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1 Iyong alalahanin, Oh Panginoon, kung anong dumating sa amin: iyong masdan, at tingnan ang aming pagkadusta.

2 Ang aming mana ay napasa mga taga ibang lupa, ang aming mga bahay ay sa mga taga ibang bayan.

3 Kami ay mga ulila at walang ama; ang aming mga ina ay parang mga bao.

4 Aming ininom ang aming tubig sa halaga ng salapi; ang aming kahoy ay ipinagbibili sa amin.

5 Ang mga manghahabol sa amin ay nangasa aming mga leeg: kami ay mga pagod, at walang kapahingahan.

6 Kami ay nakipagkamay sa mga taga Egipto, at sa mga taga Asiria, upang mangabusog ng tinapay.

7 Ang aming mga magulang ay nagkasala at wala na; At aming pinasan ang kanilang mga kasamaan.

8 Mga alipin ay nangagpupuno sa amin: walang magligtas sa amin sa kanilang kamay.

9 Aming tinatamo ang aming tinapay sa pamamagitan ng kapahamakan ng aming buhay, dahil sa tabak sa ilang.

10 Ang aming balat ay maitim na parang hurno, dahil sa maningas na init ng kagutom.

11 Kanilang dinahas ang mga babae, sa Sion, ang mga dalaga sa mga bayan ng Juda.

12 Ang mga prinsipe ay nangabibitin ng kanilang kamay: ang mga mukha ng mga matanda ay hindi iginagalang.

13 Ang mga binata ay nangagpapasan ng gilingan, at ang mga bata ay nangadudulas sa lilim ng kahoy.

14 Ang mga matanda ay wala na sa pintuang-bayan. Ang mga binata'y wala na sa kanilang mga tugtugin.

15 Ang kagalakan ng aming puso ay naglikat; ang aming sayaw ay napalitan ng tangisan.

16 Ang putong ay nahulog mula sa aming ulo: sa aba namin! sapagka't kami ay nangagkasala.

17 Dahil dito ang aming puso ay nanglulupaypay; dahil sa mga bagay na ito ay nagdidilim ang aming mga mata;

18 Dahil sa bundok ng Sion na nasira; nilalakaran ng mga zora.

19 Ikaw, Oh Panginoon, nananatili magpakailan man: ang iyong luklukan ay sa sali't saling lahi.

20 Bakit mo kami nililimot magpakailan man, at pinababayaan mo kaming totoong malaon?

21 Manumbalik ka sa amin, Oh Panginoon, at kami ay manunumbalik: baguhin mo ang aming mga araw na gaya nang una.

22 Nguni't itinakuwil mo kaming lubos, ikaw ay totoong napoot sa amin.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 546

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546. Then the woman fled into the wilderness. (12:6) This symbolizes the church, namely, the New Jerusalem, being at first among few.

The woman symbolizes the New Church (no. 533), and the wilderness symbolizes a circumstance in which there are no longer any truths. The church is symbolized as being at first among few because the statement follows, "Where she has a place prepared by God, that they may feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days," which symbolizes the state of that church then, that in the meantime provision may be made for it to exist among more people until it grows to its appointed state (no. 547).

A wilderness in the Word symbolizes:

1. A church devastated, or one in which the Word's truths have all been falsified, as was the case with the Jews at the time of the Lord's advent.

2. A church without truths, because it does not have the Word, as was the case with upright gentiles at the time of the Lord's advent.

3. A state of temptation or trial, in which a person is seemingly without truths, being surrounded by evil spirits who induce the temptation or trial and appear to rob him of his truths.

[2] 1. That a wilderness symbolizes a church devastated, or one in which the Word's truths have all been falsified, as was the case with the Jews at the time of the Lord's advent: This is apparent from the following passages:

Is this the man who shook the earth, who made kingdoms tremble, who made the world as a wilderness...? (Isaiah 14:16-17)

This said in reference to Babylon.

On the land of my people will come up thorns and briers...; ...the palace will be deserted... (Isaiah 32:13-14)

I beheld, and lo, Carmel was a wilderness... "The whole land shall be a wasteland." (Jeremiah 4:26-27)

The land is the church (no. 285).

...shepherds have destroyed My vineyard..., they have made the field of My desire a desolate wilderness... The devastators are coming... in the wilderness. (Jeremiah 12:10, 12)

...(the vine) is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. (Ezekiel 19:13)

...fire has devoured the habitations of the wilderness. (Joel 1:19-20)

...the day of Jehovah is coming... The land is like the Garden of Eden before it, but after it a desolate wilderness. (Joel 2:1, 3)

...see the word of Jehovah! Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of darkness? (Jeremiah 2:31)

The voice of one crying in the wilderness: "Prepare the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God." (Isaiah 40:3)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 33:9; Jeremiah 3:2; 23:10; Lamentations 5:9; Hosea 2:2-3; 13:15; Joel 3:19; Malachi 1:3; Matthew 24:26; Luke 13:35.

That such is the state of the church today may be seen in no. 566 below.

[3] 2. That a wilderness symbolizes a church without truths, because it does not have the Word, as was the case with upright gentiles at the time of the Lord's advent: This is apparent from these passages:

...the Spirit shall be poured upon us from on high, then the wilderness shall become a fertile field...; and judgment will dwell in the wilderness... (Isaiah 32:15-16)

(I will put) fountains in the midst of the valleys, [and turn] the wilderness into a pool of water... I will put in the wilderness the shittim cedar... and the oil tree. (Isaiah 41:18-19)

He will turn a wilderness into a pool of water, and dry land into springs of water. (Psalms 107:35-36)

I will make a road in the wilderness, rivers in the desert... to give drink to My people, My chosen. (Isaiah 43:19-20)

...Jehovah... will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah; gladness and joy will be found in her... (Isaiah 51:3)

The habitations of the wilderness drip... (Psalms 65:12-13)

Let the wilderness... lift up (its) voice... Let the inhabitants of the rock sing... (Isaiah 43:10-11)

[4] 3. That a wilderness symbolizes a state of temptation or trial, in which a person is seemingly without truths, being surrounded by evil spirits who induce the temptation or trial and appear to rob him of his truths: This is apparent from Matthew 4:1-3, Mark 1:12-13.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.