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1 Horchet, ihr Himmel, und ich will reden; und die Erde höre die Worte meines Mundes!

2 Es träufle wie Regen meine Lehre, es fließe wie Tau meine Rede, wie Regenschauer auf das Gras und wie Regengüsse auf das Kraut!

3 Denn den Namen Jehovas will ich ausrufen: Gebet Majestät unserem Gott!

4 Der Fels: Vollkommen ist sein Tun; denn alle seine Wege sind recht. Ein Gott der Treue und ohne Trug, gerecht und gerade ist er!

5 Es hat sich gegen ihn verderbt, nicht seiner Kinder ist ihr Schandfleck ein verkehrtes und verdrehtes Geschlecht.

6 Vergeltet ihr also Jehova, du törichtes und unweises Volk? Ist er nicht dein Vater, der dich erkauft hat? Er hat dich gemacht und dich bereitet.

7 Gedenke der Tage der Vorzeit, merket auf die Jahre von Geschlecht zu Geschlecht; frage deinen Vater, und er wird es dir kundtun, deine Ältesten, und sie werden es dir sagen.

8 Als der Höchste den Nationen das Erbe austeilte, als er voneinander schied die Menschenkinder, da stellte er fest die Grenzen der Völker nach der Zahl der Kinder Israel.

9 Denn Jehovas Teil ist sein Volk, Jakob die Schnur seines Erbteils.

10 Er fand ihn im Lande der Wüste und in der Öde, dem Geheul der Wildnis; er umgab ihn, gab acht auf ihn, er behütete ihn wie seinen Augapfel.

11 Wie der Adler sein Nest aufstört, über seinen Jungen schwebt, seine Flügel ausbreitet, sie aufnimmt, sie trägt auf seinen Schwingen;

12 so leitete ihn Jehova allein, und kein fremder Gott war mit ihm.

13 Er ließ ihn einherfahren auf den Höhen der Erde, und er den Ertrag des Feldes; und er ließ ihn Honig saugen aus dem Felsen und Öl aus dem Kieselfelsen;

14 geronnene Milch der Kühe und Milch der Schafe, samt dem Fette der Mastschafe und Widder, der Söhne Basans, und der Böcke, samt dem Nierenfett des Weizens; und der Traube Blut trankest du, feurigen Wein.

15 Da ward Jeschurun fett und schlug aus; du wurdest fett, dick, feist! Und er verließ Gott, der ihn gemacht hatte, und verachtete den Fels seiner Rettung.

16 Sie reizten ihn zur Eifersucht durch fremde Götter, durch Greuel erbitterten sie ihn.

17 Sie opferten den Dämonen, die Nicht-Gott sind, Göttern, die sie nicht kannten, neuen, die vor kurzem aufgekommen waren, die eure Väter nicht verehrten.

18 Den Felsen, der dich gezeugt, vernachlässigtest du, und vergaßest den Gott, der dich geboren.

19 Und Jehova sah es und verwarf sie, vor Unwillen über seine Söhne und seine Töchter.

20 Und er sprach: Ich will mein Angesicht vor ihnen verbergen, will sehen, was ihr Ende sein wird; denn ein Geschlecht voll Verkehrtheit sind sie, Kinder, in denen keine Treue ist.

21 Sie haben mich zur Eifersucht gereizt durch Nicht-Götter, haben mich erbittert durch ihre Nichtigkeiten; so will auch ich sie zur Eifersucht reizen durch ein Nicht-Volk, durch eine törichte Nation will ich sie erbittern.

22 Denn ein Feuer ist entbrannt in meinem Zorn und wird brennen bis in den untersten Scheol, und es wird verzehren die Erde und ihren Ertrag und entzünden die Grundfesten der Berge.

23 Ich werde Unglück über sie häufen, meine Pfeile wider sie verbrauchen.

24 Vergehen sie vor Hunger, und sind sie aufgezehrt von Fieberglut und giftiger Pest, so werde ich den Zahn wilder Tiere gegen sie senden, samt dem Gifte der im Staube Schleichenden.

