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1 Lytt, I himler, og jeg vil tale, og jorden høre på min munns ord!

2 Som regnet risle min lære, som duggen dryppe mitt ord, som regnskur på grønne spirer, som byger på urter og gress!

3 For Herrens navn vil jeg forkynne; gi vår Gud ære!

4 Klippen! - fullkomment er hans verk, for rettferd er alle hans veier; en trofast Gud, uten svik, rettferdig og rettvis er han.

5 Skulde han ha ført fordervelse over sitt folk! Nei, hans barn de har skammen - en vanartet og vrang slekt.

6 Lønner I Herren således, du dårlige og uvise folk? Er han ikke din far, som gjorde dig til sin eiendom? Han skapte dig og dannet dig.

7 Kom de eldgamle dager i hu, gi akt på årene fra slekt til slekt! Spør din far, han vil kunngjøre dig det - dine gamle, de vil si dig det.

8 Da den Høieste gav folkene arv, da han skilte menneskenes barn, satte han folkenes landemerker efter tallet på Israels barn.

9 For Herrens del er hans folk, Jakob er hans arvelodd.

10 Han fant ham i et øde land, i villmarken, blandt ørkenens hyl; han vernet om ham, han våket over ham, han voktet ham som sin øiesten.

11 Som ørnen vekker sitt rede og svever over sine unger, således bredte han ut sine vinger, tok ham op og bar ham på sine slagfjær.

12 Det var Herren alene som førte ham, og ingen fremmed gud var med ham.

13 Han lot ham fare frem over jordens høider, og han åt markens grøde, og han lot ham suge honning av klippen og olje av hårdeste sten,

14 rømme av kyr og melk av får og fett av lam og av vær fra Basan og av bukker og hvetens feteste marg; og druers blod drakk du, skummende vin.

15 Da blev Jesurun* fet og slo bak ut - du blev fet og tykk og stinn; han forlot Gud, som hadde skapt ham, og foraktet sin frelses klippe. / {* d.e. det opriktige, rettskafne folk; så kalles Israel fordi det skulde tjene Herren i opriktighet.}

16 De vakte hans nidkjærhet ved fremmede guder; ved vederstyggelige avguder vakte de hans harme.

17 De ofret til maktene*, som ikke er Gud, til guder som de ikke kjente, nye og nyss opkommet, som eders fedre ikke reddedes for. / {* d.e. avgudene.}

18 Klippen, ditt ophav, enset du ikke; du glemte Gud, han som fødte dig.

19 Og Herren så det og forkastet dem, han harmedes over sine sønner og sine døtre.

20 Og han sa: Jeg vil skjule mitt åsyn for dem, jeg vil se hvad ende det vil ta med dem; for en vrang slekt er de, barn i hvem det ingen troskap er.

21 De vakte min nidkjærhet ved det som ikke er Gud, de vakte min harme ved sine tomme avguder. Også jeg vil vekke deres nidkjærhet ved det som ikke er et folk; ved et uforstandig folk vil jeg vekke deres harme.

22 For en ild er optendt i min vrede og brenner til dypeste dødsrike; den fortærer landet og dets grøde og setter fjellenes grunnvoller i brand.

23 Jeg vil samle ulykker over dem; alle de piler jeg har, vil jeg bruke imot dem.

24 De skal utsuges av sult og fortæres av brennende feber og giftig sott; villdyrs tann vil jeg sende imot dem og edder av ormen som kryper i støvet.

25 Ute skal sverdet, inne i kammerne redsel bortrive både unge menn og jomfruer, det diende barn og den gråhårede mann.

26 Jeg vilde ha sagt: Jeg vil blåse dem bort, jeg vil slette ut minnet om dem blandt menneskene,

27 dersom jeg ikke hadde fryktet for at fiendene skulde krenke mig, at deres motstandere skulde mistyde det og si: Det var vår hånd som var så sterk; det var ikke Herren som gjorde alt dette.

28 For de er et folk uten visdom; der er ikke forstand hos dem.

29 Dersom de var vise, vilde de forstå dette, skjønne hvad ende det vil ta med dem.

30 Hvorledes kunde én forfølge tusen, og to drive ti tusen på flukt, hvis ikke deres klippe hadde solgt dem, og Herren overgitt dem?

31 For deres klippe er ikke som vår klippe - det kan våre fiender selv vidne!

32 For deres vin-tre er av Sodomas vin-tre og fra Gomorras marker; deres druer er giftige druer, de har beske klaser.

33 Deres vin er slangers brennende gift og fryktelig ormeedder.

34 Er ikke dette gjemt hos mig, under segl i mine forrådskammer?

35 Mig hører hevn og gjengjeldelse til på den tid da deres fot vakler; for deres undergangs dag er nær, og hastig kommer det som venter dem.

36 For Herren skal dømme sitt folk, og det skal gjøre ham ondt for sine tjenere, når han ser at deres makt er borte, og at det er ute både med store og små.

