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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #198

  
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198. Internal Meaning of Joel, Chapter 1

1-3 To all who are of the church. (2)

4 Falsity from the sensual man and afterwards evil therefrom has consumed all things of the church. (2, 15)

5-7 Let them repent, for evil from the sensual man has destroyed the different things of the church. (2)

8-13 Mourning over the destruction of the goods and truths of the church. (2)

14 Exhortation to be converted, (2)

15 and to reflect that thus will be the last time, when the Lord will come, (1)

16-17 and that everything of the church has been devastated; (3)

18-20 for which reason there is lamentation. (3)

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

The Bible

 

Joel 1:14

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14 Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.

The Bible

 

Joel 1:5-7

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5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

7 He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.