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1 อยู่มาในวันต้นเดือนปีที่สิบเอ็ด พระวจนะของพระเยโฮวาห์มายังข้าพเจ้าว่า

2 "บุตรแห่งมนุษย์เอ๋ย เพราะว่าเมืองไทระได้พูดเกี่ยวพันกับเยรูซาเล็มว่า `อ้าฮา ประตูเมืองของชนชาติทั้งหลายหักเสียแล้ว มันเปิดกว้างไว้รับข้า มันร้างเปล่าแล้ว ข้าจะบริบูรณ์ขึ้น'

3 เพราะฉะนั้นองค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าพระเจ้าตรัสว่า ดูเถิด เมืองไทระเอ๋ย เราเป็นปฏิปักษ์กับเจ้า และจะนำประชาชาติเป็นอันมากมาต่อสู้เจ้า ดังทะเลกระทำให้คลื่นของมันขึ้นมา

4 เขาทั้งหลายจะทำลายกำแพงเมืองไทระ และพังทลายหอคอยของเมืองนั้นเสีย และเราจะขูดดินเสียจากเมืองนั้น กระทำให้อยู่บนยอดของศิลา

5 เมืองนั้นจะเป็นที่สำหรับตากอวนอยู่กลางทะเล เพราะเราได้ลั่นวาจาแล้ว องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าพระเจ้าได้ตรัส และเมืองนั้นจะเป็นของปล้นแห่งบรรดาประชาชาติ

6 และพวกธิดาของเมืองนี้ซึ่งอยู่บนแผ่นดินใหญ่จะต้องถูกฆ่าเสียด้วยดาบ แล้วเขาทั้งหลายจะทราบว่าเราคือพระเยโฮวาห์

7 เพราะองค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าพระเจ้าตรัสดังนี้ว่า ดูเถิด เราจะนำเนบูคัดเนสซาร์กษัตริย์บาบิโลน ผู้เป็นจอมกษัตริย์มายังเมืองไทระจากทิศเหนือ พร้อมทั้งม้าและรถรบกับพลม้าและกองทหารกับคนมากมาย

8 ท่านจะฆ่าธิดาของเจ้าบนแผ่นดินใหญ่เสียด้วยดาบ ท่านจะก่อกำแพงล้อมเจ้าไว้และก่อเชิงเทินทำด้วยดั้งต่อสู้กับเจ้า

9 ท่านจะตั้งเครื่องทะลวงต่อสู้กับกำแพงของเจ้า และท่านจะเอาขวานของท่านฟันหอคอยของเจ้าลง

10 ม้าของท่านมามายจนฝุ่นม้าตลบคลุมเจ้าไว้ กำแพงเมืองของเจ้าจะสั่นสะเทือนด้วยเสียงพลม้าและเกวียนและรถรบ เมื่อท่านจะยกเข้าประตูเมืองของเจ้า อย่างกับคนเดินเข้าเมือง เมื่อเมืองนั้นแตกแล้ว

11 ท่านจะย่ำที่ถนนทั้งปวงของเจ้าด้วยกีบม้า ท่านจะฆ่าชนชาติของเจ้าเสียด้วยดาบ และเสาอันแข็งแรงของเจ้าจะล้มลงถึงดิน

12 ทรัพย์สมบัติของเจ้าท่านจะเอาเป็นของริบ และสินค้าของเจ้าท่านจะเอามาเป็นของปล้น เขาทั้งหลายจะพังกำแพงของเจ้าลง และจะทำลายบ้านอันพึงใจของเจ้าเสีย หิน ไม้ และดินของเจ้านั้นเขาจะโยนทิ้งเสียกลางน้ำ

13 เสียงเพลงของเจ้านั้นเราก็จะให้หยุด และเสียงพิณเขาคู่ของเจ้าจะไม่ได้ยินอีก

14 เราจะกระทำให้อยู่บนยอดของศิลา เจ้าจะเป็นสถานที่สำหรับตากอวน จะไม่มีใครสร้างเจ้าขึ้นใหม่เลย เพราะเราคือพระเยโฮวาห์ได้ลั่นวาจาแล้ว องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าพระเจ้าตรัสดังนี้แหละ

