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Panaghoy 2

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1 Ano't tinakpan ng Panginoon ang anak na babae ng Sion ng alapaap sa kaniyang galit! Kaniyang inihagis mula sa langit hanggang sa lupa ang kagandahan ng Israel, at hindi inalaala ang kaniyang tungtungan ng paa sa kaarawan ng kaniyang galit.

2 Nilamon ng Panginoon ang lahat na tahanan ng Jacob, at siya'y hindi naawa: Kanyang ibinagsak sa kaniyang poot ang mga katibayan ng anak na babae ng Juda; kaniyang inilugmok ang mga yaon sa lupa: kaniyang ipinahamak ang kaharian at ang mga prinsipe niyaon.

3 Kaniyang inihiwalay sa pamamagitan ng mabangis na galit ang buong sungay ng Israel; kaniyang iniurong ang kaniyang kanang kamay sa harap ng kaaway: at kaniyang sinilaban ang Jacob na parang maalab na apoy, na namumugnaw sa palibot.

4 Kaniyang iniakma ang kaniyang busog na parang kaaway, kaniyang iniyamba ang kaniyang kanan na parang kalaban, at pinatay ang lahat na maligaya sa mata: sa tolda ng anak na babae ng Sion ay kaniyang ibinuhos ang kaniyang kapusukan na parang apoy.

5 Ang Panginoon ay naging parang kaaway, kaniyang nilamon ang Israel; kaniyang nilamon ang lahat niyang palacio, kaniyang iginiba ang kaniyang mga katibayan; at kaniyang pinarami sa anak na babae ng Juda ang panangis at panaghoy.

6 At kaniyang inalis na may karahasan ang tabernakulo niya na gaya ng nasa halamanan; kaniyang sinira ang kaniyang mga dako ng kapulungan: ipinalimot ng Panginoon ang takdang kapulungan at sabbath sa Sion, at hinamak sa pagiinit ng kaniyang galit ang hari at ang saserdote.

7 Iniwasak ng Panginoon ang kaniyang dambana, kaniyang kinayamutan ang kaniyang santuario; kaniyang ibinigay sa kamay ng kaaway ang mga pader ng kaniyang mga palacio: sila'y nangagingay sa bahay ng Panginoon, na parang kaarawan ng takdang kapulungan.

8 Ipinasiya ng Panginoon na gibain ang kuta ng anak na babae ng Sion; kaniyang iniladlad ang lubid, hindi niya iniurong ang kaniyang kamay sa paggiba: at kaniyang pinapanaghoy ang moog at ang kuta; nanganglulupaypay kapuwa.

9 Ang kaniyang mga pintuang-bayan ay nangabaon sa lupa; kaniyang giniba at nasira ang kaniyang mga halang: ang kaniyang hari at ang kaniyang mga prinsipe ay nangasa gitna ng mga bansa na hindi kinaroroonan ng kautusan; Oo, ang kaniyang mga propeta ay hindi nangakakasumpong ng pangitaing mula sa Panginoon.

10 Ang mga matanda ng anak na babae ng Sion ay nangauupo sa lupa, sila'y nagsisitahimik; sila'y nangagsabog ng alabok sa kanilang mga ulo; sila'y nangagbigkis ng kayong magaspang: itinungo ng mga dalaga sa Jerusalem ang kanilang mga ulo sa lupa.

11 Pinangangalumata ng mga luha ang aking mga mata, namamanglaw ang aking puso, ako'y lubhang nahahapis, dahil sa pagkapahamak ng anak na babae ng aking bayan, dahil sa ang mga bata at ang mga pasusuhin ay nanganglulupaypay sa mga lansangan ng bayan.

12 Kanilang sinasabi sa kanilang mga ina, saan nandoon ang trigo at alak? Pagka sila'y nanganglulupaypay na parang sugatan sa mga lansangan sa bayan, pagka ang kanilang kaluluwa ay nanglulupaypay sa kandungan ng kanilang mga ina.

13 Ano ang aking patototohanan sa iyo? sa ano kita iwawangis, Oh anak na babae ng Jerusalem? Ano ang ihahalintulad ko sa iyo, upang maaliw kita, Oh anak na dalaga ng Sion? Sapagka't ang iyong sira ay malaking parang dagat: sinong makapagpapagaling sa iyo?

