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Mika 7

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1 Ve mig! For det er gått mig som når sommerfrukten er innsamlet, som når eftersankingen efter vinhøsten er til ende: det er ingen drue å ete, ingen tidlig fiken som jeg har lyst til.

2 Den fromme er blitt borte fra jorden, og det finnes ikke en ærlig mann blandt menneskene; alle sammen lurer de efter blod, hver mann vil fange sin bror i sitt garn.

3 Med begge hender arbeider de på å få det onde til å synes godt; fyrsten krever, og dommeren er villig mot betaling, og stormannen sier hvad han ønsker, og således forvender de retten.

4 Den beste av dem er som en tornebusk, den ærligste verre enn en tornehekk; dine vekteres dag*, din hjemsøkelse kommer, da blir de rådville. / {* den dag profetene har forut forkynt.}

5 Tro ikke på nogen som står dig nær, sett ikke lit til nogen venn! For henne som ligger ved din barm, må du vokte din munns dører!

6 For en sønn forakter sin far, en datter setter sig op imot sin mor, en svigerdatter mot sin svigermor; en manns husfolk er hans fiender.

7 Men jeg vil skue ut efter Herren, bie på min frelses Gud; min Gud vil høre mig.

8 Gled eder ikke over mig, I mine fiender! Når jeg er falt, står jeg op igjen; når jeg sitter i mørket, er Herren lys for mig.

9 Herrens vrede vil jeg bære, for jeg har syndet mot ham - inntil han fører min sak og hjelper mig til min rett; han skal føre mig ut i lyset, jeg skal se med fryd på hans rettferdighet.

10 Og mine fiender skal se det, og skam skal dekke dem som sier til mig: Hvor er han, Herren din Gud? Mine øine skal se med fryd på dem, for da skal de bli trådt ned som skarn på gatene.

11 Det kommer en dag da dine murer skal bygges op igjen; den dag skal dine grenser flyttes langt ut.

12 På den dag skal de komme til dig like fra Assur og Egyptens byer og fra Egypten like til elven og fra hav til hav og fra fjell til fjell*. / {* d.e. fra alle land, enten de ligger mellem hav eller fjell.}

13 Men landet skal [først] bli øde for sine innbyggeres skyld - for deres gjerningers skyld.

14 Vokt ditt folk med din stav, den hjord som er din arv, som bor for sig selv i en skog på Karmel! La dem beite i Basan og Gilead, som i gamle dager!

15 Som i de dager da du drog ut av Egyptens land, vil jeg la dig få se underfulle ting.

16 Hedningefolk skal se det og skamme sig ved alt sitt velde; de skal legge hånden på sin munn, deres ører skal bli døve.

17 De skal slikke støv som ormen; som jordens kryp skal de gå bevende frem av sine borger; til Herren vår Gud skal de komme skjelvende og frykte for dig.

18 Hvem er en Gud som du, en Gud som tar bort misgjerning og går overtredelse forbi for dem som er tilbake av hans arv? Han holder ikke til evig tid fast ved sin vrede, for han har lyst til miskunnhet.

19 Han skal igjen forbarme sig over oss, han skal trede våre misgjerninger under føtter. Du skal kaste alle deres synder i havets dyp.

20 Du skal vise Jakob trofasthet, Abraham miskunnhet, som du har svoret våre fedre fra fordums dager.

   

Okususelwe Emisebenzini kaSwedenborg

 

Apocalypse Revealed #383

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Yiya esigabeni / 962  
  

383. "For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them." (7:17) This symbolically means that the Lord alone will teach them.

The Lamb in the midst of the throne symbolizes the Lord in respect to His Divine humanity in the inmost of heaven and thus in everything connected with it (no. 44). The throne is heaven (no. 14), and the Lamb is the Lord in respect to His Divine humanity (nos. 269, 291). And He who is in the inmost of heaven and thus in everything connected with it is the only one who shepherds all people, that is, who teaches them.

If a question is raised as to how He alone can shepherd all, be it known that it is because He is God, and because He is present in the whole of heaven like the soul in its body; for heaven, arising from Him, is like a single person.

To shepherd means to teach because in the Word the church is called a flock, and the people in the church are called sheep and lambs. Therefore to shepherd means, symbolically, to teach, and the shepherd one who teaches, and this in many places, as for example:

On that day your flocks will graze in a broad meadow. (Isaiah 33:23)

He will feed His flock like a shepherd. (Isaiah 40:11)

They shall graze along the roads, and have their pasture on all the hillsides. (Isaiah 49:9)

(Israel) shall graze on Carmel and Bashan. (Jeremiah 50:19)

...I will seek out My sheep... I will feed them in good pasture, and... in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. (Ezekiel 34:12-14)

You, Bethlehem Ephrathah, it is a small thing that you are among the thousands of Judah. Out of you shall come forth to Me One who will be Ruler in Israel... He shall stand and graze in the strength of Jehovah... (Micah 5:2, 4)

Feed Your people... Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead... (Micah 7:14)

The remnant of Israel... shall graze and lie down... (Zephaniah 3:13)

Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in pastures of tender grass. (Psalms 23:1-2)

(The Lord) chose David... to shepherd Jacob... and Israel... and he shepherded them... (Psalms 78:70-72)

Jesus said to Peter, "Feed My lambs." And a second and third time He said, "Feed my sheep." (John 21:15-17)

  
Yiya esigabeni / 962  
  

Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Revelation 7

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1 After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.

2 I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,

3 saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!"

4 I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:

5 of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand, of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand, of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,

6 of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand, of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand,

7 of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,

8 of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.

9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"

11 All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his throne, and worshiped God,

12 saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen."

13 One of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are arrayed in white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?"

14 I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood.

15 Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.

16 They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat;

17 for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."