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耶利米书 48

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1 摩押。万军之耶和华以色列的如此:尼波有祸了!因变为荒场。基列亭蒙羞被攻取。米斯迦蒙羞被毁坏;

2 摩押不再被称赞。有人在希实本设计谋害他,说:来罢!我们将他剪除,不再成国。玛得缅哪,你也必默默无声;刀必追赶你。

3 从何罗念有喊荒凉毁灭的哀声:

4 摩押毁灭了!他的孩童(或译:家僮)发哀声,使人见。

5 人上鲁希坡随走随哭,因为在何罗念的下坡见毁灭的哀声。

6 你们要奔逃,自性命,独自居住,好像旷野的杜松。

7 你因倚靠自己所做的和自己的财宝必被攻取。基抹和属他的祭司、首领也要一同被掳去。

8 行毁灭的必到各城,并无一城得免。山谷必致败落,平原必被毁坏;正如耶和华的。

9 要将翅膀摩押,使他可以飞去。他的城邑必致荒凉,无人居住

10 (懒惰为耶和华行事的,必受咒诅;禁止刀不经血的,必受咒诅。)

11 摩押自幼年以来常享安逸,如酒在渣滓上澄清,没有从这器皿倒在那器皿里,也未曾被掳去。因此,他的原味尚存,香气未变。

12 耶和华:“日子将到,我必打发倒酒的往他那里去,将他倒出

13 摩押必因基抹羞愧,像以色列家从前倚靠伯特利的神羞愧一样。

14 你们怎麽:我们是勇士,是有勇力打仗的呢?

15 摩押变为荒场,敌人上去进了他的城邑。他所特选的少年人去遭了杀戮;这是君王─名为万军之耶和华的。

16 摩押的灾殃临近;他的苦难速速到。

17 凡在他四围的和认识他名的,你们都要为他悲伤,:那结实的杖和那美好的棍,何竟折断了呢?

18 在底本的民哪(原文是女子),要从你荣耀的位上来,受乾渴;因毁灭摩押的上来攻击你,毁坏了你的保障。

19 住亚罗珥的啊,要站在道旁观望,问逃避的男人和逃脱的女人:是甚麽事呢?

20 摩押因毁坏蒙羞;你们要哀号呼喊,要在亚嫩旁报告说:摩押变为荒场!

21 刑罚临到平原之的何伦、雅杂、米法押、

22 底本、尼波、伯.低比拉太音、

23 基列亭、伯迦末、伯.米恩、

24 加略、波斯拉,和摩押远近所有的城邑。

25 摩押的角砍断了,摩押的膀折断了。这是耶和华的。

26 你们要使摩押沉醉,因他向耶和华夸大。他要在自己所吐之中打滚,又要被人嗤笑。

27 摩押啊,你不曾嗤笑以色列麽?他岂是在贼中查出来的呢?你每逢提到他便摇头。

28 摩押居民哪,要离开城邑,在山崖里,像鸽子在深渊上搭窝。

29 我们摩押人骄傲,是极其骄傲;说他自高自傲,并且狂妄,居自大。

30 耶和华:我知道他的忿怒是虚空的;他夸大的话一无所成。

31 因此,我要为摩押哀号,为摩押全地呼喊;人必为吉珥.哈列设人叹息。

32 西比玛的葡萄树啊,我为你哀哭,甚於雅谢人哀哭。你的枝子蔓延过,直长到雅谢。那行毁灭的已经临到你夏天的果子和你所摘的葡萄。

33 肥田和摩押的欢喜快乐都被夺去,我使酒醡的酒绝流,无人踹酒欢呼,那欢呼却变为仇敌的吶喊。〔原文作那欢呼却不是欢呼〕

34 希实本人发的哀声达到以利亚利,直达到雅杂;从琐珥达到何罗念,直到伊基拉施利施亚,因为宁林的水必然乾涸。

35 耶和华:我必在摩押地使那在邱坛献祭的,和那向他的烧香的都断绝了。

36 腹为摩押哀鸣如箫,我肠为吉珥.哈列设人也是如此,因摩押人所得的财物都灭没了。

37 各人上光,胡须剪短,有划伤,腰束麻布

38 摩押的各房顶上和街市上处处有人哀哭;因我打碎摩押,好像打碎无人喜悦的器皿。这是耶和华的。

39 摩押何等毁坏!何等哀号!何等羞愧背!这样,摩押必令四围的人嗤笑惊骇。

40 耶和华如此:仇敌必如大飞起,展开翅膀,攻击摩押

41 加略被攻取,保障也被占据。到那日,摩押的勇士中疼痛如临产的妇人

42 摩押必被毁灭,不再成国,因他向耶和华夸大。

43 耶和华摩押的居民哪,恐惧、陷坑、网罗都临近你。

44 躲避恐惧的必坠入陷坑;从陷坑上的必被网罗缠住;因我必使追讨之年临到摩押。这是耶和华的。

45 躲避的人无力站在希实本的影;因为有从希实本发出,有焰出於西宏的城,烧尽摩押的角和哄嚷人的头顶。

46 摩押啊,你有祸了!属基抹的民灭亡了!因你的众子都被掳去,你的众女也被掳去。

47 耶和华:到末後,我还要使被掳的摩押人归回。摩押受审判的话到此为止。

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #270

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270. Having seven horns. This symbolizes the Lord's omnipotence.

The Word often mentions horns, and a horn everywhere symbolizes power. Consequently, when a horn is mentioned in connection with the Lord, it symbolizes omnipotence. Seven horns are specified, because seven symbolizes all (no. 10), thus all power or omnipotence.

That a horn symbolizes power, and when mentioned in connection with the Lord, omnipotence, can be seen from the following passages:

You who rejoice over nothing, who say, "Have we not taken horns for ourselves by our own strength?" (Amos 6:13)

I said... to the wicked, "Do not lift up the horn. Do not lift up your horn on high...." All the horns of the wicked I will cut off; the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. (Psalms 75:4-5, 10)

Jehovah... has exalted the horn of your adversaries. (Lamentations 2:17)

The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken... (Jeremiah 48:25)

...you have pushed with side and shoulder, and struck all the weak sheep with your horns... (Ezekiel 34:21)

(Jehovah) has exalted the horn of His people... (Psalms 148:14)

(Jehovah God of hosts,) the glory of their strength..., He has exalted our horn. (Psalms 89:17)

The brightness (of Jehovah God) will be like the light; He will have horns 1 coming from His hand, and the hiding of His power there. (Habakkuk 3:4)

...My arm shall strengthen (David)..., and in My name his horn shall be exalted. (Psalms 89:21, 24)

...Jehovah, my strength..., my rock...(my) horn... (Psalms 18:1-2, cf. 2 Samuel 22:3)

Arise..., O daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron..., that you may break in pieces many peoples. (Micah 4:13)

(The Lord) has destroyed in His wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah..., (and) He has cut off... every horn of Israel. (Lamentations 2:2-3)

Powers are also symbolized by the horns of the dragon in Revelation 12:3; by the horns of the beast rising up out of the sea in Revelation 13:1; by the horns of the scarlet beast upon which the woman sat in Revelation 17:3, 7, 12; by the horns of the ram and the goat in Daniel 8:3-12, 20-22. The last symbolized the power of Divine truth in the church. And conversely, that that power would perish, by the horns of the altars in Bethel, in Amos:

...I will visit punishment on the transgressions of Israel, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel, so that the horns of the altar are cut off and fall to the ground. (Amos 3:14)

Footnotes:

1. Probably descriptive of rays of light.

  
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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.