14 Ang iyong mga propeta ay nakakita para sa iyo ng mga pangitain na walang kabuluhan at kamangmangan; at hindi nila inilitaw ang iyong kasamaan, upang bawiin ang iyong pagkabihag, kundi nakarinig para sa iyo ng mga hulang walang kabuluhan at mga kadahilanan ng pagkatapon.

15 Lahat na nangagdaraan ay ipinapakpak ang kanilang kamay sa iyo; sila'y nagsisisutsot at iginagalaw ang kanilang ulo sa anak na babae ng Jerusalem, na sinasabi, Ito baga ang bayan na tinatawag ng mga tao Ang kasakdalan ng kagandahan, Ang kagalakan ng buong lupa?

16 Ibinukang maluwang ng lahat mong kaaway ang kanilang bibig laban sa iyo: sila'y nagsisisutsot at nagsisipagngalit ng ngipin; kanilang sinasabi, Aming nilamon siya; tunay na ito ang kaarawan na aming hinihintay; aming nasumpungan, aming nakita.

17 Ginawa ng Panginoon ang kaniyang ipinasiya; kaniyang tinupad ang kaniyang salita na kaniyang iniutos nang mga kaarawan nang una; kaniyang ibinagsak, at hindi naawa: at kaniyang pinapagkatuwa sa iyo ang kaaway; kaniyang pinataas ang sungay ng iyong mga kalaban.

18 Ang kanilang puso ay nagsisidaing sa Panginoon: Oh kuta ng anak na babae ng Sion, dumaloy ang mga luha na parang ilog araw at gabi; huwag kang magpahinga; huwag maglikat ang itim ng iyong mata.

19 Bumangon ka, humiyaw ka sa gabi, sa pasimula ng mga pagpupuyat; ibuhos mo ang iyong puso na parang tubig sa harap ng mukha ng Panginoon: igawad mo ang iyong mga kamay sa kaniya dahil sa buhay ng iyong mga batang anak, na nanglulupaypay sa gutom sa dulo ng lahat na lansangan.

20 Tingnan mo, Oh Panginoon, at masdan mo, kung kanino mo ginawa ang ganito! Kakanin baga ng mga babae ang kanilang ipinanganak, ang mga anak na kinakalong sa mga kamay? Papatayin baga ang saserdote at ang propeta sa santuario ng Panginoon?

21 Ang binata at ang matanda ay humihiga sa lupa sa mga lansangan; ang aking mga dalaga at ang aking mga binata ay nangabuwal sa tabak: iyong pinatay sila sa kaarawan ng iyong galit; iyong pinatay at hindi ka naawa.

22 Tinawag mo, gaya ng sa kaarawan ng takdang kapulungan, ang aking mga kakilabutan ay sa bawa't dako; at walang nakatanan, o nalabi sa kaarawan ng galit ng Panginoon: yaong aking mga kinalong at pinalaki ay nilipol ng aking kaaway.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #3024

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3024.'That you do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites' means that the Divine Rational should not be joined to any affection incompatible with truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'taking a woman' as being joined by means of the marriage covenant; from the meaning of 'my son', namely Isaac, as the Lord's Divine Rational, dealt with in 1893, 2066, 2083, 2630; from the meaning of 'daughters' as affections, dealt with in 489-491, 568, 2362; and from the meaning of 'the Canaanites' as evil, dealt with in 1444, 1573, 1574. Consequently 'the daughters of the Canaanites' are affections incompatible with truth. The subject here is Divine truth which was to be allied to the Divine good of the Lord's Rational, as may be seen in 3013 under 'Contents'. 'A woman' who was to be associated by means of a marriage covenant is used to mean that truth itself which is summoned from the natural man in the normal manner. 'My son' is used to mean the Lord's Rational as regards the good with which it was to be allied or associated. From this one may recognize that the command not to take a wife for his son from the daughters of the Canaanites means that the Divine Rational should not be joined to any affection incompatible with truth. All joining of truth to good is effected by means of affection, for no truth ever enters the rational part of a person's mind or is joined to it except by means of affection, for affection has within it the good that flows from love, which good alone effects the joining together, 1895, as also anyone may know who stops to reflect on it.

