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THE LIBRARIES
GIVEN BY
Mrs. Eby
COMMENTARY ON THE
PSALMS
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Commentary ON THE
PSALMS COMPILED FROM THE
THEOLOGICAL WORKS OF
Emanuel Swedenborg BY
The Rev. Robert
S.
Fischer
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THE MASSACHUSETTS NEW-CHURCH UNION 1910
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Mrs. Eby
Apr. 5, ,1939
Copyright, 1910,
by Horace Parker Chandler, Warren Goddard,
James
Everett
Young
{Trustees).
PREFACE
111
PREFACE. This Commentary, the third of the series, is like the pre("Commentary on Matthew" and "Commentary on John," by the same author) drawn entirely from the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. For vious volumes
every passage of the Psalms which ferred to,
cases where
making
that he has written
all
the
is
is
therein quoted or re-
given, except in isolated
abridgments have been necessary
Commentary
for topical reading.
to
avoid
too bulky for ready reference, or
Reiterations of the
have been avoided by a reference
same statements
to preceding chapters
and
verses.
The
treatise "
Summary Exand Psalms" which relates to the Psalms is embodied in this Commentary and appears under the indicative letters P. P. at the verses to which it belongs. This work throws new light upon many portions of the Book entire part of
Swedenborg's
position of Prophets
of Psalms.
In the " Doctrine concerning the Lord," No.
Swedenborg writes about
it:
has been granted to
me
that
it
"It to go
37,
maybe
well to mention
through
all
the Prophets
and the Psalms of David, and to examine each verse singly and to see what is there treated of. It has been seen that nothing
else is treated of
but the church established and to
be established by the Lord, the Lord's advent, His combats, glorification,
redemption and salvation, and heaven from
Him; and at the same time their opposites." The division into verses is that adopted in Schmidt's Hebrew Latin Bible, published in 1740, which Swedenborg
PREFACE
IV
generally used,
and which
is
same as
the
Le Boys des
in
Guays' General Index, and other similar works. In these the introductory words which for some Psalms occur in the
Hebrew number
are counted as a verse. of the text issued
Where
it
occurs, the verse
by the American Revision Com-
mittee can be found by going one verse back.
understanding verse
is
is
possible as the context always
No
mis-
shows which
meant.
It is needless to repeat
to previous
what has been
said in the preface
volumes about the unique use of
ance, as that
is
now
well established.
Cincinnati, Ohio, April, 1910.
this
Concord-
ABBREVIATIONS OF TITLES
OF
SWEDENBORG'S WRITINGS
VI
ABBREVIATIONS
ABBREVIATIONS OF TITLES OF
SWEDENBORG'S WRITINGS. A
Arcana
B
Brief Exposition of the Doctrine of the
C
Doctrine of Charity.
E F
Apocalypse Explained.
H
Heaven and
Hell.
I
Intercourse
between the
New
Ccelestia.
Church.
Doctrine concerning Faith.
Soul
and the
Body. J
Last Judgment.
L
Doctrine concerning the Lord.
M
Conjugial Love.
N
The New Jerusalem and
its
Heavenly
Doctrine.
p
Divine Providence.
Answers
to
Nine Questions.
R
Apocalypse Revealed.
g
Doctrine concerning the Sacred Scripture.
X
True Christian Religion.
U
Earths in the Universe.
W
Divine Love and Wisdom.
Ath Can
Athanasian Creed.
Canons
of the
New
Church.
ABBREVIATIONS
Vll
C. J Coro
Continuation Last Judgment.
De Dom
De Domino. De Justificatione.
Coronis.
D. J D. L D. P D. V Ind
Index of the Memorabilia.
Inv.
Invitatio
J.
Dicta Probantia.
De
P
Verbo.
ad
De Ultimo
Post
Life
P.
Divine Love.
.
Novam
Ecclesiam.
Judicio.
Doctrine of Life.
#
Summary
Exposition Prophets and Psalms.
W. H
White Horse.
Wis
Divine Wisdom.
Et seq
And
following.
THE
BOOK OF PSALMS. PSALM i.
I.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners,
Nor
sitteth in the seat of scoffers:
2.
But
his delight
3.
And on And he
is in the law of Jehovah; law doth he meditate day and night. shall be like a tree planted by the streams of
his
water,
That bringeth
Whose 4.
5.
its fruit
its
season,
sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous; But the way of the wicked shall perish.
Psalm 1.
in
doth not wither; And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor 6.
forth
leaf also
I.
To walk, to stand, and to sit are here mentioned, because one follows another, for to walk is expressive of the life of the thought from intention, to stand is expressive of the life of the intention life
from the will, and to "Esse" of the life.
of the wall, thus of the
also of
which walking
is
sit
of the
Counsel
predicated refers to the thought,
PSALM
2
way of which standing is
I.
predicated refers to intention, and
to sit in a seat refers to the will,
man's
is
the " Esse" of a
E. 687.
The man who doth
1-3.
which
life.
not live wickedly
is
regenerated
by the Word of the Lord. P. P. The law of Jehovah is the books of Moses, for the prophetic books were not yet written, nor the historic except those of Joshua and Judges. A. 6752. That a tree signifies a man is evident from the follow2, 3. ing passages of the Word: Ezekiel xvii. 24: Jeremiah xvii. 8: Psalm cxlviii. 9: Matthew iii. 10; etc. T. 468. That a leaf signifies truth is evident from many passages 3. in the Word where man is compared to a tree, or is called a tree, and where fruits signify the goods of charity, and a 2.
A. 885.
leaf truth therefrom.
W aters in the internal sense of the Word signify truths. T
A. 2702.
By
a tree
man
and because man is man the will, and from perception
is signified;
from affection which is of which is of the understanding, therefore these also are There is also a correspondence besignified by a tree. tween a man and a tree, on which account there appear in heaven paradises of trees which correspond to the affections R. 400. and thence to the perceptions of the angels. Rational truths are signified by leaves, because by all the parts of a tree are signified corresponding things in
man. With those who are in the goods of love and at the same time in the truths of wisdom there appear (in .
.
.
the spiritual world)
fruitbearing trees,
with R. 936.
luxuriant
beautiful leaves.
Trees in general signify such things as belong to man, leaves signify the truths belonging to him,
and
fruits the
E. 109.
goods.
Man
is
like a tree
which
first
grows from a seed into a
shoot, and when it increases in height emits branches, and from these boughs, and clothes itself continually with
leaves
.
.
.
such a tree
is
described.
Coro.
7.
PSALM But he judgment.
4, 5.
6.
who
lives
II.
wickedly perishes on the day of P. P.
For the Lord knows everyone.
PSALM 1.
Why And
2.
The
3
P. P.
II.
do the nations rage, the peoples meditate a vain thing? kings of the earth set themselves,
And
the rulers take counsel together, Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bonds asunder, And cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh:
The Lord will have them in derision. Then will he speak unto them in his wrath, And vex them in his sore displeasure: Yet
I
I will
8.
set my king holy hill of Zion. of the decree:
have
Upon my tell
Jehovah said unto me, Thou art my son; This day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations
for thine
inheritance,
9.
10.
And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Now Be
11.
12.
therefore be wise,
O
ye kings:
instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Serve Jehovah with fear, And rejoice with trembling, Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all they that take refuge in him.
PSALM
II.
Psalm
II.
Those who should be in the truths and goods of the church are against the Lord; P. P. The Lord was conceived of the Divine itself, and i, 2, 6. was afterwards born of that. Hence it is that He was not only conceived, but was also born of Jehovah. i, 2.
Ath.,
Page
39.
1,2, 6, 7, 8, 12. By the Anointed of Jehovah is here understood the Lord as to the Divine Human. These things
by understood the Lord as to Divine
in the sense of the letter are said concerning David, but
David
Word
in the
truth, or as King.
treated of
is
It is also evident that the subject
here
concerning the advent of the Lord, and in
is
judgment accomplished by Him, and afterwards concerning His Kingdom over all particular concerning the last
things of the world.
cealed
and are
The
spiritual things
which
lie
con-
signified in the particulars of these passages
made a tumult, and the people meditated vanity signify the state of the church and of the
are these; the nations
former heavens, that for those
in falses.
it
was
to pass
away, nations standing
who are in evil, and the people for those who are The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers
consulted
together
against
and against His
Jehovah,
Anointed, signifies the falses of the church and the
evils
thereof, as being altogether against the Divine
good and
The
kings of
the Divine truth, thus against the Lord.
and the rulers the Lord as to the
the earth stand for the falses of the church, the evils thereof.
Jehovah stands
for
essential Divine, thus as to the Divine good.
Anointed
Human,
thus as to
stands for the
Divine truth.
mountain
of
Lord I
my
as to the Divine
have anointed
my King upon
holiness, signifies the
human
Zion, the
of the
as to Divine truth proceeding
from the Divine good
Divine love, and thence His
Kingdom
over
all
Lord
of His
things of
PSALM
II.
5
heaven and the church. Zion and the mountain of holiness stand for heaven and the church, consequently for things appertaining thereto.
all
I will tell of the statute, sig-
an arcanum of the Divine will and providence. Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee, signifies the Lord as the Anointed, Mesnifies
and King, thus as to His human conceived and afterwards born of His essential Divine or Jehovah. To-day signifies a statute from eternity and thence refers to the conjunction and union accomplished in time. Ask of me, and I will give the nations for thine inheritance, and the encls of the earth for^thy possession, signifies His kingdom and dominion over all things of heaven and the church, which shall be His. Kiss the Son, signifies conjunction with the Lord by love, to kiss stands for conjunction from love. Lest He be angry and ye perish in the way, signifies lest evils invade you and ye be condemned, for to be angry when it is said of the Lord signifies the aversion or turning away of men from Him, consequently their anger and not the Lord's, and evils are the things which avert themselves and afterwards are angry. Besiah, Christ
cause His anger will kindle shortly, signifies the last judg-
ment and casting
of the evil into hell.
Blessed are
all
they that confide in Him, signifies salvation by love and faith in, the Lord. 2.
E. 684.
As Christ and Messiah are the same, and as Christ in Greek and Messiah in Hebrew signify Anointed, it is evident that Christ is the same as Anointed, and likewise the same as King, for kings in general were called the anointed. A. 3008.
Dominion is predicated of good, because from good the Lord is called Lord, and kingdom is predicated of truth, because from this the Lord is called King. So likewise as applied to
The
rulers
Anointed.
men
in David.
take counsel against
E. 685. the
Lord and His D. P., Page 63.
PSALM
6 2-12.
His anger
will shortly
II.
burn
Among
2, 6.
D.
the ancients,
when
judg-
signifies the last
ment from Him. all
P.,
Page
external worship
58.
was
performed by representatives, namely by such things as represented the interior principles which are of faith and of love
from the Lord and
to
Him, thus which are Divine,
anointing was instituted for the reason that
oil,
by which
anointing was performed, signified the good of love.
The
A. 9954. kings of the earth stand for falses, and the rulers
for evils
which are from the
when He was
hells,
against which the Lord,
in the world, fought
and which He con-
quered and subdued. The Anointed of Jehovah is the Lord as to the Divine Human, for from that He fought.
Zion the mountain of holiness, over which He is said to be anointed for a king, is the celestial kingdom, which is the good of love, and which is the inmost of heaven and the
inmost of the church.
