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1 Как потускло золото, изменилось золото наилучшее! камни святилища раскиданы по всем перекресткам.

2 Сыны Сиона драгоценные, равноценные чистейшему золоту, как они сравнены с глиняною посудою, изделием рук горшечника!

3 И чудовища подают сосцы и кормят своих детенышей, а дщерь народа моего стала жестока подобно страусам в пустыне.

4 Язык грудного младенца прилипает к гортани его от жажды; дети просят хлеба, и никто не подает им.

5 Евшие сладкое истаевают на улицах; воспитанные на багрянице жмутся к навозу.

6 Наказание нечестия дщери народа моего превышает казнь за грехи Содома: тот низринут мгновенно, и руки человеческие не касались его.

7 Князья ее были в ней чище снега, белее молока; они были телом краше коралла, вид их был, как сапфир;

8 а теперь темнее всего черного лице их; не узнают их на улицах; кожа их прилипла к костям их, стала суха, как дерево.

9 Умерщвляемые мечом счастливее умерщвляемых голодом, потому что сии истаевают, поражаемые недостатком плодов полевых.

10 Руки мягкосердых женщин варили детей своих, чтобы они были для них пищею во время гибели дщери народа моего.

11 Совершил Господь гнев Свой, излил ярость гнева Своего и зажег на Сионе огонь, который пожрал основания его.

12 Не верили цари земли и все живущие во вселенной, чтобы враг инеприятель вошел во врата Иерусалима.

13 Все это – за грехи лжепророков его, за беззакония священников его, которые среди него проливали кровь праведников;

14 бродили как слепые по улицам, осквернялись кровью, так что невозможно было прикоснуться к одеждам их.

15 „Сторонитесь! нечистый!" кричали им; „сторонитесь, сторонитесь, не прикасайтесь"; и они уходили в смущении; а между народом говорили: „их более не будет!

16 лице Господне рассеет их; Он уже не призрит на них", потому чтоони лица священников не уважают, старцев не милуют.

17 Наши глаза истомлены в напрасном ожидании помощи; со сторожевой башни нашей мы ожидали народ, который не мог спасти нас.

18 А они подстерегали шаги наши, чтобы мы не могли ходить по улицам нашим; приблизился конец наш, дни наши исполнились; пришел конец наш.

19 Преследовавшие нас были быстрее орлов небесных; гонялись за нами по горам, ставили засаду для нас в пустыне.

20 Дыхание жизни нашей, помазанник Господень пойман в ямы их, тот, о котором мы говорили: „под тенью его будем жить среди народов".

21 Радуйся и веселись, дочь Едома, обитательница земли Уц! И до тебя дойдет чаша; напьешься допьяна и обнажишься.

22 Дщерь Сиона! наказание за беззаконие твое кончилось; Он не будет более изгонять тебя; но твое беззаконие, дочь Едома, Он посетит и обнаружит грехи твои.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1460

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1460. That 'there was a famine in the land' means a lack of cognitions which still existed with the Lord when He was a boy is clear from what has been stated already. In childhood the cognitions that reside with man never come from that which is interior but from the objects of the senses, most of all from hearing; for, as has been stated, with the external man there are recipient vessels which are called those of the memory. Those vessels, as anyone may know, are formed by means of cognitions, the internal man flowing in and assisting that formation. Consequently the learning of cognitions and their implantation in the memory take place in the measure that the internal man is flowing in. So also with the Lord when a boy, for He was born as any other and received instruction as any other. But in His case the interiors were celestial, which fashioned the vessels to receive cognitions, and after that these cognitions to become vessels for receiving the Divine. The interiors with Him were Divine, being from Jehovah His Father, but the exteriors were human, being from Mary His mother. From this it becomes clear that in childhood a lack of cognitions within His external man existed with the Lord as much as with all others.

[2] That 'famine' means a lack of cognitions is clear from elsewhere in the Word, as in Isaiah,

They do not look closely at the work of Jehovah, and they do not regard what His hands have done. Therefore My people will go into exile because they have no knowledge, and their honourable men will be famished,' and their multitude parched with thirst. Isaiah 5:12-13.

'Honourable men famished 1 stands for a lack of celestial cognitions, 'multitude parched with thirst' for a lack of spiritual cognitions. In Jeremiah,

They have lied against Jehovah and said, It is not He; and no evil will come upon us; neither shall we see sword and famine. And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Jeremiah 5:12-13.

'Sword and famine' stands for becoming robbed of cognitions of truth and good. 'Prophets' stands for those who teach, in whom 'the word is not'. That 'being consumed by sword and famine' means becoming robbed of cognitions of truth and good, and that these have to do with vastation, 'sword' as to spiritual things, 'famine' as to celestial things, is clear from many parts of the Word, such as Jeremiah 14:13-16, 18; Lamentations 4:9; and elsewhere.

[3] So also in Ezekiel,

I will bring more famine upon you, and will break for you the staff of bread; and I will send famine and evil beasts upon you, and they will rob you of your children. And I will bring the sword upon you. Ezekiel 5:16-17.

'Famine' stands for when one has been robbed of celestial cognitions, or cognitions of good, and therefore falsities and evils occur. In David,

And He summoned a famine over the land, He broke every staff of bread. Psalms 105:16.

'Breaking the staff of bread' stands for being deprived of celestial nourishment, for the life of good spirits and of angels is sustained by no other food than cognitions of good and truth, and by goods and truths themselves. This is the origin of the meaning in the internal sense of famine and bread. In the same author,

He has satisfied the longing soul, and the hungry soul He has filled with good. Psalms 107:9.

This stands for those desiring cognitions. In Jeremiah,

Lift up your hands for the soul of your little children who faint from famine at the head of every street. Lamentations 2:19.

'Famine' stands for an absence of cognitions, 'streets' for truths. In Ezekiel,

They will dwell securely and not be made afraid; and I shall raise up for them a plant for renown, and they will no more be consumed with famine in the land. Ezekiel 34:28-29.

This stands for their being deprived no longer of the cognitions of good and truth.

[4] In John,

They will not hunger any more, nor thirst any more. Revelation 7:16.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom where they have an abundance of all celestial cognitions and goods, meant by 'not hungering', and of spiritual cognitions and truths, meant by 'not thirsting'. The Lord said something similar, in John,

I am the Bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst. John 6:35.

In Luke,

Blessed are you that hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Luke 6:21.

In the same gospel,

He has filled the hungry with good things. Luke 1:53.

This refers to celestial goods and the cognitions of these. In Amos there is a plain statement that 'famine' means the lack of cognitions,

Behold, the days are coming, when I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah. Amos 8:11-12.

Footnotes:

1. literally, their glory will be mortals of famine

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