Genesis 1:5

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

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #387

387. Internal Meaning of Psalm 137

1-6 Lamentation by the nations who are in falsities from ignorance, because they do not have the Word. (11, 16)

5-6 Of these a church will be formed by the Lord, which He will love. (11)

7-9 Those who have devastated the church will perish. (3)

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

¹⁹ And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.