Jeremiah 1:18

¹⁸ For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #67

67. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 1. (1)

1-3 The perverted state of the church. (2)

4-8 Of the Lord, who is here meant by Jeremiah; He will be born, in order that He may teach all men Divine truth. (11)

9-10 From His Divine He will teach the truths and goods of the church, and will destroy falsities and evils. (11, 2)

11-12 Truths of every good have been given them through the Word; (2)

13 but they have perverted them; (2)

14-15 which is the source of all kinds of falsities that are contrary to the truths of the church, (2)

16 and from this arises a contrary worship. (2, 12)

17-19 The Lord will admit them to fight against Him, and they will succumb, because the Divine is the Lord's. (5, 7)

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