A. 9954.
The reason why anointing of holiness was commanded is because oil good of love, and represented the Lord, who
Oil signifies celestial good.
with the
oil
signified the
as to His
Human
is
the very
Jehovah, anointed not with itself of the Divine love.
oil,
and the only Anointed of but with the Divine good R. 779.
They afterwards anointed kings and they were called The reason why kings were the anointed of Jehovah. anointed was that they might represent the Lord as to E. 375. judgment from Divine truth. The Lord is also understood by the Anointed of Je-
hovah. 2, 6, 7, 8,
3, 4.
See also A. 9954. 12. Verses quoted.
But men
cause they are nothing before the Lord, 5.
and
6.
By
will
be destroyed.
virtue of truths
mountain of
E. 375.
D. P., Page 58. should separate themselves from these, be-
holiness.
P. P. P. P.
from the Lord Zion was called the R. 586.
PSALM The Lord
6, 7, 8.
the church,
Now
will
II.
put on the
7
Human and will establish P. P.
.
some passages concerning the coming of the Lord, collected from the prophecies of the Old Word. Psalm xl. 7: Genesis iii. 14, 15, etc. Coro. 60. 6-8, 12. To these may be added some passages which speak more openly of the coming of the Lord. See also Isaiah vii. 14: Matthew i. 22, 23: Daniel vii. 13, etc. 6-12.
follow
That heaven and worshipped are
the church where the
signified
by mount Zion,
L.
6.
Lord alone
is
may
be evident. R. 612.
Mount Zion
heaven and the church where the Lord reigns by His Divine truth. To announce concerning the statute (decree) signifies His advent. Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee, signifies the Divine Human, which is also the Son of God. That He hath all power in the heavens and in the earth is understood by verse 8. That there must be conjunction with Him by love in order to salvation is signified by verse 12. The last judgment from Him is signified by, His anger will kindle shortly. They shall be saved who have faith in Him is signified by, happy are all they who put their trust signifies
Him. E. 850. To-day manifestly stands for eternity. A. 2838. To-day denotes that the Lord's coming is present. Hence also it is that an entire period is called in the Word a day, its first state twilight and morning, and the last evening and night. R. 4. in
7.
Since God is in all time without Word He speaks of the past and
time, therefore in His of the future, in the
T. 30.
present. It
is
known
that these things are said concerning the
Lord, and that by to-day
is
understood from eternity E. 23.
Paul says in Acts refers to
Jesus.
xiii. t>3,
this
day have
I
begotten thee,
D.
P.,
Page
39.
PSALM
8
7
Thou
my
Son, this day have I begotten thee.
D. P., Page 43David concerning the Son "This day begotten thee" is not that it is from eternity but in
What have I
art
II.
is
said in
the fulness of time, for the future in 7. 12.
Neither
God
is
present, thus
Can., Page 43. a Son from eternity meant here, but the
to-day. is
Son born in the world, for this is a prophecy concerning the Lord who was coming, and therefore it is called a deThis day is cree which Jehovah announced to David. L. 19. not from eternity, but in time. Here is not meant a Son from eternity, but the Son born in the world, for it is prophetical of the Lord who was to come, wherefore it is called the decree which Jehovah deT. 101.
clared to David.
From
the foregoing
every one
who
now comes
this conclusion,
that
wishes to be truly a Christian, and to be
saved by Christ ought to believe that Jesus is the Son of He who does not believe this, but only
the living God. that
He
is
the
Son
ideas concerning
of
Him
Mary
implants in himself various
which are hurtful and destructive T. 342.
of that state of salvation.
They alone have others have no faith. 8.
9.
faith
who
believe in the Lord,
and
T. 384. written before, I have anointed my
In this Psalm it is King upon Zion, and it follows, tions for an inheritance.
I will give to
Him
the na-
T. 101.
A
rod of iron stands for the power of spiritual truth in which there is spiritual A. 4876. Iron is natural truth. truth has power. By a rod or staff in the Word power is signified, and by natural, for all natural truth in
iron natural truth, consequently the natural sense of the
Word, and at the same time the natural light (lumen) of R. 148. man. In these two the power of truth consists. It is said "the vessels of a potter" because by them are signified the tilings which are of one's own intelligence, all of which are falsities, and in themselves of no account. R. 149.
PSALM
A
rod of iron
and natural man. evils,
tises
A
9
power, whereby the Lord chas-
disperses the falsities
which are in the E. 176.
potter's vessel stands for those things in the natural
man which broken is
signifies
II.
are
from self-derived
Being
intelligence.
to shivers stands for to be dispersed, for dispersion
predicated of
falsities
as breaking to shivers
cated of a potter's vessel.
is
predi-
E. 177. indeed the
That a rod and a staff signify power, and power of Divine truth arises especially from their being branches or boughs of trees, which signify the knowledges of truth and good, which are the truths of the natural man, and as they also support the body, they signify power. This is still more the case with a rod of iron, because iron signifies the truth of the natural man. By virtue of its hardness it signifies power which cannot be resisted. E. 727.
and 10.
By
from
will disperse falsities that are
P. P.
evil.
kings here are not meant kings, but they
who
are in
Divine truths from the Lord, and abstractly the Divine from which is wisdom. R. 20. Kings signify those who from the Lord are principled
truths
from good. Kings stand for those who are in
in truths derived
10-12.
E. 31. truths,
and from
truths they are often called the "king's sons."
Son" here stands because
He
is
for the Lord,
the truth
itself,
who and
is
all
"The
here called the Son truth
is
from Him. A. 2015.
Let them therefore acknowledge and worship the Divine Human of the Lord, lest they perish. P. P. The Lord is treated of, whose Divine Human is the 12. Son. To kiss Him is to be conjoined to Him by the faith of love.
A. 3574.
By blowing
with the
nostrils, or breathing, is signified
to be angry.
The
reason
A. 8286.
why anger grounded
in the affection of evil
PSALM
IO 12 is fire, is
a
because anger
man loves
is
is
II.
from that source, for when what
attacked the
fiery principle bursts forth,
and
were burns. Hence it is that anger is described in Anger is attributed the Word by fire and is said to burn. to Jehovah, that is to the Lord, but it appertains to man. as
if it
The Lord
is
A. 9143. here called a Son from the truth of faith,
A. 9309. from Him. last judgment is impending the Lord with heaven draws near, and of those who are below in the world of spirits only those can endure the Lord's coming who are interiorly good. That the day of the Lord's anger signifies the last judgment is plainly manifest.
which
is
Where a
R. 340.
For His anger
will shortly burn.
PSALM A i.
2.
3.
Psalm
of David,
when he
D.
P.,
Page
71.
III.
fled
from Absalom
his son.
how are mine adversaries increased! are they that rise up against me. there are that say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. But thou, O Jehovah, art a shield about me; glory, and the lifter up of my head. Jehovah,
Many Many
[Selah
My
4.
I cry
And 5.
I laid
7.
me down and
hill.
[Selah
slept;
for Jehovah sustaineth me. be afraid of ten thousands of the people That have set themselves against me round about. Arise, O Jehovah; save me, O my God: For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek I
6.
unto Jehovah with my voice, he answereth me out of his holy
awaked;
I will not
bone; hast broken the teeth of the wicked. Salvation belongeth unto Jehovah: Thy blessing be upon thy people.
Thou 8.
[Selah
PSALM
Psalm
II
III.
III.
when He was in temptations and and was then in a state of humilia-
Respecting the Lord
1-9.
subjugated the
hells,
which He prayed to the Father. P. P. Enemies stand for evils and the falses thence derived,
tion in 2, 3.
for these are the adversaries in the spiritual sense.
A. 10481.
In various passages of the
Word mention
is
made
of
and enemies, and thereby are understood evils and falses, by foes evils and by enemies falses; for the Word foes
in
its
interior
is
spiritual,
wherefore no other than spir-
and enemies can be there understood. E. 671. The Lord in heaven and hence heaven itself is called 5. "the habitation of holiness," and also "the mountain of holiness," inasmuch as the Lord alone is holy. A. 9229. By virtue of truths from the Lord the angels are called holy, and the prophets likewise. Hence it is that Zion was called the mountain of holiness. R. 586. To lay me down and sleep signifies a state of tran6, 7. quillity and security. A state of peace and tranquillity is itual foes
by lying down. A. 3696. blow or to smite the cheek means to destroy truths is plain from passages in the Word, where mention is made of smiting the cheek. And because in signified
8.
That
to inflict a
the genuine sense
it
signifies
therefore in the opposite sense
the destruction of truth, it
signifies the destruction
A. 9048. which sense it occurs here. The teeth of the wicked to be broken stand for the A. 9052. falsities by which they destroy truths. That teeth signify the ultimates of the life of man which are called sensual things, which when they are separated from the interiors of the mind are in mere falsities and of falsity, in
offer violence to truths,
See also Psalm
lvii. 4.
and destroy them, may be
evident.
R. 435.
PSALM
12 8
By
III.
smiting the enemies on the cheek bone
the destruction of interior falsities of those
and the
the goods
who
is
signified
are against
truths of the church, such persons with
by enemies in break the teeth of the ungodly signifies to destroy exterior falsities, which are such as have their foundation in the fallacies of the senses, and are thence the falsities of their evils being understood
the
To
Word.
confirmed.
O
Arise, 9.
The influx
E. 556.
O my God!
Jehovah, save me,
Page
63.
Jehovah upon His people signifies the and reception of good and truth. They are called
who
are in spiritual good.
PSALM
E. 340.
IV.
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments.
2.
P.,
blessing of
the people of Jehovah,
i.
D.
A Psalm of David.
Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness; Thou hast set me at large when I was in distress: Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor?
How long
will
ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood
?
[Selah 3.
But know that Jehovah hath that
is
set apart for himself
him
godly:
4.
Jehovah will hear when I call unto him. Stand in awe, and sin not: Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be
5.
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness,
6.
And put your trust in Jehovah. Many there are that say, Who will show
[Selah
still.
Jehovah,
lift
us any good ? thou up the light of thy countenance upon
us. 7.
Thou
hast put gladness in
my
heart,
PSALM
IV.
13
More than
they have when their grain and their new wine are increased. In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For thou, Jehovah, alone makest me dwell in safety.
Psalm IV. Respecting the Lord, when in great temptations.
1-3.
P. P.
We may
2.
those
who
often read in the call
That truth
and
is
these passages
Word
that the
Lord answers R. 376.
cry.
signified
Psalm
by breadth
may
be evident by
xxxi. 8; cxviii. 5; xviii. 19:
The
Hosea
R. 861.
iv. 16, etc.
expression "to answer" frequently occurs in the
Word and when
predicated of the Lord signifies influx,
and information, likewise mercy and aid. See Isaiah xlix. 8. E. 471. That a bed signifies doctrine is from correspondence, 4. for as the body reclines in its bed, so does the mind in its doctrine. But by a bed is signified the doctrine which any one procures to himself either from the Word or from his own intelligence, for in it his mind rests, and as if it inspiration, perception
were
R. 137.
sleeps.
They should
fear
Him,
for
He
has protection from the
Father.
7.
P. P.
Exhortation to repent.
5-9.