37 Og han skal si: Hvor er deres guder - klippen som de satte sin lit til -

38 de som åt deres slaktoffers fett og drakk deres drikkoffers vin? La dem reise sig og hjelpe eder! La dem være eders vern!

39 Nu ser I at det er mig, og at der er ingen Gud foruten mig. Jeg gjør død og gjør levende, jeg sårer, og jeg læger, og det er ingen som redder av min hånd.

40 For jeg løfter min hånd mot himmelen og sier: Så sant jeg lever til evig tid:

41 Når jeg hvesser mitt lynende sverd og tar dommen i min hånd, da vil jeg føre hevn over mine fiender og gjengjelde dem som hater mig;

42 jeg vil gjøre mine piler drukne av blod, og mitt sverd skal ete kjøtt, blod av falne og fangne, av fiendtlige høvdingers hode.

43 Pris, I hedninger, hans folk! For han hevner sine tjeneres blod; over sine fiender fører han hevn og gjør soning for sitt land, for sitt folk.

44 kom da Moses og fremsa hele denne sang for folket, han og Hosea, Nuns sønn.

45 Og da Moses var ferdig med å tale alle disse ord til hele Israel,

46 sa han til dem: Akt på alle de ord som jeg idag gjør til et vidne mot eder, og byd eders barn å ta vare på dem, så de holder alle ordene i denne lov!

47 For dette er ikke noget tomt ord for eder, men det er eders liv, og ved dette ord skal I leve lenge i det land I nu drar til over Jordan og skal ta i eie.

48 Samme dag talte Herren til Moses og sa:

49 Gå op på Abarim-fjellet her, på Nebo-fjellet i Moabs land midt imot Jeriko, og se ut over Kana'ans land, som jeg gir Israels barn til eiendom,

50 Og der på fjellet som du går op på, skal du og samles til dine fedre, likesom Aron, din bror, døde på fjellet Hor og blev samlet til sine fedre,

51 fordi I syndet mot mig blandt Israels barn ved Meribas vann i Kades i ørkenen Sin og ikke helliget mig blandt Israels barn.

52 Du skal få se landet midt foran dig, men du skal ikke komme inn i det land som jeg gir Israels barn.

   

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1159. And all fat and splendid things are departed from thee, signifies that all things good and true and satisfying and grand, which they were persuaded they would secure through that religious persuasion, are turned into opposites. This is evident from the signification of "fat things," as being what is good and thus satisfying (of which presently); also from the signification of "splendid things," as being what is true and thus grand. This is the signification of "splendid things," because splendor is from light, and the light of heaven is the Divine truth or the Divine wisdom, from which all things in the heavens shine with a splendor such as does not exist in the world; it may be compared with the splendor of a diamond turned to the sun, although the splendor seen in heaven exceeds this beyond measure, as the light of heaven exceeds the light of the world, with a difference so great that while it may be illustrated by comparisons it cannot be described. From that light all things magnificent in the heavens exist, which consist principally of forms corresponding to wisdom, which are such as can in no way be pictured in the world, and consequently cannot be described, for in them art itself is in its art, and knowledge in its wisdom, consequently they are of ineffable beauty. From all this it is clear why "splendid things" signify what is true and thus grand.

[2] "Fat things" signify what is good and thus satisfying, because the fat is the best part of flesh and because it resembles oil, which signifies the good of love. That "fatness" signifies good and things pertaining to good, thus satisfactions and joys, can be seen from the following passages in the Word. In Isaiah:

In hearkening hearken unto Me, and eat ye that which is good, that your soul may be delighted in fatness (Isaiah 55:2).

"To eat that which is good" signifies to appropriate good to oneself; therefore "to be delighted in fatness" signifies to be in a state of satisfaction and blessedness. In Jeremiah:

I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness, and My people shall be satisfied with good (Jeremiah 31:14).

Here, too, "fatness" signifies satisfaction and blessedness from the good of love. In David:

With fat and fatness my soul shall be satisfied, and my mouth will praise Thee with lips of songs (Psalms 63:5).

"To have the soul satisfied with fat and fatness" signifies to be filled with the good of love and consequent joy; "to praise with lips of songs" signifies to worship by truths that gladden the mind. In the same:

They shall be filled with the fatness of Thy house, and Thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy pleasures (Psalms 36:8).

The "fatness" with which the house shall be filled signifies the good of love and consequent satisfaction, "house" being the things of the mind; "the river of pleasures" that he will make them to drink of signifies intelligence and consequent happiness.

[3] In Isaiah:

In this mountain shall Jehovah of Hosts make to all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of lees, of fat things of marrows, and of lees well refined (Isaiah 25:6).

This is said of the state of those who will acknowledge and worship the Lord. That "mountain" signifies a new church from these, "a feast of fat things, of fat things of marrows," signifies both natural and spiritual good with joy of heart, and "lees, and lees well refined" signify truths from that good with happiness from them. In the same:

Jehovah shall give the rain of thy seed with which thou shalt sow the land, and bread of the produce of the land, and it shall be fat and plenteous (Isaiah 30:23).

