicht, alle, die ihr des Weges ziehet? Schauet und sehet, ob ein Schmerz sei wie mein Schmerz, der mir angetan worden, mir, die Jehova betrübt hat am Tage seiner Zornglut.

13 Aus der Höhe hat er ein Feuer in meine Gebeine gesandt, daß es sie überwältigte; ein Netz hat er meinen Füßen ausgebreitet, hat mich zurückgewendet; er hat mich zur Wüste gemacht, siech den ganzen Tag.

14 Angeschirrt durch seine Hand ist das Joch meiner Übertretungen: Sie haben sich verflochten, sind auf meinen Hals gekommen; er hat meine Kraft gebrochen. Der Herr hat mich in Hände gegeben, daß ich mich nicht aufrichten kann.

15 Der Herr hat alle meine Starken weggerafft in meiner Mitte; er hat ein Fest wider mich ausgerufen, um meine Jünglinge zu zerschmettern; der Herr hat der Jungfrau, der Tochter Juda, die Kelter getreten.

16 Darüber weine ich, rinnt mein Auge, mein Auge von Wasser; denn fern von mir ist ein Tröster, der meine Seele erquicken könnte; meine Kinder sind vernichtet, denn der Feind hat obgesiegt.

17 Zion breitet ihre Hände aus: Da ist niemand, der sie tröste. Jehova hat seine Bedränger ringsum gegen Jakob entboten; wie eine Unreine ist Jerusalem unter ihnen geworden.

18 Jehova ist gerecht, denn ich bin widerspenstig gegen seinen Mund gewesen. Höret doch, ihr Völker alle, und sehet meinen Schmerz! Meine Jungfrauen und meine Jünglinge sind in die Gefangenschaft gezogen.

19 Ich rief meinen Liebhabern, sie aber betrogen mich; meine Priester und meine Ältesten sind in der Stadt verschieden, als sie für sich Speise suchten, damit sie ihre Seele erquicken möchten.

20 Sieh, Jehova, wie mir angst ist! Meine Eingeweide wallen, mein Herz wendet sich um in meinem Innern; denn ich bin sehr widerspenstig gewesen. Draußen hat mich das Schwert der Kinder beraubt, drinnen ist es wie der Tod.

21 Sie haben gehört, daß ich seufzte: Ich habe niemand, der mich tröstet! Alle meine Feinde haben mein Unglück gehört, haben sich gefreut, daß du es getan hast. Führst du den Tag herbei, den du verkündigt hast, so werden sie sein wie ich.

22 Laß alle ihre Bosheit vor dein Angesicht kommen und tue ihnen, wie du mir getan hast wegen aller meiner Übertretungen; denn viele sind meiner Seufzer, und mein Herz ist siech.

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Arcana Coelestia # 6078

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6078. 'For there is no pasture for the flock which belongs to your servants' means that factual knowledge holding forms of the good of truth is wanting. This is clear from the meaning of 'pasture for the flock' as factual knowledge holding forms of the good of truth, so that 'no pasture' means factual knowledge that does not hold any forms of the good of truth. In the internal sense 'pasture' is that which supports spiritual life; in particular it is truth contained in factual knowledge, for the human soul desires such truth just as the body desires food. Nourishment is derived from it, and for that reason 'feeding' means receiving instruction, 5201. That factual knowledge and truths sustain the human soul is quite evident from a person's desire for knowledge, as well as from the correspondence of food with factual knowledge, 1480, 3114, 4792, 5147, 5193, 5340, 5342, 5576, 5579, 5915. This correspondence also manifests itself when a person is eating food. If he eats it while talking and listening the vessels that receive the chyle are opened, and he is nourished more fully than if he is alone. Spiritual truths and instruction in them would have the same kind of effect on people if they were to have an affection for what is good. The fact that truths nourish spiritual life is revealed primarily among good spirits and among angels in heaven. Those spirits and angels have a constant desire to acquire knowledge and wisdom; and when they lack this spiritual food they feel desolate, listless, and famished. Nor are they refreshed and raised into the bliss of their life until their desires are satisfied. But if that factual knowledge is to yield the soul wholesome nourishment, that knowledge must contain life received from forms of the good of truth. If it does not contain life received from them factual knowledge still sustains a person's inner life, but his natural life, not his spiritual life.

[2] The meaning of 'pasture' in the internal sense as that which sustains a person's spiritual life is also evident from other places in the Word, as in Isaiah,

I have given you as a covenant to the people, to restore the land; to say to the bound, Go out, to those who are in darkness, Reveal yourselves. They will feed along the ways, and on all slopes will their pasture be. Isaiah 49:8-9.

'Feeding along the ways' stands for receiving instruction in truths, 'the ways' being truths, see 627, 2333, and 'feeding' receiving instruction, 5201. 'On all slopes will their pasture be' stands for being sustained with good, for 'slopes', like 'mountains' are forms of the good of love, 795, 796, 1430, 2722, 4210.

[3] In Jeremiah,

Woe to the shepherds destroying and scattering the flock of My pasture. Jeremiah 23:1.

'Pasture' stands for the kinds of things that sustain spiritual life. In the same prophet,

The princes of Zion have become like deer, they have not found pasture. Lamentations 1:6.

'They have not found pasture' stands for no truth of good.

