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Hosea 9

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1 Älä riemuitse, Israel, äläkä öykkää niinkuin kansat; sillä sinä olet huorin tehnyt sinun Jumalaas vastaan, sinä etsit porton palkkaa kaikkein jyväluvain tykönä.

2 Sentähden ei luvat eikä kuurnat pidä heitä elättämän, eikä viinan pidä hänelle menestymän.

3 Ja ei heidän pidä asuman Herran maalla; mutta Ephraimin pitää jälleen menemän Egyptiin, ja pitää Assyriassa saastaista syömän.

4 Jossa ei taideta Herralle viinasta juomauhria tehdä, eli muuta tehdä hänen mielensä nouteeksi; heidän uhrinsa pitää oleman niinkuin murheellisten leipä, josta kaikki saastuttavat itsensä, jotka sitä syövät; sillä heidän leipänsä pitää heidän itse syömän, ja ei sitä pidä Herran huoneesen vietämän.

5 Mitä te silloin tahdotte vuosikauden pyhinä ja Herran juhlapäivinä tehdä?

6 Sillä katso, heidän pitää raateliaa pakeneman; Egyptin pitää heidät kokooman, ja Moph pitää heidät hautaaman. Nukulaiset pitää siellä kasvaman, jossa nyt heidän rakkaan epäjumalansa hopiat ovat, ja orjantappurat pitää oleman heidän majoissansa.

7 Etsikon aika on tullut, ja kostamisen aika on tullut, jonka Israelin pitää kyllä tunteman: Prophetat ovat tomppelit, ja kerskaajat ovat mielipuolet, sinun suurten pahain tekois tähden ja suuren vastahakoisuuden tähden.

8 Vartiat Ephraimissa pitivät heitänsä hetken minun Jumalani tykö; mutta nyt he ovat prophetat, jotka hänelle paulan kaikilla hänen teillänsä panevat, sillä vainollisella epäjumalan palveluksella heidän Jumalansa huoneessa.

9 He ovat syvästi itsensä turmelleet, niinkuin Gibean aikana; sentähden pitää hänen heidän pahat tekonsa muistaman, ja heidän syntinsä etsimän.

10 Minä löysin Israelin niinkuin viinamarjat korvessa, ja näin teidän isänne niinkuin fikunapuussa uutisfikunat; mutta he menivät sitte Baalpeorin tykö, ja lupasivat heitänsä sille häpiälliselle epäjumalalle, ja tulivat niin julmaksi kuin se, jota he rakastivat.

11 Sentähden pitää Ephraimin kunnian lentämän pois niinkuin lintu; niin ettei heidän pidä synnyttämän, eikä kantaman eli siittämän.

12 Ja ehkä vielä lapsiansa kasvattaisivat, niin minä tahdon kuitenkin heidät lapsettomaksi tehdä, ettei heidän pidä ensinkään kansa oleman. Voi myös heitä, kuin minä heistä luovun!

13 Ephraim, jonka minä näen, on istutettu ja kaunis niinkuin Tyro; mutta hänen täytyy nyt surmaajalle lapsensa antaa.

14 Herra, anna heille; mutta mitäs tahdot heille antaa? Anna heille hedelmätöin kohtu ja tyhjät nisät.

15 Kaikki heidän pahuutensa tapahtuu Gilgalissa; siellä minä heitä vihaan, ja ajan heidät pois minun huoneestani, heidän pahan menonsa tähden, enkä tahdo heitä enään rakastaa; sillä kaikki heidän päämiehensä ovat langenneet pois.

16 Ephraim on lyöty; hänen juurensa ovat kuivettuneet, ettei ne enään taida hedelmää kantaa; ja vaikka he vielä kantaisivat, niin minä tahdon kuitenkin heidän ruumiinsa ihanat hedelmät kuolettaa.

17 Minun Jumalani on heittävä heidät pois, ettei he häntä kuulleet; ja heidän pitää pakanain seassa kulkiana vaeltaman.

   


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Arcana Coelestia #6588

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6588. 'And God will certainly visit you' means that the final period is about to come. This is clear from the meaning of 'being visited' as the final period, here that of the oppression of the children of Israel in Egypt, which in the internal sense is the final period of the old Church and the first of the new. In the Word this final period is called 'visitation', and this is used in reference both to the Church collectively and to those within the Church individually. It is used in reference to a new Church that is being born and an old one that is breathing its last, and to the individual member of the Church who is being saved, as well as to one who is damned.