15 องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าพระเจ้าตรัสดังนี้แก่เมืองไทระว่า เกาะต่างๆจะมิได้สั่นสะเทือนด้วยเสียงที่เจ้าล้ม เมื่อผู้บาดเจ็บร้องครวญคราง เมื่อการเข่นฆ่าได้เกิดอยู่ท่ามกลางเจ้าหรือ

16 แล้วเจ้านายทั้งสิ้นที่ทะเลจะก้าวลงมาจากบัลลังก์และเปลื้องเครื่องทรงออก และปลดเครื่องแต่งตัวที่ปักออกเสีย และจะเอาความสั่นกลัวมาเป็นเครื่องทรง จะประทับอยู่บนพื้นดินและสั่นอยู่ทุกขณะและหวาดกลัวเพราะเจ้า

17 ท่านเหล่านี้จะเปล่งเสียงบทคร่ำครวญเรื่องเจ้า และกล่าวแก่เจ้าว่า `โอ ผู้มีพลเมืองเป็นชาวกลาสีเอ๋ย เจ้าถูกทำลายแล้ว เจ้าเป็นเมืองที่มีชื่อเสียง เจ้าเป็นเมืองแข็งกล้าอยู่ที่ทะเล ทั้งเจ้าและชาวเมืองของเจ้า ว่าถึงคนที่นั่นแล้วเจ้าให้เขากลัว

18 บัดนี้ เกาะทั้งหลายก็จะสั่นสะเทือนในวันที่เจ้าล้มลง เออ บรรดาเกาะที่อยู่ในทะเลก็จะกลัวเพราะเจ้าสิ้นไปเสีย'

19 เพราะองค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าพระเจ้าตรัสดังนี้ว่า เมื่อเราจะกระทำให้เจ้าเป็นเมืองรกร้างเหมือนอย่างเมืองที่ไม่มีคนอาศัย เมื่อเราจะนำทะเลลึกมาท่วมเจ้า และน้ำมากหลายจะคลุมเจ้าไว้

20 แล้วเราจะนำเจ้าลงไปพร้อมกับคนเหล่านั้นที่ลงไปยังปากแดนคนตายไปอยู่กับคนสมัยเก่า และจะปล่อยให้เจ้าอยู่ที่โลกบาดาล ในสถานที่ที่โดดเดี่ยวอ้างว้างมาแต่โบราณ พร้อมกับผู้ที่ลงไปยังปากแดนคนตาย เพื่อว่าจะไม่มีใครอาศัยอยู่ในเจ้า และเราจะตั้งสง่าราศีในแผ่นดินของคนเป็น

21 เราจะกระทำให้เจ้าเป็นที่น่าครั่นคร้าม จะไม่มีเจ้าอีกแล้ว ถึงใครจะมาหาเจ้า เขาจะมาหาเจ้าไม่พบอีกต่อไปเป็นนิตย์ องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าพระเจ้าตรัสดังนี้แหละ"

   


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Apocalypse Explained # 326

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326. Verse 9. And they were singing a new song, signifies acknowledgment and confession from joy of heart. This is evident from the signification of a "song," as meaning acknowledgment and confession from joy of heart, here acknowledgment and confession that the Lord in respect to the Divine Human has all power in the heavens and on earth. Confession respecting this is meant because this is what is here treated of. "To sing a song" signifies confession from joy of heart, because joy of heart, when it is in fullness, expresses itself in song, this it does because when the heart, and in consequence the thought also, is full of joy, it pours itself forth in singing, the joy of the heart itself through the sound of the singing, and the joy of the thought therefrom through the song. The kind of joy of the thought is expressed by the words of the song, which concur and agree with the matter that is in the thought from the heart; the kind of joy of the heart is expressed by the harmony, and the measure of this joy is expressed by the exaltation of the sound and the words in it. All these flow as if spontaneously from the joy itself, and for the reason that the whole heaven is formed according to the affections of good and truth, the highest heaven according to the affections of good, and the middle heaven according to the affections of truth; it is therefore formed also for joys, for every joy is from an affection, or from love; from this it is that in all angelic discourse there is a kind of harmony. (But these things can be more clearly known and concluded by what is said and shown in the work on Heaven and Hell, namely, that the thoughts and affections of angels go forth according to the form of heaven, n. 200-212, and 265-275; therefore that there is a kind of harmony in their speech, n. 242; also that the sound of the speech of angels corresponds to their affections; and the articulations of sound, which are the words, correspond to the ideas of thought, which are from the affection, n. 236, 241; also in Arcana Coelestia, 1648, 1649, 2595, 2596, 3350, 5182, 8115) From this it is clear that harmony in song, and also the power of musical art to express the various kinds of affections and to adapt itself to its themes, are from the spiritual world, and not from the natural as is believed (See also concerning this in the work on Heaven and Hell 241).