25 Draußen wird das Schwert rauben, und in den Gemächern der Schrecken: den Jüngling wie die Jungfrau, den Säugling mit dem greisen Manne.

26 Ich hätte gesagt: Ich will sie zerstreuen, ihrem Gedächtnis unter den Menschen ein Ende machen!

27 Wenn ich die Kränkung von seiten des Feindes nicht fürchtete, daß ihre Widersacher es verkännten, daß sie sprächen: Unsere Hand war erhaben, und nicht Jehova hat dies alles getan!

28 Denn sie sind eine Nation, die allen Rat verloren hat; und kein Verständnis ist in ihnen.

29 Wenn sie weise wären, so würden sie dieses verstehen, ihr Ende bedenken.

30 Wie könnte einer Tausend jagen, und zwei Zehntausend in die Flucht treiben, wäre es nicht, daß ihr Fels sie verkauft und Jehova sie preisgegeben hätte?

31 Denn nicht wie unser Fels ist ihr Fels: Dessen sind unsere Feinde selbst Richter!

32 Denn von dem Weinstock Sodoms ist ihr Weinstock und von den Fluren Gomorras; ihre Beeren sind Giftbeeren, bitter sind ihre Trauben.

33 Gift der Drachen ist ihr Wein und grausames Gift der Nattern.

34 Ist dieses nicht bei mir verborgen, versiegelt in meinen Schatzkammern?

35 Mein ist die Rache und die Vergeltung für die Zeit, da ihr Fuß wanken wird; denn nahe ist der Tag ihres Verderbens, und was ihnen bevorsteht, eilt herbei.

36 Denn Jehova wird sein Volk richten, und er wird sich's gereuen lassen über seine Knechte, wenn er sehen wird, daß geschwunden die Kraft, und der Gebundene und der Freie dahin ist.

37 Und er wird sagen: Wo sind ihre Götter, der Fels, auf den sie vertrauten,

38 welche das Fett ihrer Schlachtopfer aßen, den Wein ihrer Trankopfer tranken? Sie mögen aufstehen und euch helfen, mögen ein Schirm über euch sein!

39 Sehet nun, daß ich, ich bin, der da ist, und kein Gott neben mir! Ich töte, und ich mache lebendig, ich zerschlage, und ich heile; und niemand ist, der aus meiner Hand errettet!

40 Denn ich erhebe zum Himmel meine Hand und spreche: Ich lebe ewiglich!

41 Wenn ich mein blitzendes Schwert geschärft habe und meine Hand zum Gericht greift, so werde ich Rache erstatten meinen Feinden und Vergeltung geben meinen Hassern.

42 Meine Pfeile werde ich berauschen mit Blut, und mein Schwert wird Fleisch fressen mit dem Blute der Erschlagenen und Gefangenen, von dem Haupte der Fürsten des Feindes.

43 Jubelt, ihr Nationen, mit seinem Volke! Denn er wird rächen das Blut seiner Knechte und wird Rache erstatten seinen Feinden, und seinem Lande, seinem Volke, vergeben. -

44 Und Mose kam und redete alle Worte dieses Liedes vor den Ohren des Volkes, er und Hosea, der Sohn Nuns.

45 Und als Mose alle diese Worte zu dem ganzen Israel ausgeredet hatte, da sprach er zu ihnen:

46 Richtet euer Herz auf alle die Worte, die ich euch heute bezeuge, damit ihr sie euren Kindern befehlet, daß sie darauf achten, alle Worte dieses Gesetzes zu tun.

47 Denn es ist nicht ein leeres Wort für euch, sondern es ist euer Leben; und durch dieses Wort werdet ihr eure Tage verlängern in dem Lande, wohin ihr über den Jordan ziehet, um es in Besitz zu nehmen.