Among
P. P.
the ancients the face signified the internals, for
the reason that internals shine forth through the face.
When
charity shone from the face the countenance
said to be lifted up,
was said
and when the opposite
was
the countenance
Therefore it is predicated of the Lord up His countenance upon man as in the Blessing Numbers vi. 26 and Psalm iv, 6, 7 by which is signified that the Lord gives man charity.
that
He
to
lifts
—
fall.
—
—
A. 358-
PSALM
14
By
7
the faces of Jehovah
soever
IV.
meant the Divine, and whatand all good,
is
of the Divine, thus mercy, peace,
is
but in the universal sense the Divine truth, since in the
Divine truth
By
is
all
good.
seeing the face of the
Lord
A. 10579. not meant to see His
is
face, but to know and acknowledge Him as He regard to His Divine attributes, which are many.
who
are conjoined with
Him
by love
is
with
They know Him and thus
R. 939. understood the Divine truth from the Divine love, thence also the expression implies intelligence and wisdom, for from the Divine truth, or the Divine light in the heavens are see His face.
By
the light of the countenance of Jehovah
derived
all
wisdom and
the
intelligence,
is
both of angels and
men.
E. 412.
The
Jehovah or of the Lord is mercy, peace and every good, as is clearly evident from the blessing,
7, 8.
also in
face of
Numbers up
Lifting
A. 222.
vi. 25, 26.
the light of the countenance
good from mercy.
means
to give
A. 5585.
By peace are signified all the things in the complex which are from the Lord, and thence all the things of heaven and the church, and the blessedness of life in them. These are of peace in the highest or inmost sense. It follows from this that charity, spiritual security and
7-9.
internal rest are peace.
In these words sess
who
is
R. 306.
described the peace which they pos-
are in conjunction with the Lord, by the recep-
tion of Divine
good and Divine truth from Him. It is is contained and from which
peace in which heavenly joy it is
9.
E. 365.
derived.
Making
to dwell in safety signifies a state of peace.
See Psalm
hi.
6,
7.
A. 3384. A. 3696.
;:
PSALM
PSALM
V.
V.
For the Chief Musician; with the Nehiloth. 1.
2.
Give ear to my words, Jehovah, Consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry,
God; For unto thee do 3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
n.
12.
15
A
Psalm
my
of David.
King, and
my
I pray.
O
Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; In the morning will I order my prayer unto thee, and will keep watch. For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness Evil shall not sojourn with thee. The arrogant shall not stand in thy sight: Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. But as for me, in the abundance of thy loving kindness will I come into thy house: In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. Lead me, O Jehovah, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; Make thy way straight before my face.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.
Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions For they have rebelled against thee. But let all those that take refuge in thee rejoice, Let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: Let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. For thou wilt bless the righteous; O Jehovah, thou wilt compass him with favor as with a shield.
6
PSALM
1
V.
Psalm V. -4, 8, 9,
Prayer of the Lord to the Father for
12, 13.
P. P.
help.
The Lord
signification of the
morning as standing
in regard to His Divine
the morning in the differs
We
Human.
Word, and the
for the
often read of
signification of the
term
according to the series of things treated of in the
In the supreme sense it signifies the Lord His coming. In the internal sense it signifies
internal sense.
and
also
His kingdom and church, and their state of peace. E. 179. -7,
Against the
10, 11.
evil, falsifiers
and
hypocrites.
P. P.
He who
is
in guile meditates evil,
and
feeds his under-
it, and enjoys it, and thus destroys everymind characteristic of man, that is of life from Guile is called the good of faith and of charity. hypocrisy when piety is carried in the mouth and impiety in the heart, or when charity is carried in the mouth but hatred in the heart, or when innocence is carried in the face and gesture but cruelty in the soul and breast.
standing by thing in his
.
That blood manifest from
signifies the its
.
Divine truth
may
opposite sense, in which
Divine truth of the
The
.
Word
falsified or
deceitful are signified in the
it
A. 9013. be clearly
signifies the
profaned.
R. 379.
Word by
poisonous
and by crocodiles and vipers, and deceit is sigby their poison. By a lie in the Word falsity and false speaking are signified, and by deceit each of these by R. 624. design. In the spiritual sense to bear false witness means to persuade that falsity of faith is truth of faith, and that evil This falsity is of life is good of life, and the reverse. meant in the Word by a lie, and the design by deceit. T. 322. serpents, nified
.
.
.
PSALM Blood
V.
17
in the genuine sense signifies the Divine truth,
and with the
recipients thereof truth
the opposite sense
it
from good, hence
signifies violence offered to the
in
Divine
truth, and with those who offer what is false from evil. Here by the bloody and deceitful those are meant who are E. 329. in falsities from evil. By violence and by blood is signified the perversion of truth and falsification of the Word, and by guile is signified from a deliberate purpose. E. 866.
The temple
8.
is
called the temple of holiness, for the tem-
ple in the abstract sense signifies heaven
and the church R. 586.
as to Divine truth.
The
10.
throat an open sepulchre
is
predicated of
evil,
the
A. 3527. tongue speaking smooth things, of falsity. The midst also signifies the inmost and thence all, in
many
places in the
Word, even where the
evil are treated
R. 44.
of.
"
The
right
is
not in their mouth, wretchedness
midst of them."
By
wretchedness
herency, and thus by wretched one
signified
is
who
whom
in the
inco-
thinks about the
things of the church without coherence.
because they of
is
The reason
is
these things are said (Revelation
one time deny God, heaven, eternal life and the Word, and at another time acknowledge them, on which account what they build up with one hand they destroy with the other. These things are meant by iii.
17) at
holiness of the
wretchedness in Isaiah
xlvii. 10, 11
6 (a wall of loose stones) etc.
Wretchedness
signifies falsities
truth.
:
Psalm
v. 10:
Hosea
ii.
R. 208. not cohering with any E. 237.
In the midst signifies the whole, because in the inmost, From the for such as the inmost is, such is the whole. inmost all other things are produced and derived, as the E. 313. body is from its soul. The belly (inward part) signifies the interiors. Here also wickedness or perditions, that is evil thoughts, are attributed to the belly.
E. 622.
PSALM
l8 10
The mouth
signifies
V.
outwardly or without, and the
That within is hell is signified an open sepulchre; and that without hypocritical and as it were sane is signified by they
midst inwardly or within.
by their throat
what
is
flatter
11.
is
with their tongue.
E. 659.
As transgressions are what
faith,
is
contrary to the truths of
they are also deviations and defections which like-
wise in the original tongue are signified by the same expression, as
is
The
evident here.
expression to rebel
is
used when there is defection and deviation. A. 9156. 12. In all these passages exultation signifies the delight originating in love and affection for good. Gladness signifies the
pleasantness originating in the love
and
13.
The
affection
E. 660.
for truth.
breastplates being as of iron (Revelation
signify that the reasonings
appeared
to
them
that they could not be refuted, for iron from signifies strength.
By
ix.
9)
so strong,
its
hardness
breastplates (shield, buckler) are
signified protections, because they protect the breast.
R.436. Here good pleasure (favour) evidently means the Divine love from which the Lord defends every one. His defence from love is signified by " thou wilt compass him as with a shield."
E. 295.
PSALM
VI.
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, A Psalm of David. i.
2.
set to the
Sheminith.
O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger, Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away:
O
Jehovah, heal me; for
my
bones are troubled.
PSALM
VI.
19
My
soul also is sore troubled: thou, Jehovah, how long? Return, Jehovah, deliver my soul: Save me for thy loving-kindness' sake.
3.
O
And
O
4.
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks ? I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; For Jehovah hath heard the voice of my weeping. Jehovah hath heard my supplication; Jehovah will receive my prayer. All mine enemies shall be put to shame and sore
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
troubled:
They
shall turn back,
shame
they shall be put to
suddenly.
Psalm VI. 1-8.
Prayer of the Lord
to the Father,
last state of temptations,
By
2. is
the nostrils
when
which
state
when He was is
in the
P. P.
despair,
predicated of Jehovah or the Lord
also signified wrath, thus the punishment, vastation
damnation of those who are in
evils
and
and
falsities.
A. 8286. 6.
may be seen what is signified by the dead, namely, they who are destitute of the life of heaven, consequently who are in evils, and thence in From
these passages
it
E. 186.
falsities.
7.
That weeping
is
consideration, that
grief of it
mind may appear from
bursts forth from the heart,
this
and That
breaks out into lamentations through the mouth. shedding of tears is grief of mind may appear from this consideration, that it issues forth from the thought through
PSALM
20 the eyes.
7
Here
it
to
is
make
VI.
be observed that the expression
my
bed to swim" has reference to weeping which is of the mouth, because it is said of groaning, whereas to water the couch, which is yet a similar These passages are adduced in thing, is said of tears. order that it may be known that when two similar expressions occur in the Word, which is especially the case in the prophets, they are not vain repetitions, but that one has "all the night
I
and the other to truth. and being helped, He repressed the
reference to good,
9-1 1.
PSALM
hells.
E. 484. P. P.
VII.
Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto Jehovah, concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite. i.
2.
3.
O Jehovah my God, in thee do I take refuge: Save me from all them that pursue me, and deliver me, Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands; If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace w ith r
4.
me
5.
6.
7.
(Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary); Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, [Selah And lay my glory in the dust. Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger; Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries, And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment. And let the congregation of the peoples compass thee
about; over them return thou on high. Jehovah ministereth judgment to the peoples:
And 8.
PSALM
9.
VII
21
Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity that is in me. Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous:
God
For the righteous 10.
n. 12.
13.
14.
My
trieth the
minds and
hearts.
with God, Who saveth the upright in heart. God is a righteous judge, Yea, a God that hath indignation every day. If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready; He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery shafts. Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth shield
is
falsehood. 15.
16.
17.
He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own I
give
will
thanks unto
Jehovah according
pate.
to
his
righteousness,
And
will sing praise to the
name
of
Jehovah Most High.
Psalm VII. I- 3> 7 _I2
>
J 8.
Prayer of the Lord
to the
Father for help P. P.
against the hells.
Many a
Word that which
mentioned and by it is meant in the proper sense that which has perished by falsities from evils, but that which has perished by evils is called a carcass. A lion represents those who A. 5828. vastate the church For He is just, and there is no evil in Him 4> 5> 9-1 1. 3.
time in the
is
torn
is
—
P. P. 6.
By enemy that
is
hell
here also
whence
is
evil
signified evil, in general the devil,
comes.
By
treading
down
life to
PSALM
22 6 the earth
and making
to destroy
and
VII.
glory to dwell In the dust
by the corporeal sensual
all
is
signified
the truths of heaven
of the church, for these constitute spiritual
are also signified by glory, dust
corporeal sensual, which
upon
the belly
is
and eating
is
and
by walking everywhere said of
also understood
dust, as
is
E. 632.
the serpent.