[2] As regards 'the daughters of the Canaanites' meaning affections incompatible with truth, that is, affections for what is false, this becomes clear from the meaning of 'daughters'. For the noun 'daughters' occurs in many places in the Word, and in these anyone may see that it is not used to mean daughters. By such expressions as 'the daughter of Zion', 'the daughter of Jerusalem', 'the daughter of Tarshish', 'the daughter of My people', affections for good and truth are meant, as shown in the paragraphs referred to above. And since affections for good and truth are meant so also are Churches, for Churches are Churches by virtue of these affections. Consequently 'the daughter of Zion' means the celestial Church, and means this by virtue of the affection for good, whereas 'the daughter of Jerusalem' means the spiritual Church from the affection for truth, 2362. And it is the same with 'the daughter of My people' in Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 6:14, 26; 8:19, 21-22; 9:1; 14:17; Lamentations 2:11; 4:6; Ezekiel 13:17.

[3] This shows what is meant by the daughters of the nations, such as by the daughters of the Philistines, the daughters of Egypt, the daughters of Tyre and Sidon, the daughters of Edom, the daughters of Moab, the daughters of the Chaldeans and Babel, and the daughters of Sodom. They mean affections for evil and falsity, from which their varieties of religion sprang, and so mean those varieties themselves. That this is the meaning of 'daughters' becomes clear from the following places: In Ezekiel,

The daughters of the nations will lament over Egypt. Wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send her down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the lower earth, together with those who go down to the pit. Ezekiel 32:16, 18.

'The daughters of majestic nations' stands for affections for evil. In Samuel,

Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult. 2 Samuel 1:20.

In Ezekiel,

You committed whoredom with the sons of Egypt. I delivered you to those who hated you, the daughters of the Philistines. Before your badness was revealed, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all round about her, the daughters of the Philistines who despise you from round about. Ezekiel 16:26-27, 57.

Anyone may see that not daughters were meant here but the varieties of religion among such people as are meant by the Philistines - those who speak repeatedly of faith yet do not at all pursue the life taught by faith, see 1197, 1198. This also explains why they are called 'the uncircumcised', that is, devoid of charity.

[4] In Jeremiah,

Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! Make for yourself vessels of migration, O inhabitant daughter of Egypt. The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame; she has been delivered into the hand of the people from the north. Jeremiah 46:11, 19, 24.

'The daughter of Egypt' stands for the affection for reasoning from facts about whether truths of faith really are true, and so stands for the variety of religion which springs from this, the nature of which is to believe nothing except that grasped by the senses, and so to believe nothing of the truth of faith, see 215, 232, 233, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1385, 2196, 2203, 2209, 2568, 2588. In Isaiah,

He said, You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Isaiah 23:12.

In David,

The daughter of Tyre with an offering, the rich of the people will entreat your face. Psalms 45:12.

What 'the daughter of Sidon' and 'the daughter of Tyre' mean is evident from the meaning of Sidon and Tyre, dealt with in 1201. In Jeremiah,

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom. Your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is at an end. He will no more cause you to migrate; your iniquity will be punished, O daughter of Edom. Lamentations 4:21-22.

In Isaiah,

Like a wandering bird, a scattered nest, will the daughters of Moab be. Isaiah 16:2.

In the same prophet,

Come down and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babel; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. Sit quietly and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for no more will they call you the mistress of kingdoms. Isaiah 47:1, 5.

In Jeremiah,

A people coming from the north, arrayed as a man for war against you, O daughter of Babel. Jeremiah 50:41-42.

In the same prophet,

The daughter of Babel is like the threshing-floor; it is time to thresh her. Jeremiah 51:33

In Zechariah,

Ho, Zion! escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babel. Zechariah 2:7.

In David,

The daughter of Babel has been laid waste. Psalms 137:8.

In Ezekiel,

Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters will return to their condition as of old, and Samaria and her daughters will return to their condition as of old. Ezekiel 16:55.

[5] Anyone may see that in these places 'daughters' is not used to mean daughters but affections incompatible with truth, and so the varieties of religion that spring from them. But which particular varieties they are is evident from the meaning of those peoples - from the meaning of Edom, Moab, the Chaldeans, Babel, Sodom, Samaria, all of which have been dealt with in various places in the explanations to previous chapters of Genesis. From this what is meant in the present chapter by 'the daughters of the Canaanites' becomes clear.

[6] This command not to contract marriages with the daughters of the Canaanites also had regard to the spiritual requirements that good should not be joined to falsity, nor evil to truth, for the result of any such joining together is profanation. The prohibition was also a representative of the matter referred to in Deuteronomy 7:3, and in Malachi,

Judah has profaned the holiness of Jehovah, in that he loved and married the daughter of a foreign god. Malachi 2:11.

  
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