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Ezechiël 32

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1 Het gebeurde ook in het twaalfde jaar, in de twaalfde maand op den eersten der maand, dat het woord des HEEREN tot mij geschiedde, zeggende:

2 Mensenkind! hef een klaaglied op over Farao, den koning van Egypte, en zeg tot hem: Gij waart een jongen leeuw onder de heidenen gelijk; en gij waart als een zeedraak in de zeeen, en braakt voort in uw rivieren, en beroerdet het water met uw voeten, en vermodderdet hunlieder rivieren.

3 Alzo zegt de Heere Heere: Ik zal daarom Mijn net over u uitspreiden door een vergadering van vele volken; die zullen u optrekken in Mijn garen.

4 Dan zal Ik u laten op het land, Ik zal u henenwerpen op het open veld; en Ik zal al het gevogelte des hemels op u doen wonen, en het gedierte der ganse aarde van u verzadigen.

5 En Ik zal uw vlees henengeven op de bergen, en de dalen met uw hoogheid vervullen.

6 En Ik zal het land, waarin gij zwemt, van uw bloed drenken tot aan de bergen; en de stromen zullen van u vervuld worden.

7 En als Ik u zal uitblussen, zal Ik den hemel bedekken, en zijn sterren zwart maken; Ik zal de zon met wolken bedekken, en de maan zal haar licht niet laten lichten.

8 Alle lichtende lichten aan den hemel, die zal Ik om uwentwil zwart maken; en Ik zal een duisternis over uw land maken, spreekt de Heere Heere.

9 Daartoe zal Ik het hart van vele volken verdrietig maken, als Ik uw verbreking onder de heidenen zal brengen in de landen, die gij niet gekend hebt.

10 En Ik zal maken, dat zich vele volken over u ontzetten, en hun koningen zullen de haren over u te berge staan, als Ik Mijn zwaard zal zwaaien voor hun aangezichten; en zij zullen elk ogenblik sidderen, een ieder voor zijn ziel, ten dage uws vals.

11 Want zo zegt de Heere Heere: Het zwaard des konings van Babel zal u overkomen.

12 Ik zal uw menigte vellen door de zwaarden der helden, die al te zamen de tirannigste der heidenen zijn; die zullen de hovaardij van Egypte verstoren, en haar ganse menigte zal verdelgd worden.

13 En Ik zal haar beesten verdoen van bij de grote wateren; en geen mensenvoet zal ze meer beroeren, en geen beestenklauwen zullen ze beroeren.

14 Dan zal Ik hunlieder wateren doen zinken, en Ik zal hunlieder rivieren doen gaan als olie, spreekt de Heere Heere:

15 Als Ik Egypteland zal hebben gesteld tot een verwoesting, en het land van zijn volheid zal woest zijn geworden, als Ik geslagen zal hebben allen, die daarin wonen; alzo zullen zij weten, dat Ik de HEERE ben.

16 Dat is het klaaglied, en dat zullen zij klagelijk zingen; de dochteren der heidenen zullen het klagelijk zingen; zij zullen het klagelijk zingen over Egypte en over haar ganse menigte, spreekt de Heere Heere.

17 Voorts gebeurde het in het twaalfde jaar, op den vijftienden der maand, dat het woord des HEEREN tot mij geschiedde, zeggende:

18 Mensenkind! weeklaag over de menigte van Egypte, en doe ze nederdalen, (haar en de dochteren der prachtige heidenen) in de onderste plaatsen der aarde, bij degenen, die in den kuil zijn nedergedaald.

19 Boven wien zijt gij liefelijk! Daal neder, en leg u bij de onbesnedenen.

20 In het midden der verslagenen van het zwaard zullen zij vallen; zij is aan het zwaard overgegeven; trek haar henen met al haar menigte.

21 De machtigste der helden zullen hem, met zijn helpers, toespreken, uit het midden der hel; zij zijn nedergedaald, de onbesnedenen liggen er, verslagen van het zwaard;

22 Daar is Assur met haar gansen hoop, zijn graven zijn rondom hem; zij zijn allen verslagen, gevallen door het zwaard;

23 Welker graven gesteld zijn in de zijden des kuils, en haar hoop is rondom haar graf; zij zijn allen verslagen, gevallen door het zwaard, die een schrik gaven in het land der levenden.

24 Daar is Elam met haar ganse menigte rondom haar graf; zij zijn allen verslagen, de gevallenen door het zwaard, die onbesneden zijn nedergedaald tot de onderste plaatsen der aarde, die hun schrik hadden gegeven in het land der levenden; nu dragen zij hun schande met degenen, die in den kuil zijn nedergedaald.