To
life
also predicated of the
execute judgment
which which is salvation. Salvation or damnation is also signified by judgment where mention is made of the day, or hour of judgment. A. 9857. 10. In these passages spiritual things are signified by the reins, and celestial things by the heart, that is the things which are of truth are signified by the reins, and those which are of good by the heart. The reason of this is
8, 9.
damnation, or to
is
is
to judge either to death
life
and the heart purifies the and searching the reins is signified to try, explore and search out the quantity and quality of truth, or the quantity and quality of faith in man. A. 5385. that the reins purify the serum,
blood
By and
Hence by
itself.
trying, exploring
the kidneys are signified truths exploring, purifying
This signification is grounded in their and prove the kidneys stands for to explore the truths of faith, and to search and prove the heart stands for to explore the goods of love, for the heart stands for the good of love. A. 10032. chastising.
To
function.
By
the reins in these places are signified the truths of
intelligence
and
search
and
faith,
and by the heart the good
of love
R. 140.
charity.
The righteous stands for those who love to do what is good and true, whose truths and goods are purified by the Lord, which is signified by His seeing and trying the reins and the hearts. E. 167. 10, 11.
That a
falsities,
for
which
shield is
means protection against
trusted,
is
evils
and
evident without explanation,
from common usage the expression has become
fa-
PSALM miliar that is
Jehovah
is
specifically signified
Word trust
23
a shield and a buckler. But what by a shield may be evident from the
— that as regards
and as regards man
VII.
Lord
the
it
signifies protection,
meant.
is
Here
trust in the Lord's protection.
A. 1788.
God that He is angry with whets His sword, that He bends and makes ready His bow, prepares instruments of death, and ordains His arrows, but in the spiritual sense it is under-
12-14.
It is here attributed to
the wicked, that
stood that
He
man acts God in
attributed to
sense
God
is is
natural
and
for the natural
on account
to be feared
operates the
same
Those
thus to himself.
things are
the sense of the letter, because that
man, who believes that and fear with him
thereof,
as love does afterwards
when he
be-
comes spiritual. Hence it is evident what is here signified by those words, namely, that the wicked are angry with God, that they whet the sword against themselves. By their whetting the sword is signified, that they procure to themselves falsity by which they fight against truth. By their bending the bow and making it ready is signified, that from falsities they make to themselves doctrine against truths. death,
By
and ordaining
infernal love they
their preparing the instruments of
arrows
their
make
is
from by
signified, that
to themselves false principles
which they destroy good and its truth. E. 357. A sword manifestly stands for the vastation of truth.
13.
A. 2799.
13-17. 18.
But may be conquered.
From
these passages
it
is
P. P.
manifest that confession
(praise) has reference to the celestial of love,
and
is
dis-
tinguished from what relates to the spiritual of love, for it
is
said confession
and
confession being what
the voice of joy (Psalm
xlii.
4),
and the voice of joy, make merry and sing praises being is
celestial,
them that what is spiritual. A. 3880. Jehovah is called the Highest, because high signified the voice of
PSALM
24 18 heaven
was
VII
and the Divine therein, therefore Divine worship on mountains and on high places by those
instituted
who were
To
A. 8153.
of the representative church.
sing a song signifies confession from joy of heart,
therefore in the above passages (Psalm lvii.
7-9),
xlii.
two expressions are used, namely,
4; cv.
PSALM For the Chief Musician;
O
and
E. 326.
to sing,
i.
2;
1,
to confess
VIII.
A
set to the Gittith.
Jehovah, our Lord,
How
excellent
Psalm
is
thy
of David.
name
in all
the earth, 2.
Who
hast set thy glory
Out
of the
mouth
upon
of babes
the heavens! and sucklings hast thou
established strength,
Because of thine adversaries, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
When
I consider thy heavens, the
work
of thy fingers,
The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him ? And the son of man, that thou visitest him ? For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honor. Thou makest him to have dominion over the works thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, Yea, and the beasts of the field, The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in the earth!
of
all
PSALM
VIII.
25
Psalm VIII.
A song in praise of the Father by the Lord to regard His innocence, and give help against the hells. P. P. Passages concerning the coming of the Lord. 6, 7, 10.
1-4, 10.
2.
Coro. 60.
That
3.
in the
also plain
Word
a sucking child
signifies
from other passages (Matthew
infants stand for celestial love,
innocence
xxi. 16),
and sucklings
is
where
for innocence.
A. 3183.
By "Out
of the
mouth
hast perfected praise"
is
m
and sucklings Thou that praise can come to
of babes
signified
Lord by no other way than through innocence, for by this alone is effected all communication and all influx, A. 5236. and consequently access. No one can see the face of God (Matthew xviii. 10) exthe
cept from innocence.
nocence
The
4.
is
signified
In the following passages also
by
The
finger
is
hands, and by hands 5.
little
signification of the finger of
Divine.
The
infants, or
God
power because
is
signified
children. is
power from the
fingers are of the
power.
fingers signify power.
in-
A. 5608.
A. 7430. A. 10062.
To remember when concerning the Lord, means to have compassion and thus to preserve or deliver from mercy. Recollection or remembrance cannot be predicated of the Lord, since things past and future in Him are eternal, that is, are present from eternity to eternity. A. 9849.
5, 6.
Because they are not willing
in simplicity. 6.
By
to
understand the
Word P. P.
Lord glory and honour nothing else is meant in the Word but to acknowledge and confess that all truth and all good are from Him, and thus that He is the only God, for He has glory from the Divine truth, and R. 249. honour from the Divine good. giving to the
PSALM
26 6
This also
VIII.
spoken of the Lord.
His state of humilialittle lower than the angels, His state of glorification by His being crowned with glory and honour. By glorifying is meant the uniting of the Lord's Divine itself with His Human, and maktion
is
is
described by His being
made
a
ing this latter also Divine.
See Psalm
6, 7.
He
said " All
ii.
E. 288.
6-8, 12.
power
L.
me
6.
heaven and in earth." D. P., Page 47. Verses 6, 7 quoted. D. P., Page 58. 6, 7 et seq. Verses 6, 7 again quoted. D. P., Page 58. Since the Lord's church on the earth is under the 7. heavens, it is therefore called the footstool of His feet. is
given unto
in
R. 470.
This
7,
spoken of the Lord, whose dominion over all things of heaven and the church is understood by all things being put under His feet. E. 606. 8. This is said of the Lord whose dominion over man is
and over the things pertaining to man is thus described. Otherwise, what would be the dominion over beasts and fowls?
The
A. 776.
Lord and His power over all things in heaven and in earth. By flocks and herds are signified the interior and exterior goods appertaining to men, and by beasts the affections appertaining subject here treated of
is
the
to them.
A. 10609.
So long as a man is spiritual his dominion proceeds from the external man to the internal see Genesis i.
7-9.
—
But when he becomes celestial and does good from love, his dominion proceeds from the internal man to the external, just as the Lord says in David of himself, and thus at the same time of the celestial man who is His likeness. Here therefore the beasts are first mentioned, then the fowl and then the fishes of the sea, because the celestial man goes forth from love, which is of the will. It is otherwise with the spiritual man with whom the fishes and the 27-.
PSALM
VIII.
27
which are things of the understanding that
birds precede,
and
relates to faith,
A. 52.
the beasts follow.
Describing the dominion of the Lord in man, the fish A. 991. of the sea standing for outward knowledges. Since the affections and thence the perceptions and the thoughts of
spirits
and angels
in the spiritual world appear
at a distance in the forms of the animals or creatures
upon
the earth which are called beasts, of the creatures in the
which are called birds, and of the creatures in the sea which are called fishes, therefore beasts, birds, and fishes are so often mentioned in the Word, by which however nothing else is meant. This verse is said concerning the
air
R. 405.
Lord.
men as
by R. 567. Birds signify the things which are of the understanding and thence of thought and design. This is clearly maniR. 757. fest from birds in the spiritual world. Here the subject treated of is the Lord and His Divine power over heaven and earth. By the sheep and oxen, In these places
to their affections are signified
beasts.
the beasts of the
field,
spiritual,
and the fish of the and angels as to things
the fowl of the air
sea are understood men, spirits
and things natural pertaining
fish of the sea
are understood those
to
who
them.
By
are in the
the
ulti-
E. 342. mates of heaven. These things are said concerning the Lord, and concernThat He has dominion over the angels ing His dominion. in the heavens and over man on the earth is known from the
Word,
for
He
himself says
— see Matthew
but that dominion was given to
and
fishes is
Him
xxviii. 18-;
over animals, birds
not of sufficient importance to be mentioned
Word, where all, even the most minute things, have respect to heaven and the church. Hence it may appear that by the flock and herd are signified in general spiritual things and natural things, by the flock things spiritual, and by the herd things natural pertaining to man, or which are
in the
PSALM
28 9 of his natural field
and
VIII.
mind.
spiritual
By
the beasts of the
are signified things voluntary which pertain to the
affections,
by the fowls of heaven things intellectual which and by the fishes of the sea things
pertain to the thoughts, scientific
The
which pertain
to the natural
man. Psalm
subject treated of in the whole of
cerning the Lord and His dominion over
E. 513. con-
viii. is
all
things of
Spiritual things in the Word heaven and the church. are expressed by natural things, for the Word in its interior Hence by flock, herd, beasts of the field, is spiritual. birds of heaven, and fishes of the sea are not understood those things, but spiritual things appertaining to heaven .
.
.
and the church.
E. 650.
Treating of the Lord, of whom it is here said that He shall have rule over all things of the hands of Jehovah, by which are not understood terrestrial things, such as flocks,
and fishes, for what would these be His dominion which is in the heavens, and from the heavens over men on the earths whom He will lead to life eternal, wherefore the spiritual things of the church are
herds, beasts, birds for
those here understood.
general
all spiritual
By
the flocks are signified in
things with
man, by the herds natural
things with him, which correspond to spiritual, by the beasts of the fields the affections of good in the natural
man which
are of the church, for a field signifies the
The
church. rational
birds of heaven signify the thoughts of the
man, and the
fishes of the sea scientifics.
E.
The
state of
His glorification
is
described.
1
100.
P. P.
PSALM
PSALM For the Chief Musician; i.
show
2.
29
IX.
Muth-labben.
set to
I will give thanks unto I will
IX.
A
Jehovah with
Psalm
my
of David.
whole heart;
forth all thy marvellous works.
I will be glad
and
exult in thee;
name, O thou Most High. enemies turn back, They stumble and perish at thy presence. For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; Thou sittest in the throne judging righteously. Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; Thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever. I will sing praise to thy
3.
4.
5.
6.
When mine
The enemy
are
come
to
an end, they are
desolate for
ever;
And The
7.
8.
9.
10.
the cities which thou hast overthrown, very remembrance of them is perished. But Jehovah sitteth as king for ever: He hath prepared his throne for judgment; And he will judge the world in righteousness, He will minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness. Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble; And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee;
For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. 11.
12.
Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwelleth in Zion: Declare among the people his doings. For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth
them;
He 13.
forgetteth not the cry of the poor.
Have mercy upon me, Behold me,
Thou 14.
That
my
O
Jehovah;
which I
suffer of
liftest me up from the gates may show forth all thy praise.
that I
affliction
them
that hate
of death;
PSALM
30
IX.
In the gates of the daughter of Zion I will rejoice in thy salvation. 15.
16.
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken. Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the w ork of his own hands. r
[Higgaion. Selah 17.
18.
19.
20.
The wicked Even all the
shall
be turned back unto Sheol,
nations that forget God. shall not always be forgotten, Nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever. Arise, Jehovah; let not man prevail: Let the nations be judged in thy sight.
