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Tužaljke 3

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1 Ja sam čovjek što upozna bijedu pod šibom gnjeva njegova.

2 Mene je odveo i natjerao da hodam u tmini i bez svjetlosti.

3 I upravo mene bije i udara bez prestanka njegova ruka.

4 Iscijedio je moje meso, kožu moju, polomio kosti moje.

5 Načinio mi jaram, glavu obrubio tegobama.

6 Pustio me da živim u tminama kao mrtvaci vječiti.

7 Zazidao me, i ja ne mogu izaći, otežao je moje okove.

8 Kada sam vikao i zapomagao, molitvu je moju odbijao.

9 Zazidao mi ceste tesanim kamenom, zakrčio je putove moje.

10 Meni on bijaše medvjed koji vreba, lav u zasjedi.

11 U bespuća me vodio, razdirao, ostavljao me da umirem.

12 Napinjao je luk svoj i gađao me kao metu za svoje strelice.

13 U slabine mi sasuo strelice, sinove svoga tobolca.

14 Postao sam smiješan svome narodu, rugalica svakidašnja.

15 Gorčinom me hranio, pelinom me napajao.

16 Puštao me da zube kršim kamen grizući, zakapao me u pepeo.

17 Duši je mojoj oduzet mir i više ne znam što je sreća!

18 Rekoh: Dotrajao je život moj i nada koja mi od Jahve dolazi.

19 Spomeni se bijede moje i stradanja, pelina i otrova!

20 Bez prestanka na to misli i sahne duša u meni.

21 To nosim u srcu i gojim nadu u sebi.

22 Dobrota Jahvina nije nestala, milosrđe njegovo nije presušilo.

23 Oni se obnavljaju svako jutro: tvoja je vjernost velika!

24 "Jahve je dio moj", veli mi duša, "i zato se u nj pouzdajem."

25 Dobar je Jahve onom koji se u nj pouzdaje, duši koja ga traži.

26 Dobro je u miru čekati spasenje Jahvino!

27 Dobro je čovjeku da nosi jaram za svoje mladosti.

28 Neka sjedi u samoći i šuti, jer mu On to nametnu;

29 neka usne priljubi uz prašinu, možda još ima nade!

30 Neka pruži obraz onome koji ga bije, neka se zasiti porugom.

31 Jer Gospod ne odbacuje nikoga zauvijek:

32 jer ako i rastuži, on se smiluje po svojoj velikoj ljubavi.

33 Jer samo nerado on ponižava i rascvili sinove čovjeka.

34 Kad se gaze nogama svi zemaljski sužnjevi,

35 kad se izvrće pravica čovjeku pred licem Svevišnjeg,

36 kad se krivica nanosi čovjeku u parnici, zar Gospod ne vidi?

37 Tko je rekao nešto i zbilo se? Nije li Gospod to zapovjedio?

38 Ne dolazi li iz usta Svevišnjega i dobro i zlo?

39 Na što se tuže živi ljudi? Svatko na svoj grijeh.

40 Ispitajmo, pretražimo pute svoje i vratimo se Jahvi.

41 Dignimo svoje srce i ruke svoje k Bogu koji je na nebesima.

42 Da, mi smo se odmetali, bili nepokorni, a ti, ti nisi praštao!

43 Obastrt gnjevom svojim, gonio si nas, ubijao i nisi štedio.

44 Oblakom si se obastro da molitva ne prodre do tebe.

45 Načinio si od nas smeće i odmet među narodima.

46 Razjapili usta na nas svi neprijatelji naši.

47 Užas i jama bila nam sudbina, propast i zator!

48 Potoci suza teku iz očiju mojih zbog propasti Kćeri naroda mojega.

49 Moje oči liju suze bez prestanka, jer prestanka nema

50 dok ne pogleda i ne vidi Jahve s nebesa.

51 Moje mi oko bol zadaje zbog kćeri svih mojega grada.

52 Uporno me k'o pticu progone svi što me mrze, a bez razloga.

53 U jamu baciše moj život i zatrpaše je kamenjem.

54 Voda mi dođe preko glave, rekoh sam sebi: "Pogiboh!"

55 I tada zazvah ime tvoje, Jahve, iz najdublje jame.

56 Ti oču moj glas: "Ne začepljuj uši svoje na vapaje moje."

57 Bliz meni bijaše u dan vapaja mog, govoraše: "Ne boj se!"

58 Ti si, Gospode, izborio pravdu za dušu moju, ti si život moj izbavio.

59 Ti, Jahve, vidje kako me tlače, dosudi mi pravdu.

60 Ti vidje svu osvetu njinu, sve podvale protiv mene.

61 Čuo si, Jahve, podrugivanje njihovo, sve podvale protiv mene.

