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Jeremias 49

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1 A respeito dos filhos de Amom. Assim diz o Senhor: Acaso Israel não tem filhos? Não tem herdeiro? Por que, então, possui Milcom a Gade, e o seu povo habita nas suas cidades?

2 Portanto, eis que vêm os dias, diz o Senhor, em que farei ouvir contra Rabá dos filhos de Amom o alarido de guerra, e tornar-se-á num montão de ruínas, e os seus arrabaldes serão queimados a fogo; então Israel deserdará aos que e deserdaram a ele, diz o Senhor.

3 Uiva, ó Hesbom, porque é destruída Ai; clamai, ó filhas de Rabá, cingi-vos de sacos; lamentai, e dai voltas pelas sebes; porque Milcom irá em cativeiro, juntamente com os seus sacerdotes e os seus príncipes.

4 Por que te glorias nos vales, teus luxuriantes vales, ó filha apóstata? que confias nos teus tesouros, dizendo: Quem virá contra mim?

5 Eis que farei vir sobre ti pavor, diz o Senhor Deus dos exércitos, de todos os que estão ao redor de ti; e sereis lançados fora, cada um para diante, e ninguém recolherá o desgarrado.

6 Mas depois disto farei voltar do cativeiro os filhos de Amom, diz o senhor.

7 A respeito de Edom. Assim diz o Senhor dos exércitos: Acaso não há mais sabedoria em Temã? Pereceu o conselho dos entendidos? Desvaneceu-se-lhes a sabedoria?

8 Fugi, voltai, habitai em profundezas, ó moradores de Dedã; porque trarei sobre ele a calamidade de Esaú, o tempo em que o punirei.

9 Se vindimadores viessem a ti, não deixariam alguns rabiscos? se ladrões de noite, não te danificariam só o quanto lhes bastasse?

10 Mas eu desnudei a Esaú, descobri os seus esconderijos, de modo que ele não se poderá esconder. E despojada a sua descendência, como também seus irmãos e seus vizinhos, e ele já não existe.

11 Deixa os teus órfãos, eu os guardarei em vida; e as tuas viúvas confiem em mim.

12 Pois assim diz o Senhor: Eis que os que não estavam condenados a beber o copo, certamente o beberão; e ficarias tu inteiramente impune? Não ficarás impune, mas certamente o beberás.

13 Pois por mim mesmo jurei, diz o Senhor, que Bozra servirá de objeto de espanto, de opróbrio, de ruína, e de maldição; e todas as suas cidades se tornarão em desolações perpétuas.

14 Eu ouvi novas da parte do Senhor, que um embaixador é enviado por entre as nações para lhes dizer: Ajuntai-vos, e vinde contra ela, e levantai-vos para a guerra.

15 Pois eis que te farei pequeno entre as nações, desprezado entre os homens.

16 Quanto à tua terribilidade, enganou-te a arrogância do teu coração, ó tu que habitas nas cavernas dos penhascos, que ocupas as alturas dos outeiros; ainda que ponhas o teu ninho no alto como a águia, de lá te derrubarei, diz o Senhor.

17 E Edom se tornará em objeto de espanto; todo aquele que passar por ela se espantará, e assobiará por causa de todas as suas pragas.

18 Como na subversão de Sodoma e Gomorra, e das cidades circunvizinhas, diz o Senhor, não habitará ninguém ali, nem peregrinará nela filho de homem.

19 Eis que como leão subirá das margens do Jordão um inimigo contra a morada forte; mas de repente o farei correr dali; e ao escolhido, pô-lo-ei sobre ela. Pois quem é semelhante a mim? e quem me fixará um prazo? e quem é o pastor que me poderá resistir?

20 Portanto ouvi o conselho do Senhor, que ele decretou contra Edom, e os seus desígnios, que ele intentou contra os moradores de Temã: Até os mais novos do rebanho serão arrastados; certamente ele assolará as suas moradas sobre eles.

21 A terra estremecerá com o estrondo da sua queda; o som do seu clamor se ouvirá até o Mar Vermelho.

22 Eis que como águia subirá, e voará, e estenderá as suas asas contra Bozra; e o coração do valente de Edom naquele dia se tornará como o coração da mulher que está em dores de parto.

23 A respeito de Damasco. Envergonhadas estão Hamate e Arpade, e se derretem de medo porquanto ouviram más notícias; estão agitadas como o mar, que não pode aquietar-se.

24 Enfraquecida está Damasco, virou as costas para fugir, e o tremor apoderou-se dela; angústia e dores apossaram-se dela como da mulher que está de parto.

25 Como está abandonada a cidade famosa, a cidade da minha alegria!

26 Portanto os seus jovens lhe cairão nas ruas, e todos os homens de guerra serão consumidos naquele dia, diz o Senhor dos exércitos.

27 E acenderei fogo no muro de Damasco, o qual consumirá os palácios de Bene-Hadade.

28 A respeito de Quedar, e dos reinos de Hazor, que Nabucodonozor, rei de Babilônia, feriu. Assim diz o Senhor: Levantai-vos, subi contra Quedar, e destruí os filhos do Oriente.