For the needy
O
Put them in fear, O Jehovah: Let the nations know themselves
to
be but men. [Selah
Psalm IX. Thanksgivings and joy of the Lord, that the have been judged and destroyed. P. P. See Psalm vii. 18. A. 8153. 3. 5-8, 18. Quoted from Zechariah xiv. part of verses 1-7. D. P., Page 71. Of the last judgment. D. P., Page 71. 5-9, 18. The judgment described. D. P., Page 72. 1-9, 20, 21. evil
-
5, 6, 8.
A
throne signifies heaven.
—
A
throne also signifies
judgment see Matthew xxv. 31, etc. R. 229. That by throne is here signified heaven is evident, for it is said that heaven is Jehovah's throne that he hath prepared in the heavens, and that he who shall swear by heaven sweareth by the throne of God. Not that Jehovah or the Lord there sits upon a throne, but because throne is predicated of His Divine in the heavens, and it also occasionally appears as a throne to those to
given to look into heaven.
appears in Isaiah
vi.
1.
That
the
whom
it
is
Lord was thus seen E. 253.
«£
PSALM
A
5, 8.
throne
subject
is
is
IX.
31
often mentioned in the
Word where
the
the Divine truth and judgment therefrom.
A- 53 x 3See Psalm
5, 8, 9.
As Jehovah,
8.
that
of all therefore to
is
the Lord,
sit
By
is
(endure)
various parts of the Word. 9.
A. 9857.
vii. 8, 9.
the world the church
the very Esse of the
is
See also Psalm is
i.
signified, in like
life
Him
predicated of
in
E. 687.
1.
manner
as
be known that when the world and the church are named together, the church as to good is signified by the world, and the church as to truth by the
by
earth, but
to
it is
R. 551.
earth.
Inasmuch as by the world is understood the church as to good, and justice is predicated of good, therefore it is said: Jehovah shall judge the world in justice, and inasmuch as people are called they who are in truth, and uprightness is truth, therefore it was said: He shall judge the people in uprightness.
And
10. 11.
That by death
14. is
life
P.
many
passages in
who
the dead they are signified
of heaven, consequently
who
damnation the Word. A. 61 19. are destitute of the
are in evils
and thence
That the
dom is
in
E. 186.
falsities.
15.
P
signified spiritual death or
is
evident from very
By
E. 741.
the good have been delivered.
celestial
church, or the Lord's celestial king-
called the daughter of Zion
or from love to the
Lord
32; xvi. 1: Jeremiah
iv.
himself,
31:
from affection
may
Micah
for good, be seen in Isaiah x.
iv. 10,
13: etc.
A. 2362.
In many places we read of the virgin, and the daughter of Zion, by whom is not meant any virgin or daughter there, but the church as to the affection of good and truth, the same as by the Bride of the Lamb in Revelation xxi. 2, 9; xxii. 17.
R
#
6 I2
.
Knowledges of truth and good are signified by gates. Gates signify introductory truths which are knowledges from the Word. R. 800.
.
PSALM
32
By
*5
doors and by gates
is
IX.
signified admission.
cally introductory truths are signified,
from good derived from the Lord.
By the daughter of Zion is of Divine truth, truth,
and the
eternal
16-18.
which
is
E. 208.
signified the spiritual affection
the love of truth for the sake of
desire thereof for the sake of the uses of
E. 850.
life.
And
Specifi-
which are truths
thanksgiving of the
latter, that
the evil have
been conquered and cast into hell. P. P. By the miserable and the poor are chiefly meant those who are not in the knowledges of truth and good, and yet desire them, since by the rich are meant those who possess R. 209. the knowledges of truth and good. The reason why both the miserable and the poor are mentioned is, because it is according to the style of the Word that where truth is treated of, good is also treated of, and in the opposite sense where what is false is treated of, evil is also treated of, since they form a one and are as a On this account the miserable and the poor marriage. are mentioned together, for by the miserable are understood those who are deficient in the knowledges of truth, and by the poor those who are deficient in the knowledges
19.
E. 238.
of good.
PSALM 1.
2.
X.
O
Why Why
standest thou afar off, Jehovah? hidest thou thyself in times of trouble ? In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
3.
For the wicked boasteth
4.
And the covetous renounceth, yea, contemneth Jehovah The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require
of his heart's desire,
it.
All his thoughts are,
There
is
no God.
PSALM 5.
X.
33
His ways are firm at
all times; are far above out of his sight: his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
Thy judgments 6.
7.
8.
9.
As
for all
He To
all
saith in his heart, I shall not be
moved;
generations I shall not be in adversity. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless. He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones. He saith in his heart: God hath forgotten, He hideth his face, he will never see it. Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: Forget not the poor. "Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require it? Thou hast seen it: for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth himself unto thee;
Thou 15.
hast been the helper of the fatherless. Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness
till
thou find none. 16.
is King for ever and ever: nations are perished out of his land. Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek: Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear; To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,
Jehovah
The
17.
18.
That man who
is
of the earth
may
be terrible no more.
PSALM
34
X.
Psalm X. 1-4.
The
evil
hypocrites
do
and
evil to the
good and deny God, and are P. P.
deceitful.
In these passages the needy mean those who are in igA. 9209. norance of truth and desire to be instructed. 11-13. "Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God?" A. 4402. (Elohim) speaking of power from truths. 12-18. Prayer to the Father for their requital, and for P. P. judgment upon them. That the hands, arms, and shoulders correspond to 15.
9.
in the Greatest Man, is because the strength and powers of the whole body and of all its viscera have reference to them, for the body exerts its powers and strength A. 4933by the arms and hands. That an age when it is spoken of heaven, where there 16. is no end, and of the Lord signifies what is eternal is mani-
power
fest also
xv. 18:
Psalm
PSALM
XI.
from Exodus
For the Chief Musician. i.
cxlv, 13,
A Psalm
A. 10248.
of David.
In Jehovah do
I take refuge: say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain;
How 2.
For,
lo,
the wicked
bend the bow,
They make ready their arrow upon the That they may shoot in darkness at
string,
the upright in
heart; 3.
If the
foundations be destroyed,
What can 4.
Jehovah
is
the righteous
do ?
in his holy temple;
Jehovah, his throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
PSALM
XI.
35
Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence
his soul
hateth.
Upon Fire
the wicked he will rain snares;
and brimstone and burning wind
shall
be the
portion of their cup.
For Jehovah
The
is
righteous; he loveth righteousness:
upright shall behold his face.
Psalm XI.
The Lord
1-5.
the 2.
arouses himself to fight for the good against
evil.
P. p.
Here the bow and arrows plainly stand
for doctrinals of
A. 2686.
falsity.
As most
of the things in the
sense, so likewise
a shooter.
and those
have
Word
javelins, darts,
They signify falsities, who are in falsity.
have an opposite arrows, bows, and
also
the doctrine of
falsity,
A. 2709. A bow signifies the doctrine of truth combating against falsities, and in the opposite sense, the doctrine of falsity
combating against truths or falsities.
truth.
Since
Hence arrows and darts signify war in the Word signifies spir-
itual war, the arms of war, therefore, as the sword, the spear, the shield, the buckler, the bow, the arrows signify things belonging to such war. R. 299.
The wicked bending signifies their
as truths.
the
bow
framing arrow upon the string doctrine falsities which appear
making ready
doctrine, their
signifies their
their
applying to shoot privily at the upright in heart signi-
To
deceive those who are in truths from good. Bow here means the doctrine of what is false, arrow stands for fies to
falsity itself.
To
shoot means to deceive, and to do so
privily denotes appearances, for they reason
ances in the world and from •
literal
sense of the Word.
fallacies,
from appearapplying also the E. 357.
PSALM
30 In the
2, 3.
Word
XI.
menmeant the founda-
the foundations of the earth are
By them
tioned several times.
are not
tions of the earth, but the foundations of the church, for
the earth signifies the church.
The
foundations of the
church are none others than those which are from the
Word, and are called doctrinals, for the Word itself is R. 902. what founds the church. By eyes in the Word where men are treated of who re4. ceive the Divine things of the Lord, is signified faith and also the receiving of intellect, for the intellect
nal eye,
The
and
light
faith
the truth which
is
is
the inter-
is
seen and perceived.
which illuminates the understanding
is
from
heaven, but that which illuminates the sight of the body in the world.
The
sun there, and
is
heaven
light of
in
its
is
essence the Divine truth proceed-
ing from the Divine good of the Lord.
By
when speaking
the eye
Divine wisdom, also
is
from the Lord as a A. 10569.
Lord is meant His His omnipotence and providence. of the
R. 48.
The ence, 5.
By
eyes
when
predicated of the Lord stand for pres-
and thence providence. the soul of Jehovah
by the violent
in the
Word
is
lence to Divine truth, which
Therefore this
evil.
is
E. 68.
signified the
is
signified
is
Divine truth, for
one who
offers vio-
being done by the falses of
signified
by the impious and him E. 750.
that loveth violence. 6.
Brimstone fire
is
the hell of the evils of the love of
the hell of the falsities therefrom.
fire signifies in
falsities,
thus
the
Word
and
Brimstone and
the love of self with
hell, for hell consists
self,
its
lusts
its
and
of such things.
A. 2446. It
is
manifest that Jehovah in no wise caused
brimstone and
fire,
that
is
in
it
to rain
no wise condemned
to hell,
who were in evil and thence in falsity did because they separated themselves from good and so cast themselves upon the laws of order from truth alone. A. 2447. but that they this,
PSALM
A
snare as
it
XI.
37
and
signifies the delight of the love of self
the world, signifies also the destruction of spiritual
and the
perdition, for the all of faith
and
love to the Lord,
of love towards the neighbour
all
delight of the love of self
and
is
life
and
destroyed by the
the world where
it
has do-
and sulphur are the evils of the love of self and of the worM. A. 9348. As a nearer and stronger Divine influx through the minion.
Fire
heavens disperses the truths that are with the
wind
fore
signifies the dispersion of the truth
and thence
their conjunction with hell
Wind
tion.
and
evil, there-
with them,
their destruc-
Divine truth. R. 343. infernal love, and brimstone the lusts flow-
signifies the influx of
Fire signifies
ing forth from that love through the pride of one's
By
vials, plates, cups,
and
goblets,
and by
bottles those
things are signified which are contained in them.
By
storms,
and
falsities
own
R. 452.
intelligence.
and tempests
evils,
falsities of evil
because they
are cast
down
R. 672.
signified the dispersion of
is
who
into hell
are principled in the
by a stormy wind. E. 419.
These things are said from the appearances which take place in the spiritual world when the Divine good and truth descend out of heaven towards the inferior parts there, where the evil are, who are to be separated from the good and to be dispersed. Since the fire, which in its origin
and
is
is
Divine love, when
it
descends out of the heavens
received by the evil becomes a consuming
therefore such
Infernal
fire
fire is
in the
Word
By
and doing
and
into direful lusts of in-
E. 504.
evil.
these words
stroyed by their
fire,
predicated of Jehovah.
from no other source than the change of
the Divine love into evil loves,
juring
is
is
own
signified that the
what is false, and which destroy in Snares, fire, and brim-
evils originating in
by their own falsities originating them all the truths of the church.
impious are de-
in evil,
'
PSALM
38 6 stone
mean
the evils of falsity
XI.
and the
falsities of evil.
