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Pláč Jeremjášův 3

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1 Já jsem muž okoušející trápení od metly rozhněvání Božího.

2 Zahnal mne, a uvedl do tmy a ne k světlu.

3 Toliko proti mně se postavuje, a obrací ruku svou přes celý den.

4 Uvedl sešlost na tělo mé a kůži mou, a polámal kosti mé.

5 Zastavěl mne a obklíčil přeodpornou hořkostí.

6 Postavil mne v tmavých místech jako ty, kteříž již dávno zemřeli.

7 Ohradil mne, abych nevyšel; obtížil ocelivý řetěz můj.

8 A jakžkoli volám a křičím, zacpává uši před mou modlitbou.

9 Ohradil cesty mé tesaným kamenem, a stezky mé zmátl.

10 Jest nedvěd číhající na mne, lev v skrejších.

11 Cesty mé stočil, anobrž roztrhal mne, a na to mne přivedl, abych byl pustý.

12 Natáhl lučiště své, a vystavil mne za cíl střelám.

13 Postřelil ledví má střelami toulu svého.

14 Jsem v posměchu se vším lidem svým, a písničkou jejich přes celý den.

15 Sytí mne hořkostmi, opojuje mne pelynkem.

16 Nadto potřel o kameníčko zuby mé, vrazil mne do popela.

17 Tak jsi vzdálil, ó Bože, duši mou od pokoje, až zapomínám na pohodlí,

18 A říkám: Zahynulatě síla má i naděje má, kterouž jsem měl v Hospodinu.

19 A však duše má rozvažujíc trápení svá a pláč svůj, pelynek a žluč,

20 Rozvažujíc to ustavičně, ponižuje se ve mně.

21 A přivodě sobě to ku paměti, (naději mám),

22 Že veliké jest milosrdenství Hospodinovo, když jsme do konce nevyhynuli. Nepřestávajíť zajisté slitování jeho,

23 Ale nová jsou každého jitra; převeliká jest pravda tvá.

24 Díl můj jest Hospodin, říká duše má; protož naději mám v něm.

25 Dobrý jest Hospodin těm, jenž očekávají na něj, duši té, kteráž ho hledá.

26 Dobré jest trpělivě očekávajícímu na spasení Hospodinovo.

27 Dobré jest muži tomu, kterýž by nosil jho od dětinství svého,

28 Kterýž by pak byl opuštěn, trpělivě se má v tom, což na něj vloženo,

29 Dávaje do prachu ústa svá, až by se ukázala naděje,

30 Nastavuje líce tomu, kdož jej bije, a sytě se potupou.

31 Neboť nezamítá Pán na věčnost;

32 Nýbrž ačkoli zarmucuje, však slitovává se podlé množství milosrdenství svého.

33 Netrápíť zajisté z srdce svého, aniž zarmucuje synů lidských.

34 Aby kdo potíral nohama svýma všecky vězně v zemi,

35 Aby nespravedlivě soudil muže před oblíčejem Nejvyššího,

36 Aby převracel člověka v při jeho, Pán nelibuje.

37 Kdo jest, ješto když řekl, stalo se něco, a Pán nepřikázal?

38 Z úst Nejvyššího zdali nepochází zlé i dobré?

39 Proč by tedy sobě stýskal člověk živý, muž nad kázní za hříchy své?

40 Zpytujme raději a ohledujme cest našich, a navraťme se až k Hospodinu.

41 Pozdvihujme srdcí i rukou svých k Bohu silnému v nebe.

42 Myť jsme se zpronevěřili, a zpurní jsme byli, protož ty neodpouštíš.

43 Obestřels se hněvem a stiháš nás, morduješ a nešanuješ.

44 Obestřels se oblakem, aby nemohla proniknouti k tobě modlitba.

45 Za smeti a povrhel položil jsi nás u prostřed národů těchto.

46 Rozdírají na nás ústa svá všickni nepřátelé naši.

47 Strach a jáma potkala nás, zpuštění a setření.

48 Potokové vod tekou z očí mých pro potření dcery lidu mého.

49 Oči mé slzí bez přestání, proto že není žádného odtušení,

50 Ažby popatřil a shlédl Hospodin s nebe.

51 Oči mé rmoutí duši mou pro všecky dcery města mého.

52 Loviliť jsou mne ustavičně, jako ptáče, nepřátelé moji bez příčiny.

53 Uvrhli do jámy život můj, a přimetali mne kamením.

54 Rozvodnily se vody nad hlavou mou, řekl jsem: Jižtě po mně.

55 Vzývám jméno tvé, ó Hospodine, z jámy nejhlubší.

56 Hlas můj vyslýchával jsi; nezacpávejž ucha svého před vzdycháním mým a voláním mým.

57 V ten den, v němž jsem tě vzýval, přicházeje, říkávals: Neboj se.

58 Pane, zasazuje se o při duše mé, vysvobozoval jsi život můj.

59 Vidíš, ó Hospodine, převrácenost, kteráž se mně děje, dopomoziž mi k spravedlnosti.

60 Vidíš všecko vymstívání se jejich, všecky úklady jejich proti mně.

61 Slýcháš utrhání jejich, ó Hospodine, i všecky obmysly jejich proti mně,

62 Řeči povstávajících proti mně, a přemyšlování jejich proti mně přes celý den.