[2] For this reason many kinds of musical instruments were used in sacred worship with the Jewish and Israelitish nation, some of which had relation to the affections of celestial good, and some to the affections of spiritual good, and to the joys therefrom, respecting what was to be proclaimed. Stringed instruments had relation to the affections of spiritual good, and wind instruments to the affections of celestial good; to these was added the singing of songs, which gave form to the agreements of things with the sounds of affections. Such were all the psalms of David, therefore they are called psalms, from playing [psaltere], and also songs. This makes clear why the four animals and twenty-four elders are said to have had harps, and also to have sung this song.

[3] That "singing" and "singing a song" signify acknowledgment and confession from joy of heart is evident from the following passages. In Isaiah:

In that day thou shalt say, I will confess to Jehovah; O God of my salvation, I will trust, I will not dread; for Jah Jehovah is my strength and psalm, He is become my salvation. Then shall ye draw waters from the fountains of salvation. And in that day shall ye say, Confess ye to Jehovah, call upon His name, sing psalms unto Jehovah. Break forth and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel (Isaiah 12:1-6).

This describes confession from joy of heart because of the Lord's coming and His Divine power to save the human race. Confession is plainly meant, for it is first said, "I will confess to Jehovah," and again afterwards, "Confess ye to Jehovah." Confession that the Lord from His Divine power is about to save mankind is described by these words, "O God of my salvation, I will trust, I will not dread, for He is my strength, He is become my salvation. Then ye shall draw waters from the fountains of salvation in that day; great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel;" "in that day" means when the Lord is to come; "the Holy One of Israel" is the Lord; consequent joy, which is the joy of confession, is described by "sing psalms unto Jehovah, break forth and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion;" "inhabitant" and "daughter of Zion" are the church where the Lord is worshiped; "Jah is my psalm" signifies here celebration and glorification of the Lord.

[4] In the same:

Sing unto Jehovah a new song, His praise, O end of the earth. Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice; let the inhabitants of the cliff sing aloud, let them shout from the top of the mountains (Isaiah 42:10-11).

This also treats of the Lord's coming and the establishment of the church with those who were outside of the church, that is, with those where the Word was not, and the Lord was not before known. "To sing a new song" signifies confession from joy of heart; "sing praise, O end of the earth," signifies confession of those who are remote from the church, "end of the earth" meaning where that which pertains to the church ceases to be, "earth" meaning the church; "the wilderness and the cities thereof that shall lift up the voice," signify those with whom there is no good because there is no truth, and yet they desire it; "the inhabitants of the cliff" signify the good of faith pertaining to them; "the top of the mountains" signifies the good of love pertaining to them; "to sing" and "to shout" signify consequent confession from joy of mind and heart.

[5] In the same:

Jehovah will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her desolations, and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness will be found therein, confession and the voice of a psalm (Isaiah 51:3; 52:8-9).

This also treats of the Lord's coming and the establishment of the church, which at that time was laid waste or destroyed. "Zion" signifies the church where the Lord is to be worshiped; "her desolations" signify a lack of truth and good from an absence of knowledges; "to make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah" signifies that they shall have truth and good in abundance; "wilderness" is predicated of the absence of good, and "desert" of the absence of truth; "Eden" signifies good in abundance, and the "garden of Jehovah" signifies truth in abundance. As "psalm" and "song" signify confession from joy of heart, it is said, "joy and gladness therein, confession and the voice of a psalm," "voice of a psalm" meaning song.

[6] In Lamentations:

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from singing; the joy of our heart hath ceased (Lamentations 5:14-15).

"The elders have ceased from the gate" signifies that those who are in truths from good, or in an abstract sense truths from good by which there is admission into the church, are no more; "the young men have ceased from singing" signifies that truths themselves are deprived of their spiritual affection, and thence of their joy; and because this is signified it is said, "the joy of our heart hath ceased."