By
the horrible tempest which shall be the portion of the cup
wicked
of the
is
signified the total destruction of all truth
with them.
By
E. 578.
and brimstone are signified falses and evils seducing, and by a wind of storms is signified vehement assault of truth. These things are called the portion of a cup, because a cup as containing signifies them. By mixing and filling with mixture (Psalm lxxv. 9) is signified to falsify truth and profane it. E. 960. 6, 7.
snares, fire
The
evil will perish as
a consequence of justice.
PSALM For the Chief Musician;
set to the
P. P.
XII. Sheminith.
man
A
Psalm
of David.
1.
Help, Jehovah; for the godly
2.
For the faithful fail from among the children of men. They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they
3.
Jehovah
ceaseth;
speak. will cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue 4.
Who
5.
that speaketh great things;
With our tongue will we prevail; our own: who is lord over us? Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the
Our
have
said,
lips are
sighing of the needy,
Now
Jehovah; he panteth for. The words of Jehovah are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, Purified seven times. Thou wilt keep them, O Jehovah, Thou wilt preserve them from this generation for The wicked walk on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men. will I arise, saith
I will set
6.
7.
8.
him
in the safety
ever.
;
PSALM
XIII.
39
Psalm XII. There are no longer any good, but only hypocrites.
1-5.
P
P. 3.
Vanity stands for the
5.
A
false of doctrine
and
of religion.
A. 9248. lip signifies doctrine.
Here
lips
stand for
falsities.
A. 1286.
The Lord
6-9. the 7.
will to eternity deliver the
good as against P. P.
evil.
Seven
The
signifies things that are holy.
silver purified
John
to the seven
fies to all
Word
who
A. 720.
seven times stands for Divine truth.
churches
— Revelation
are in the Christian world.
signify things,
and seven
all,
A. 1551.
—
signi-
Numbers
in the
i.
4
thence also
Here fied
silver signifies truth derived
seven times means that
it
is
PSALM
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
10.
altogether
and
entirely
E. 257.
For the Chief Musician.
How How How
and
from the Divine, puri-
pure,
1.
full
R.
perfect.
O
XIII.
A
Psalm
of David.
me for ever? long wilt thou hide thy face from me ? long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day ? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me ? Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; Lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved. But I have trusted in thy lovingkindness My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. I will sing unto Jehovah, Because he hath dealt bountifully with me. long,
Jehovah?
wilt thou forget
PSALM
40
XIII.
Psalm XIII.
The
1-5.
state of the Lord's temptations,
and the grievous
Him.
P. P.
insurrection of the infernals against
Not
2.
means Not that
to see the Lord's face
mercy, or no compassion. passion, for
He
is
mercy
appearance with the is
in evil turns himself
Lord's face, that
is
but
itself,
man who
is
that there will be
the it is
so said from the
in evil, for the
away and
no
Lord has no com-
man who
hides from himself the
removes His mercy from him.
Where Divine good is not in Divine of Jehovah are not, and where evil is
A. 5585. truth there the faces in
what
is false,
the
Divine does not appear. This is meant by Jehovah hidA. 10579. ing and turning away His face. It is also frequently said that Jehovah hid and also turned away His face.
See also Psalm xxvii.
8, 9.
R. 939.
By the
hiding the face where
Lord
is
it is
man
signified to leave
thence in evils and
falsities
predicated of Jehovah or in his proprium,
and
that flow from his proprium.
E. 412.
In many places in the
4.
Word
the eyes are taken for the
understanding, and so for an inward dictate therefrom. A. 212. A. 61 19. See Psalm ix. 14. Every one sees that in these places the understanding is R. 48. signified by the eyes.
The
state of the
slumber and a
man who
sleep.
is
not in truths
is
called a
R. 158.
eyes stand for the understanding of truth, and are said to grow dim when truth is no more understood. E. 152.
The
it
Since watching signifies the reception of spiritual life, follows that sleeping signifies natural life without spir-
PSALM natural
itual, for
life
XIV.
41
compared with
spiritual
is
as sleep
to watchfulness.
By answering
E. 187.
not understood to answer, but to flow
is
into the thought, to cause to perceive,
and
also to give aid
from mercy.
E. 471.
man
Whilst
is
in
life
from the Lord he
watching, or wakefulness, but
he
in a state of sleep; or
is
in spiritual fulness, itual,
like
life
he
is
what
is
is
in a state of
in life
from
the same, whilst
self
man is
then in a state of watching or wake-
is
but when he
he
when he
what
is
is
in natural
life,
separate from spir-
What a man then sees is dream. To live this life is also
in a state of sleep. is
seen in a
understood by sleeping and slumbering in the Word. E. 1006.
He
has confidence respecting the victory.
PSALM For the Chief Musician. i.
2.
3.
The fool hath said They are corrupt,
XIV.
A Psalm
of David.
There is no God. they have done abominable works; in his heart,
filthy;
5.
6.
P
There is none that doeth good. Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God. They are all gone aside; they are together become There
4.
P.
is
Have
all
Who
eat
And
call
none that doeth good, no, not one. the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
my people as they eat bread, not upon Jehovah ? There were they in great fear; For God is in the generation of the righteous. Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor, up
Because Jehovah
is
his refuge.
PSALM XIV.
42 7.
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When Jehovah bringeth back the captivity of his people, Then
shall
Jacob
rejoice,
and
Israel shall be glad.
Psalm XIV.
Here "what is corrupt" is put for dreadful persuasions, and "abominable" for the filthy lusts which are in the A. 622. work, or from which the work is done. There is no longer any understanding of truth or will 1-3. I.
of 4. 5.
The
5.
P. P.
good whatever. They do not acknowledge God.
P. P.
generation of the just stands for truths from good,
for justice signifies
is
Generation in the
predicated of good.
what
of faith
is
and
charity, because
Word
no other
generation than spiritual can be understood in the internal
A. 6239.
•
sense.
They
6.
are against good
W ord
and
P. P.
truth.
T
7.
not only Jacob, but also all his That by the hollow of Jacob's thigh being out posterity. of joint as he wrestled with him, is signified that this con-
Jacob in the
is
junction (of the spiritual gether impaired
man
with the natural) was alto-
and displaced
in Jacob's posterity.
A. 4281.
By
captivity spiritual captivity
here meant, which
is
is
be seduced and so led away from truths and goods, and R. 591. to be led on into falsities and evils. Heaven and the church where the Lord alone is worR. 612. shipped are signified by mount Zion. to
These things are spoken of the Lord who in these and is called salvation from the act of saving, and from this consideration, that He is salvation in man, for in proportion as the Lord is in man, in the same proother passages
portion
man
E. 460.
has salvation.
In the place of joy exultation exultation in the
is
also mentioned, because
same way as joy
is
being of the love of the heart and the
predicated of good,
will.
E. 660.
PSALM XV.
By Zion
43
are here also understood those
who
are in the
good of love from the Lord. Liberation from evils by the Lord and salvation is understood by, who will give out of Zion the salvation of Israel. By bringing back the captivity of his people, is meant deliverance from falses and evils. By Jacob shall exult, Israel shall be glad, is understood joy on account of deliverance with those who are in the church external and internal. -By Jacob they who are of the external church, and by Israel they who are of the internal church, and the gentiles are understood by E. 811.
both.
The
subject treated of
concerning the advent of the
is
Lord, and concerning His kingdom in the heavens and in Since that
the earths.
and by Jerusalem, thither is
— Isaiah
kingdom
therefore
lix.
20.
understood by Zion
is
said that they shall
it is
Hence
it is
come
evident that by Zion
understood heaven and the church in which the Lord
reigns by Divine truth.
The Lord
will save those
E. 850.
who
are of the church, whence
they will have joy from Him.
PSALM A Jehovah,
Who
who
Psalm
P. P.
XV.
of David.
shall sojourn in thy tabernacle ?
shall dwell in thy holy hill ?
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh And speaketh truth in his heart; He that slandereth not with his tongue, Nor doeth evil to his friend, Nor taketh up a reproach against
righteousness,
his neighbor;
In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honoreth them that fear Jehovah; He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;
He
that putteth not out his money to interest, taketh reward against the innocent.
Nor
He
that doeth these things shall never be moved.
PSALM XV.
44
Psalm XV. See Psalm
i.
A
ii.
mountain
R. 586.
6.
signifies love to the
Lord, and thus
all
the
good thence derived, which is called celestial good. JeruE. 405. salem is called a holy mountain and a holy hill. Dwelling in tents denotes the holy of love. In an1, 2. cient times they performed holy worship in their tents. A. 414.
An good
upright
man
is
one who
so from holiness, or the
is
A. 612.
of charity.
To
Jehovah stands
tarry in the tent of
in the
good
for heaven,
and
A. 10545.
of love there.
The Lord's Divine Human
as to the Divine love, and heaven and church which are in love to the Lord R. 585. are signified by the tabernacle. By tabernacle is signified the church as to the good of By the mounlove, consequently also the good of love. tain of holiness, by which is meant Jerusalem, is signified the church as to the truth of doctrine from that good; hence it may be known what is signified by abiding in He who walketh in integrity signifies one who is them. in good as to life, and in truths as to doctrine, wherefore also the
it is
also said,
who doeth
justice,
and speaketh
truth in his
E. 799.
heart.
1-3.
By
sincerity are also
meant
integrity, justice, faith-
and uprightness. A man cannot be in these from them from themselves and for thenown sake. But he is in them who shuns the various forms of fraud, cunning, and deceit as sins, and he is thus in Life 84. them not from himself but from the Lord. 1-5. Those who love the neighbour and God will be of fulness,
himself, so as to love
P. P.
the Lord's church. I, 2, 4.
Affliction
falsities that rise
tional.
Thus
it
subdue and subjugate the evils and up from the external man into the ra-
is
is
to
not to plunge one's
self into
poverty
PSALM XVI. and wretchedness, or
to
45
renounce the enjoyments of the A. 1947.
body. Faith because
2.
it is
of charity, or truth because
it is
of
good, and hence the truths of good are sometimes called the judgments of justice.
Since justice also expressed
Psalm
xxxvi.
To
2, 5.
by
A. 2235.
and judgment is of truth, it and truth. See Zechariah viii.
of good,
is
justice
5, 6;
A. 9263.
lxxxv. 11,12.
give his silver to usury
is
is
8:
to teach for the sake of
gain alone, thus to do good for the sake of recompense.
A. 9210.
PSALM Michtam Preserve me,
O my I
3.
Lord: have no good beyond
As
6.
7.
8.
9.
thee.
are the excellent in
whom
is all
my
delight.
Their sorrows shall be multiplied that give gifts for another god: Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, take their names upon my lips. is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; Yea, I have a goodly heritage. I will bless Jehovah, who hath given me counsel; Yea, my heart instructeth me in the night seasons. I have set Jehovah always before me: Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: flesh also shall dwell in safety.
Nor
5.
my
for the saints that are in the earth,
They 4.
of David.
O God; for in thee do I take refuge. thou hast said unto Jehovah, Thou art
i. 2.
soid,
XVI.
Jehovah
My
.
:
PSALM XVI.
46
For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life In thy presence is fulness of joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
10.
