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哈巴穀書 1

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1 先知哈巴谷所得的默示。

2 他說:耶和華啊!我呼求你,你不應允,要到幾時呢?我因強暴哀求你,你還不拯

3 你為何使我見罪孽?你為何著奸惡而不理呢?毀滅和強暴在我面前,又起了爭端和相鬥的事。

4 因此律法放鬆,公理也不顯明,惡人圍困人,所以公理顯然顛倒。

5 耶和華說:你們要向列國中觀,大大驚奇;因為在你們的時候,我行一件事,雖有人告訴你們,你們總是不信。

6 我必興起迦勒底人,就是那殘忍暴躁之民,通行遍,佔據那不屬自己的住處。

7 他威武可畏,判斷和勢力都任意發出。

8 他的更快,比晚上的豺更猛。兵踴躍爭先,都從遠方而;他們跑如抓食,

9 都為行強暴而,定住臉面向前,將擄掠的人聚集,多如塵沙。

10 他們譏誚君,笑話首領,嗤笑一切保障,築壘攻取。

11 他以自己的勢力為神,像猛然掃過,顯為有罪。

12 耶和華─我的,我的聖者啊,你不是從亙古而有麼?我們必不致耶和華啊,你派定他為要刑罰人;磐石啊,你設立他為要懲治人。

13 你眼目清潔,不邪僻,不奸惡;行詭詐的,你為何著不理呢?惡人滅比自己公的,你為何靜默不語呢?

14 你為何使人如中的,又如沒有管轄的爬物呢?

15 他用鉤鉤住,用網捕獲,用拉網聚集他們;因此,他歡喜快樂,

16 就向網獻祭,向網燒香,因他由此得肥美的分和富裕的食物。

17 他豈可屢次倒空網羅,將列國的人時常殺戮,毫不顧惜呢?

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Apocalypse Revealed #404

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404. And a third of the sea became blood. This symbolically means that general truths had all been falsified in them.

A third means, symbolically, all (no. 400). Blood symbolizes the falsification of the Word's truth (no. 379). The sea symbolizes the church in people concerned with its external elements and caught up in faith alone (nos. 398, 402). General truths are falsified among such people because they are concerned with those truths alone, as they do not know the particulars of that faith, as the clergy do. It is because of those general truths in them that they appear in the spiritual world to be at sea. That is because waters symbolize truths (no. 50), and the sea is the general receptacle of them (no. 238).

  
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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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Hosea 4:1

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1 Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.