[7] In Ezekiel:

I will cause the tumult of thy songs to cease, and the voice of harps shall be no more heard (Ezekiel 26:13).

"The tumult of songs" signifies the joys of confessions; "the voice of harps" signifies gladness from spiritual truths and goods.

[8] In David:

Jehovah is my strength, and I am helped; my heart triumphs, and with my song will I confess to Him (Psalms 28:7).

Because "song" signifies confession from joy of heart, it is said "my heart triumphs, and with my song will I confess to Him."

[9] In the same:

Sing aloud, ye righteous in Jehovah. Confess to Jehovah with the harp, sing psalms unto Him with the psaltery of ten strings. Sing unto Him a new song, play well with a loud noise (Psalms 33:1-3).

As joy of heart is both from celestial love and from spiritual love, it is said, "Sing aloud, ye righteous, in Jehovah, confess to Jehovah with the harp; sing psalms to Him with a psaltery of ten strings;" "sing aloud, ye righteous," is predicated of those who are in celestial love; "Confess on the harp, and sing psalms with the psaltery," of those who are in spiritual love. That those who are in celestial love are called "righteous" see above n. 204, and that "harp" and "psaltery" are predicated of those who are in spiritual good, n. 323; and as "singing" means confession from the joy arising from these loves, it is said, "Confess to Jehovah," "Sing unto Him a new song." The exaltation of joy from its fullness is signified by "play well with a loud noise."

[10] In the same:

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him by confession (Psalms 69:30).

In the same:

When I shall have gone with them to the house of God, with the voice of jubilee and confession, the multitude keeping a festival (Psalms 42:4).

In the same:

Confess ye to Jehovah, call upon His name. Sing unto Him, sing psalms unto Him (Psalms 105:1-2; 149:1).

In the same:

I will confess to Jehovah according to His righteousness, and I will sing psalms unto the name of Jehovah most high (Psalms 7:17).

In the same:

My heart is prepared, O God; I will sing, and sing psalms. Awake thee, my glory; awake thee, psaltery and harp. I will confess unto Thee, O Lord, among the nations; I will sing psalms unto Thee among the peoples (Psalms 57:7-9).

Because "to sing a song" signifies confession from joy of heart, in these passages two expressions are used, "to confess and to sing," "confession and song," "voice of singing and voice of confession. "

[11] Where the Lord's coming is treated of, the expression "a new song" is used, and it is said that earth, sea, field, forest, trees, Lebanon, wilderness, and many other things, should "rejoice" and "exult," as in the following.

In David:

O sing unto Jehovah a new song. Make a loud noise unto Jehovah, all the earth; break forth, shout for joy, and sing psalms with the harp and the voice of a psalm; with trumpets, and with the sound of a cornet, make a loud noise before the King, Jehovah. Let the sea and the fullness thereof thunder; the world and they that dwell therein. Let the rivers clap their hands; let the mountains be joyful together (Psalms 98:1, 4-8).

In the same:

O sing unto Jehovah a new song; sing unto Jehovah, all the earth. Sing unto Jehovah, bless His name; proclaim His salvation from day to day. The heavens shall be glad, and the earth shall exult; the sea shall be moved, and all the fullness thereof; the field shall triumph, and all that is therein; then shall all the trees of the forest sing aloud (Psalms 96:1-2, 11-12).

In the same:

Sing unto Jehovah a new song, His praise in the assembly of the saints. Let Israel be glad in his makers, the sons of Zion in their King. Let them praise His name in the dance; let them sing psalms unto Him with timbrel and harp (Psalms 149:1-3).

In Isaiah:

Sing unto Jehovah a new song; His praise, O end of the earth. Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up the voice (Isaiah 42:10-11).

In the same:

Sing, O ye heavens, for Jehovah hath done it; shout for joy, ye lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest and every tree therein; for Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, and hath shown Himself glorious in Israel (Isaiah 44:23; 49:13).