11
Psalm XVI. 1, 2.
The Lord's
3-5.
for delivering the good,
4.
P. P.
trust in himself
Drink-offerings are also
whom
the evil infest.
P. P.
predicated of blood, and by
signified the profanations of truth, for blood in
them are that sense
is
violence offered to charity,
and profanation. A. 4581.
That wine,
and goods of worship are flour and wheat is because the
the truths
oil, fine
signified
by
drink-offer-
and meat-offerings consisted of them, which were upon the altar together with the sacrifices, and by the sacrifices, and by the offerings offered upon the altar ings
offered
worship is in them.
signified, for the chief part of
-
See Psalm
5.
worship consisted R. 77 8 R. 672.
xi. 6.
Vessels have
"a
similar signification with the things con-
E. 960.
tained in them. 6.
and and by them are represented various modes of Moreover ropes in the Word also signify conjunction. portions of inheritance and of land, since by ropes were In the other
life
there appear ropes of various twist
thickness,
A. 9854.
made measurements. 6-8. 7.
His
the Divine
is
See Psalm the reins
By also
is
vii. 10.
God,
attributed to
A. 5385.
meant to ascribe to Him all blessing, He would bless, and by giving thanks
is
by praying that
He
P. P. is
clear.
blessing
because
and Divine power. Add: that chastening
R. 289.
has blessed.
Night seasons signify the
state of
man when
falsities
psalm xvn.
The combat
rise up. is
signified
By
8.
by
the right
"my
4f
in such cases of truths with falsities
me." E. 167. omnipotence and omnithe Lord from Divine good by Di-
reins instruct
hand are
science pertaining to
signified
E. 298.
vine truth.
8-10.
His
Human glorified will rise again. many
Flesh also signifies good in
9.
Word.
See Ezekiel
xi.
P. P.
other passages in the
19; xxxvi. 26:
Psalms
lxiii.
1, etc.
R. 832. 10.
The
soul signifies the
That
life
of the spirit of
is
life.
D.
prediction in David.
PSALM A i.
man, which
E. 750. Jesus would rise from the dead according to the
called his spiritual
Hear
the right,
Give ear unto
O
my
P.,
Page 38
XVII.
Prayer of David.
Jehovah, attend unto
my
cry;
prayer, that goeth not out of feigned
lips.
3.
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence;. Let thine eyes look upon equity. Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited
4.
the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips
2.
I
have kept
me from
the
me
in
ways
5.
My steps have held fast to My feet have not slipped.
6.
I
of the violent. thy paths,
have called upon thee, for thou wilt answer me,
O
God: 7.
Incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech. Show thy marvellous lovingkindness, thou that savest by thy right hand th&m that take
O
refuge in thee those that rise
From
up
against them.
PSALM
48
XVII.
8.
Keep me
9.
Hide me under the shadow of thy wings, From the wicked that oppress me, My deadly enemies, that compass me about.
10.
They With
as the apple of the eye;
are inclosed in their own fat: mouth they speak proudly.
their
ii,
They have now compassed us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast its down to the earth.
12.
He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret
13.
places.
Arise, *0 Jehovah,
Confront him, cast him down: my soul from the wicked by thy sword; From men by thy hand, O Jehovah,
Deliver 14.
From men of the world, whose portion is in this And whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure:
life,
They
are satisfied with children, leave the rest of their substance to their babes. for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness;
And 15.
As
I shall
be
satisfied,
when
I
awake, with beholding thy
form.
Psalm XVII. 1.
See Psalm v. 7. Add: He who persuades to any thing from cunning or deceit persuades from design also, for cunning or deceit proposes to itself, conceals its purpose
and performs
By
it
when opportunity
guile in these passages
is
R. 624.
offers.
not meant guile in a nat-
ural sense which consists in fraudulent machinations
and
malicious falsehood against others, but guile in the spir-
by which is meant thought from the intention from a deliberate purpose of speaking and persuading falses, and thereby destroying the soul.
itual sense
of the will, or
E. 866. 1-5. 6.
The Lord
concerning the integrity of His
life,
P. P.
P. P. from the "Divine in himself. It is known that Jehovah has not ears nor eyes like a
PSALM
XVII.
49
man, but that it is an attribute predicable of the Divine which is signified by ear and by eye, namely, infinite will and infinite understanding. Infinite will is providence,
and
understanding
infinite
are understood by ear
These are what supreme sense, when
foresight.
is
and eye
in the
they are attributed to Jehovah.
See Psalm
iv.
See Psalm iv. 2. 6-10. From which rise
7-9.
E. 471.
He
up against Him. By enemies and
falses
A. 3869. R. 376.
2.
is
who
sustained against the evil
P. P. rebels are signified the evils
which are from
They
hell.
and
are called rebels be-
cause evils and falses rebel against goods and truths, but not vice versa. See Psalm 8.
A. 10481. E. 671.
hi. 2, 3.
To
be covered with the wing of Jehovah, and to take refuge under His wings stands for protection and con-
—
which is of faith The like see Psalm xci. 4. meant by being hid under the shadow of God's wings. fidence
is
A. 8764.
By wings
them the birds raise themselves up, and wings are to them in the place of arms with men, and powers are signified by the arms. Guards are signified by wings also in these verses, R. 245. and in Psalm xci. 4. And others. To be covered with the feathers of Jehovah signifies to be guarded by Divine truth, which is the Divine spiritual. To trust under His wing signifies scienPsalm xci. 4 are signified powers, because by
—
—
tific
10.
Fat
signifies celestial
good.
sense they are signified
because
it is
who
By
the fat in the opposite
are nauseated at good,
very abundant, despise and reject
In the opposite sense by the
who
E. 283.
truth, or the Divine natural.
loathe good, or
who
fat
and
R. 782.
it.
ones are signified those
at least despise or reject
it.
E. 1159. 11, 12.
And
wish to slay Him.
P. P.
PSALM
50 12.
The rending
of
good by
A
the internal sense.
XVII.
falsities
from
evils is
lion represents those
9 is
In Numbers xxiv.
lion signifies truth in its power.
and
xxiii. 24, this is
signified,
whom
said of Israel, by
whose power which
is
the church
in Divine truths
By lions also in the Word is the power of
church 14.
is
is
thus
R. 241.
described.
13.
in
vastate
A. 5828.
the church.
A
meant
who
wmat
signified in
derived from
is false,
an opposite sense by which the
evil,
destroyed and devastated.
E. 278.
By whom nevertheless He cannot be hurt: And yet they possess the Word. By the hid treasure here mentioned is signified
Word, by the whence by filling their of the
P. P. P. P. the truth
belly the interior understanding, belly with treasure
is
signified to
instruct their interior understanding in the truths of the
Word.
That they w ho are r
Children denote those
The babes
affected
by
fully instructed is signified
who
are in the affection of truth.
of the children signify truths springing up, or
in the birth,
whence
said that they leave the rest of
it is
their substance to their babes.
understanding, for there
is
standing and an interior. is
by truths and thence
" they are full of children."
of the natural mind,
It is here said the interior
man an
with
The
and the
interior
of the spiritual mind, the interior
exterior under-
exterior understanding
is
understanding is by the belly.
signified
E. 622.
To
behold the face of good from mercy.
15.
He
will
be
glorified.
God means
to enjoy
peace and A. 5585. P. P.
PSALM
XVIII.
PSALM
5i
XVIII.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of Jehovah, who spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said, i.
2.
3.
4.
I love thee,
5.
And The The
6.
In
7.
8.
10.
11.
12.
13.
Jehovah,
my
strength.
the floods of ungodliness made me afraid. cords of Sheol were round about me; snares of death came upon me.
my
distress I called
upon Jehovah,
And cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into his ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations also of the mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth. There went up a smoke out of
And
9.
O
Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God. my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine enemies. The cords of death compassed me,
his nostrils,
out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire. fire
Jehovah also thundered
in the heavens, the Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.
And
14.
And he
sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.
PSALM
52 15.
Then
And
36.
17.
XVIII.
the channels of waters appeared, the foundations of the world were laid bare,
At thy rebuke, O Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters. He delivered me from my strong enemy, And from them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
18.
They came upon me But Jehovah was
19.
20.
He He
22.
23.
24.
27.
28.
29.
30.
calamity;
Jehovah hath rewarded me according
to
my
right-
;
According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God. For all his ordinances were before me, And I put not away his statutes from me. I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from mine iniquity. Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to
my
26.
my
me forth also into a large place; delivered me, because he delighted in me.
righteousness, to the cleanness
According 25.
day of
stay.
brought
eousness
21.
in the
my
of-
my
hands
in his eyesight.
With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect; With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward. For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down. For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness. For by thee I run upon a troop; And by my God do I leap over a wall. As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Jehovah is tried;
He
is
a shield unto
all
them
that take refuge in him.
:
PSALM 31.
32.
^7,.
34.
35.
36.
37. 38.
XVIII.
53
For who is God, save Jehovah? And who is a rock, besides our God, The God that girdeth me with strength, And maketh my way perfect? He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: And setteth me upon my high places. He teacheth my hands to war; So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass. Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation; And thy right hand hath holden me up, And thy gentleness hath made me great. Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped. I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them; Neither will I turn again till they are consumed. I will smite them through, so that they shall not be
able to rise: shall fall under my feet. For thou hast girded me w ith strength unto the battle: Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me. They cried, but there was none to save; Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not. Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets. Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the
They 39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
r
people; hast made me the head of the nations people whom I have not known shall serve me. As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.
Thou
A 44.
45.
46.
The And
Jehovah
liveth;
and blessed be
my
rock;
exalted be the God of my salvation, Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, And subdueth peoples under me.
And 47.
foreigners shall fade away, shall come trembling out of their close places.
PSALM
54 48.
He
rescueth
Yea, thou
XVIII.
me from mine enemies; me up above them that
liftest
rise
up against
me;
Thou 49.
deliverest
among And will
50.
me from
the violent
man.
Therefore I will give thanks unto thee,
O
Jehovah,
the nations,
sing praises unto thy name. Great deliverance giveth he to his king, And showeth lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, for evermore.
Psalm XVIII. 1.
That a song
also signifies glorification,
sion from joy of heart,
is
which
confes-
is
because singing exalts, and
causes the affection to break forth from the heart into
sound, and to present
itself
intensely in
its
The
life.
Psalms of David are nothing else but songs, for they were played and sung, on which account also they are in many R. 279. places called songs. It is to
tioned
be observed that
— Psalm
respect to
its
cl.
1-5
—
all
menand each has from the conare what pro-
the instruments here
signify affections,
particular affection,
and
this
cordance of their sound, for the affections duce the variety of sounds with men. Therefore the affecThe sounds of the tions are also known by the sounds. musical instruments mentioned elevate the affection, and the truths form
music.
For
this
it,
as
is
also
known
to those skilled in
reason the writings of David are called
Psalms and also songs, for they were played and sung with the addition of the sounds of various instruments. E. 326.
1-3 et seq.
That the
exalting of Jehovah, that
is
of the
A. 8261. Lord was practised by songs is plain in David. Confidence of the Lord from His Divine against 1-4, 7. the hells.
P. P.
PSALM The horn
2, 3.
55
of salvation stands for truth in regard to
Here strength, rock,
power.
and
XVIII.