62 Usne protivnika mojih i misli njine protiv mene su cio dan.

63 Kad sjede, kad ustaju, pogledaj samo: ja sam im pjesma-rugalica.

64 Vrati im, Jahve, milo za drago, po djelu ruku njihovih.

65 Učini da srca im otvrdnu, udari ih prokletstvom svojim.

66 Goni ih gnjevno i sve ih istrijebi pod nebesima svojim, Jahve!

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #285

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285. We are told they "will reign upon the earth" because the earth here and elsewhere means the Lord's church in heaven and on earth. The church in both worlds is the Lord's kingdom. Therefore, lest anyone suppose that people who are redeemed by the Lord all become kings and priests who will reign upon the earth, it is important that we demonstrate from the Word that the earth or land symbolizes the church. This can be seen from the following passages:

Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes (the earth) waste, and will overturn its surface... The land shall be entirely emptied... The (habitable) earth will mourn and... be turned upside down... The earth will be profaned under its inhabitants... Therefore a curse shall devour the earth... and... the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men will be left... ...in the midst of the land... it shall be like the stripping of an olive tree... ...the cataracts on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth are shaken. The earth is violently broken, the earth is utterly split open, the earth is shaken exceedingly. The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard... (Isaiah 24:1-23.)

[2] The lion has come up from his thicket... to make your land desolate... I beheld the earth (when) lo, it was empty and void... ...Jehovah has said, "The whole land shall be desolate... For this shall the earth mourn... (Jeremiah 4:7, 23-28)

How long will the land mourn...? The whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart. (Jeremiah 12:4, 11-13)

The earth mourns and languishes, Lebanon is shamed and withered away. (Isaiah 33:9)

Its land shall become burning pitch...(and) it shall lie waste. (Isaiah 34:9-10)

...I have heard from the Lord... a destruction decreed upon the whole earth. (Isaiah 28:22)

Behold, the day of Jehovah comes... to lay the land desolate..., and the earth will be shaken out of its place... (Isaiah 13:9-13)

The earth shook and trembled, and the foundations of the mountains quaked... (Psalms 18:7)

...we will not fear when the earth is transformed... When He uttered His voice, the earth melted. (Psalms 46:2-3, 6, 8)

Have you not understood the foundations of the earth? (Isaiah 40:21)

O God, You have forsaken us... You have made the earth tremble...; heal its breaches, for it is shaken. (Psalms 60:1-2)

[3] The earth and all its inhabitants will melt away; I will firm up its pillars. (Psalms 75:3)

Woe to a land overshadowed by wings... Go, ...messengers, to... a nation... trodden down, whose land rivers have despoiled. (Isaiah 18:1-2)

By the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts the land is darkened... (Isaiah 9:19)

...you will be a delightful land... (Malachi 3:12)

...I have given You as a covenant of the people to restore the earth... Sing, O heavens! And exult, O earth! (Isaiah 49:8, 13)

I shall not see Yah... in the land of the living. (Isaiah 38:11)

...who caused terror in the land of the living. (Ezekiel 32:23-27)

I would not have believed I would see the goodness... in the land of life. (Psalms 27:13)

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. (Matthew 5:5)

I am Jehovah, who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens alone, who spreads out the earth by Myself. (Isaiah 44,24, cf. Zechariah 12:1, Jeremiah 10:11-13; 51:15, Psalm. 136:6)

Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation... ...thus said Jehovah, who created the heavens..., who formed the earth... (Isaiah 45:8, 12, 18-19)

...behold, I create new heavens and a new earth... (Isaiah 65:17, cf. 66:22)

And in many other places as well, which, if I were to cite them, would fill a page.

[4] The earth or land symbolizes the church for the reason that it very often means the land of Canaan, which is where the church was. That is the heavenly Canaan. Moreover, when the earth or land is mentioned, angels, being spiritual, do not think of the earth or land, but of the human race dwelling upon it and its spiritual state; and its spiritual state is the state of the church.

The earth or land also has an opposite meaning, and in that sense it symbolizes damnation, since when the church is not present in a person, damnation is. The earth or land is mentioned in that sense in Isaiah 14:12; 21:9; 26:19, 21; 29:4; 47:1; 63:6, Lamentations 2:2, 10, Ezekiel 26:20; 32:24, Numbers 16:29-33; 26:10, and elsewhere.

  
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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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Isaiah 9:19

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19 Through the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, the land is burnt up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.