Here the Lord, His coming, and salvation through Him are treated of; and because these things were about to take place it is said, "a new song." The joy on this account is described not only by "singing," "singing psalms," "breaking forth," "being joyful," "clapping the hands," but also by various musical instruments of accordant sounds; also that the rivers, the sea, the field, the forests, the trees therein, Lebanon, the wilderness, the mountains, and many other things, should "rejoice together," "exult," "sing," "shout for joy," "clap the hands," and "cry aloud," together. Like things are predicated of these objects because they signify such things as are of the church, and therefore such things as are with the man of the church; "rivers" the things that are of intelligence; "sea" the things of knowledge [scientiae] that are in agreement with truths and goods; "field" the good of the church; "forests" the truths of the natural man; "trees" knowledges; "Lebanon" spiritual truth and good; "wilderness" a desire for truth that good may be gained, and "mountains" the goods of love. All these things are said "to sing," "to break forth," "to shout for joy," "to cry aloud," and "to clap the hands," when they are from heaven, for then heavenly joy is in them, and through them in man; for man is not in heavenly joy unless the things in him, which are truths and goods, are from heaven; from these is joy of heart that is truly joy, and from these is the joy of the man with whom they are. From this it can be seen why the like is said of these things as of man, namely, because joy is in them, and with man through them. Such joy is in every spiritual and celestial good, and therefrom with those with whom these goods are; for heaven flows in with its joy, that is, the Lord through heaven, into the goods and thence into their truths that are from Him in man, and through these into the man, but not into the man who is destitute or devoid of them. These goods and the truths therefrom are what "exult," "shout for joy," "break forth," "sing," "sing psalms," that is, are glad because of the influx from heaven, and from these the heart of man is glad also.

[12] As there are various affections of good and truth, and each expresses itself by an appropriate sound, so in the Word, especially in David, various kinds of instruments are mentioned, which signify corresponding affections. One who knows the internal sense of the Word, and also the sounds of the instruments there named, can know what affection is there signified and described. The angels know this from the mere mention of the instruments when a man is reading the Word, and also from the matter described there in its own words. Thus, for example, in David:

Clap your hands, all ye peoples; shout unto God with the voice of a song. God is gone up with a shout, Jehovah with the voice of a trumpet. Sing psalms unto God, sing psalms unto our King, for God is King of all the earth; sing ye psalms with understanding (Psalms 47:1, 5-7).

They have seen Thy goings, O God, the goings of my God. The singers went before, the minstrels after, in the midst of maidens playing with timbrels (Psalms 68:24, 25).

In the same:

Shout with joy unto God our strength; shout unto the God of Jacob. Lift up a psalm, and strike the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. Sound with the trumpet in the new moon (Psalms 81:1-3).

In the same:

Praise God with the sound of the trumpet, with the psaltery and harp, with the timbrel and dance, with stringed instruments and the organ, with cymbals of soft sound, with cymbals of loud sound (Psalms 150:1, 3-5).

All the instruments here mentioned signify affections, each its own, and this from the correspondence of their sound; for the affections are what produce the varieties of sounds with men, consequently from the sounds also the affections are known, as was said above in this article.

[13] I will add to this an arcanum: the angels who constitute in heaven the Lord's celestial kingdom, when man is reading the Word, draw from his affection alone the internal sense of it, which affection arises from the sound of the words in the original tongue; but the angels who are in the Lord's spiritual kingdom draw the internal sense from the truths that the words contain; therefore the man who is in spiritual affection has from the celestial kingdom joy of heart, and from the spiritual kingdom confession from that joy. The sounds of the musical instruments that are here mentioned elevate the affection, and the truths give form to it. That this is so is well known to those skilled in the art of music. For this reason the Psalms of David are called "psalms," from psallere [to play]; they are also called "songs" from singing; for they were played and sung with the accompanying sounds of various instruments. That they were called "psalms" by David is known, as most of them are so inscribed. Those that are called songs are the following, Psalms 18:1; 33:1, 2; 45:1; 46:1; 48:1; 65:1; 66:1; 67:1; 68:1; 75:1; 76:1; [ Psalms 83:1;] Psalms 87:1; 88:1; 92:1; 96:1; 98:1; 108:1; 120:1; 121:1; 122:1; 123:1; 124:1; 125:1; 126:1; 127:1; 128; 129:1; 130:1; 131:1; 132:1; 133:1; 134:1. Many other passages might be cited from the Word respecting singing and song, and it might be shown that they signify confessions from joy of heart, but they are omitted because of their number; those already referred to are sufficient.

  
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