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耶利米哀歌 1

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1 先前滿有人民的城,現在何竟獨!先前在列國中為大的,現在竟如寡婦;先前在諸省中為王后的,現在成為進貢的。

2 她夜間痛哭,淚流滿腮;在一切所親的中間沒有一個安慰她的。她的朋友都以詭詐待她,成為她的仇敵。

3 猶大因遭遇苦難,又因多服勞苦就遷到外邦。她在列國中,尋不著安息;追逼她的都在狹窄之地將她追上。

4 錫安的徑因無人守聖節就悲傷;她的城淒涼;她的祭司歎息;她的處女受艱難,自己也愁苦。

5 她的敵人為首;她的仇敵亨通;因耶和華為她許多的罪過使她受苦;她的孩童被敵人擄去。

6 錫安城(原文是女子;下同)的威榮全都失去。她的首領像不著場的鹿;在追趕的人前無力行走。

7 耶路撒冷在困苦窘迫之時,就追想古時一切的樂境。她百姓落在敵人中,無人救濟;敵人見,就因她的荒涼嗤笑。

8 耶路撒冷大大犯罪,所以成為不潔之物;素來尊敬她的,見她赤露就都藐視她;她自己也歎息退後。

9 她的污穢是在衣襟上;她不思想自己的結局,所以非常地敗落,無人安慰她。她說:耶和華啊,求你我的苦難,因為仇敵誇大。

10 敵人伸,奪取她的美物;她眼見外邦人進入她的聖所─論這外邦人,你曾吩咐不可入你的會中。

11 她的民都歎息,尋求食物;他們用美物換糧食,要救性命。他們說:耶和華啊,求你觀,因為我甚是卑賤。

12 你們一切過的人哪,這事你們不介意麼?你們要觀:有像這臨到我的痛苦沒有─就是耶和華在他發烈怒的日子使我所受的苦?

13 他從使進入我的骨頭,剋制了我;他鋪下羅,絆我的,使我回;他使我終日淒涼發昏。

14 我罪過的軛是他所綁的,猶如軛繩縛在我頸項上;他使我的力量衰敗。主將我交在我所不能敵擋的人中。

15 主輕棄我中間的一切勇士,招聚多人(原文是大會)攻擊我,要壓碎我的少年人。主將猶大居民踹下,像在酒醡中一樣。

16 我因這些事哭泣;我眼淚汪汪;因為那當安慰我、救我性命的,離我甚遠。我的兒女孤苦,因為仇敵得了勝。

17 錫安舉,無人安慰耶和華雅各已經出令,使四圍的人作他仇敵;耶路撒冷在他們中間像不潔之物。

18 耶和華是公的!他這樣待我,是因我違背他的命令。眾民哪,請我的話,我的痛苦;我的處女和少年人都被擄去。

19 我招呼我所親的,他們卻愚弄我。我的祭司長老正尋求食物、救性命的時候,就在城中絕氣。

20 耶和華啊,求你觀,因為我在急難中。我腸擾亂;我在我裡面翻,因我大大悖逆。在外,刀使人喪子;在家,猶如死亡。

21 見我歎息的有人;安慰我的卻無人!我的仇敵都見我所遭的患難;因你做這事,他們都喜樂。你必使你報告的日子到,他們就像我一樣。

22 願他們的惡行都呈在你面前;你怎樣因我的一切罪過待我,求你照樣待他們;因我歎息甚多,中發昏。

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詩篇 48:3

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3 在其中,自顯為避難所。

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Arcana Coelestia # 5893

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5893. 'There have been two years of famine in the midst of the land' means states 1 when there is a lack of good in the natural mind. This is clear from the meaning of 'years' as states, dealt with in 487, 488, 493, 893; from the meaning of 'famine' as a lack of good (for 'bread' in the spiritual sense is the good of love, and 'food' is the good of truth, so that 'famine' or 'hunger' is a lack of good, while 'thirst' is a lack of truth); and from the meaning of 'in the midst of the land' - the land of Egypt - as the natural mind, dealt with in 5276, 5278, 5280, 5288, 5301. The expression 'in the midst' is used because the midst or middle is the inmost part, 1074, 2940, 2973. Where good resides. 'Two years' are states when good and truth exist joined together, since 'two' means a joining together, 5194; but in the present use of the expression a joining together that has not yet been effected is meant since they are 'two years of famine'.

[2] The implications of this are as follows: Truths must be present in the natural mind if good is to do its work, and those truths must be brought into it through an affection belonging to genuine love. Everything without exception in a person's memory has been brought into it through some love, and having become joined to that love remains in the memory. This also applies to the truths of faith; if they have been brought in through a love of truth, those truths become joined to and remain there with that love. Once they have become joined to it the following is then the situation: If the affection is evoked again, the truths that have been joined to it reappear at the same time; and if the truths are evoked again, the affection to which they have been joined reappears at the same time. This being so, when a person is being regenerated - which happens in adult life because he is unable before this to think for himself about the truths of faith - he is governed by angels sent by the Lord. They govern him by maintaining in him the truths which he has become convinced are truths, and by maintaining in him through those truths the affection to which they have been joined. And because that affection - an affection for truth - has its origin in good, he is then led step by step towards good.

[3] A considerable amount of experience has proved the truth of this to me. For I have noticed that when evil spirits have thrust evils and falsities at me, the angels from the Lord present at the time have maintained in me the truths implanted in me previously and have thereby withheld me from those evils and falsities. From this it has also been evident that the truths of faith which, through an affection for truth, have become rooted in me serve as a level into which angels can operate, so that people who do not have this level laid down in them cannot be led by angels but allow themselves to be led by hell. For without it the operation of the angels cannot become established anywhere and so passes away from them. That level for angels to operate into cannot however be acquired unless the truths of faith have been put into service and thus have been implanted in the person's will and through this in his life. It is also worth mentioning that when the operation of the angels into the truths of faith present with a person takes place, it is rarely plain to see, that is to say, so plain that thought about the truth operated into is aroused. Rather, a general notion of things in keeping with that truth, and the affection that goes with it, is produced. For that operation by the angels is effected by means of an imperceptible inflowing which, when a visual presentation of it is made, looks like an inflowing beam of light. That light is made up of countless truths present within good which focus on one particular truth known by a person and which, while they sustain the truth in him, also sustain the love that belongs to that truth. This is the way the angels raise a person's mind above falsities and protect it from evils. Yet the person is totally unaware of any of this.

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1. a state is probably intended here, cp 5891

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