29 As suas tendas e os seus rebanhos serão tomados; as suas cortinas serão levadas, como também todos os seus vasos, e os seus camelos; e lhes gritarão: Há terror de todos os lados!

30 Fugi, desviai-vos para muito longe, habitai nas profundezas, ó moradores de Hazor, diz o Senhor; porque Nabucodonozor, rei de Babilônia, tomou conselho contra vós, e formou um desígnio contra vós.

31 Levantai-vos, subi contra uma nação que está sossegada, que habita descuidada, diz o Senhor; que não tem portas nem ferrolhos, que habita a sós.

32 E os seus camelos serão para presa e a multidão do seu gado para despojo; e espalharei a todo o vento aqueles que cortam os cantos da sua cabeleira; e de todos os lados lhes trarei a sua calamidade, diz o Senhor.

33 Assim Hazor se tornará em morada de chacais, em desolação para sempre; ninguém habitará ali, nem peregrinará nela filho de homem.

34 A palavra do Senhor, que veio a Jeremias, o profeta, acerca de Elão, no princípio do reinado de Zedequias, rei de Judá, dizendo:

35 Assim diz o Senhor dos exércitos: Eis que eu quebrarei o arco de Elão, o principal do seu poder.

36 E trarei sobre Elão os quatro ventos dos quatro cantos dos céus, e os espalharei para todos estes ventos; e não haverá nação aonde não cheguem os fugitivos de Elão.

37 E farei que Elão desfaleça diante de seus inimigos e diante dos que procuram a sua morte. Farei vir sobre eles o mal, o furor da minha ira, diz o Senhor; e enviarei após eles a espada, até que eu os tenha consumido.

38 E porei o meu trono em Elão, e destruirei dali rei e príncipes, diz o Senhor.

39 Acontecerá, porém, nos últimos dias, que restaurarei do cativeiro a Elão, diz o Senhor.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 237

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237. And knowest not that thou are wretched, signifies that they do not know that their falsities have no coherence with truths. This is evident from the signification of "wretchedness," as meaning the breaking up of truth by means of falsities, and also no coherence; this shows what is meant by "the wretched." They are so because their doctrine is founded on two false principles, which are faith alone and justification by faith; consequently falsities flow in from these in constant succession, and the truths which they adduce from the sense of the letter of the Word to confirm these are weakened and falsified, and truths when falsified are in themselves falsities. This is described in many passages in the Word, and is meant by the "vanities" that the prophets see, and the "lies" that they speak. It is described also by the "breaches" in the walls and houses so that they fall; likewise by "idols" and "graven images" that the artificer makes and connects by chains that they may cohere; for "idols" and "graven images" signify the falsities of doctrine; the like is signified by "breaches of the walls" and "of the houses," and by "the prophets who see vanities and speak lies;" for "prophets" mean doctrines, "vanities" such things as are of no account, and "lies" falsities. But as these things are mentioned in many passages in the Word they cannot be cited here on account of their abundance; they will therefore be omitted, and a few only quoted here in which "wretchedness" and "wall" are mentioned, that it may be known that these signify the weakening of truth by falsities, and thus no coherence.

[2] In Isaiah:

Thy wisdom and thy knowledge it hath misled thee, when thou hast said in thine heart, I, and none like me besides. Therefore shall wretchedness fall upon thee, and devastation shall come upon thee (Isaiah 47:10-11).

Here also those are described who believe that they know all things and that they are more intelligent than all others, when yet they know and understand nothing of truth; and that therefore the understanding of truth is taken away from them. Their belief that they are more intelligent than all others is meant by "Thy wisdom and thy knowledge it hath misled thee, when thou hast said in thine heart, I, and none like me besides;" and the loss of all understanding of truth is meant by "wretchedness shall fall upon thee, devastation shall come upon thee."

[3] In Ezekiel:

Wretchedness shall come upon wretchedness; therefore they shall seek a vision from the prophets; but the law hath perished from the priest, and counsel from the elders. The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with astonishment (Ezekiel 7:26-27).

Here the vastation of the church is treated of, which takes place when there is no truth that is not falsified. Falsity from falsity is meant by "wretchedness upon wretchedness;" "a vision from the prophet" is doctrine, here the doctrine of falsity; "the law hath perished from the priest" means that the Word is not understood, for "law" signifies the Word, and the "priest" one who teaches; "counsel hath perished from the elders" means that right has perished from the intelligent, "counsel" signifying right, and "elders" the intelligent; "the king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with astonishment," means that there is no longer any truth, "king" signifying truth, and "prince" truths that are primarily of service.

[4] In David:

Right is not in their mouth, wretchedness is in their inward part (Psalms 5:9);

where "wretchedness" likewise stands for falsities not cohering with any truth. So too in Jeremiah:

Lament, and wander among the walls; for their king is gone into exile, and his priests and his princes together (Jeremiah 49:3).

