The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #83
83. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 17
1-2 It is in their internals to worship only externals. (3)
3 All true knowledges [scientifica] will be taken away; (3)
4 but not yet. They will come into hell. (3)
5-6 Because they trust in themselves, they perceive nothing of truth and good. (3)
7-8 On the other hand, those who trust in the Lord always have good and truth. (11)
9-10 The Lord knows what lies hidden interiorly, howsoever the external may appear. (3, 12)
11 The truths which they learn are of no use to them. (3)
12-13 Because the Lord is heaven and the church, those who depart from Him are damned. (15)
14-18 Prayer to the Lord, and acknowledgment, that the evil may be removed. (3, 8)
19-20 The Lord, to those who are in externals: (3)
21-24 that they ought to acknowledge His Divine, which is meant by the Sabbath, and not violate it; (16)
25 then they will possess an understanding of the Word, (16)
26 and then their worship will be from truths. (16)
27 If they will not acknowledge, the externals will perish from internals. (2)
Jeremiah 17:14-18
14
Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
15
Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.
16
As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.
17
Don't be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.
18
Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
