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Ezekiel 26

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1 En la dek-unua jaro, en la unua tago de la monato, aperis al mi vorto de la Eternulo, dirante:

2 Ho filo de homo! pro tio, ke Tiro diras pri Jerusalem:Ha, ha! gxi estas frakasita, la pordo de la popoloj, gxi turnas sin al mi, mi plenigxos de gxia dezertigxo-

3 pro tio tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Jen Mi iras kontraux vin, ho Tiro, kaj Mi levos kontraux vin multe da nacioj, kiel maro levas siajn ondojn.

4 Kaj ili detruos la muregojn de Tiro kaj disrompos gxiajn turojn; kaj Mi forbalaos de gxi gxian polvon, kaj Mi faros gxin nuda roko.

5 Loko por sternado de retoj gxi farigxos meze de la maro, cxar Mi tion parolis, diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo; kaj gxi farigxos rabajxo por la nacioj.

6 Kaj gxiaj filinoj, kiuj estas sur la kampo, estos mortigitaj per glavo; kaj ili ekscios, ke Mi estas la Eternulo.

7 CXar tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Jen Mi venigos kontraux Tiron de norde Nebukadnecaron, regxon de Babel, la regxon de regxoj, kun cxevaloj, cxaroj, kaj rajdistoj, kun homamaso kaj multe da popolo.

8 Viajn filinojn sur la kampo li mortigos per glavo; li faros kontraux vi bastionojn, li sxutarangxos cxirkaux vi remparojn, kaj starigos kontraux vi siajn sxildojn;

9 kaj li starigos siajn muregrompilojn kontraux viaj muregoj, kaj viajn turojn li detruos per siaj hakiloj.

10 Pro la multo de siaj cxevaloj li kovros vin per polvo; de la bruo de la rajdistoj, radoj, kaj cxaroj ektremos viaj muregoj, kiam li eniros en viajn pordegojn, kiel oni eniras en urbon trarompitan.

11 Per la hufoj de siaj cxevaloj li dispremos cxiujn viajn stratojn; vian popolon li mortigos per glavo, kaj la monumentojn de via forto li jxetos sur la teron.

12 Ili disrabos vian havon kaj diskaptos viajn komercajxojn; ili detruos viajn murojn, ili disrompos viajn belajn domojn; viajn sxtonojn, vian lignon, kaj vian teron ili jxetos en la akvon.

13 Mi cxesigos la lauxtan sonadon de viaj kantoj, kaj la vocxo de viaj harpoj ne plu estos auxdata.

14 Mi faros vin nuda roko; vi farigxos loko por sternado de retoj, vi ne plu estos rekonstruata; cxar Mi, la Eternulo, tion parolis, diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo.

15 Tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo, pri Tiro:Vere, de la bruo de via falado, de la gxemado de viaj vunditoj, kiam meze de vi estos farata mortigado, ektremos la insuloj.

16 Kaj malsupreniros de siaj tronoj cxiuj princoj de la maro, ili demetos de si sian purpuron kaj siajn broditajn vestojn; timo ilin atakos; ili sidigxos sur la tero, tremos cxiuminute, kaj eksentos teruron pro vi.

17 Kaj ili ekkantos pri vi funebran kanton, kaj diros pri vi:Kiele vi pereis, vi, logxata de maristoj, glora urbo, kiu estis forta sur la maro, gxi kaj gxiaj logxantoj, kiuj jxetadis timon sur cxiujn logxantojn de la mara regiono!

18 Nun ektremos la maraj regionoj en la tago de via falo, kaj la insuloj sur la maro konsternigxos pro via finigxo.

19 CXar tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Kiam Mi faros vin urbo dezerta simila al la urboj nelogxataj, kiam Mi levos sur vin la abismon kaj granda akvo vin kovros,

20 tiam Mi mallevos vin al tiuj, kiuj iris en la tombon, al la popolo eterna, kaj Mi pusxos vin en la profundon subteran, en la eternan dezerton, al tiuj, kiuj iris en la tombon, por ke vi ne plu estu logxata; tiam Mi restarigos belecon sur la tero de la vivantoj.