48 Und Jehova redete zu Mose an diesem selbigen Tage und sprach:

49 Steige auf dieses Gebirge Abarim, den Berg Nebo, der im Lande Moab liegt, der Jericho gegenüber ist, und sieh das Land Kanaan, das ich den Kindern Israel zum Eigentum gebe;

50 und du wirst sterben auf dem Berge, auf welchen du steigen wirst, und zu deinen Völkern versammelt werden; gleichwie dein Bruder Aaron auf dem Berge Hor gestorben ist und zu seinen Völkern versammelt wurde;

51 darum daß ihr treulos gegen mich gehandelt habt inmitten der Kinder Israel an dem Wasser von Meriba-Kades in der Wüste Zin, darum daß ihr mich nicht geheiligt habt inmitten der Kinder Israel.

52 Denn vor dir sollst du das Land sehen, aber du sollst nicht in das Land hineinkommen, das ich den Kindern Israel gebe.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #6377

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6377. 'He washes his clothing in wine' means that His Natural consists in Divine Truth from His Divine Good. This is clear from the meaning of 'washing' as purifying, dealt with in 3147; from the meaning of 'wine' as the good of love towards the neighbour and the good of faith, and in the highest sense as Divine Truth from the Lord's Divine Good, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'clothing' as the exterior which covers the interior, dealt with in 5248, thus the natural since this is exterior and covers the rational, which is interior. Therefore 'clothing' also means truth since this is exterior and covers good, which is interior, 2576, 4545, 4763, 5319, 5954.

[2] The fact that 'wine' means love towards the neighbour and the good of faith may be recognized from what has been shown regarding the bread and wine in the Holy Supper, in 2165, 2177, 3464, 4581, 5915. These paragraphs show that 'bread' is the good of celestial love, and that 'wine' is the good of spiritual love. The same may also be recognized from the minchah and the drink-offering in sacrifices. The minchah in them meant the good of love, and the drink-offering the good of faith. The minchah consisted of the kinds of things that meant the good of love, while the drink-offering consisted of wine that meant the good of faith. The sacrifices themselves were also called 'bread', 2165. For the use in sacrifices of a drink-offering consisting of wine, see Exodus 29:40; Leviticus 23:12-13, 18-19; Numbers 15:2-15; 28:6-7, 18-end; 29:1-7 and following verses.

[3] The meaning that 'wine' has of love towards the neighbour and the good of faith is also evident in Isaiah,

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! And come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Isaiah 55:1.

No one can fail to see that they did not have to buy wine and milk, but that they were to acquire what is meant by 'wine and milk', which is love towards the neighbour and faith. These gifts come from the Lord 'without money and without price'.

[4] In Hosea,

Threshing-floor and winepress will not feed them, and new wine will be deceptive to her. 1 Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat what is unclean. They will not pour libations of wine to Jehovah, their sacrifices will not be pleasing to Him. Hosea 9:1-4.

Here also in the internal sense reference is made to the good of love and the good of faith, to the demise of them. The good of love is meant by 'threshing-floor' by virtue of the grain there and the bread made from it, while the good of faith is meant by 'winepress', 'new wine', and 'libation of wine'. 'Ephraim will return to Egypt' stands for the fact that the understanding would resort to factual knowledge for advice concerning the arcana of faith; 'in Assyria they will eat what is unclean' stands for that which is the outcome of consequent false reasoning - 'Ephraim' being the area of understanding in the Church, see 5754, 6112, 6238, 6267; 'Egypt' the area of factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 5702; and 'Assyria' that of reasoning, 1186. The line of thought in this passage also shows that the words used here contain something more than what one sees in the letter. For everything hangs together in the internal sense, but not so in the external sense, for example when it says that 'threshing-floor and winepress will not feed them, and new wine will be deceptive to her', immediately followed by 'Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat what is unclean'. Moreover, without the internal sense what meaning would Ephraim's return to Egypt and their eating in Assyria what is unclean have?

[5] 'Winepress' and 'wine' are also used in Jeremiah to describe the demise of mutual love and the good of faith,

He who lays waste has fallen on your vintage, therefore joy and gladness have been plucked from Carmel, and from the land of Moab, for I have made the wine cease from the winepresses; none will tread the headed. 2 Jeremiah 48:32-33.

[6] The fact that 'wine' means the good of mutual love and of faith is also evident in John,

I heard a voice from the midst of the four living creatures, saying, Do no harm to oil and wine. Revelation 6:6.

