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Pláč Jeremjášův 5

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1 Rozpomeň se, Hospodine, co se nám děje; popatř a viz pohanění naše.

2 Dědictví naše obráceno jest k cizím, domové naši k cizozemcům.

3 Sirotci jsme a bez otce, matky naše jsou jako vdovy.

4 Vody své za peníze pijeme, dříví naše za záplatu přichází.

5 Na hrdle svém protivenství snášíme, pracujeme, nedopouští se nám odpočinouti.

6 Egyptským podáváme ruky i Assyrským, abychom nasyceni byli chlebem.

7 Otcové naši hřešili, není jich, my pak trestáni po nich neseme.

8 Služebníci panují nad námi; není žádného, kdo by vytrhl z ruky jejich.

9 S opovážením se života svého hledáme chleba svého, pro strach meče i na poušti.

10 Kůže naše jako pec zčernaly od náramného hladu.

11 Ženám na Sionu i pannám v městech Judských násilé činí.

12 Knížata rukou jejich zvěšena jsou, osoby starých nemají v poctivosti.

13 Mládence k žernovu berou, a pacholata pod dřívím klesají.

14 Starci sedati v branách přestali a mládenci od zpěvů svých.

15 Přestala radost srdce našeho, obrátilo se v kvílení plésání naše.

16 Spadla koruna s hlavy naší; běda nám již, že jsme hřešili.

17 Protoť jest mdlé srdce naše, pro tyť věci zatměly se oči naše,

18 Pro horu Sion, že zpuštěna jest; lišky chodí po ní.

19 Ty Hospodine, na věky zůstáváš, a stolice tvá od národu do pronárodu.

20 Proč se zapomínáš na věky na nás, a opouštíš nás za tak dlouhé časy?

21 Obrať nás, ó Hospodine, k sobě,a obráceni budeme; obnov dny naše, jakž byly za starodávna.

22 Nebo zdali všelijak zavržeš nás, a hněvati se budeš na nás velice?

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #189

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189. "'That no one may take your crown.'" This symbolically means, lest they lose the wisdom from which comes eternal happiness.

A person acquires wisdom from no other source than goodness gained through truths from the Lord. A person acquires wisdom through these truths because they are the means by which the Lord conjoins Himself with the person and the person with Himself, and the Lord is wisdom itself. Wisdom consequently perishes in a person when he stops putting truths into practice, that is, when he stops living in accordance with them. He also then ceases to love wisdom, and accordingly ceases to love the Lord.

By wisdom we mean wisdom in spiritual matters. From this as a wellspring flows wisdom in all else, which we call intelligence, and through this knowledge, which results from an affection for knowing truths.

A crown symbolizes wisdom, because wisdom occupies the highest place in a person and so crowns him. Nor is anything else symbolized by the crown of a king, for a king in the Word's spiritual sense is Divine truth (no. 20), and from Divine truth comes all wisdom.

[2] Wisdom is symbolically meant by a crown also in the following passages:

...I will make the horn of David grow..., and upon Him His crown shall flourish. (Psalms 132:17-18)

(Jehovah) put... earrings in your ears, and an ornate crown on your head. (Ezekiel 16:12)

This is said of Jerusalem, which symbolizes the church in respect to doctrine, and therefore the ornate crown is wisdom originating from Divine truth or the Word.

In that day Jehovah of Hosts will be for an ornate crown and a beautiful turban to the remnants of His people. (Isaiah 28:5)

This is said of the Lord, because it says "in that day." The ornate crown for which He will be is wisdom, and the beautiful turban is intelligence. The remnants of the people are people among whom the church will be.

[3] The crown and turban in Isaiah 62:1, 3 have the same symbolic meaning. So, too, does the plate upon the turban of Aaron in Exodus 28:36-37, which is also called a miter.

Furthermore, in the following:

Say to the king and his lady, "Lower yourselves, sit down, for the ornament of your head has come down, the crown of your beauty." (Jeremiah 13:18)

The joy of our heart has ceased... The crown has fallen from our head. (Lamentations 5:15-16)

He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. (Job 19:9)

You have profaned [by casting it] to the ground the crown (of Your anointed). (Psalms 89:39)

The crown in these places symbolizes wisdom.

  
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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.