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Lamentations 1

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1 [Aleph.] Comment est-il arrivé que la ville si peuplée se trouve si solitaire? que celle qui était grande entre les nations est devenue comme veuve? que celle qui était Dame entre les Provinces a été rendue tributaire?

2 [Beth.] Elle ne cesse de pleurer pendant la nuit, et ses larmes sont sur ses joues; il n'y a pas un de tous ses amis qui la console; ses intimes amis ont agi perfidement contre elle, ils sont devenus ses ennemis.

3 [Guimel.] La Judée a été emmenée captive tant elle est affligée, et tant est grande sa servitude; elle demeure maintenant entre les nations, et ne trouve point de repos; tous ses persécuteurs l'ont attrapée entre ses détroits.

4 [Daleth.] Les chemins de Sion mènent deuil de ce qu'il n'y a plus personne qui vienne aux fêtes solennelles; toutes ses portes sont désolées, ses Sacrificateurs sanglotent, ses vierges sont accablées de tristesse; elle est remplie d'amertume.

5 [He.] Ses adversaires ont été établis pour chefs, ses ennemis ont prospéré; car l'Eternel l'a plongée dans l'affliction à cause de la multitude de ses crimes, ses petits enfants ont marché captifs devant l'adversaire;

6 [Vau.] Et tout l'honneur de la fille de Sion s'est retiré d'elle; ses principaux sont devenus semblables à des cerfs qui ne trouvent point de pâture, et ils ont marché destitués de force, devant celui qui [les] poursuivait.

7 [Zajin.] Jérusalem dans les jours de son affliction et de son pauvre état s’est souvenue de toutes ses choses désirables qu’elle avait depuis si longtemps, lorsque son peuple est tombé par la main de l’ennemi, sans qu’aucun la secourût; les ennemis l’ont vue, et se sont moqués de ses sabbats.

8 [Heth.] Jérusalem a grièvement péché; c'est pourquoi on a branlé la tête contre elle; tous ceux qui l'honoraient l'ont méprisée, parce qu'ils ont vu son ignominie; elle en a aussi sangloté, et s'est retournée en arrière.

9 [Teth.] Sa souillure était dans les pans de sa robe, [et] elle ne s'est point souvenue de sa fin; elle a été extraordinairement abaissée, et elle n'a point de consolateur. Regarde, ô Eternel! mon affliction, car l'ennemi s'est élevé [avec orgueil].

10 [Jod.] L'ennemi a étendu sa main sur toutes ses choses désirables; car elle a vu entrer dans son Sanctuaire les nations au sujet desquelles tu avais donné cet ordre : Elles n'entreront point dans ton assemblée.

11 [Caph.] Tout son peuple sanglote, cherchant du pain; ils ont donné leurs choses désirables pour des aliments, afin de se faire revenir le cœur; regarde, ô Eternel! et contemple; car je suis devenue méprisée.

12 [Lamed.] Cela ne vous touche-t-il point? Vous tous passants, contemplez, et voyez s'il y a une douleur, comme ma douleur, qui m'a été faite, à moi que l'Eternel a accablée de douleur au jour de l'ardeur de sa colère.

13 [Mem.] Il a envoyé d'en haut le feu dans mes os, lequel les a tous gagnés; il a tendu un rets à mes pieds, et m'a fait aller en arrière; il m'a rendue désolée [et] languissante pendant tout le jour.

14 [Nun.] Le joug de mes iniquités est tenu serré par sa main; ils sont entortillés, [et] appliqués sur mon cou; il a fait déchoir ma force; le Seigneur m’a livrée entre les mains [de ceux] dont je ne pourrai point me relever.

15 [Samech.] Le Seigneur a abattu tous les [hommes] forts que j'avais au milieu de moi; il a appelé contre moi ses gens assignés, pour mettre en pièces mes gens d'élite. Le Seigneur a tiré le pressoir sur la vierge de la fille de Juda.

16 [Hajin.] A cause de ces choses je pleure, [et] mon œil, mon œil se fond en eau; car le consolateur qui me faisait revenir le cœur est loin de moi; mes enfants sont désolés, parce que l'ennemi a été le plus fort.

17 [Pe.] Sion se déchire de ses mains, et personne ne la console; l'Eternel a mandé contre Jacob ses ennemis à l'entour de lui; Jérusalem est devenue entre eux, comme une femme séparée à cause de sa souillure.

18 [Tsadi.] L'Eternel est juste, car je me suis rebellée contre son commandement. Ecoutez, je vous prie, vous tous peuples, et regardez ma douleur; mes vierges et mes gens d'élite sont allés en captivité.

19 [Koph.] J'ai appelé mes amis, mais ils m'ont trompée. Mes Sacrificateurs, et mes Anciens sont morts dans la ville; car ils ont cherché à manger pour eux, afin de se faire revenir le cœur.

20 [Resch.] Regarde, ô Eternel! car je suis dans la détresse; mes entrailles bruient, mon cœur palpite au dedans de moi, parce que je n'ai fait qu'être rebelle; au dehors l’épée m’a privée d’enfants; au dedans il y a comme la mort.

