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耶利米書 50

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1 耶和華先知耶利米論巴比倫和迦勒底人

2 你們要在萬國中傳揚報告,豎立大旗;要報告,不可隱瞞,:巴比倫被攻取,彼勒蒙羞,米羅達驚惶。巴比倫的像都蒙羞;他的偶像都驚惶。

3 因有一國從北方上來攻擊他,使他的荒涼,無人居住,連人帶牲畜都逃走了。

4 耶和華:當那日子、那時候,以色列人要和猶大人同,隨走隨哭,尋求耶和華─他們的

5 他們必訪問錫安,又面向這裡,說:罷,你們要與耶和華聯合為永遠不忘的約。

6 我的百姓作了迷失的,牧人使他們走差,使他們上。他們從大走到小,竟忘了安歇之處。

7 凡遇見他們的,就把他們吞滅。敵人:我們沒有罪;因他們得罪那作公居所的耶和華,就是他們列祖所仰望的耶和華

8 我民哪,你們要從巴比倫中逃走,從迦勒底人出去,要像羊群前面走的公山

9 因我必激動聯合的國從北方上來攻擊巴比倫,他們要擺陣攻擊他;他必從那裡被攻取。他們的好像善射之勇士的,一枝也不徒然返回

10 迦勒底必成為掠物;凡擄掠他的都必心滿意足。這是耶和華的。

11 搶奪我產業的啊,你們因歡喜快樂,且像踹穀撒歡的母牛犢,又像發嘶聲的壯馬。

12 你們的母巴比倫就極其抱愧,生你們的必然蒙羞。他要列在諸國之末,成為曠野、旱地、沙漠。

13 耶和華的忿怒,必無人居住,要全然荒涼。凡經過巴比倫的要受驚駭,又因他所遭的災殃嗤笑。

14 所有拉的,你們要在巴比倫的四圍擺陣,射攻擊他。不要愛惜枝,因他得罪了耶和華

15 你們要在他四圍吶;他已經投降。外郭坍塌了,城牆拆毀了,因為這是耶和華報仇的事。你們要向巴比倫報仇;他怎樣待人,也要怎樣待他。

16 你們要將巴比倫撒種的和收割時拿鐮刀的都剪除了。他們各因怕欺壓的刀,必歸回本族,逃到本土。

17 以色列是打散的羊,是被獅子趕出的。首先是亞述王將他吞滅,末後是巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒將他的骨頭折斷。

18 所以萬軍之耶和華以色列的如此:我必罰巴比倫王和他的,像我從前罰亞述王一樣。

19 我必再領以色列回他的草場,他必在迦密和巴珊吃草,又在以法蓮上和基列境內得以飽足

20 耶和華:當那日子、那時候,雖尋以色列的孽,一無所有;雖尋猶大罪惡,也無所見;因為我所留下的人,我必赦免。

21 耶和華:上去攻擊米拉大翁之,又攻擊比割的居民。要追殺滅盡,照我一切所吩咐你的去行。

22 境內有打仗和毀滅的響聲。

23 的大錘何竟砍斷壞?巴比倫在列國中何竟荒涼?

24 巴比倫哪,我為你設下網羅,你不知不覺被纏住。你被尋著,也被捉住;因為你與耶和華爭競。

25 耶和華已經開了,拿出他惱恨的兵器;因為─萬軍之耶和華迦勒底人有當做的事。

26 你們要從極遠的邊界攻擊他,開他的倉廩,將他堆如高堆,毀滅淨盡,絲毫不留。

27 要殺他的一切牛犢,使他們去遭遇殺戮。他們有禍了,因為追討他們的日子已經到。

28 (有從巴比倫之逃避出來的人,在錫安揚聲報告耶和華─我們的報仇,就是為他的殿報仇。)

29 招集一切弓箭手來攻擊巴比倫。要在巴比倫四圍安營,不要容一人逃脫,照著他所做的報應他;他怎樣待人,也要怎樣待他,因為他向耶和華以色列的聖者發了狂傲。

30 所以他的少年人必仆倒在街上。當那日,一切兵丁必默默無聲。這是耶和華的。

31 ─萬軍之耶和華:你這狂傲的啊,我與你反對,因為我追討你的日子已經到。

32 狂傲的必絆跌仆倒,無人扶起。我也必使在他的城邑中裡起來,將他四圍所有的盡行燒滅。

33 萬軍之耶和華如此以色列人猶大人一同受欺壓;凡擄掠他們的都緊緊抓住他們,不肯釋放。

34 他們的大有能力,萬軍之耶和華是他的名。他必伸清他們的冤,好使全得平安,並攪擾巴比倫的居民

35 耶和華:有刀臨到迦勒底人和巴比倫的居民,並他的首領與智慧人。

36 有刀臨到矜誇的人,他們就成為愚昧;有刀臨到他的勇士,他們就驚惶。

37 有刀臨到他的馬匹、車輛,和其中雜族的人民;他們必像婦女一樣。有刀臨到他的寶物,就被搶奪。

38 有乾旱臨到他的眾水,就必乾涸;因為這是有雕刻偶像之,人因偶像而顛狂。

39 所以曠野的走獸和豺狼必在那裡,鴕鳥也在其中,永無人煙,世世代無人居住

40 耶和華:必無在那裡,也無在其中寄居,要像我傾覆所多瑪、蛾摩拉,和鄰近的城邑一樣。

41 看哪,有一種民從北方,並有一國和許多被激動,從到。

42 他們拿和槍,性情殘忍,不施憐憫;他們的聲音像浪匉訇。巴比倫城(原文是女子)啊,他們,都擺隊伍如上戰場的,要攻擊你。

43 巴比倫王見他們的風聲,就發軟,痛苦將他抓住,疼痛彷彿產難的婦人。

44 仇敵必像獅子從約但河邊的叢林上來,攻擊堅固的居所。轉眼之間,我要使他們逃跑,離開這地。誰蒙揀選,我就派誰治理這地。誰能比我呢?誰能給我定規日期呢?有何牧人能在我面前站立得住呢?