21 Mi neniigos vin, kaj vi ne plu ekzistos; oni sercxos vin, sed ne plu trovos en eterneco, diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #4137

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4137. 'For I might have sent you away with gladness and with songs' means the state in which - thinking from the proprium - it had believed itself to be as regards truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'I might have sent you away' as that it would have separated itself in freedom. But the fact that it had not separated itself when in that state is clear from what has been stated already in 4113. From this it is evident that these words were uttered by Laban in the state in which - thinking from the proprium - he had believed himself to be. For when a person's belief is based on his own thought it is not the truth, whereas when it is not based on his own thought but is received from the Lord it is based on the truth. The state referred to at this point is a state as regards truths, and this is meant by 'sending away with gladness and with songs', for gladness and songs have reference to truths.

[2] In the Word the expressions 'gladness' and 'joy' are used in various places, sometimes the two appearing together. But 'gladness' is used when truth or the affection for truth is the subject, and 'joy' when good or the affection for good is, as in Isaiah,

Behold, joy and gladness consist in slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. Isaiah 22:13.

Here 'joy' has reference to good and 'gladness' to truth. In the same prophet,

There will be an outcry in the streets over [the lack of] wine, all gladness will be made desolate, and the joy of the earth 1 will be banished. Isaiah 24:11.

In the same prophet,

The ransomed of Jehovah will return, and come to Zion with song, and everlasting joy upon their heads; they will obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. Isaiah 35:10; 51:11.

In the same prophet,

Jehovah will comfort Zion. Joy and gladness will be found in her, confession and the voice of song. Isaiah 51:3.

In Jeremiah,

I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land will become a waste. Jeremiah 7:34; 25:10.

In the same prophet,

The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, and the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those that say, Give thanks 2 to Jehovah Zebaoth. Jeremiah 33:11.

In the same prophet,

Joy and exultation have been plucked from Carmel, and from the land of Moab. Jeremiah 48:33

In Joel,

Is not the food cut off before our eyes, gladness and exultation from the house of our God? Joel 1:16.

In Zechariah, The fast will be to the house of Judah one of joy and gladness and good feasts. Zechariah 8:19.

[3] Anyone who does not know that the heavenly marriage, that is, the marriage of good and truth, is present in every detail of the Word might suppose that these two - joy and gladness - are exactly the same as each other and that both are used merely for the sake of greater emphasis, so that one of them is superfluous. But this is not the case, for not even the smallest part of an expression is used which lacks the spiritual sense. In the places that have been quoted, and in others too, 'joy' has reference to good and 'gladness' to truth, see also 3118. The fact that 'songs' also has reference to truths is clear from many places in the Word where songs are mentioned, for example Isaiah 5:1; 24:9; 26:1; 30:29; 42:10; Ezekiel 26:13; Amos 5:23; and elsewhere.

[4] It should be recognized that everything in the Lord's kingdom has reference either to good or to truth, that is, to the things that are aspects of love or to those that are aspects of faith wedded to charity. Those which have reference to good or aspects of love are called celestial, while those which have reference to truth or aspects of faith wedded to charity are called spiritual. Since in every single detail of the Word the Lord's kingdom is the subject and in the highest sense the Lord Himself; and since the Lord's kingdom consists in a marriage of goodness and truth, or the heavenly marriage, and the Lord Himself is the one in whom the Divine marriage exists and from whom the heavenly marriage derives, that marriage is present in every single part of the Word. It stands out in particular in the Prophets where repetitions of one and the same thing occur with merely a change of words. In no case however are those repetitions pointless, for one expression means that which is celestial, that is, which has to do with love or good, and the other that which is spiritual, that is, which has to do with faith wedded to charity, or with truth. These considerations show how the heavenly marriage, that is, the Lord's kingdom, is present in every detail of the Word, and how in the highest sense the Divine marriage itself or the Lord is present there.

Footnotes:

1. The Latin means all joy, but the Hebrew means the joy of the earth, which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse.

2. literally, Confess

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