"Wandering among the walls" is among truths destroyed by falsities; "the king gone into exile" signifies truth; and "his priests and princes together" signify the goods and truths of life and doctrine (See above).

[5] In Ezekiel:

When they build a wall [maceriem], behold they daub it with untempered mortar. Say to them which daub it with untempered mortar, that the wall [paries] shall fall. Is it not said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? (Ezekiel 13:10-12).

"The wall which they daub with untempered mortar" signifies falsity assumed as a principle, and by application of the Word from the sense of the letter made to appear as truth; "daubing" is application and seeming confirmation thereby; "untempered mortar" is what has been falsified; and because the truth of the Word is thus destroyed, and the truths used to confirm become truths falsified, which in themselves are falsities, and these with the false principle perish together, it is said, "Behold, the wall shall fall. Is it not said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?"

[6] In Hosea:

Behold, I obstruct thy way with thorns, and I will encompass wall with wall, that she shall not find thy 1 paths (Hosea 2:6).

"To obstruct the way with thorns" is to obstruct all thoughts by falsities of evil, that truths be not seen; falsities of evil are "thorns;" "to encompass wall with wall" is to heap falsities upon falsities; "that she shall not find thy paths" means that nothing of truth can be seen; this comes to pass because truths and falsities of evil cannot be together, as heaven cannot be with hell; for truths are from heaven, and falsities of evil are from hell; therefore when falsities from evil reign communication with heaven is taken away, and when that is taken away truths cannot be seen, and if presented by others they are rejected. For this reason, those who are in false principles, as those who are in the principles of faith alone and justification by faith, cannot be in any truths (as may be seen above, n. 235, 236).

[7] But let examples illustrate this. Those who have adopted faith alone and justification by faith as a principle of religion, when they read the Word and see that the Lord says that man shall be recompensed according to his deeds and works, and that he who has done good, shall come into heaven, and he who has done evils into hell, call the good things that they do fruits of faith, not knowing or not wanting to know, that the good things called fruits are all from charity, and none of them from faith separate, which is called faith alone; every good also is of charity, and truth is of the faith therefrom. From this it is clear that they pervert the Word; and they do this because they cannot otherwise apply truth to their principle, believing still that the two may thus cohere; but the result is that truth perishes and becomes falsity, and not only falsity but also evil.

[8] From this falsities evidently follow in constant succession, for they teach that the good works that man does are meritorious, not being willing to see that as faith with its truths are from the Lord, and thus not meritorious, so are charity with its goods. They teach also that as soon as a man receives faith he is reconciled to God the Father through the Son, and that the evils thenceforth done, as well as those done before, are not imputed; for they say that all are saved however they have lived, if only they receive faith, even though it be in the hours before death. But these, and many other things which are deductions from the falsity of the principle, do not cohere with the truths from the Word, but destroy them, and truths destroyed are falsities, even such falsities as emit a bad odor. From these a grievous smell is perceived in the other life, which is such that it cannot be endured by any good spirit; it is like the stench of purulent matter from the lungs. Many other examples might be adduced; there is an abundance of them; for whatever is deduced from a false principle becomes thereby a falsity, since in the deduction the principle only is regarded to which it clings because from this it flows and to this it is applied.

[9] What the religion of faith alone and of justification by faith is can be inferred from the simple fact that all who have confirmed these tenets in themselves by doctrine and life, send out from themselves in the other life a sphere of abominable adultery like that of a mother or stepmother with a son; this abominable adultery corresponds to such, and is also perceived from them wherever they go; from that sphere I have a thousand times recognized their presence. Such a sphere flows out from them because they adulterate the goods of charity and of the Word, and adulteries correspond to adulterations of good, while whoredoms correspond to the falsifications of truth (See Arcana Coelestia 2466, 2729, 3399, 4865, 6348, 8904, 10648).

[10] There is a like meaning in:

Reuben's lying with Bilhah, of whom his father begat Dan and Naphtali (Genesis 35:22);

And therefore he was also accursed (Genesis 49:4);

And because he defiled his father's couch the primogeniture was taken away from him and given to Joseph (1 Chronicles 5:1). For by "Reuben" in the Word faith is meant here faith alone (See Arcana Coelestia 3325, 3861, 3866, 3870, 4601, 4605, 4731, 4734, 4761, 6342, 6350); and by "Joseph," the good of faith (See 3969, 3971, 4669, 6417).

[11] That such things are to take place at the end of the church is predicted in Daniel, where the statue that Nebuchadnezzar saw in a dream is described in these words:

Whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of man; but they shall not cleave one to the other, even as iron doth not mingle with clay (Daniel 2:43).

By "iron" truth without good is meant; by "miry clay" the falsity that is from self-intelligence; by "the seed of man" the Word of the Lord (Matthew 13:24, 37). That these do not cohere is meant by "they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle with clay."

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1. For "thy" the Hebrew has "her," as found in Arcana Coelestia 9144.

  
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