25 In het midden der verslagenen hebben zij haar een legerstede gesteld onder haar ganse menigte, rondom hem zijn haar graven; zij zijn allen onbesneden, verslagenen van het zwaard, omdat een schrik van hen gegeven is in het land der levenden; nu dragen zij hun schande met degenen, die in den kuil zijn nedergedaald; hij is geleid in het midden der verslagenen.

26 Daar is Mesech, en Tubal, met haar ganse menigte; rondom hem zijn haar graven; zij zijn allen onbesneden, verslagenen van het zwaard, omdat zij hun schrik gegeven hebben in het land der levenden.

27 Maar zij liggen niet met de helden, die onder de onbesnedenen gevallen zijn; die ter helle zijn nedergedaald met hun krijgswapenen, en welker zwaarden men gelegd heeft onder hun hoofden; welker ongerechtigheid nochtans op hun beenderen is, omdat der helden schrik in het land der levenden geweest is.

28 Gij ook zult verbroken worden in het midden der onbesnedenen, en zult liggen met de verslagenen van het zwaard.

29 Daar is Edom, haar koningen en al haar vorsten, die met hunlieder macht gelegd zijn bij de verslagenen van het zwaard; diezelve liggen met de onbesnedenen en met degenen, die in den kuil zijn nedergedaald.

30 Daar zijn de geweldigen van het Noorden, zij allen, en alle Sidoniers, die met de verslagenen zijn nedergedaald, beschaamd zijnde vanwege hun schrik, die uit hun macht voortkwam, en zij liggen onbesneden bij de verslagenen van het zwaard, en dragen hun schande met degenen, die in den kuil zijn nedergedaald.

31 Farao zal henlieden zien, en zich troosten over zijn ganse menigte; de verslagenen van het zwaard van Farao en zijn ganse heir, spreekt de Heere Heere.

32 Want Ik heb ook Mijn schrik gegeven in het land der levenden; dies zal hij gelegd worden in het midden der onbesnedenen bij de verslagenen van het zwaard, Farao en zijn ganse menigte, spreekt de Heere Heere.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#4728

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4728. 'And let us throw him into one of the pits' means among falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'pits' as falsities. The reason 'pits' means falsities is that people who are immersed in false assumptions are kept for a considerable time after death beneath the lower earth, until falsities have been removed from them and so to speak cast away to the sidelines. The places situated there are called pits. Those who go there are people who have to undergo vastation, dealt with in 1106-1113, 2699, 2701, 2704. 1 This is why by 'pits' in the abstract sense falsities are meant. The lower earth is directly below the feet, and is a region that does not extend to any great distance all around. There the majority stay after death before being raised up into heaven. Mention is also made of this lower earth in various places in the Word. Below it are places where vastation takes place, and they are called pits. Beneath these places and extending to quite a distance all around are the hells.

[2] From this one may have some idea of what is meant by hell, the lower earth, or the pit, when these are mentioned in the Word, as in Isaiah,

You have been sent down to hell, to the sides of the pit; you are cast out from your sepulchre like an abominable branch, a garment of the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit. Isaiah 14:15, 19.

This refers to the king of Babel, who represents the profanation of truth, for 'a king' represents truth, 1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 4581, and 'Babel' profanation, 1182, 1326. 'Hell' is the place where the condemned are, and their state of condemnation is compared to 'an abominable branch' and 'a garment of the slain and of those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit'. 'A garment of the slain' means truth that has been made profane; 'those pierced by the sword' means people among whom truth has been annihilated; 'the pit' means falsity that is to be laid waste, 'stones' the limits of that falsity, which are also therefore called 'the sides', for surrounding the pits there are the hells. 'A garment' means truth, 2576, and therefore 'a garment of the slain' means truth that has been made profane, for 'the blood' with which it has been stained means that which has been made profane, 1003. 'Those pierced by the sword' means those among whom truth has been annihilated, 4503. From all this it is also evident that without the internal sense one cannot by any means know what these things mean.

[3] In Ezekiel,

When I cause you to go down with those going down to the pit, to the people of old, and I cause you to dwell in the land of the lower ones, in the desolations from of old, so that you do not dwell with those going down to the pit, I will give beauty in the land of the living. Ezekiel 26:20.

'Those going down to the pit' stands for those who are made to undergo vastation. 'Not dwelling with those who go down to the pit' stands for being delivered from falsities.

[4] In the same prophet,

That none of all the trees by the waters may become arrogant because of their height nor send their trunk up among entangled boughs, and that none of all [the trees] that drink water may reach above them because of their height - all will be given over to death, to the lower earth in the midst of the sons of men, to those going down to the pit. At the sound of its crashing down I will make the nations tremble, when I cause him to go down into hell with those going down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the most excellent of Lebanon, all those drinking water, will comfort themselves on the lower earth. Ezekiel 31:14, 16.

