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Lamentadoj 5

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1 Rememoru, ho Eternulo, kio farigxis al ni; Rigardu kaj vidu nian malhonoron!

2 Nia heredajxo transiris al fremduloj, Niaj domoj al aligentuloj.

3 Ni farigxis orfoj senpatraj, Niaj patrinoj estas kiel vidvinoj.

4 Nian akvon ni trinkas pro mono; Nian lignon ni ricevas nur pro pago.

5 Oni pelas nin je nia kolo; Ni lacigxis, sed oni ne permesas al Ni ripozi.

6 Al Egiptujo ni etendis la manon, Al Asirio, por satigxi per pano.

7 Niaj patroj pekis, sed ili jam ne ekzistas; Kaj ni devas suferi pro iliaj malbonagoj.

8 Sklavoj regas super ni; Kaj neniu liberigas nin el iliaj manoj.

9 Kun dangxero por nia vivo ni akiras nian panon, Pro la glavo en la dezerto.

10 Nia hauxto varmegigxis kiel forno, Por la kruela malsato.

11 La virinojn en Cion ili senhonorigis, La virgulinojn en la urboj de Judujo.

12 La princoj estas pendigitaj je siaj manoj; La maljunulojn oni ne respektis.

13 La junuloj devas porti muelsxtonojn; La knaboj falas sub la lignosxargxoj.

14 La maljunuloj jam ne sidas cxe la pordegoj, La junuloj jam ne kantas.

15 Malaperis la gajeco de nia koro; Niaj dancrondoj aliformigxis en funebron.

16 Defalis la krono de nia kapo; Ho ve al ni, ke ni pekis!

17 Pro tio senfortigxis nia koro, Pro tio senlumigxis niaj okuloj:

18 Pro la monto Cion, ke gxi farigxis dezerta, Ke vulpoj vagas sur gxi.

19 Sed Vi, ho Eternulo, kiu restas eterne Kaj kies trono staras de generacio al generacio,

20 Kial Vi forgesis nin kvazaux por eterne, Forlasis nin por longa tempo?

21 Reirigu nin, ho Eternulo, al Vi, ke ni revenu; Renovigu niajn tagojn kiel en la tempo antauxa.

22 CXar cxu Vi nin tute forpusxis? Vi tre forte ekkoleris kontraux ni.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #10416

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10416. 'And rose up to play' means the resulting desire of their interiors to celebrate, and concord. This is clear from the meaning of 'playing' as the desire of a person's interiors to celebrate, for play is the outcome of that desire, being a bodily activity brought about by gladness of mind; and all desire for celebration and all gladness of mind come from the delights belonging to the loves that govern a person. The reason why concord as well is meant is that every desire to celebrate has concord residing inwardly within it; for if any disagreement or disapproval enters in, that desire perishes. The desire to celebrate resides inwardly in a person's feeling of freedom, and all feeling of freedom comes as a result of love, when nothing exists to frustrate it.

[2] Since outward things are used in the Word to describe inward ones, times of play and dancing are used to describe those of joy and gladness present in a person inwardly, as in the following places: In Jeremiah,

The city will be built upon its mound. Then there will come out of these thanksgiving (confessio) and the voice of those who are playing 1 . Jeremiah 30:18-19.

In the same prophet,

Again I will build you, that you may be built, O virgin of Israel! Again you will adorn your timbrels 2 , and will go forth in the dance of those who are playing 1 . Their life 3 will become like a watered garden, and they will not sorrow any more. And the virgin will rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together. I will turn their mourning into joy. Jeremiah 31:4, 12-13.

In Zechariah,

The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. Zechariah 8:5.

In David,

Praise the name of Jehovah with timbrel and dance. Psalms 149:3; 150:4.

In the same author,

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing. Psalms 30:11.

In Jeremiah,

The joy of our heart has ceased, our dance has been turned into mourning. Lamentations 5:15.

[3] Since times of play and dancing were the signs of feelings of joy and gladness inwardly present and springing from love, Miriam and the women went out, with timbrels after the Egyptians had been drowned in the Sea Suph and started dancing, Exodus 15:20. For the same reason, when the ark was being brought up from the house of Obed-Edom to the city of David, David leapt and danced before Jehovah, 2 Samuel 6:12, 16.

[4] The fact that inner things are presented and described in the Word by means of outward ones is clear from the following words in David,

You have made the sea, great and wide on both hands 4 - there the ships sail, the Leviathan whom You have formed to play in it. Psalms 104:25-26.

Anyone without knowledge of the fact that the spiritual sense exists within each detail of the Word knows nothing else here than that 'the sea' and 'ships' are used to mean sea and ships, 'the Leviathan' to mean the monsters there, and 'playing' to mean their swimming around together there. Such things however are not what constitute the Word, every jot of which is Divine; but when the spiritual matters meant by those things are understood instead, it becomes Divine. In the internal sense 'the sea' is a gathering together of factual knowledge of truths, thus it is that which constitutes what is external with a person and in the Church; 'ships' are cognitions or knowledge and matters of doctrine drawn from the Word; 'the Leviathan' is factual knowledge in general; and 'playing' is the delight derived from those things.

'The sea' is a gathering together of factual truths, see 28, 2850, 8184, 9340.

'Ships' are cognitions and matters of doctrine drawn from the Word, 1977, 6385.

'The Leviathan' is factual knowledge in general, 7293.

Thus 'playing' is the delight and the desire to celebrate derived from those things, which occurs when known facts add strength to spiritual matters and accord with them.

Notas a pie de página:

1. i.e. merrymakers

2. The Latin here and in 153, 1069:2, 3081:4, 8337:3, 8339:1 means literally will adorn your timbrels, but the Hebrew is generally taken to mean adorn yourself with timbrels.

3. literally, soul

4. literally, wide with spaces

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Exodus 7

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1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.

2 You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

3 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring forth my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

5 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them."

6 Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.

7 Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

8 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

9 "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Perform a miracle!' then you shall tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'"

10 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.

11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments.

12 For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

13 Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.

15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand by the river's bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.

16 You shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness:" and behold, until now you haven't listened.

17 Thus says Yahweh, "In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold, I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

18 The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river."'"

19 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"

20 Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.

21 The fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians couldn't drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.

22 The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

23 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart.

24 All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.

25 Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river.