[2] The fact that these things are meant in the Word by 'visitation' and 'the day of visitation' may be seen from the following places: In Luke,

Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and brought deliverance to His people, through the heart 1 of mercy of our God, by which the risen sun from on high has visited us, to appear to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death. Luke 1:68, 78-79.

In this prophecy of Zechariah regarding the Lord, telling what would happen after He had been born, 'being visited' stands for the raising up from death of a new Church and the enlightenment at that time of those who had no knowledge of the truth and good of faith, thus the deliverance of them. It is for this reason that the words 'He has visited and brought deliverance to His people, . . . has visited [us], to appear to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death' are used.

[3] In Moses,

Jehovah said to Moses, Gather the elders of Israel and say to them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I will certainly visit you and what has been done to you in Egypt. Exodus 3:16.

And in the same author,

The people believed and heard that Jehovah had visited the children of Israel. Exodus 4:31.

'Being visited' here stands for the final period when the Church has gone out of existence and for the first period when it comes into existence - for the final period among the Egyptians, and for the first among the children of Israel, and so for the deliverance of them too.

[4] In Jeremiah,

They will be carried away to Babel, and there they will be until the day [ visit them. Then I will cause the vessels of the house of God to come up, and I will bring them back to this place. Jeremiah 27:22.

In the same prophet,

When seventy years have been completed at Babel I will visit you and fulfill My promise 2 to you and bring you back to this place. Jeremiah 29:10.

'Visiting' stands for delivering, in general for the final period of captivity and desolation.

[5] 'Visitation' and 'the day of visitation' stand for the final period of the Church in Isaiah,

What will you do on the day of visitation and devastation? It will come from afar. To whom will you flee for help? Isaiah 10:3.

In the same prophet,

Behold, the day of Jehovah comes, cruel, and one of indignation and wrath and anger, to make the earth a waste. I will visit the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. Isaiah 13:9, 11.

In Jeremiah,

They will fall among those who fall, and in the time of their visitation they will stumble. Jeremiah 8:12.

In Hosea,

The days of visitation have come, the days of recompense have come. Hosea 9:7.

In Moses,

Jehovah said to Moses, All the same, go, lead this people to [the place] of which I have spoken to you; behold, My angel will go before you. But on the day of My visiting, I will visit them for their sin. Exodus 32:34.

In Luke,

Jesus said regarding Jerusalem, They will not leave in you stone upon stone, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation. Luke 19:44.

'The day of visitation' stands for the Lord's Coming, and enlightenment at that time. But in reference to the Jewish nation - seeing that it did not recognize His Coming - 'the day of visitation' stands for the final period of the representative acts of the Church among them. For once Jerusalem was destroyed sacrifices came to an end and that nation was scattered abroad.

[6] In Ezekiel,

A loud voice called out in my ears, saying, The visitations of the city have drawn near, and each man has his weapon of destruction in his hand. Ezekiel 9:1.

Here the meaning is similar. In Isaiah,

The Rephaim will not rise. To that end You have visited them, You have wiped them out. Isaiah 16:14.

'The Rephaim' stands for descendants of the Most Ancient Church which existed before the Flood. They are also called the Nephilim and the Anakim, regarding whom see 567, 581, 1673. 'You have visited and wiped out the Rephaim' stands for the final period of that Church; it also stands for the casting of them into hell, regarding which see 1265-1272. 'Visitation' stands for retribution, thus for damnation, in Jeremiah,

Shall I not visit them on account of this? Or will not My soul be avenged on a nation which is like this? Jeremiah 5:9.

In the same prophet,

I will bring the disaster of Esau upon him, at the time I visit him. Jeremiah 49:8.

In Hosea,

I will visit upon him his ways, and requite his works. Hosea 4:9.

Footnotes:

1. literally, viscera or bowels

2. literally, establish upon you My good word

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