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1 ข้าแต่พระเยโฮวาห์ ขอทรงระลึกว่ามีอะไรตกถึงข้าพระองค์ ขอทรงพิจารณาและทอดพระเนตรความอดสูของข้าพระองค์

2 มรดกของพวกข้าพระองค์ได้ไปตกอยู่กับพวกต่างประเทศ บ้านเรือนของพวกข้าพระองค์เป็นของคนต่างด้าว

3 พวกข้าพระองค์เป็นคนกำพร้าและคนกำพร้าพ่อ และเหล่ามารดาของข้าพระองค์เป็นดั่งหญิงม่าย

4 น้ำก็ต้องซื้อเขาดื่ม ฟืนก็ต้องซื้อเขาใช้

5 ผู้ข่มขี่ได้ขี่คอพวกข้าพระองค์ไว้ พวกข้าพระองค์ทำงานหนักและไม่มีเวลาพักเลย

6 พวกข้าพระองค์พนมมือให้คนอียิปต์และคนอัสซีเรีย เพื่อจะได้อาหารรับประทานอิ่มหนึ่ง

7 บรรพบุรุษของพวกข้าพระองค์ได้กระทำบาป และก็ตายหมดแล้ว พวกข้าพระองค์ต้องถูกโทษเพราะความชั่วช้าของเขา

8 ทาสกลับปกครองพวกข้าพระองค์ ไม่มีผู้ใดช่วยข้าพระองค์ให้พ้นมือของเขาได้

9 ข้าพระองค์ทั้งหลายได้อาหารมาโดยเอาชีวิตเข้าเสี่ยงเพราะดาบแห่งถิ่นทุรกันดาร

10 ผิวหนังของพวกข้าพระองค์ก็ร้อนปานเตาอบ เพราะความเดือดร้อนของทุพภิกขภัย

11 เขาทั้งหลายขืนใจพวกผู้หญิงในกรุงศิโยน และข่มใจสาวพรหมจารีในหัวเมืองแห่งยูดาห์

12 พวกเจ้านายต้องถูกผูกมือแขวน ไม่มีใครแสดงความนับถือต่อหน้าพวกผู้ใหญ่

13 พวกคนหนุ่มถูกบังคับให้โม่แป้ง และพวกเด็กต้องแบกฟืนหนักล้มลุกคลุกคลาน

14 พวกผู้ใหญ่หายตัวไปจากประตูเมือง พวกคนหนุ่มได้หยุดดีดสีตีเป่าแล้ว

15 ความปลาบปลื้มก็ประลาตไปจากใจของพวกข้าพระองค์สิ้น การเต้นรำของพวกข้าพระองค์กลายเป็นการร่ำไห้

16 มงกุฎได้ร่วงหล่นจากศีรษะข้าพระองค์แล้ว วิบัติแก่พวกข้าพระองค์ เพราะพวกข้าพระองค์กระทำบาปไว้

17 เหตุนี้เองใจพวกข้าพระองค์จึงอ่อนกำลัง เพราะการเหล่านี้เองนัยน์ตาข้าพระองค์จึงมัวไป

18 เหตุด้วยภูเขาศิโยนซึ่งรกร้างไป พวกสุนัขจิ้งจอกจึงมาเดินเพ่นพ่านอยู่บนนั้น

19 ข้าแต่พระเยโฮวาห์ แต่พระองค์ทรงสถิตอยู่เป็นนิตย์ พระที่นั่งของพระองค์ดำรงอยู่ทุกชั่วอายุ

20 เป็นไฉนพระองค์ทรงลืมพวกข้าพระองค์เสียเป็นนิตย์ เป็นไฉนได้ทรงทอดทิ้งพวกข้าพระองค์เสียนานดังนี้

21 ข้าแต่พระเยโฮวาห์ ขอทรงช่วยข้าพระองค์ให้กลับสู่พระองค์เถิด แล้วพวกข้าพระองค์จะกลับสู่พระองค์ ขอทรงฟื้นเดือนปีของข้าพระองค์ให้เหมือนดังก่อน

22 เว้นเสียแต่พระองค์ทรงสลัดทิ้งพวกข้าพระองค์เสียแล้ว และพระองค์ทรงกริ้วพวกข้าพระองค์อย่างล้นพ้น

   


Many thanks to Philip Pope for the permission to use his 2003 translation of the English King James Version Bible into Thai. Here's a link to the mission's website: www.thaipope.org

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Arcana Coelestia # 9995

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9995. 'Of fine wheat flour you shall make them' means truth which springs from Divine Good, of which those [celestial kinds of good] consist. This is clear from the meaning of 'fine flour' as truth, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'wheat' as the good of love, dealt with in 3941, and so in the highest sense as Divine Good; and from the meaning of 'making them' as the requirement that those kinds of celestial good, meant by unleavened bread, cakes, and wafers, must consist of that truth. The situation in all this is that all the truths and forms of good that exist in heaven have their origin in Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good. This Divine Truth as received by angels in the celestial kingdom is called celestial good, but as received in the spiritual kingdom by angels there it is called spiritual good; for no matter how often Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good is called Truth it is still good. The reason for referring to it as Truth is that it appears in heaven, before angels' outward sight there, as light; for the light there is Divine Truth, but the heat within that light, which is the good of love, causes it to be good. The situation is similar with people in this world. When the truth of faith emanates from the good of charity, as happens when a person has been regenerated, truth appears as good, which is also as a consequence called spiritual good since the inner being of truth is good, and truth is the outward form of good.