63 Pohleď, jak při sedání jejich i povstání jejich jsem písničkou jejich.

64 Dej jim odplatu, Hospodine, podlé díla rukou jejich.

65 Dej jim zatvrdilé srdce a prokletí své na ně.

66 Stihej v prchlivosti, a vyhlaď je, ať nejsou pod nebem tvým.

   

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573. Whose feet were like those of a bear. This symbolically means, full of misconceptions taken from the literal sense of the Word, read but not understood.

Feet symbolize the natural support which is the basis on which the heresy meant by the leopard rests and, so to speak, propels itself, and that support is the literal sense of the Word. A bear symbolizes people who read the Word but fail to understand it, so that they derive from it misconceptions.

That these are the people symbolized by bears became apparent to me from seeing bears in the spiritual world, and from seeing some people there wearing bearskins. They were all people who read the Word and did not see any doctrinal truth in it. They were also people who affirmed the appearances of truth there, resulting in misconceptions.

Some bears seen in the spiritual world are dangerous and some are not, and some also are white, but they are told apart by their heads. Bears that are not dangerous have heads like those of calves or sheep.

Bears symbolize people and things like this in the following passages:

A bear lying in wait for me has overturned my paths, a lion in hidden places has corrupted my ways... He has made me desolate. (Lamentations 3:9-11)

I will meet them like a bereaved bear..., and there I will devour them like a savage lion. The wild beast of the field shall rend them. (Hosea 13:8)

...there shall lie down... the calf and the young lion... The heifer and the bear shall graze. (Isaiah 11:6-7)

(The second beast that came up from the sea was) like a bear... and had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. (Daniel 7:5)

The lion and bear that David smote, catching the lion by its beard (1 Samuel 17:34-37), have a similar symbolic meaning. So, too, in 2 Samuel 17:8.

[2] A lion and a bear are mentioned in these places because a lion symbolizes falsity destroying the Word's truths, and a bear symbolizes misconceptions that destroy them also, but not to the same degree. Thus we are told in Amos:

...the day of Jehovah...(a day of) darkness, and not light. It is as if one who flees from a lion comes upon a bear. (Amos 5:18-19)

In the second book of Kings we read that Elisha was mocked by some boys and called a baldhead, and that forty-two boys were therefore torn apart by two female bears from the woods (2 Kings 2:23-24). This occurred because Elisha represented the Lord in respect to the Word (no. 298), because baldness symbolized the Word without its literal sense, thus having no reality (no. 47), because the number forty-two symbolized blasphemy (no. 583), and because female bears symbolized the literal sense of the Word read indeed, but not understood.

  
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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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298. And I looked, and behold, a white horse. (6:2) This symbolizes an understanding of truth and goodness from the Word among those people.

A horse symbolizes an understanding of the Word, and a white horse an understanding of truth from the Word. For the color white is predicated of truths (no. 167).

That a horse symbolizes an understanding of the Word is something we showed in a separate short work titled The White Horse. But because we cited only some passages there, we will present more here by way of confirmation. The reality of it is clearly apparent from the fact that horses were seen to go forth from the book which the Lamb opened, and that the living creatures said, "Come and see." For the living creatures symbolize the Word (nos. 239, 275, 286). So, too, does the book (no. 256). And the Son of Man, who here is the Lamb, is the Lord in relation to the Word (no. 44).

It is apparent from this, first, that nothing else is meant here by the horse than an understanding of the Word. This can be still more clearly seen from this later description in the book of Revelation:

I saw heaven opened, when behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called... The Word of God... And He has on His garment and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS... And His armies in heaven... followed Him on white horses. (Revelation 19:11, 13-14, 16)

[2] That a horse symbolizes an understanding of the Word can be further seen from the following passages:

O Jehovah..., is Your wrath against the sea, that You ride on Your horses, Your chariots of salvation? ...You trampled the sea with your horses, the mud of many waters. (Habakkuk 3:8, 15)

The hooves of Jehovah's horses are regarded as rocks... (Isaiah 5:28)

On that day... I will strike every horse with stupor, and its rider with madness...; and I will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. (Zechariah 12:4)