45 你們要耶和華攻擊巴比倫所說的謀略和他攻擊迦勒底人所定的旨意。仇敵定要將他們眾微弱的拉去,定要使他們的居所荒涼。

46 因巴比倫被取的聲音,就震動,人在列邦都見呼喊的聲音。

   

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Jerusalem

  

Jerusalem, on Mount Zion, signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. Jerusalem first comes to our attention in 2 Samuel 5, when King David takes the city from the Jebusites and makes it his capital. In the next chapter he brings the Ark of the Covenant there, and later it is where Solomon builds the temple, and his own palace. From then on Jerusalem is the center of worship of the Israelitish church. It is the place where the Lord was presented in the temple as a baby, where He tarried to talk to the priests at age twelve, where He cleansed the temple, had the last supper, was crucified and then rose. It is a central place in both the old and new Testaments. The city was built on Mount Zion, the highest point of the mountains of Judea. A city, in the Word, represents doctrine, the organized knowledge of the truths of the church. Mountains represent love of the Lord and the consequent worship. If you put those things together, Jerusalem on Mount Zion signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. This is why David was led to make Jerusalem the most important city of the land, and why all worship was conducted there. And this is also why Jeroboam was condemned for introducing idol worship in Samaria. In the Book of Revelation, John's vision of the city New Jerusalem descending from God is a prophecy of a new dispensation of doctrine coming from the Lord.

(Referências: Arcana Coelestia 4539, 8938; The Apocalypse Explained 365 [35-38])

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Arcana Coelestia # 4539

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4539. 'Rise up, go up to Bethel' means concerning the Divine Natural, that is to say, the perception concerning this. This is clear from the meaning of 'rising up' as implying some kind of raising up, dealt with in 2401, 2785, 2912, 2927, 3171, 4103, here a raising up of the Natural towards the Divine; from the meaning of 'going up' as doing so towards aspects even more interior, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'Bethel' as the Divine within the natural, that is, within the ultimate degree of order, dealt with in 4089. In the original language Bethel means the house of God, and since 'the house of God' is a place where the cognitions of good and truth exist, 'Bethel' accordingly means, in the proximate sense, those cognitions, as shown in 1453. But because interior degrees are enveloped by and terminate in the parts which constitute the ultimate degree of order where they come together and so to speak inhabit the same house, and because man's natural is the ultimate degree, enveloping interior ones, 'Bethel' or the house of God therefore means, strictly speaking, the Natural, 3729, 4089, and in particular the good there. For 'a house' in the internal sense means good, 2233, 2234, 3720, 3729. It is also within the natural or the ultimate degree of order that cognitions exist.

[2] The reason why 'going up' means a raising up towards more interior aspects is that things which are interior are spoken of as those that are higher, 2148, and therefore when the subject in the internal sense is an advance towards things that are more interior the expression 'going up' is used. Examples of this usage are, going up from Egypt to the land of Canaan; going up into the interior parts of the land of Canaan itself; going up from any part there to Jerusalem; and when in Jerusalem itself, going up to the house of God there. Going up from Egypt to the land of Canaan is referred to in Moses,

Pharaoh said to Joseph, Go up and bury your father. And Joseph went up. And there went up with him all Pharaoh's servants. And there went up with him chariot and horseman. Genesis 50:6-9.

And in the Book of Judges,

The angel of Jehovah went up from Gilgal to Bochim, and he said, I caused you to go up out of Egypt. Judges 2:1.

In the internal sense 'Egypt' means factual knowledge which helps people to have some conception of things belonging to the Lord's kingdom, while 'the land of Canaan' means the Lord's kingdom. And because facts are lower, or what amounts to the same, exterior, while things belonging to the Lord's kingdom are higher, or what amounts to the same, interior, the Word therefore speaks of 'going up' from Egypt to the land of Canaan, or - when travelling in the opposite direction - of 'going down' from the land of Canaan to Egypt, as in Genesis 42:2-3; 43:4-5, 15; and elsewhere.

[3] Going up into the interior parts of the land of Canaan itself is spoken of in Joshua,

Joshua said, Go up and spy out the land. And the men went up and spied out Ai, and they resumed to Joshua and said to him, Do not let all the people go up; let about 2000 men or about 3000 men go up. Therefore there went up of the people about 3000 men. Joshua 7:2-4.

Because 'the land of Canaan' means the Lord's kingdom, parts further in from its border regions meant things that are interior; hence the use in this quotation of the verb 'to go up'. The same is true of Jerusalem in relation to all the regions surrounding it, and of the house of God in relation to Jerusalem within which it stood, 1 Kings 12:27-28; 2 Kings 20:5, 8; Matthew 20:18; Mark 10:33; Luke 18:31; and in many other places besides these. For Jerusalem was the inmost part of the land because the Lord's spiritual kingdom was meant by it, and the house of God was the inmost part of Jerusalem because the Lord's celestial kingdom, and in the highest sense the Lord Himself were meant by it. This is why one speaks of 'going up' to these places. From all this one can see what is meant by 'rise up, go up to Bethel', namely that 'going up' means an advance towards things that are more interior, the subject dealt with in the present chapter, [see] 4536.

  
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