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Jeremías 22

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1 Así dijo el SEÑOR: Desciende a la casa del rey de Judá, y habla allí esta palabra,

2 Y di: Oye palabra del SEÑOR, oh rey de Judá que estás sentado sobre el trono de David, tú, y tus criados, y tu pueblo que entran por estas puertas.

3 Así dijo el SEÑOR: Haced juicio y justicia, y librad al oprimido de mano del opresor, y no engañéis, ni robéis al extranjero, ni al huérfano, ni a la viuda, ni derraméis sangre inocente en este lugar.

4 Porque si efectivamente obedeciereis esta palabra, entrarán por las puertas de esta Casa los reyes sentados por David sobre su trono, montados en carros y en caballos, él, y sus criados, y su pueblo.

5 Mas si no oyereis estas palabras, por mí juré, dijo el SEÑOR, que esta Casa será desierta.

6 Porque así dijo el SEÑOR sobre la casa del rey de Judá: Galaad tú a mí, oh cabeza del Líbano; si yo no te pusiere en soledad, y ciudades inhabitables.

7 Y señalaré contra ti disipadores, cada uno con sus armas; y cortarán tus cedros escogidos, y los echarán en el fuego.

8 Y muchos gentiles pasarán junto a esta ciudad, y dirán cada uno a su compañero: ¿Por qué lo hizo así el SEÑOR con esta gran ciudad?

9 Y dirán: Porque dejaron el Pacto del SEÑOR su Dios, y adoraron dioses ajenos, y les sirvieron.

10 No lloréis al muerto, ni tengáis compasión de él; llorad amargamente por el que se va; porque no volverá jamás, ni verá la tierra donde nació.

11 Porque así dijo el SEÑOR, de Salum hijo de Josías, rey de Judá, que reina por Josías su padre: El que saliere de este lugar, no volverá acá más;

12 Antes morirá en el lugar adonde lo transportaren, y no verá más esta tierra.

13 ¡Ay del que edifica su casa y no en justicia, y sus salas y no en juicio, sirviéndose de su prójimo de balde, y no dándole el salario de su trabajo!

14 Que dice: Edificaré para mí casa espaciosa, y airosas salas; y le abre ventanas, y la cubre de cedro, y la pinta de bermellón.

15 ¿Por ventura reinarás porque te cercas de cedro? ¿Por ventura no comió y bebió tu padre, e hizo juicio y justicia, y entonces le fue bien?

16 El juzgó la causa del pobre y del menesteroso, y entonces estuvo bien. ¿No es esto conocerme a mí? Dijo el SEÑOR.

17 Mas tus ojos y tu corazón no son sino a tu avaricia, y a derramar la sangre inocente, y a opresión, y a hacer agravio.

18 Por tanto, así dijo el SEÑOR, de Joacim hijo de Josías, rey de Judá: No lo llorarán, diciendo : ¡Ay, hermano mío! Y ¡ay, hermana! Ni lo lamentarán, diciendo: ¡Ay, SEÑOR! ¡Ay, su grandeza!

19 En sepultura de asno será enterrado, arrastrándole y echándole fuera de las puertas de Jerusalén.

20 Sube al Líbano, y clama, y en Basán da tu voz, y grita hacia todas partes; porque todos tus enamorados son quebrantados.

21 Hablé a ti en tus prosperidades; mas dijiste: No oiré. Este fue tu camino desde tu juventud, que nunca oíste mi voz.

22 A todos tus pastores pacerá el viento, y tus enamorados irán en cautiverio; entonces te avergonzarás y te confundirás a causa de toda tu malicia.

23 Habitaste en el Líbano, hiciste tu nido en los cedros, ¡cómo gemirás cuando te vinieren dolores, dolor como de mujer que está de parto!

24 Vivo yo, dice el SEÑOR, que si Conías hijo de Joacim rey de Judá fuera anillo en mi mano diestra, aun de allí te arrancaré;

25 y te entregaré en mano de los que buscan tu alma, y en mano de aquellos cuya vista temes; sí, en mano de Nabucodonosor rey de Babilonia, y en mano de los caldeos.

26 Y te haré transportar, a ti, y a tu madre que te engendró, a tierra ajena en que no nacisteis; y allá moriréis.

27 Y a la tierra a la cual levantan ellos su alma para tornar, allá no volverán.

28 ¿Por ventura es este hombre Conías un ídolo vil, quebrado? ¿Es vaso con quien nadie se deleita? ¿Por qué fueron arrojados, él y su generación; fueron echados a tierra que no conocieron?

29 ¡Oh tierra, tierra, tierra! Oye palabra del SEÑOR.

30 Así dijo el SEÑOR: Escribid que será este varón privado de generación, hombre a quien nada sucederá prósperamente en todos los días de su vida; porque ningún hombre de su simiente que se sentare sobre el trono de David, y que se enseñoreare sobre Judá, será jamás dichoso.

   

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Voice

  

'Voice' signifies what is announced from the Word. 'Voice' often refers and is applied to things that cannot have a voice, as in Exodus 4, Nahum 3:2, Psalms 93:3-4.

