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Habakuk 3

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1 Dies ist das Gebet des Propheten Habakuk für die Unschuldigen:

2 HERR, ich habe dein Gerücht gehört, daß ich mich entsetze. HERR, mache dein Werk lebendig mitten in den Jahren und laß es kund werden mitten in den Jahren. Wenn Trübsal da ist, so denke der Barmherzigkeit.

3 Gott kam vom Mittag und der Heilige vom Gebirge Pharan. (Sela.) Seines Lobes war der Himmel voll, und seiner Ehre war die Erde voll.

4 Sein Glanz war wie ein Licht; Strahlen gingen von seinen Händen; darin war verborgen seine Macht.

5 Vor ihm her ging Pestilenz, und Plage ging aus, wo er hin trat.

6 Er stand und maß die Erde, er schaute und machte beben die Heiden, daß zerschmettert wurden die Berge, die von alters her sind, und sich bücken mußten die ewigen Hügel, da er wie vor alters einherzog.

7 Ich sah der Mohren Hütten in Not und der Midianiter Gezelte betrübt.

8 Warst du nicht zornig, HERR, in der Flut und dein Grimm in den Wassern und dein Zorn im Meer, da du auf deinen Rossen rittest und deine Wagen den Sieg behielten?

9 Du zogst den Bogen hervor, wie du geschworen hattest den Stämmen (sela!), und verteiltest die Ströme ins Land.

10 Die Berge sahen dich, und ihnen ward bange; der Wasserstrom fuhr dahin, die Tiefe ließ sich hören, die Höhe hob die Hände auf.

11 Sonne und Mond standen still. Deine Pfeile fuhren mit Glänzen dahin und dein Speere mit Leuchten des Blitzes.

12 Du zertratest das Land im Zorn und zerdroschest die Heiden im Grimm.

13 Du zogst aus, deinem Volk zu helfen, zu helfen deinem Gesalbten; du zerschmettertest das Haupt im Hause des Gottlosen und entblößtest die Grundfeste bis an den Hals. (Sela.)

14 Du durchbohrtest mit seinen Speeren das Haupt seiner Scharen, die wie ein Wetter kamen, mich zu zerstreuen, und freuten sich, als fräßen sie die Elenden im Verborgenen.

15 Deine Rosse gingen im Meer, im Schlamm großer Wasser.

16 Weil ich solches hörte, bebt mein Leib, meine Lippen zittern von dem Geschrei; Eiter geht in meine Gebeine, und meine Kniee beben, dieweil ich ruhig harren muß bis auf die Zeit der Trübsal, da wir hinaufziehen zum Volk, das uns bestreitet.

17 Denn der Feigenbaum wird nicht grünen, und wird kein Gewächs sein an den Weinstöcken; die Arbeit am Ölbaum ist vergeblich, und die Äcker bringen keine Nahrung; und Schafe werden aus den Hürden gerissen, und werden keine Rinder in den Ställen sein.

18 Aber ich will mich freuen des HERRN und fröhlich sein in Gott, meinem Heil.

19 Denn der HERR ist meine Kraft und wird meine Füße machen wie Hirschfüße und wird mich auf meine Höhen führen. Vorzusingen auf meinem Saitenspiel.

   

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3241. 'And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim' means the derivatives from the second division. This becomes clear from the representation of 'Dedan' as those governed by the good of faith, or to be precise, those governed by the truth of faith derived from good, 3240 (end). The fact that they are derivatives from the second division is self-evident. These three sons mean in particular the truths of faith derived from good, though just what each one means can indeed be stated but not confirmed from elsewhere in the Word since they are not mentioned again.

[2] In the Lord's kingdom there are countless variations to goods and truths, yet all those countless variations make up one heaven. Indeed there are so many that one community is in no sense exactly like another, that is, governed by the same good and truth, see 684, 685, 690. One heaven there is made up of many varying parts arranged by the Lord in such a way that they all accord. This accordance or harmony of the many is effected by the Lord through the relationship which each of them has to Him, 551. It is like the organs, members, and viscera of the body. None is exactly like another. Yet although they are all different from one another they nevertheless make one, through the relatedness of them all to one soul, and through this soul to heaven and so to the Lord. For anything that has no connection with the Lord is in reality nothing. From this it may be seen that specific differences in truth and good are countless. But the kinds of these, indeed the most general kinds, which belong to the spiritual Church, are meant by these sons and grandsons of Abraham by Keturah.

[3] Because members of the spiritual Church do not have perception, as those of the celestial Church do, of what good and truth are, but instead acknowledge as truths things which they have had to learn, they are therefore constantly engaged in discussion about them and in reasoning whether they are true. Everybody adheres to the teaching which his own Church upholds and calls it the truth. This is what gives rise to so many differences. Furthermore the majority make their minds up about goods and truths from appearances and illusions - each one in a different way from another. But no one does so from any perception; indeed they do not know what perception is. Since their understanding is so darkened as regards goods and truths of faith, it is no wonder that disagreements exist about the most essential truth of all, that is to say, about the Lord's Divine, His Human, and His Holy proceeding from these. Those who are celestial perceive that these are not three but one, but in the case of those who are spiritual a mental image of three remains, though they are willing to think of them as one. Since therefore disagreements exist regarding this most essential truth, it may be seen that the variations and differences in matters of doctrine are countless. From this one may know the origin of the derivatives meant by the names of those mentioned at this point. But although there are so many variations and differences in matters of doctrine, or so many derivatives, nevertheless they all together form one Church when everyone acknowledges charity to be the essential thing of the Church, or what amounts to the same, when everyone regards life as the end in view of doctrine - that is, when everyone asks, How does a member of the Church live? rather than, What does he think? For in the next life everyone is allotted a place by the Lord that accords with the good constituting his life, not with the truth he knows from doctrine separated from that good.

  
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