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Joel 1

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1 La parola del Signore, la quale fu indirizzata a Gioele, figliuolo di Petuel.

2 UDITE questo, o vecchi; e voi, tutti gli abitanti del paese, porgete l’orecchio. Avvenne egli mai a’ dì vostri, o mai a’ dì de’ padri vostri, una cotal cosa?

3 Raccontatela a’ vostri figliuoli; e raccontinla i vostri figliuoli a’ lor figliuoli, e i lor figliuoli alla generazione seguente.

4 La locusta ha mangiato il rimanente della ruca, e il bruco ha mangiato il rimanente della locusta, e il grillo ha mangiato il rimanente del bruco.

5 Destatevi, ubbriachi, e piangete; e voi bevitori di vino tutti, urlate per lo mosto; perciocchè egli vi è del tutto tolto di bocca.

6 Perciocchè è salita contro al mio paese, una nazione possente e innumerabile; i suoi denti son denti di leone, ed ha de’ mascellari di fiero leone.

7 Ha deserte le mie viti, e scorzati i miei fichi: li ha del tutto spogliati, e lasciati in abbandono; i lor rami son divenuti tutti bianchi.

8 Lamentati, come una vergine cinta di un sacco per lo marito della sua fanciullezza.

9 L’offerta di panatica, e da spandere, è del tutto mancata nella Casa del Signore; i sacerdoti, ministri del Signore, fanno cordoglio.

10 I campi son guasti, la terra fa cordoglio; perciocchè il frumento è stato guasto, il mosto è seccato, l’olio è venuto meno.

11 Lavoratori, siate confusi; urlate, vignaiuoli, per lo frumento, e per l’orzo; perciocchè la ricolta de’ campi è perita.

12 La vite è seccata, e il fico langue; il melagrano, ed anche la palma, e il melo, e tutti gli altri alberi della campagna son secchi; certo la letizia è seccata d’infra i figliuoli degli uomini.

13 Cingetevi di sacchi, e piangete, o sacerdoti; urlate, ministri dell’altare; venite, passate la notte in sacchi, ministri dell’Iddio mio; perciocchè l’offerta di panatica, e da spandere, è divietata dalla Casa dell’Iddio vostro.

14 Santificate il digiuno, bandite la solenne raunanza, radunate gli anziani, e tutti gli abitanti del paese, nella Casa del Signore Iddio vostro, e gridate al Signore:

15 Ahi lasso! l’orribil giorno! perciocchè il giorno del Signore è vicino, e verrà come un guasto fatto dall’Onnipotente.

16 Non è il cibo del tutto riciso d’innanzi agli occhi nostri? la letizia, e la gioia non è ella recisa dalla Casa dell’Iddio nostro?

17 Le granella son marcite sotto alle loro zolle; le conserve son deserte, i granai son distrutti; perciocchè il frumento è perito per la siccità.

18 Quanto hanno sospirato le bestie! e quanto sono state perplesse le mandre de’ buoi, perciocchè non vi è alcun pasco per loro! anche le gregge delle pecore sono state desolate.

19 O Signore, io grido a te; perciocchè il fuoco ha consumati i paschi del deserto, e la fiamma ha divampati tutti gli alberi della campagna.

20 Anche le bestie della campagna hanno agognato dietro a te; perciocchè i rivi delle acque son seccati, e il fuoco ha consumati i paschi del deserto.


To many Protestant and Evangelical Italians, the Bibles translated by Giovanni Diodati are an important part of their history. Diodati’s first Italian Bible edition was printed in 1607, and his second in 1641. He died in 1649. Throughout the 1800s two editions of Diodati’s text were printed by the British Foreign Bible Society. This is the more recent 1894 edition, translated by Claudiana.

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Shaddai

  

'Shaddai,' as in Genesis 43:14, signifies temptation, and consolation after temptation. This is because the ancients called the one and only God by various names according to the various things from Him. As they believed also that temptations are from Him, they called God on this occasion 'Shaddai,' but they did not mean another God, but the only God regarding temptations. When the ancient church declined, they began to worship as many gods as there were names of the one and only God. They also added several more. This custom was eventually so prevalent, that every family had its own god, and he was distinguished altogether from the rest which were worshipped by other families. The family of Terah, which Abraham came from, worshipped Shaddai for its God. So not only Abraham, but also Jacob, acknowledged Him as their God, and also in the land of Canaan. This was permitted for them, in case they should be forced from their religion. No one is forced away from what he regards as holy. As the ancients understood 'Shaddai' to be Jehovah himself or the Lord, as He was called when they underwent temptations, therefore Jehovah or the Lord took this name, when appearing to Abraham, as in Genesis 17:1, and appearing to Jacob, as in Genesis 35:11. 'Shaddai' does not mean temptation only, but also consolation, because all spiritual temptations are followed by consolation. When anyone in the other life suffers hardships from evil spirits, he is received by the angels and is brought into a state of comfort by delight agreeable to his disposition and temper.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 5628)

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Genesis 14

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1 It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

2 that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).

3 All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.

5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

8 The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;

9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.

10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.

11 They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.

12 They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.

14 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

15 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

17 The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).

18 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

19 He blessed him, and said, "blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:

20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.

21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."

22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

23 that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'

24 I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion."