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Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her.
Hosea 2:14
Leviticus 26
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Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.
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Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
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If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
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Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit:
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And your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
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And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid the land of evil beasts, neither shall the sword go through your land.
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And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
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And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
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For I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
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And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
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And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
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And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
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I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bond-men, and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
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But if ye will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments;
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And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul shall abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
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I also will do this to you, I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
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And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you, and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
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And if ye will not yet for all this hearken to me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
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And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
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And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
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And if ye shall walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
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I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number, and your high-ways shall be desolate.
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And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary to me;
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Then will I also walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
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And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you: and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
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And when I have broke the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
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And if ye will not for all this hearken to me, but walk contrary to me;
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Then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
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And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
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And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
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And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.
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And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
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And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
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Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.
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As long as it lieth desolate, it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
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And upon them that are left alive of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall, when none pursueth.
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And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
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And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
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And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
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If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary to me;
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And that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts shall be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
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Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
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The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
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And yet for all that, when they shall be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
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But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
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These are the statutes, and judgments, and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Apocalypse Revealed # 956
956. And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. This symbolically means that anyone who has any knowledge of the Lord's coming and of the New Heaven and New Church, thus of the Lord's kingdom, let him pray for the Lord's coming; and anyone who desires truths, let him pray for the Lord to come with light. And anyone who loves truths will then receive them from the Lord apart from any endeavors of his own.
"Let him who hears say, 'Come!'" symbolically means that anyone who hears about the Lord's coming and about the New Heaven and New Church, thus about the Lord's kingdom, and so has some knowledge of these, should pray for the Lord to come. "Let him who thirsts say, 'Come!'" symbolically means that anyone who longs for the Lord's kingdom and truths at that time should pray for the Lord to come with light. "Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely" symbolically means that whoever is moved by love to learn truths and assimilate them into himself will receive them from the Lord apart from any endeavors of his own. To desire symbolizes love, because whatever a person desires from the heart is something he loves, and whatever he loves is something he desires from the heart. The water of life symbolizes Divine truths obtained from the Lord through the Word (no. 932), and to obtain them freely means, symbolically, apart from any endeavors of his own.
Something similar to the symbolic meaning in this verse is that of the wish contained in the Lord's Prayer, "Your kingdom come, Your will be done, as in heaven, so upon the earth" (no. 839). The Lord's kingdom is the church that is united with heaven. So it is that we are now told, "Let him who hears say, 'Come!' And let him who thirsts come."
[2] That thirsting symbolizes a longing for truths is clear from the following:
...I will pour water on him who is thirsty...; I will pour My spirit on your offspring... (Isaiah 44:3)
Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters... buy wine and milk without money... (Isaiah 55:1)
...Jesus... cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in Me..., out of his belly will flow rivers of living water." (John 7:37-38)
My soul thirsts... for the living God. (Psalms 42:2)
O God, You are my God...; my soul thirsts for You; ...I am weary, without water. (Psalms 63:1)
Blessed are those who... thirst for righteousness... (Matthew 5:6)
To him who thirsts I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely. (Revelation 21:6)
The last symbolically means that to those who desire truths for some useful spiritual purpose, the Lord will give of Himself through the Word everything conducive to that useful purpose.
[3] Thirst and thirsting also symbolize perishing from a lack of truth, as is clear from the following:
...my people will go into exile, because they have no acknowledgment... their multitude dried up with thirst. (Isaiah 5:13)
...the foolish person speaks foolishness, and his heart works iniquity..., and he causes the soul... of the thirsty for drink to fail. (Isaiah 32:6)
The poor and needy seek water, but there is none, their tongues fail for thirst. I, Jehovah, will hear them. (Isaiah 41:17)
Contend with your mother..., lest I strip her naked... and slay her with thirst. (Hosea 2:2-3)
The prophet's mother there is the church.
Behold, the days are coming... when I will send a hunger on the land, not a hunger for bread, nor a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah... In that day the fair virgins and young men shall faint from thirst. (Amos 8:11, 13)
On the other hand, not thirsting symbolically means to have no lack of truth, in the following:
Jesus... said..., "Whoever drinks... of the water that I shall give him will not thirst to eternity." (John 4:13-15)
Jesus said..., ."..he who believes in Me shall never thirst." (John 6:35)
Jehovah has redeemed... Jacob. Then they will not thirst... He caused the waters to flow from the rock for them. (Isaiah 48:20-21)