[4] In Ezekiel,

I, even I will look for My sheep. I will feed them in a good pasture, and their fold will be on the mountains of the loftiness of Israel; there 1 they will lie down in a good fold, and on fat pasture they will feed upon the mountains of Israel. Ezekiel 34:11, 14.

'A good and fat pasture upon the mountains of Israel' stands for forms of the good of truth. In the same prophet,

Is it a small thing to you? You feed off the good pasture but tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures. Ezekiel 34:18.

Here the meaning is similar. In Hosea,

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought. When [they had] their pasture, they were filled; they were filled and their heart was exalted. Hosea 13:5-6.

In Joel,

The beasts groan, the herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture, even the flocks of sheep 2 are made desolate. Joel 1:18.

In David,

Jehovah is my Shepherd; He will make me lie down in green pasture; 3 He will lead me away to still waters; He will restore My soul. Psalms 23:1-3.

In the same author,

Jehovah made us and not we ourselves, His people and the flock of His pasture; therefore we are His, His people, and the flock of His pasture. 4 Psalms 100:3.

[5] 'Pasture' in these quotations stands for the truths in which a person receives instruction, here the kinds of things which have regard to spiritual life. For the nature of spiritual life is such that if it lacks that pasture it languishes and so to speak fades away, like the body when it lacks food. The fact that 'pasture' is the goodness and truth that refresh and sustain a person's soul or spirit is plain from the Lord's words in John,

I am the door. If anyone enters through Me he will be saved, and will go in and out, and find pasture. John 10:9.

'Pasture' stands for the forms of good and the truths which those people have who acknowledge the Lord and seek life from Him alone.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Reading there (ibi) for thus (ita)

2. literally, small cattle or livestock

3. literally, pasture of the plant

4. The first and second halves of this sentence are in fact alternative ways of understanding the original Hebrew.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 5342

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5342. 'And laid up food in the cities' means that it stored them - truths linked to good - in the interior parts. This is clear from the meaning here of 'laying up' as storing; from the meaning of 'food' as truth linked to good, dealt with just above in 5340; and from the meaning of 'the cities' as the interior parts of the natural mind, dealt with above in 5297. The idea that truths linked to good are stored in the interior parts of the natural mind, and are preserved there for use subsequently in life, in particular for use in temptations when a person is being regenerated, is an arcanum known to few at the present day. Therefore the nature of this arcanum must be stated. The seven years of abundance of corn mean the truths multiplied initially, and the storage of grain in the cities, in the midst of them, means that those truths linked to good were stored away in a person's interior parts. The seven years of famine and the sustainment provided by the bunches that had been gathered means the state of regeneration effected by means of the truths that had been linked to good and stored away in the interior parts.

[2] The arcanum is this: During the time from earliest infancy through to early childhood a person is led by the Lord into heaven; indeed he is placed among celestial angels who serve to keep him in a state of innocence. This state which infants pass through until early childhood is a well-known one. At the beginning of childhood a gradual shedding of that state of innocence takes place; but even so, the person is kept in a state of charity through the charitable affection which he and his companions feel for one another. During this state, which with many people lasts through to adolescence, he is among spiritual angels. Because he begins at this time to think from what is within himself and to act in accordance with this, he cannot be kept any longer in charity, as he was previously; for now he calls on hereditary evils and allows them to lead him. Once this state has arrived the forms of the good of charity and innocence adopted by him previously are banished, to the extent that forms of evil are present in his thinking and are reinforced by his actions. Actually those forms of good are not banished but are withdrawn by the Lord to interior parts where they are stored away.

[3] But because he does not as yet know any truths, those forms of the good of innocence and charity which he has adopted during those two states do not possess any qualities as yet; for truths give good its qualities, while good gives truths their essence. From this time of life onwards therefore he is being equipped with truths by means of the teaching he receives, and especially by means of his own thoughts about and consequent verification of those truths. Insofar as he is moved at this time by an affection for good, the Lord joins truths to good in him, 5340, and stores them away for [future] use. This is the state that is meant by the seven years of abundance of corn. These truths linked to good are the ones which in a proper sense are called remnants. In the measure therefore that a person allows himself to be regenerated, the remnants serve a useful purpose; for the Lord draws in the same measure on that store of remnants and returns them to the natural. As a result a correspondence of exterior things with interior ones, or natural things with spiritual ones, is brought about; and this happens in the state that is meant by 'the seven years of famine'. This is the arcanum.

[4] At the present day the member of the Church thinks that no matter what anyone's life is like he can nevertheless by an act of mercy be accepted into heaven and enjoy eternal blessedness there; for the member of the Church imagines that it is simply a matter of being let in. But he is much mistaken, because no one can be let into heaven and find acceptance there unless he has acquired spiritual life, and no one can acquire spiritual life unless he is being regenerated, and no one can undergo regeneration except by means of goodness of life coupled to truth taught by doctrine. This is the way spiritual life is acquired by him. The fact that no one can enter heaven unless he has acquired spiritual life through regeneration is stated plainly by the Lord in John,

Truly, truly I say to you, Unless anyone is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 9:9.

And just after this,

Truly, truly I say to you, Unless a person has been born from water and the spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. John 3:5.

'Water' is the truth taught by doctrine, 2702, 3058, 3424, 4976, and 'the spirit' is goodness of life. No one enters the kingdom simply through being baptized; rather, baptism is the sign denoting regeneration which the member of the Church should call to mind.

  
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