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Joel 3

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1 Poiché ecco, in quei giorni, in quel tempo, quando ricondurrò dalla cattività quei di Giuda e di Gerusalemme,

2 io radunerò tutte le nazioni, e le farò scendere nella valle di Giosafat; e verrò quivi in giudizio con esse, a proposito del mio popolo e d’Israele, mia eredità, ch’esse hanno disperso fra le nazioni, e del mio paese che hanno spartito fra loro.

3 Han tirato a sorte il mio popolo; han dato un fanciullo in cambio d’una meretrice, han venduto una fanciulla per del vino, e si son messi a bere.

4 E anche voi, che pretendete da me, Tiro e Sidone, e voi tutte, regioni di Filistia? Volete voi darmi una retribuzione, o volete far del male contro di me? Tosto, in un attimo, io farò ricadere la vostra retribuzione sul vostro capo,

5 poiché avete preso il mio argento e il mio oro, e avete portato nei vostri templi il meglio delle mie cose preziose,

6 e avete venduto ai figliuoli degli Javaniti i figliuoli di Giuda e i figliuoli di Gerusalemme, per allontanarli dai loro confini.

7 Ecco, io li farò muovere dal luogo dove voi li avete venduti, e farò ricadere la vostra retribuzione sul vostro capo;

8 e venderò i vostri figliuoli e le vostre figliuole ai figliuoli di Giuda, che li venderanno ai Sabei, nazione lontana; poiché l’Eterno ha parlato.

9 Proclamate questo fra le nazioni! Preparate la guerra! Fate sorgere i prodi! S’accostino, salgano tutti gli uomini di guerra!

10 Fabbricate spade con i vostri vomeri, e lance con le vostre roncole! Dica il debole: "Son forte!"

11 Affrettatevi, venite, nazioni d’ogn’intorno, e radunatevi! Là, o Eterno, fa’ scendere i tuoi prodi!

12 Si muovano e salgan le nazioni alla valle di Giosafat! Poiché là io mi assiderò a giudicar le nazioni d’ogn’intorno.

13 Mettete la falce, poiché la mèsse è matura! Venite, calcate, poiché lo strettoio è pieno, i tini traboccano; poiché grande è la loro malvagità.

14 Moltitudini! moltitudini! Nella valle del Giudizio! Poiché il giorno dell’Eterno è vicino, nella valle del Giudizio.

15 Il sole e la luna s’oscurano, e le stelle ritirano il loro splendore.

16 L’Eterno ruggirà da Sion, farà risonar la sua voce da Gerusalemme, e i cieli e la terrà saranno scossi; ma L’Eterno sarà un rifugio per il suo popolo, una fortezza per i figliuoli d’Israele.

17 E voi saprete che io sono l’Eterno, il vostro Dio, che dimora in Sion, mio monte santo; e Gerusalemme sarà santa, e gli stranieri non vi passeranno più.

18 E in quel giorno avverrà che i monti stilleranno mosto, il latte scorrerà dai colli, e l’acqua fluirà da tutti i rivi di Giuda; e dalla casa dell’Eterno sgorgherà una fonte, che irrigherà la valle di Sittim.

19 L’Egitto diventerà una desolazione, e Edom diventerà un desolato deserto a motivo della violenza fatta ai figliuoli di Giuda, sulla terra de’ quali hanno sparso sangue innocente.

20 Ma Giuda sussisterà per sempre, e Gerusalemme, d’età in età;

21 Io vendicherò il loro sangue, non lo lascerò impunito; e l’Eterno dimorerà in Sion.

   

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Voice

  

'Voice' signifies what is announced from the Word. 'Voice' often refers and is applied to things that cannot have a voice, as in Exodus 4, Nahum 3:2, Psalms 93:3-4.

A 'voice' signifies annunciation, and in a positive sense, annunciation from the Word, which is called 'the voice of Jehovah,' as is shown in Psalms 29:3-9 and Psalms 68:33, where 'voice' denotes divine truth, so the Word and annunciation from it.

'Voice' signifies the quality of interior things.

'Voice,' as in Revelation 19, signifies joy in worship, confession, and celebration of the Lord.

'A great voice heard in heaven,' as in Revelation 12:10, signifies the joy of the angels of heaven from the light and wisdom.

'A great voice,' as in Revelation 16:1, signifies the divine command.

'A great voice out of the temple of heaven,' as in Revelation 16:17, signifies a manifestation from the Lord out of the inmost of heaven.

'A great voice,' as in Revelation 21:3, signifies speech proceeding from love.

'One voice,' as in Revelation 9:13, signifies a divine command.

(références: Apocalypse Explained 16, 19; Arcana Coelestia 6971; Psalms 93, 93: 3-4)


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Revelation 16

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1 I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!"

2 The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.

3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.

4 The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.

5 I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things.

6 For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this."

7 I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments."

8 The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.

9 People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory.

10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,

11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn't repent of their works.

12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.

13 I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs;

14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

15 "Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk naked, and they see his shame."

16 He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, Megiddo.

17 The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came forth out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!"

18 There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty.

19 The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

20 Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

21 Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.