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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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Apocalypse Revealed #620

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620. 14:4 These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. This symbolically means that they did not adulterate the church's truths or defile them with the falsities of their faith, but loved the truths because they are true.

A woman symbolizes the church from an affection for truth, and so in an opposite sense the church from an affection for falsity, as may be seen in nos. 434, 533 above - here the church from an affection for truth, because we are told that they were not defiled with women. Being defiled with women has the same symbolic meaning as committing adultery and behaving licentiously. To commit adultery and behave licentiously means, symbolically, to adulterate and falsify the Word, as may be seen in no. 134 above.

For they are virgins means, symbolically, because they have loved truths because they are true, thus loving them from a spiritual affection. These are meant by virgins because a virgin symbolizes the church as a bride who desires to be conjoined with the Lord and to become a wife; and a church that desires to be conjoined with the Lord loves truths because they are true. For truths bring about conjunction when people live in accordance with them.

That is why Israel, Zion and Jerusalem are called in the Word virgins and daughters; for Israel, Zion and Jerusalem symbolize the church.

[2] People in the Lord's church who are of such a character are all meant by virgins, whether they are maidens or youths, wives or husbands, boys or old men, girls or old ladies, and this can be seen from places in the Word where virgins are mentioned, such as the virgin of Israel (Jeremiah 18:13; 31:4, 21, Amos 5:2, Joel 1:8); the virgin daughter of Judah (Lamentations 1:15); the virgin daughter of Zion (2 Kings 19:21, Isaiah 37:22, Lamentations 1:4; 2:13); the virgins of Jerusalem (Lamentations 2:10); the virgin of My people (Jeremiah 14:17).

For that reason the Lord likened the church to ten virgins (Matthew 25:1-13), and we read in Jeremiah:

...I will build you, that you may be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! You shall again... go forth in the dances of those who rejoice. (Jeremiah 31:4, 13)

And in the book of Psalms:

They have seen Your goings, O God, the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary..., in the midst of maidens playing timbrels. (Psalms 68:24-25)

And elsewhere:

Kings' daughters are among Your precious ones; at Your right hand stands the queen in pure gold from Ophir.

Listen, O daughter, and see... The King will delight in your beauty... The daughter of Tyre also will bring a gift; the rich among the people will appease Your face.

The King's daughter is all precious within; her clothing is woven with gold. She shall be brought to the King in embroidered garments. The virgins after her, her companions, shall come... into the palace of the King. (Psalms 45:9-15)

The King there means the Lord; the queen the church as a wife; and the daughters and virgins affections for goodness and truth.

[3] Similar affections are symbolically meant by virgins elsewhere in the Word in places where young men are mentioned at the same time, because young men symbolize truths, and virgins affections for those truths. For instance, in the following places:

Behold, the days are coming... that I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah... In that day the fair virgins and young men shall faint from thirst. (Amos 8:11, 13)

Be ashamed, O Sidon; ...the sea has said..., "I have not travailed or given birth; neither have I reared young men or brought up virgins." (Isaiah 33:4)

The Lord trampled a winepress for the virgin daughter of Zion... Behold my sorrow; the virgins and the young men have gone into captivity. (Lamentations 1:4, 15, 18)

...how great is His goodness, and how great His beauty! Grain shall make the young men grow up, and new wine the young women. (Zechariah 9:17)

The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in My streets. (Zechariah 8:5)

They sit on the ground..., the virgins of Jerusalem... To what shall I liken you..., O virgin daughter of Zion... ...They lay... in the streets..., My virgins and My young men... (Lamentations 2:10, 13, 21)

And so on elsewhere, as in Jeremiah 51:20-23, Lamentations 5:11, 13, 14, Ezekiel 9:4, 6, Psalms 78:62-64, Deuteronomy 32:25.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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1 "To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lampstands says these things:

2 "I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

3 You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.

4 But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.

6 But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

8 "To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: "The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

9 "I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

10 Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won't be harmed by the second death.

12 "To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: "He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:

13 "I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn't deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

15 So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise.

16 Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

18 "To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: "The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:

19 "I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

21 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

22 Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.

23 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

24 But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep things of Satan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.

25 Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.

26 He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

27 He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:

28 and I will give him the morning star.

29 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.