[7] 'Oil' stands for the good of celestial love, and 'wine' for the good of spiritual love.

'Oil' and 'wine' have a similar meaning in the Lord's parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke,

A certain Samaritan was journeying, and seeing him who had been wounded by the robbers was moved with compassion for him; going therefore to him, he bandaged his wounds, and poured on oil and wine. Luke 10:33-34.

'He poured on oil and wine' means that he performed the works of love and charity, 'oil' being the good of love, see 886, 3728. A like meaning was involved in the practice of the ancients, who poured oil and wine onto a pillar when they consecrated it, Genesis 35:14, 4581, 4582.

[8] The fact that 'wine' means the good of love and faith is evident from the words the Lord used when He instituted the Holy Supper. He said then regarding the wine,

I tell you that I shall not drink from now on of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom. Matthew 26:29; Luke 22:17-18.

Anyone can see that He was not about to drink wine in that kingdom, but that the good of love and faith is meant, which He was about to impart to those who belonged to His kingdom. Much the same is meant by 'wine' in Isaiah 24:9, 11; Lamentations 2:11-12; Hosea 14:7; Amos 9:13-14; Zechariah 9:15-16; Luke 5:37-39.

[9] Since 'wine' means the good of love and faith, Divine Truth from the Lord's Divine Good is therefore meant in the highest sense, for that Truth, when it flows into a person and is accepted by him, brings him the good of love and faith.

[10] Since most things in the Word also have a contrary meaning, so too does 'wine', the contrary meaning of which is falsity from evil, as in Isaiah,

Woe to those who rise in the morning around dawn, and then follow strong drink, who continue into dusk, so that wine may inflame them! Woe to heroes at drinking wine, and to valiant men in mixing strong drink! Isaiah 5:11, 22

In the same prophet,

Also these err through wine, and go astray through strong drink. The priest and the prophet err through strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine, they go astray through strong drink. They err among the seers, they are tottery in judgement. Isaiah 28:7.

In the same prophet,

The shepherds know no understanding, they all look to their own way. Come, I will get wine, and we will be drunken from strong drink; and let there be tomorrow, as there is this day, great abundance. Isaiah 56:11-12.

In addition to these places 'wine' is used with the contrary meaning in Jeremiah 13:12; Hosea 4:11; 7:5; Amos 2:8; Micah 2:11; Psalms 75:8; Deuteronomy 32:33.

Falsity from evil is also meant by the cup of the wine of wrath in Jeremiah 25:15-16; Revelation 14:8, 10; 16:19; the winepress of the wrath of God's anger, Revelation 19:15; and the wine of whoredom, Revelation 17:2; 18:3.

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1. The Latin means them but the Hebrew means her, which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse, as well as possibly here in his rough draft.

  
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1462. 'Egypt' means, in reference to the Lord, knowledge comprised of cognitions, but in reference to all others, knowledge in general. This becomes clear from the meaning of that country in the Word, dealt with already in several places, and specifically in 1164, 1165. Indeed the Ancient Church existed in Egypt, as it did in many other places, 1238, and while the Church was in that region all kinds of knowledge flourished there more than anything else; and this explains why 'Egypt' came to mean knowledge. But after those people desired to penetrate the mysteries of faith by means of all this knowledge, and so to inquire into the truth of Divine arcana from their own power, Egypt became a place of magic, and so came to mean factual knowledge which perverts, and which gives rise to falsities and derivative evils, as is clear in Isaiah 19:11.

[2] That 'Egypt' means all kinds of knowledge that serve a use, thus at this point knowledge comprised of cognitions which is able to serve as vessels for celestial and spiritual things, becomes clear from the following places in the Word: In Isaiah,

They have led Egypt astray, the corner-stone of the tribes. Isaiah 19:13.

