De Bijbel

 

Amos 8

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1 Il Signore, l’Eterno, mi diede questa visione: Ecco, era un paniere di frutti maturi.

2 Egli mi disse: "Amos, che vedi?" Io risposi: "Un paniere di frutti maturi". E l’Eterno mi disse: Matura è la fine del mio popolo d’Israele; io non gli userò più tolleranza.

3 In quel giorno, dice il Signore, l’Eterno, i canti del palazzo diventeranno degli urli; grande sarà il numero dei cadaveri; saran gettati da per tutto in silenzio.

4 Ascoltate questo, o voi che vorreste trangugiare il povero e distruggere gli umili del paese;

5 voi che dite: "Quando finirà il novilunio, perché possiam vendere il grano? Quando finirà il sabato, perché possiamo aprire i granai, scemando l’efa, aumentando il siclo, falsificando le bilance per frodare,

6 comprando il misero per denaro, e il povero se deve un paio di sandali? E venderemo anche la vagliatura del grano!"

7 L’Eterno l’ha giurato per colui ch’è la gloria di Giacobbe: Mai dimenticherò alcuna delle vostre opere.

8 Il paese non tremerà esso a motivo di questo? Ogni suo abitante non ne farà egli cordoglio? Il paese si solleverà tutto quanto come il fiume, ondeggerà, e s’abbasserà come il fiume d’Egitto.

9 E in quel giorno avverrà, dice il Signore, l’Eterno, che io farò tramontare il sole a mezzodì, e in pieno giorno farò venire le tenebre sulla terra.

10 Muterò le vostre feste in lutto, e tutti i vostri conti in lamento; coprirò di sacchi tutti i fianchi, e ogni testa sarà rasa. Getterò il paese in lutto come un figlio unico, e la sua fine sarà come un giorno d’amarezza.

11 Ecco, vengono i giorni, dice il Signore, l’Eterno, ch’io manderò la fame nel paese, non fame di pane o sete d’acqua, ma la fame e la sete d’udire le parole dell’Eterno.

12 Allora, errando da un mare all’altro, dal settentrione al levante, correranno qua e là in cerca della parola dell’Eterno, e non la troveranno.

13 In quel giorno, le belle vergini e i giovani verranno meno per la sete.

14 Quelli che giurano per il peccato di Samaria e dicono: "Com’è vero che il tuo Dio vive; o Dan" e: "Viva la via di Beer-Sceba!" cadranno e non risorgeranno più.

   

Van Swedenborgs Werken

 

Scriptural Confirmations #10

  
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10. 8. He is called Father and Son (1 John 1:3; 2:1; 2 John 1:3; 1 John 2:22-23; Jude 1:4).

The Lord is life revealed and made manifest, and God is light (1 John 1:2, 5).

He is a propitiation for our sins (1 John 2:2; 4:10). For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8; 4:10).

That we shall abide in Christ (1 John 2:5, 6, 24; 3:6). He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son: whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father (1 John 2:22-23).

He that keepeth His commands dwelleth in Him, and He in him. Hereby we know that we dwell in Him, and He in us. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him; and he in God (1 John 3:24; 4:13, 15, 16).

He who confesseth Jesus Christ, who lived in the flesh, is of God; he who confesseth not is not of God (1 John 4:2-3). Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ (Messiah) is born of God (1 John 5:1).

Who hath overcome the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God (1 John 5:5).

This is the testimony, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life. He who believeth in the name of the Son of God hath eternal life (1 John 5:10-13).

We know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know [Him that is] true, and we are in [Him that is] true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life (1 John 5:20-21).

To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and power (Jude 1:25).

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

De Bijbel

 

Isaiah 5:3-15

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3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: