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Klagelieder 4

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1 Wie ist das Gold so gar verdunkelt und das feine Gold so häßlich worden, und liegen die Steine des Heiligtums vorne auf allen Gassen zerstreuet!

2 Die edlen Kinder Zions, dem Golde gleich geachtet, wie sind sie nun den irdenen Töpfen verglichen, die ein Töpfer macht!

3 Die Drachen reichen die Brüste ihren Jungen und säugen sie; aber die Tochter meines Volks muß unbarmherzig sein, wie ein Strauß in der Wüste.

4 Dem Säugling klebt seine Zunge an seinem Gaumen vor Durst; die jungen Kinder heischen Brot, und ist niemand, der es ihnen breche.

5 Die vorhin das Niedlichste aßen, verschmachten jetzt auf den Gassen; die vorhin in Seiden erzogen sind, die müssen jetzt im Kot liegen.

6 Die Missetat der Tochter meines Volks ist größer denn die Sünde Sodoms, die plötzlich umgekehret ward, und kam keine Hand dazu.

7 Ihre Nazaräer waren reiner denn der Schnee und klarer denn Milch; ihre Gestalt war rötlicher denn Korallen; ihr Ansehen war wie Saphir.

8 Nun aber ist ihre Gestalt so dunkel vor Schwärze, daß man sie auf den Gassen nicht kennet; ihre Haut hänget an den Beinen, und sind so dürre als ein Scheit.

9 Den Erwürgten durchs Schwert geschah baß weder denen, so da Hungers starben, die verschmachteten und erstochen wurden vom Mangel der Früchte des Ackers.

10 Es haben die barmherzigsten Weiber ihre Kinder selbst müssen kochen, daß sie zu essen hätten in dem Jammer der Tochter meines Volks.

11 Der HERR hat seinen Grimm vollbracht, er hat seinen grimmigen Zorn ausgeschüttet; er hat zu Zion ein Feuer angesteckt, das auch ihre Grundfesten verzehret hat.

12 Es hätten's die Könige auf Erden nicht geglaubt noch alle Leute in der Welt, daß der Widerwärtige und Feind sollte zum Tore Jerusalems einziehen.

13 Es ist aber geschehen um der Sünde willen ihrer Propheten und um der Missetat willen ihrer Priester, die drinnen der Gerechten Blut vergossen.

14 Sie gingen hin und her auf den Gassen wie die Blinden und waren mit Blut besudelt und konnten auch jener Kleider nicht anrühren,

15 sondern riefen sie an: Weichet, ihr Unreinen; weichet, weichet; rühret nichts an! Denn sie scheueten sich vor jenen und flohen sie, daß man auch unter den Heiden sagte: Sie werden nicht lange da bleiben.

16 Darum hat sie des HERRN Zorn zerstreuet und will sie nicht mehr ansehen, weil sie die Priester nicht ehreten und mit den Ältesten keine Barmherzigkeit übten.

17 Noch gafften unsere Augen auf die nichtige Hilfe, bis sie gleich müde wurden, da wir warteten auf ein Volk, das uns doch nicht helfen konnte.

18 Man jagte uns, daß wir auf unsern Gassen nicht gehen durften. Da kam auch unser Ende; unsere Tage sind aus, unser Ende ist kommen.

19 Unsere Verfolger waren schneller denn die Adler unter dem Himmel; auf den Bergen haben sie uns verfolget und in der Wüste auf uns gelauert.

20 Der Gesalbte des HERRN, der unser Trost war, ist gefangen worden, da sie uns verstörten, des wir uns trösteten, wir wollten unter seinem Schatten leben unter den Heiden.

21 Ja, freue dich und sei fröhlich, du Tochter Edom, die du wohnest im Lande Uz; denn der Kelch wird auch über dich kommen, du mußt auch trunken und geblößet werden.

22 Aber deine Missetat hat ein Ende, du Tochter Zion; er wird dich nicht mehr lassen wegführen; aber deine Missetat, du Tochter Edom, wird er heimsuchen und deine Sünden aufdecken.

   

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2383. That 'they struck with blindness' means that they were filled with falsities is clear from the meaning of 'blindness'. In the Word blindness is used in reference to people who are immersed in falsity, and also to people who have no knowledge of the truth. Both kinds of people are called blind, though who are meant in any one place becomes clear from the train of thought, especially that in the internal sense. That those immersed in falsity are called 'blind' is clear from the following places: In Isaiah,

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark. Isaiah 56:10.