21 [Scin.] On m'a ouïe sangloter, [et] je n'ai personne qui me console; tous mes ennemis ont appris mon malheur, et s’en sont réjouis, parce que tu l’as fait; tu amèneras le jour que tu as assigné, et ils seront dans mon état.

22 [Thau.] Que toute leur malice vienne en ta présence, et fais-leur comme tu m'as fait à cause de tous mes péchés; car mes sanglots sont en grand nombre, et mon cœur est languissant.

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'The neck' signifies influx and the communication of interior and exterior levels and their conjunction. The inmost or third heaven has reference to the head and the middle or second heaven has reference to the body. Therefore, because it is in the middle, 'the neck' signifies influx, and the communication of celestial things with spiritual things.

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3603. 'That you will break his yoke from above your neck' means that good would now be the means through which any joining together was effected - and that truth would be the truth of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'breaking the yoke from above the neck' as release. For 'the neck' means influx and communication and consequently a joining together, while 'a yoke above the neck' means a blocking and cutting off, see 3542; so that 'breaking the yoke from above the neck' means release from such blocking and cutting off, and consequently a joining together through good. It also means that truth becomes the truth of good, for when there is no longer any blocking or cutting off, good flows in and joins itself to truth.

[2] What is implied in all this may be seen from what has been stated and shown so far. But because few understand what is meant by the apparent priority of truth, and by the inferiority for the time being of good - the chief reason for their not understanding being that few stop to reflect on such matters, indeed they do not even reflect on the idea that good is distinct and separate from truth - [let some explanation be offered here]. None of those who pursue a life of self-love and love of the world are aware of what good is, for they do not believe in the existence of any other kind of good than that which is a product of that life. And being unaware of what good is they are also unaware of what truth is, for truth is the companion of good. They do, it is true, know from revelation that good consists in loving God and the neighbour, and truth in matters of doctrine drawn from the Word. But because they do not live according to those things they have no perception of that good and truth; for these are known to them but are not actually present in them. Indeed even those persons who are in the process of being regenerated do not know what good is until they have been regenerated. For prior to their regeneration they have supposed that truth is good and that acting in accordance with truth is good, when in fact it is not good that they are doing at that time but truth. While a person is passing through this state he is passing through that state which is described as Jacob and the blessing conferred on him. But once he passes on into the state in which he performs a good action from an affection for good, that is, once he has been regenerated, he passes into that state which is described in the blessing conferred on Esau.

[3] This may be illustrated from what happens to a person in the first and second stages of life, and after that in the third and fourth stages. During the first stage nothing more than his memory is involved in his knowing things in the Word and likewise matters of doctrine regarding faith. During this stage also he believes he is good when he knows many things from the Word and from doctrine and is able to apply some of them not to his own life but to the lives of others. During the second stage when he is more grown up he is not content to know only with his memory things in the Word and matters of doctrine but now begins to reflect on these with his own ability to think, and insofar as he adds anything to these from his own thought he is pleased by it. Consequently he is moved by an affection for truth which originates in some worldly love, which is also a means to his learning further things which would be neglected by him but for that worldly love. During the third stage however, if he is among such people as are able to be regenerated he starts to think about use, and in that case to reflect on what he reads in the Word and absorbs from doctrine for the sake of the use these serve. While he is passing through this state order is reversed; that is to say, truth is no longer placed first quite so much. But during the fourth stage, when it is the stage of his regeneration, because now the state is complete, dealt with in 2636, he loves the Word and matters of doctrine drawn from the Word - that is, he loves truth - for the sake of the good of life, and therefore loves them from a desire for the good of life. Thus good, which up to that time has apparently taken second place, now comes to occupy the first.

[4] The reason why good has apparently taken second place is that it has lain concealed inmostly within the person's entire affection. Nor has it been able to show itself because it has been surrounded by such things as those with which it could not accord, that is to say, by vain and worthless things like those that constitute worldly glory and self-glory. But once he has been regenerated these things depart and the good that has lain inmostly comes so to speak out of prison and enters into those things which are outside, and takes truths to itself, makes them the truths of good, and in this way manifests itself.

[5] During all this time the good present with a person is something which so to speak he does not consciously will, yet is present within his will - present in every detail of his thought and consequently in every detail of his activity. He is not aware of possessing this which he does not consciously will because he does not perceive anything present with himself apart from that which is his own, that is, which he does will. That which he does not will is twofold: on the one hand there is that which he has inherited from father and mother, on the other that which flows in from the Lord by way of heaven. While a person is growing up that which he has inherited from parents manifests itself more and more, if he is such that he does not allow himself to be regenerated. For he draws on evils from his heredity and makes them properly his own. But that which is not consciously willed yet flows from the Lord by way of heaven manifests itself in adult years with those who are being regenerated. With the latter this activity has in the meantime arranged and governed every single detail of thought, and also of will, though that activity has not been apparent.

  
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