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Nahum 3

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1 Woe to the city of bloods*! All of her is full of denial* and rapine; the prey departs not;

2 the voice of a whip, and the voice of the quaking of the wheels, and of the trotting horses, and of the skipping chariots.

3 The horseman makes both the flame of the sword and the lightning of the spear to go·​·up; and there is a multitude of slain, and a heavy heap of corpses, and no end of bodies—they stumble on their bodies

4 from the multitude of the harlotries of the harlot of good grace*, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations by her harlotries, and families by her sorceries.

5 Behold, I am against thee, says Jehovah of Armies; and I will reveal thy skirts on thy faces, and I will cause nations to see thy nakedness, and kingdoms thy disgrace.

6 And I will cast detestable things on thee, and disparage thee, and will set thee as something to·​·see.

7 And it shall be, that all they who see thee shall flee·​·away from thee, and say, Nineveh is devastated; who will be·​·sorry for her? Whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

8 Art· thou ·better than No of Amon, that was sitting on the rivers, with the waters all around her, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?

9 Cush was her strength*, and Egypt, and there was no end of them; Put and Lubim were thy help.

10 Yet even she was exiled, she went into captivity; even her babes were dashed at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots upon her honored ones, and all her great ones were chained in shackles.

11 Thou also shalt be·​·drunken; thou shalt be hidden; thou also shalt seek a stronghold away from the enemy.

12 All thy fortresses shall be like fig·​·trees with the firstfruits: if swayed, then they shall fall on the mouth of the eater.

13 Behold, thy people in the midst·​·of thee are women; the gates of thy land opening shall be opened to thine enemies; the fire shall eat·​·up thy bars.

14 Draw for thyself waters for the siege; make·​·firm thy fortifications; come into the mud and trample the clay; repair the brickkiln.

15 There shall the fire eat· thee ·up; the sword shall cut· thee ·off; it shall eat· thee ·up as the grub. Multiply thyself as the grub! Multiply thyself as the locust!

16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the grub strips, and flies away.*

17 Thy crowned are as the locust, and thine emperors as the locust of locusts, which camp in the fences in the day of cold, but the sun rises and they flee·​·away, and their place is not known where they are.

18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy magnificent ones shall inhabit the dust; thy people are spread·​·out on the mountains, and no·​·one brings· them ·together.

19 There is no scar for healing* thy breaking; thy blow is desperate*; all who hear the rumor of thee shall clap the palm of the hands against thee, for upon whom has not thine evil passed continually?

   


Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

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In Exodus 26:26, this signifies the power of truth from good, as found in the good of merit, which is the Lord's alone. (Arcana Coelestia 9662)

In Exodus 26:28, this signifies the power of truth looking toward the interiors which are in light and also to the exteriors where truth is obscure. (Arcana Coelestia 9663, 9664)

In Exodus 26:29, this signifies the primary power of good from which all other powers are extended. (Arcana Coelestia 9666)

Bars, as in Lamentations 2:9, signify doctrinal teachings.

(Referencat: Arcana Coelestia 402)

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Arcana Coelestia #1850

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1850. That 'will I judge' means visitation and judgement becomes clear without explanation. Judging or judgement does not mean some last judgement, as most people suppose, that is to say, a time when heaven and earth are to pass away and then a new heaven and a new earth are to be created, as described in the Prophets and in the Book of Revelation, and thus a time when all things are to be destroyed. This conception has become so widespread that it has taken possession of even the best-informed minds, so much so that they do not believe the dead are to rise again until that time. As a consequence because that time has been foretold and yet after the passing of so many centuries since the prediction was made they do not see it happening or about to do so, they feel safe in confirming themselves in their assurance that there is no truth in the idea, thus that they are not going to rise again. But it should be recognized that no such thing is meant by the Last Judgement, that is, by the prediction that heaven and earth are to be destroyed. According to the sense of the letter that is indeed the meaning, but not according to the internal sense. By the Last Judgement, according to the internal sense, is meant the final period of the Church, and by heaven and earth's passing away is meant the Church as regards internal and external worship - a Church that ceases to be a Church when no charity exists.

[2] A Last Judgement of the Most Ancient Church took place when all charity and faith were at an end and when no perception existed, as was the situation just before the Flood. The Flood itself, which has been dealt with above, was the Last Judgement of that Church. At that point heaven and earth, that is, the Church, passed away, and a new heaven and a new earth, that is, a new Church called the Ancient Church, was created, which too has been dealt with. This Church as well had its final period, namely when all charity was growing cold and all faith was being blacked out. This was about the time of Eber. This period was the Last Judgement of that Church, which was the heaven and earth that passed away.

[3] The new heaven and the new earth was the Hebrew Church. This too had its final period or Last Judgement when it had become idolatrous. A new Church was as a consequence established, and this was accomplished among the descendants of Jacob. That which was called the Jewish Church was nothing other than a Church representative of charity and faith. In that Church, that is, among the descendants of Jacob, no charity or faith existed, and therefore no Church existed but merely the representative of a Church. This was so because direct communication of the Lord's kingdom in the heavens with any true Church on earth was not possible, and therefore an indirect communication by means of representatives was effected. The last period or Last Judgement of this so-called Church was when the Lord came into the world, for at that time representatives came to an end, that is to say, the sacrifices and similar practices did so; and to bring these to an end the Jews were expelled from the land of Canaan.

[4] After this a new heaven and a new earth were created, namely a new Church which must be called the Primitive Church, which was begun by the Lord and after that gradually grew stronger, and which at first possessed charity and faith. The destruction of this Church is foretold by the Lord in the Gospels and by John in the Book of Revelation, and it is this destruction which is called the Last Judgement. Not that heaven and earth are now going to pass away but that a new Church will be raised up in some part of the world, while the present one continues in existence with its external worship just as the Jews do with theirs. As is quite well known, their worship includes no charity or faith at all, that is, nothing of the Church. So much for the Last Judgement in general.

[5] In particular there is a last judgement for everyone immediately after he has died, for at this point he passes over into the next life, in which, once he has entered into the life that was his in the body, he undergoes a judgement that points either to death or to life. This last judgement involves every detail of the person. With him whose judgement is to death every single detail condemns him, for there is nothing in his thought and will, not the smallest thing, that does not show the same as his individual last judgement or draw him towards death. But with him whose judgement is to life, every single detail of his thought or will in a similar way possesses the image of his individual last judgement and bears him towards life. For as is the person in general, so is he in every detail of his thought and affection. These are the things meant by the Last Judgement.

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