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네가 올라오되 너와 네 모든 떼와 너와 함께한 많은 백성이 광풍같이 이르고 구름 같이 땅을 덮으리라
Arcana Coelestia # 988
988. 'Upon every bird of the air' 1 means over falsities that go with reasoning. This is clear from the meaning of 'a bird'. In the Word birds mean intellectual concepts - gentle, useful, and beautiful ones mean intellectual concepts that are true, but savage, useless, and ugly ones intellectual concepts that are false, that is, falsities that go with reasoning. That they mean intellectual concepts, see 40, 776, 870. From this it is also evident that birds mean reasonings and the falsities that go with them. To leave no one in any doubt, the places quoted below, in addition to what is mentioned in 866 concerning the raven, will serve to confirm the point. In Jeremiah,
I will visit them with four kinds [of destroyers], with the sword to slay, with dogs to tear, with the birds of the air, 1 and with the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. Jeremiah 15:3.
In Ezekiel,
Upon its ruin will dwell every bird of the air, 1 and on its branches will be every wild animal of the field. Ezekiel 37:13.
In Daniel,
At length upon the bird of abominations will come desolation. Daniel 9:27.
In John,
Babylon, a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. Revelation 18:1.
And the Prophets declare many times that dead bodies would be given as food to the birds of the air 1 and to the beasts of the earth, Jeremiah 7:33; 19:7; 34:20; Ezekiel 29:5; 39:4; Psalms 79:2; Isaiah 18:6. This meant that they would be destroyed by falsities, which are 'the birds of the air' 2 , and by evils or evil desires, which are 'the beasts of the earth'.
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Psalms 79
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God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
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They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
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Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
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We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
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How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
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Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; on the kingdoms that don't call on your name;
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For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
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Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
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Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.
10
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out.
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Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
12
Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
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So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant." A Psalm by Asaph.