'Blind watchmen' stands for those who, because of reasoning, are immersed in falsity. In the same prophet,

We look for light, and, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in thick darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind. Isaiah 59:9-10,

In Jeremiah,

They went astray blind in the streets; they defiled themselves with blood. Things which have no power they touch with their garments. Lamentations 4:14.

This stands for the fact that all truths have been defiled, 'streets' standing for truths in which they have gone astray, 2336.

[2] In Zechariah,

On that day I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. Every horse of the peoples I will strike with blindness. Zechariah 12:4.

Here and elsewhere in the Word 'a horse' stands for what has to do with the understanding. This is why it is said that the horse would be struck with panic, and [every] horse of the peoples with blindness, that is, it would be filled with falsities.

[3] In John,

For judgement I came into the world, that those who do not see may see, but that those who see may become blind. Some of the Pharisees heard these words and said, Are we also blind? Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see', therefore your sin remains. John 9:39-41.

Here the blind in both senses are referred to, that is to say, those who are immersed in falsity and those who have no knowledge of truth. With those inside the Church who know what the truth is, 'blindness' is falsity; but with those who do not know what the truth is, as with those outside the Church, 'blindness' is having no knowledge of the truth. The latter are blameless.

[4] In the same gospel,

He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their heart and I heal them. John 12:40; Isaiah 6:9-11.

The meaning here is that it would be better for falsities to exist with them than truths, for they lead a life of evil and if they received instruction in truths they would not only continue to falsify them but would also pollute them with evils. They would do so for the same reason that the men of Sodom were struck with blindness, that is, matters of doctrine were filled with falsities. Why this is done has been shown in 301-303, 593, 1008, 1010, 1059, 1327, 1328, 2426.

[5] Because 'blind' meant that which was false, therefore people were not allowed in the Jewish representative Church to sacrifice anything blind, Leviticus 22:22; Deuteronomy 15:21; Malachi 1:8. Also any priest who was blind was forbidden to approach and offer on the altar, Leviticus 21:18, 21.

[6] That 'blindness' is used in reference to those, like gentiles, who have no knowledge of the truth, is clear in Isaiah,

On that day the deaf will hear the words of the Book, and out of thick darkness and out of darkness the eyes of the blind will see. Isaiah 29:18.

'The blind' stands for people who have no knowledge of the truth, chiefly those who are outside the Church. In the same prophet,

Bring forth the blind people and they will have eyes; and the deaf, and they will have ears. Isaiah 43:8.

This refers to the Church of the gentiles. In the same prophet,

I will lead the blind in a way they do not know; I will turn the darkness before them into light. Isaiah 42:16.

[7] In the same prophet,

I will give You to be a light of the people, to open the blind eyes, to bring the bound out of the dungeon, from the prison-house those who sit in darkness. Isaiah 42:6-7.

This refers to the Lord's Coming and the fact that at that time people who had no knowledge of truth were to receive instruction. For those immersed in falsity do not allow themselves to receive such instruction, for they know the truth but have set themselves against it and have turned the light of truth into darkness which is not dispelled. In Luke,

The householder said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor, and the maimed, and the lame, and the blind. Luke 14:21.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom. Not those who are literally poor, maimed, lame, and blind are meant but those who are so in the spiritual sense.

[8] In the same gospel,

Jesus said that they were to report to John: The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have the gospel preached to them. Luke 7:22.

According to the sense of the letter nobody else is meant by the blind, the lame, lepers, the deaf, the dead, and the poor than those who were so physically, for such cures did take place, that is to say, the blind received sight, the deaf hearing, lepers were restored to health, and the dead to life.

[9] But in the internal sense the same people are meant as are referred to in

Isaiah,

Then will be opened the eyes of the blind, and the ears of the deaf will be opened; then will the lame man leap like a hart, and the dumb man sing with his tongue. Isaiah 35:5-6.

This refers to the Lord's Coming and a new Church at that time called the Church of the gentiles who are described as being blind, deaf, lame, and dumb; they were so called as regards their doctrine and life. For it should be recognized that all the miracles which the Lord performed always embodied such matters and therefore meant the things which the blind, the lame, lepers, the deaf, the dead, and the poor are used to mean in the internal sense. Consequently the Lord's miracles were Divine, as also those performed in Egypt, in the wilderness, and all the rest described in the Word, had been. This is an arcanum.

  
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