On that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, "Holiness to Jehovah." (Zechariah 14:20)

Because God has made her forget wisdom, and did not impart to her understanding. When she lifts herself on high, she scorns the horse and its rider. (Job 39:17-18, and following verses)

I will cut off... the horse from Jerusalem... Rather He shall speak peace to the nations. (Zechariah 9:10)

At Your rebuke, (O Jehovah,) both the chariot and horse fell asleep. (Psalms 76:6)

I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms... and I will overthrow the chariots and those who ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down... (Haggai 2:22)

With you I will disperse... kingdoms; with you I will disperse the horse and its rider. (Jeremiah 51:20-21)

Assemble yourselves... from round about to My sacrifice... You will be satisfied at My table with horses and riders... (Thus) I will set My glory among the nations. (Ezekiel 39:17, 20-21)

...gather together for the great supper of God, (and) you (will) eat... the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them... (Revelation 19:17-18)

Dan shall be... a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels, so that its rider falls backward. I have waited for your salvation, O Jehovah! (Genesis 49:17-18)

Gird Your sword..., O Mighty One... Mount up..., ride upon the Word of truth... (Psalms 45:3-4)

Sing to God...; extol Him who rides on the clouds... (Psalms 68:4)

Behold, Jehovah is riding on a... cloud... (Isaiah 19:1)

Sing praises to the Lord..., to Him who rides on the heaven of the heaven of old...! (Psalms 68:32-33)

(God) rode upon a cherub... (Psalms 18:10)

Then you shall delight yourself in Jehovah; and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the earth... (Isaiah 58:14)

Jehovah alone led him... (And) He made him ride in the heights of the earth... (Deuteronomy 32:12-13)

I will make Ephraim ride. (Hosea 10:11)

Ephraim also symbolizes an understanding of the Word.

[3] Since Elijah and Elisha represented the Lord in relation to the Word, therefore they were called the chariot of Israel and his horsemen. Elisha said to Elijah,

"My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!" (2 Kings 2:12)

And Joash said to Elisha,

"O my father..., the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!" (2 Kings 13:14)

Jehovah opened the eyes of (Elisha's) servant, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. (2 Kings 6:17)

A chariot symbolizes doctrine from the Word, and a horseman one who is wise as a result of it.

The following have similar symbolic meanings: The four chariots coming from between the bronze mountains in Zechariah, and the four horses harnessed to them, which were red, black, white, and dappled, called also four spirits, and said to go out from their station before the Lord of all the earth (Zechariah 6:1-8, 15). Horses in these places symbolize an understanding of the Word, or an understanding of truth from the Word. So, too, in other places.

[4] This can be further seen from horses mentioned in an opposite sense, in which they symbolize an understanding of the Word or of truth falsified by reasonings, and also extinguished, and likewise a person's own intelligence, as in the following passages:

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses..., and do not look to the Holy One of Israel... Egypt is man and not God, and its horses are flesh and not spirit. (Isaiah 31:1, 3)

You shall... set a king over (Israel) whom Jehovah... chooses... Only let him not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses. (Deuteronomy 17:15-16)

These statements are made because Egypt symbolizes knowledge and reasoning springing from a person's own intelligence, the result of which is a falsification of the Word's truth, which is the meaning of horses here.

Assyria shall not save us. We will not ride on a horse... (Hosea 14:3)

Some glory in chariots, and some in horses; but we will glory in the name of... our God. (Psalms 20:7)

A horse is a false means for safety. (Psalms 33:17)

(Jehovah) does not delight in the strength of the horse. (Psalms 147:10)

...thus says... the Holy One of Israel: ."..In... confidence shall be your strength." But... you said, "No..., ...we will flee on a horse...." And, "We will ride on a swift horse." (Isaiah 30:15-16)

...Jehovah... will make (Judah) as a glorious horse... ...the riders on horses shall be put to shame. (Zechariah 10:3, 5)

Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies... ...and the neighing horse, and the jolting chariot... The horseman causing to ascend... (Nahum 3:1-4)

...I will bring against Tyre... the king of Babylon..., with horses, with chariots, and with horsemen... Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen... and the chariots... With the hooves of his horses he will trample all your streets. (Ezekiel 26:7-11)

Tyre symbolizes the church in respect to its concepts of truth, in this case these concepts falsified in it, which are the horses of Babylon. And so on in other places, as in Isaiah 5:28; Ezekiel 17:15; 23:6, 20; Habakkuk 1:6, 8-10; Psalms 66:12.

An understanding of the Word extinguished is symbolized also by the horses, fiery red, black and pale, in the verses that now follow.

To be shown that a horse symbolizes an understanding of truth from the Word owing to appearances in the spiritual world, see my small book titled The White Horse.

  
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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.