[2] From all this it may become clear why a person finds it so hard to distinguish between thinking and willing, for when he wills something he says that he thinks it, and often when he thinks something that he wills it. Yet they are as distinct and separate as truth and good are; for the inner being of thought is the will and the outward form of the will is thought, just as the inner being of truth is good and the outward form of good is truth, as stated immediately above. Since a person finds it so hard to distinguish one from the other he does not know what the inner being of his life is, or that good constitutes it, not truth except insofar as it springs from good. Good belongs to the will, and the will consists in what a person loves, so that truth does not become the being of a person's life until he loves it; and when the person loves it he does it. Truth however belongs to the understanding, whose function is thinking; and when he thinks it he is able to speak about it. Also it is possible to understand the truth and think it without willing or doing it; but then it does not become the person's own, part of his life, because it does not have within itself the inner being of his life. Knowing nothing about any of this a person consequently ascribes salvation wholly to faith and scarcely at all to charity, when in fact faith receives its inner being of life from charity, even as truth receives it from good.

[3] Furthermore all good with a person is given form by truth, for good flows in from the Lord by an inward path, while truth enters by an outward path. They then marry in the internal man, though in one way in the case of a spiritual person or angel and in another in the case of a celestial person or angel. With a spiritual person or angel the marriage takes place in the understanding part of the mind, but in a celestial person or angel in the will part. The outward path by which truth enters lies through hearing and sight into the understanding, but the inward path by which good flows in from the Lord lies through what is inmost in the person into the will. On this subject see what has been shown in the places referred to in 9596. From all this it is evident that the celestial kinds of good meant by unleavened bread, cakes, and wafers, come into being through Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good, and that this is what should be understood by 'of fine wheat flour you shall make them'. This goes to explain why minchahs, though varying in how they were made, all consisted of fine flour mixed with oil, see Leviticus 2:1-16; 6:20-23; Numbers 7:13ff; 15:2-15; 28:11-15.

[4] The fact that 'fine flour', and also 'flour', mean truth that springs from good is clear from the following places: In Ezekiel,

You ate fine flour, honey, and oil; therefore you became extremely beautiful. Ezekiel 16:13.

These things are said of Jerusalem, by which the Ancient Church is meant in that chapter in Ezekiel. 'Fine flour' means that Church's truth which springs from good, 'honey' its delight, 'oil' the good of love, and 'eating' making it one's own. The words 'you became beautiful' are consequently used, for spiritual beauty comes as a result of truths and forms of good.

[5] In Hosea,

He does not have any standing grain; the ears will yield no flour. [If] by chance they do yield it, aliens will swallow it up. Hosea 8:7.

'Standing grain' means the truth of faith springing from good, in the process of being conceived, 9146, 'the ears will yield no flour' sterility because there is no truth springing from good, and 'aliens' who 'will swallow it up' falsities arising from evil that will consume it.

[6] In 1 Kings 17:12-15 the Sidonian woman in Zarephath told Elijah that she had nothing to make a cake with except a handful of flour in a jar and a tiny amount of oil in a flask. So Elijah told her that she should make a cake for him first, and that 'the jar of flour will not be used up, nor will the flask of oil fail', which was indeed what happened. Here 'flour' means the Church's truth, and 'oil' its good; for the woman in Sidon represents a Church that is in possession of cognitions or knowledge of truth and good, while Elijah the Prophet represents the Lord in respect of the Word. From this it is evident what this miracle has to do with, for all the miracles described in the Word have to do with things such as belong to the Church, 7337, 8364, 9086. From this it is evident what is meant by 'the jar of flour will not be used up, nor will the flask of oil fail' if from the little she had she made a cake for Elijah first and for her son after that. For the meaning of 'the woman' as the Church, see 252, 253; for that of 'Sidon' as cognitions of truth and good, 1201; and for that of 'Elijah' as the Lord in respect of the Word, 2762, 5247 (end).

[7] In Isaiah,

O daughter of Babel, take a mill, and grind flour. Isaiah 47:1-2.

'Daughter of Babel' stands for those within the Church who are outwardly holy but inwardly unholy. 'Grinding flour' stands for choosing matters from the literal sense of the Word such as serve to strengthen the evils of self-love and love of the world. For any such evil is unholy, 'grinding' describes choosing, and also explaining in support of those kinds of love, while 'flour' means truth that serves, see 4335.

[8] From all this it is evident what 'grinding' means and therefore what something 'ground up' means, as in Jeremiah,

Princes have been hung up by their hands, the faces of the old men have not been honoured; the young men have been led away to grind at the mill. Lamentations 5:12-13.

In Moses,

Moses took the calf which they had made, and burned it in the fire, and ground it up till it became fine powder 1 . Then he sprinkled it over the face of the water and made the children of Israel drink it. Exodus 32:20; Deuteronomy 9:21.

And in Matthew,

At that time two will be in the field, one will be taken, the other left behind. Two women grinding; one will be taken, the other will be left behind. Matthew 24:40-41.

From these places it is evident what 'grinding' means, namely this: In a good sense it means choosing truths from the Word and explaining them in such a way that they are made to serve what is good, and in a bad sense in such a way that they are made to serve what is bad, see 7780. And from this it is also clear what something 'ground up' means, consequently what 'flour' and 'fine flour' mean.

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1. literally, became the minutest

  
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Many thanks to Philip Pope for the permission to use his 2003 translation of the English King James Version Bible into Thai. Here's a link to the mission's website: www.thaipope.org