Here it is called 'the corner-stone of the tribes', which was to serve as the base on which the things of faith meant by 'the tribes' were to rest. In the same prophet,

On that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt which speak in the lip of Canaan and swear to Jehovah Zebaoth. Each will be called Ir Heres. On that day there will be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its border to Jehovah; and it will be a sign and a witness to Jehovah Zebaoth in the land of Egypt, for they will cry to Jehovah because of the oppressors, and He will send a savior and a prince to them, and he will deliver them. And Jehovah will make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Jehovah on that day and will offer sacrifice and minchah, and will make vows to Jehovah and perform them. And Jehovah will smite Egypt, smiting and healing, and they will return to Jehovah; and He will be entreated by them, and He will heal them. Isaiah 19:18-22.

Used in a good sense here, 'Egypt' stands for people who possess facts, or natural truths, which are the vessels for spiritual truths.

[3] In the same prophet,

On that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Asshur, and Asshur will come into Egypt and Egypt into Asshur, and the Egyptians will serve Asshur. 1 On that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Asshur, a blessing in the midst of the earth, whom Jehovah Zebaoth will bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt My people, and Asshur the work of My hands, and Israel My heritage. Isaiah 19:23-25.

Here 'Egypt' means knowledge consisting of natural truths, 'Asshur' reason or rational things, and 'Israel' spiritual things, which follow one another in that order. Hence the statement that 'on that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Asshur, and Israel will be the third with Egypt and Asshur'.

[4] In Ezekiel,

Fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you an ensign. Ezekiel 27:7.

This refers to Tyre, which means the possession of cognitions. 'Fine linen with embroidered work' stands for the truths contained in all kinds of knowledge which are of service; belonging as they do to the external man facts ought to be of service to the internal man. In the same prophet,

Thus said the Lord Jehovih, At the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples among whom they were scattered, and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt. Ezekiel 29:13-14.

Here also 'Egypt' has much the same meaning, as is also said of Judah and Israel in many other places that they were to be gathered from the peoples and brought back from captivity. In Zechariah,

And it will be that whoever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah Zebaoth, there will be no rain upon them And if the family of Egypt does not go up, and does not come . . . Zechariah 14:17-18.

Here also 'Egypt' is used in a good sense to have a similar meaning.

[5] That knowledge or human wisdom is meant by 'Egypt' becomes clear also in Daniel 11:43 where knowledge of celestial and of spiritual things is called 'the secret hoards of gold and silver' and also 'the precious things of Egypt'. And of Solomon it is said that his wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of the Egyptians, 1 Kings 4:30. And the house built by Solomon for Pharaoh's daughter had no other representation, 1 Kings 7:8 and following verses.

[6] The Lord's being taken into Egypt when He was an infant had no other meaning than that which here is meant by Abram, though He was also taken there so that He might fulfill all things that had taken place and were representative of Himself. The passage of Jacob and his sons down into Egypt represented in the inmost sense nothing other than the Lord's initial instruction in cognitions from the Word, as is also evident from what follows. In reference to the Lord the following is said in Matthew,

The angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Rise, take the boy and His mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I tell you. He rose and took the boy and His mother by night, and departed into Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod, so that what had been said by the prophet might be fulfilled, when he said, Out of Egypt have I called My son. Matthew 2:13-15, 19-21.

This promise is stated in Hosea as follows,

When Israel was a boy I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son. Hosea 11:1.

From this it is clear that 'the boy Israel' is used to mean the Lord, His instruction when a boy being expressed by the words, 'Out of Egypt have I called My son'.

[7] In the same prophet,

By a prophet Jehovah brought Israel up out of Egypt and by a prophet he was preserved. Hosea 12:12-13.

Here similarly 'Israel' is used to mean the Lord. 'A prophet' means one who teaches, thus teaching consisting of cognitions. In David,

Turn us back, O God Zebaoth, cause Your face 2 to shine and we shall be saved. You caused a vine to set out from Egypt, You drove out the nations and planted it. Psalms 80:7-8.

This too refers to the Lord, who is called 'the vine out of Egypt' as regards the cognitions in which He was receiving instruction.

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1. The Hebrew of his text in Isaiah may be read in two different ways - serve Asshur or serve with Asshur. Most English versions of Isaiah prefer the second of these.

2. literally, Faces

  
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