"Rain of seed" signifies the multiplication of truth, and "bread of produce" signifies fructification of good; "fat and plenteous" signifies good and truth with all satisfaction and happiness. In David:

They shall still have increase in old age, they shall be fat and green, to proclaim that Jehovah is upright (Psalms 92:14-15).

"To be fat and green" signifies to be in the goods and truths of doctrine. In the same:

Jehovah shall remember all thy offerings and shall make fat thy burnt-offering (Psalms 20:3).

"Offerings and burnt-offering" signify worship, and to "make fat" signifies worship from the good of love. "Fatness" has the same signification in Ezekiel 34:3; Genesis 27:39 elsewhere. As "fat and fatness" signified the good of love, and all worship which is truly worship must be from the good of love, therefore:

It was appointed that all the fat and fatness in the sacrifices should be burnt on the altar (Exodus 29:13, 22; Leviticus 1:8; 3:3-16; 4:8-35; 7:3-4, 30-31; 17:6; Numbers 18:17-18).

For "sacrifices and burnt-offerings" signified worship.

[4] As the Jewish and Israelitish nation was only in external worship, and not also in internal worship, and in consequence was in no good of love and in no good of charity and faith:

It was forbidden them to eat the fat and blood, and it was declared that they would be cut off if they should eat them (Leviticus 3:17; 7:23, 25).

But to those who are in internal worship and from that in external worship, such as those must be who will be of the Lord's New Church, it is said:

That they shall eat fat till they be full, and drink blood till they be drunken (Ezekiel 39:19);

"fat" here signifying all the good of heaven and of the church, and "blood" all their truth. In the contrary sense those who are "fat" signify those who are nauseated at good, or who at least despise and reject it (Deuteronomy 32:15; Jeremiah 5:28; 50:11; Psalms 17:10; 20:4; 68:31; 119:70 elsewhere).

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[5] But such is not the lot of those who are permanently evil. All who are permanently evil are in hell according to the loves of their life; and there they think and speak from thought, although they speak falsities, and they will and from will do, although they do evils. Moreover, to one another they appear like men, although in the light of heaven they have monstrous forms. From this it can be seen why it is according to a law of order relating to reformation, which is called a law of Divine providence, that man is not let into the truths of faith and the goods of love except so far as he can be withheld from evils and held in goods even to the end of life, and that it is better for a man to be permanently evil than that he be good and afterwards evil, for thus he becomes profane. It is for this reason that the Lord, who provides all things and foresees all things, hides the operations of His providence, even to the extent that man scarcely knows whether there be any providence whatever, and man is permitted to attribute what he does to prudence, and what happens to him to fortune, and even to ascribe many things to nature, rather than that he should, through conspicuous and clear indications of the Divine providence and presence, plunge unseasonably into sanctities in which he will not continue. The Lord also permits like things by other laws of His providence, namely, by these, that man should have freedom, and that he should do whatever he does according to reason, thus wholly as if of himself, for it is better for a man to ascribe the workings of the Divine providence to prudence and fortune than to acknowledge them and still live as a devil. From this it is clear that the laws of permission, which are many, proceed from the laws of providence.

  
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Numbers 16

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1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]:

2 and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown;

3 and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, "You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of Yahweh?"

4 When Moses heard it, he fell on his face:

5 and he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, "In the morning Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him: even him whom he shall choose he will cause to come near to him.

6 Do this: take censers, Korah, and all his company;

7 and put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom Yahweh chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!"

8 Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you sons of Levi!

9 Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Yahweh, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;

10 and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and do you seek the priesthood also?

11 Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against Yahweh: and Aaron, what is he that you murmur against him?"

12 Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, "We won't come up:

13 is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?

14 Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? We won't come up."

15 Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, "Don't respect their offering: I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them."

16 Moses said to Korah, "You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow:

17 and each man take his censer, and put incense on them, and each man bring before Yahweh his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer."

18 They each took his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.

19 Korah assembled all the congregation against them to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the congregation.

20 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

21 "Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!"

22 They fell on their faces, and said, "God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?"

23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

24 "Speak to the congregation, saying, 'Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!'"

25 Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

26 He spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!"

27 So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.

28 Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of my own mind.

29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yahweh hasn't sent me.

30 But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh."

31 It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that was under them;

32 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.

33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

34 All Israel that were around them fled at the cry of them; for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!"

35 Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

36 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

37 "Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire yonder; for they are holy,

38 even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before Yahweh; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel."

39 Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,

40 to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.

41 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed Yahweh's people!"

42 It happened, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the Tent of Meeting: and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Yahweh appeared.

43 Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of Meeting.

44 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

45 "Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!" They fell on their faces.

46 Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun."

47 Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague has begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.

48 He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

49 Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.

50 Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the plague was stayed.