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Genesis 1

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1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first Day.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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Scriptural Confirmations #39

  
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39. 11. (The solitude of Jerusalem is described in direful terms, that to the sole of the foot there is no soundness (Isaiah 1:6-9).

The worship of these things is vanity unless you have cleansed yourselves from evil (Isaiah 1:11-18).)

The restoration of all things by the redemption, and then the salvation of the faithful and the condemnation of the unfaithful, is described (Isaiah 1:25-31).

And it shall come to pass in the last of the days that the mountain of Jehovah shall be established because the Word of Jehovah shall be from Jerusalem (Isaiah 2:2-6). It treats of the restoration of all things through the New Church.

Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day (Isaiah 2:11, 17).

The restoration of all things through the New Church, which there is Jerusalem, where everyone is written unto life: and it is said, In that day shall the branch of Jehovah be for beauty and glory (Isaiah 4:1 to the end).

(That He would destroy the vine, because it did not bring forth grapes, but wild grapes; I will bring it to desolation, the house to devastation; because they regard not the work of Jehovah (Isaiah 5:3-15).)

A curse upon them, because they call good evil and evil good, and put darkness for light and light for darkness, since they have rejected the law of Jehovah, and despised the saying of the Holy One of Israel. He shall roar against him in that day like the roaring of the sea; and if one look unto the land, behold darkness, anxiety, and the light shall be darkened in the ruins thereof (Isaiah 5:18-30).

That the Lord will appear in the Word; the Lord is meant by "Adonai," and by "holy, holy, holy Jehovah of hosts," by "the Seraphim from above him" (Isaiah 6:1-8).

(Devastation is next treated of because they do not wish to understand the truth; that the cities therefore will be devastated, and the land will be brought back to solitude (Isaiah 6:9-13).)

(In that day Jehovah shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria; and they shall come and shall rest in the rivers of desolation (Isaiah 7:18-19).)

In that day shall the Lord shave the head and the hair of Assyria; He shall also consume the beard (Isaiah 7:20). The consummation.

In that day every place shall be for the brier and the thorn (Isaiah 7:23-24). The consummation.

What will ye do in the day of visitation and of devastation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? The devastation there is described by the pride of their own intelligence (Isaiah 10:3-19), further (Isaiah 10:23-34). And it is said that Jehovah bakes a consummation and decision in the whole earth (verse 23).

Howl ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand, it will come as a devastation from Shaddai. Behold the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel with indignation and with wrath to lay thy land waste; and He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of the heavens and their constellations shine not with their light, the sun is darkened at his rising, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine (Isaiah 13:6-10). Therefore I will shake heaven, and the earth will tremble in the indignation of Jehovah of Hosts, in the day of the wrath of anger (13:13). There it treats of the vastation of Babylon.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.

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Isaiah 13:13

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13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.