This refers to Egypt, meaning knowledge, which enters by itself into the mysteries of faith, that is, people who enter into them, 1164, 1165, 1186. What has been stated above makes plain the meaning of hell, the pit, and the lower earth mentioned at this point in the prophet. Nor from anywhere else than the internal sense can anyone see what is meant by 'the trees by the waters', 'the trees of Eden', 'the trunk sent up among entangled boughs', 'the choicest and the most excellent of Lebanon', and 'those drinking water'.

[5] In the same prophet,

Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and cause it and the daughters of magnificent nations to go down to the lower earth. with those going down into the pit. Asshur is there to whom graves have been given in the sides of the pit, all of them slain with the sword. Ezekiel 32:18, 22-23.

What these words mean may be seen from the explanations given above. In David,

Jehovah, You have caused my soul to come up out of hell; You have caused me to live, out of those going down to the pit. Psalms 30:3.

In the same author,

I have been reckoned with them going down to the pit; I have become as a man with no strength. You have put me in the pit of the lower ones, in darkness, in the depths. Psalms 88:4, 6.

In Jonah,

I had gone down to the bottoms of the mountains; the bars of the land were upon me for ever. Nonetheless You brought up my life from the pit. Jonah 2:6.

This refers to the Lord's temptations, and to deliverance from them. 'The bottoms of the mountains' means where the most condemned are, for the gloomy dark clouds which seemingly surround them are mountains.

[6] As regards 'the pit' meaning falsity laid waste, and in the abstract sense falsity itself, this is clear in addition in Isaiah,

They will be gathered together, in a gathering as the bound for the pit, and they will be shut up in the dungeon; but after a multitude of days they will be visited. Isaiah 24:22.

In the same prophet,

Where is the anger of the oppressor? He that leads out will hasten to open, and he will not die at the pit; nor will bread fail. Isaiah 51:13-14.

In Ezekiel,

Behold, I am bringing strangers upon you, the violent of the nations, who will draw their swords against the loveliness of your wisdom, and they will profane your splendour. They will bring you down into the pit, and you will die the deaths of those slain in the heart of the seas. Ezekiel 28:7-8.

This refers to the prince of Tyre, who means people under the influence of false assumptions.

[7] In Zechariah,

Exult greatly, O daughter of Zion! Make a noise, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you, just, meek, and riding on an ass, and on a colt, the young of she-asses. Through the blood of the covenant I will let out your bound ones from the pit in which there is no water. Zechariah 9:9, 11.

'The pit in which there is no water' stands for falsity that has no truth at all within it, as also in verse 24 below where it is said that they cast Joseph into the pit and the pit was empty, having no water in it. In David,

To You, O Jehovah, do I call; my rock, do not be silent to me, lest if You are silent to me I seem like those going down into the pit. Psalms 28:1.

In the same author,

Jehovah caused me to come up out of the pit of VASTATION, out of the miry clay, and He set my feet upon a rock. Psalms 40:2.

[8] In the same author,

Do not let the flow of waters rush over me, nor the deep swallow me up, nor the pit close its mouth over me. Psalms 69:15.

In the same author,

He sent His word and healed them, and rescued them from their pits. Psalms 107:20.

'From pits' stands for from falsities. In the same author,

Make haste, answer me, O Jehovah. My spirit is consumed. Do not hide Your face from me, lest I become like those going down into the pit. Psalms 143:7.

Because 'a pit' means falsity, and 'the blind' those who are immersed in falsities, 2383, the Lord therefore says,

Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind. For if the blind leads the blind both will fall into a pit. Matthew 15:13, 14; Luke 6:39.

Something similar to what was represented by Joseph was also represented by the prophet Jeremiah, who describes what happened to him as follows,

They took Jeremiah and cast him into the pit which was in the court of the guard, and let Jeremiah down by ropes into the pit where there was no water. Jeremiah 38:6.

That is, they cast Divine Truths away among falsities that had no truth at all within them.

脚注:

1. The Latin has 2711, 2714, but 2701, 2704 seem to be intended

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Ezekiel 33

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1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

2 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;

3 if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head.

5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning; his blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.

6 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

7 So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

8 When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.

9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.

10 You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?

11 Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?

12 You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.

13 When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.

14 Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

15 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

16 None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

17 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.

19 When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

20 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.

21 It happened in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, that one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city has been struck.

22 Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me in the evening, before he who was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more mute.

23 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

24 Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

25 Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?

26 You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?

27 You shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him who is in the open field will I give to the animals to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

28 I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.

29 Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.

30 As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come and hear what is the word that comes forth from Yahweh.

31 They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

32 Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don't do them.

33 When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.