A 'voice' signifies annunciation, and in a positive sense, annunciation from the Word, which is called 'the voice of Jehovah,' as is shown in Psalms 29:3-9 and Psalms 68:33, where 'voice' denotes divine truth, so the Word and annunciation from it.

'Voice' signifies the quality of interior things.

'Voice,' as in Revelation 19, signifies joy in worship, confession, and celebration of the Lord.

'A great voice heard in heaven,' as in Revelation 12:10, signifies the joy of the angels of heaven from the light and wisdom.

'A great voice,' as in Revelation 16:1, signifies the divine command.

'A great voice out of the temple of heaven,' as in Revelation 16:17, signifies a manifestation from the Lord out of the inmost of heaven.

'A great voice,' as in Revelation 21:3, signifies speech proceeding from love.

'One voice,' as in Revelation 9:13, signifies a divine command.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 16, 19; Arcana Coelestia 6971; Psalms 93, 93: 3-4)


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6971. 'And do not hear the voice of the former sign' means that if they did not obey what was declared by the Word, then instead of being spiritual and rational they would become people who were not spiritual or rational. This is clear from the meaning of 'hearing' as obeying, dealt with in 2542, 3869, 5017; from the meaning of 'the voice' as what is declared by the Word, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'the former sign' as an indication that instead of being spiritual and rational they would become people who were not spiritual or rational. The truth of this may be seen from the meaning of 'the serpent' that was made out of Moses' rod when it was thrown onto the earth - the event to which 'the first sign' refers here - as a person who thinks on a sensory and bodily level, 6949, and so is not spiritual or rational. For a person who is sensory- and bodily-minded is not rational, and so is not spiritual either, because he thinks things that are false and desires those that are evil. One who behaves like this is not rational, still less spiritual, for an acceptance of and belief in what is true, together with a life of goodness, since these two come from the Divine, constitute true spirituality within rationality, whereas an acceptance of and belief in what is false, together with a life of evil, are the opposite. For the fact that wholly sensory- and bodily-minded people are like this, see 6844, 6845, 6948, 6949.

[2] Those people become wholly sensory- and bodily-minded who have first had a knowledge of things that belong to the spiritual world but after that have rejected them, and then have adopted fundamental ideas of falsity that are contrary to truths and focused their lives solely on worldly, bodily, and earthly values. They have consequently come to believe that life is meant to be filled with pleasures of every kind, saying, 'What more does a person have while he is alive? When we die, we die; as for the possibility of life after death, has anyone ever come back to talk about it? We have no knowledge of anything that will go on living when the life goes out of a person.' If anyone using rational arguments induces those people to give any thought to eternal life, they think that nothing worse will happen to them than to anyone else, and they immediately go back to living in the way they had done previously. With such people the passageway for the light of heaven to flow in is closed, and at the natural level of their minds the light of heaven is turned into thick darkness, while the light of the world there becomes brightness, 6907, a brightness that shines ever more brilliantly, the more that the light of heaven is darkened. This is why such people do not see the evil in their lives as anything other than goodness, or consequently the false ideas as anything other than true. Here then is the reason why a person becomes sensory- and bodily-minded. In short, once the way is opened for the light of heaven to flow in and then closed, a person is impelled to look downwards, and not upwards. This is done in keeping with Divine order so as to prevent truths once accepted and remaining in a person's inner self from being contaminated by falsities and thereby rendered profane.

[3] The same applies to gentiles who fall away from their religion, though their lot is better than that of people within the Church since what they possess are not truths from the Word, not genuine truths therefore but truths coupled with many misconceptions, which cannot be profaned in the way genuine ones can.

As regards the meaning of 'the voice' as that which is declared by the Word, it should be recognized that frequent use is made of the expression 'the voice'. It is also linked to other things that have nothing to do with a voice, such as the linking of it here to 'the sign' - 'If they do not hear the voice of the former sign they will believe the voice of the latter sign' - and also elsewhere, for example in Nahum,

The voice of the whip and the voice of the sound of the wheel. Nahum 3:2.

And in David,

The rivers have lifted up their voice, more than the voices of many mighty waters. Psalms 93:3-4.

[4] The fact that 'the voice' means a declaration, in the good sense a declaration by the Word, when it is called 'the voice of Jehovah', is clear in David,

The voice of Jehovah is powerful; the voice of Jehovah is glorious; the voice of Jehovah breaks the cedars; the voice of Jehovah flashes forth flames of fire; the voice of Jehovah causes the wilderness to shake; the voice of Jehovah causes the hinds to calve, and strips the forests bare. Psalms 29:3-5; Psalms 7-9.

And elsewhere in the same author,

. . . to Him who rides above the heavens of heavens of old. Behold, He will put forth His voice, a mighty voice. Psalms 68:33.

Here 'voice' stands for Divine Truth, and so for the Word and a declaration made by it. For what more is meant by 'voice', see 219; and for its use in reference to truth, 3563.

  
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