God, strong rock power of truth.
fortress,
shield are all significative of the
A. 2832.
A
horn signifies power, and in speaking of the Lord, omnipotence. R. 270.
By
and
a rock
the Lord,
fortress
predicated of Jehovah, or
"My
trust," signifies defence.
my
when
signified omnipotence.
is
"In
whom
salvation" signify salvation thence derived.
and shield and horn
Fortress,
Word of
Divine good, rock
Hence by
these things are
are predicated in the of Divine truth.
I will
buckler and the horn of
omnipotence, defence and salvation, which are from Divine good by Divine truth. E. 316. "My God El my strong rock" where power is 3. signified
— —
treated
A. 4402.
of.
He
Jehovah because He alone is, or lives, thus from His essence, and God because he can do as is evident in the all things, thus from His power A. 300. Word, where this distinction is made.
3, 29, 30, 32.
is
called
—
3, 31.
A
shield
and a buckler stand
for protection against
A. 1788.
falsities.
By
3, 32, 47.
the rock
is
understood the Lord as to Divine E. 411.
truth.
By
rock throughout the
Word
the Divine truth
under-
Inv., 35.
stood. 5.
is
Rivers in the opposite sense signify
By
ance.
temptations are inundations of Since
all
falsities in
abund-
floods also temptations are signified, because
R. 409.
falsity.
spiritual temptations are
caused by
falsities
breaking into the thoughts and infesting the interior mind, thus by reasoning from them, hence also temptations are signified
by inundations of waters, and by irruptions of
streams and torrents. 5,
6.
By
See Psalm
death
is
ix.
14.
E. 518. A. 61 19.
here signified the extinction of spiritual
life,
PSALM
56
XVIII.
Every man has spiritual is spiritual death. indeed from creation, and thence from birth, but that
which
5
eternal
No xx.
life
— but
and
in heart,
who
R. 321.
meant by death and
who were
those
life
Word, and
hell,
interiorly
— Revelation in
themselves
That by death are meant the impious themselves were devils, and by hell those
satans.
who
in
in themselves
See Psalm
were satans
R. 870. E. 186.
manifest.
is
vi. 6.
Combats
5-7.
the holiness of the
are denied.
others are
13
devils
•
when God,
extinguished
is
life
of the
5, 6, 15, 38, 39,
Lord with
40, 41, 43.
that compassed
the hells.
The
and prevented
cords
P. P.
and snares
of death
signify temptations,
which
because they are from hell are also called the cords of
These and all the other things in this Psalm treat combats and of the victories of the Lord. L. 14. In the highest sense by a temple is signified the Lord as
hell.
of the 7.
to His Divine Human, in particular as to His Divine truth, but in the representative sense the Lord's church in heaven
by the temple, as also the Lord's church in the R. 191. Where temple is mentioned heaven and the church are understood, as likewise the Divine truth proceeding from is
signified
world.
the Lord.
The
7, 8.
E. 220. earth shaken
and moved stands
for the state of
become perverse. An earthquake is nothing than a change of the state of the church. Earth in the internal sense is nothing else than the church.
the church else
In the natural sense the earth spiritual sense
who
it is
the church, for the reason that they
are in the spiritual sense, that
are the angels,
A. 3355the earth, but in the
is
when
is
earth or land
who is
are spiritual as
mentioned in the
Word, do not understand the earth or land itself, but the nation therein and its Divine worship. Hence it is that by earth or land
is
signified the church.
J. 3.
PSALM
By
XVIII.
57
the earth the Lord's church in the heavens
earth
is
and on
meant.
R.
the
.285.
The reason
that earthquakes signify changes of state in because the earth signifies the church, and because in the spiritual world when the state of the church is anywhere perverted and a change is made, there is an
the church
is
earthquake, and because this foreshadows their destruc-
R. 331.
tion they are in terror.
Here the earth stands for the church, which is said to shake and to tremble when it is perverted by the falsifications of truths, and in this case the foundations of the mountains are said to shake and to be moved, for the goods of love which are founded upon the truths of faith Mountains stand for the goods of love, and then vanish. E. 304.
their foundations for the truths of faith.
By
these words
it is
not to be understood that the earth
shook and trembled, and that the foundations of the hills were moved, but the church and the truths upon which the church is founded are meant; for the earth also
signifies the
church, and the foundations of the
nify the truths
on which
it
is
derived from good.
By
7-1 1 et seq. 8.
E. 400.
all this is
Mountains stand
hills sig-
founded, which are truths
for the
described the last judgment.
D. P., Page 72. good things of love, and their
A. 9643. foundations for the truths of faith. The earth stands for the church, and the foundations of the
mountains
for the truths
upon which the goods
love are founded.
8-15.
In zeal
He
8-20.
Here
described the destruction of the impious,
has subjugated them and
of
E. 405. laid them low. P. P.
is
the well-being of the faithful. 8,
16.
The church
is
signified
P.,
R.
earth.
By
and
Page 72. by the globe and by the D.
the foundation of the world
is
5 8 9-
signified the estab-
PSALM
58
XVIII.
lishment of the church, for the same
world as by heaven and the earth. Anger is described by hre. 9. The state of an evil man when he that of smoke, which
when
fire is
is
understood by the E. 1057.
A. 9143.
angry
is
similar to
applied to
it
conceives
is
flame, for the false of evil in the intellect
anger is like a flame of kindled smoke. correspondence between them. Hence
Word smoke
stands for what
is false,
is
as smoke,
There it
is
is
and
also a
that in the
and the flame thereof A. 9144.
signifies anger.
from Jehovah which consumes the wicked, and that Jehovah acts from the fire of wrath, of anger and of fury, it is not meant that it is from Jehovah, but from the infernal love of the wicked. Such things are said in the Word because they are appear-
Where
it is
said that there
and the Word
ances,
is
a
fire
in the sense of the letter
is
Smoke evil,
what is false from by which that smoke is occasioned,
in the opposite sense signifies
because the
fire
E. 494.
signifies evil of love.
Fire stands for the hatreds
9, 10.
which are
ties
written
R. 494.
by appearances and correspondences.
in
and smoke
men, which are attributed
for the falsito
Jehovah A. 1861.
or the Lord.
Add: evil, hell and the devil do these xi. 6. by no means the Lord, who is mercy itself and good itself, but because He appears to do them therefore See Psalm
things,
.
.
.
they are attributed to Him.
A. 2447.
In these passages it is not meant that a smoke and a devouring fire ascended from Jehovah, for there is no wrath in Him, but it is thus said because the Lord so appears to those who are in falsities and evils, for they view
Him
from their own See Psalm
xi. 6.
E. 504.
See Psalm
vi. 2.
A. 8286.
9, 13, 14. 9, 16.
10.
When
the good
falsities
and
by means of natural
and
E. 539.
evils.
true things of faith are perverted
light.
The dusk
of the feet
— Na-
PSALM
XVIII.
59
—
hum i. 3 signifies the natural and corporeal things with man, from which are clouds. A. 2162. Thick darkness here stands for clouds. To ride 10, 11. upon a cherub represents the Lord's providence, lest man should of himself enter into the mysteries of faith which are in the Word. A. 2761. The
sense of the letter of the
Word
is
a guard for the It is a guard
genuine truths which are concealed within. in this respect that this sense
thither,
and
may
and explained according
be turned hither and
to one's apprehension,
yet without hurt or violence to
To
its
internal.
guard
is
to sit
upon them means upon the ultimate sense
signified
by cherubs.
ride
Word.
By guard
of the S. 97.
the cherubs the Divine truth in the ultima tes as a is
signified.
to be seated
To
upon the cherubs, to sit and upon the ultimate sense of the
ride
upon them
is
Word.
R. 239.
The wings
of the
wind are the Divine truths which flow R. 343.
in.
Since by cherubs
and
This
upon cherubs and
is
signified the
Word
in the ultimates,
it is therefore said " Jehovah bowed the came down, and rode upon a cherub." To upon cherubs, and to sit upon them means upon the
also a
guard
heavens, and ride
ultimate sense of the Word.
T. 260. Because it is the Divine proceeding from the Lord which provides and guards, therefore it is said concerning the Lord that He dwelleth between the cherubim. E. 277.
By Jehovah bowing
the heavens
and coming down
is
which precedes the last judgment. By the darkness under His feet is signified the falsities of evil in things beneath. By His riding upon a cherub, signified
visitation
His flying and being carried upon the wings of the wind signified omnipresence with the Divine, the wings of the wind standing for Divine truths in ultimates. E. 419. is
PSALM
60
The
io, 12, 13.
XVIII.
subject here treated of
coming and presence
Lord
of the
is
concerning the
in the
Word.
Thick
darkness under His feet denotes the sense of the letter of the Word, in like manner the darkness of waters and the
That
clouds of the heavens.
nevertheless
the Divine
such as it is in the heavens is in that sense, is sigThat at nified by setting darkness for His hiding place. the presence of the Lord the internal sense appears such as it is in heaven in its glory, is signified by His clouds truth,
away from
Him.
A. 9406. A. 8764. Since guard and providence to prevent the Lord being
passing 11.
the splendor before
Describing the Divine truth and
come
at,
nified to sit
as also heaven, except by the
by cherubs, therefore
upon cherubs,
good of love
Word Jehovah
in the
and
also to ride
power.
its
to dwell
is sigis
said
upon cherubs. A. 9509..
See Psalm
R. 245.
xvii. 8.
The understanding
God rode upon a By flying when
of the
Word
Word
in the
it is
predicated of the Lord
omnipresence
is
circumspection and infinite presence.
By Jehovah
riding
vine providence. signified
By
horse.
R. 298.
cherub.
signified omnipresence, since
is
meant by a
is
upon a cherub
infinite
E. 282. signified
is
the expression
"and did
His omnipresence in the spiritual world.
His Difly*'
is
"Yea
He
did fly upon the wings of the wind" stands for The wings of His omnipresence in the natural world. the wind signify things spiritual, from which are things E. 283.
natural.
By
riding
By
a cherub
is
signified to give intelligence
and wisdom. E. 355-
is
signified to give
signified the
inmost heaven, by riding
understanding and
case the inmost heaven which
By
flying
is
is
signified
by a cherub.
and to upon the
also signified to give understanding
enlighten but the middle heaven.
is
to enlighten, in this
By
flying
1
PSALM wings of the wind
XVIII.
6
signified to give
is
to enlighten the ultimate
understanding and
heaven.
In these places to ride
E. 529.
and to be become wise.
signifies to instruct
instructed in the truths of doctrine,
and
so to
W. H. The
Word. Samuel xxii. 10, 12. To bow the heavens and come down means to hide the interiors of the Word. The thick darkness under His feet means that the things which appear to man are darkness in comparison such is the literal sense of the Word. To ride upon a cherub means that it was so provided. To put darkness round
11, 12.
See also
subject
is
the Divine revelation of the
ii.
—
Him
about
for tents, or
means the holy
of truth in
the literal sense. of the skies are
its
hiding place, namely within
The gathering of waters, the Word in the letter.
thick clouds
A. 4391.
W ord. A
tent sig-
ride signifies to instruct in Divine truths
from "he
The cherubs
11-13. nifies
His surroundings for His tent
T
also signify the
R.
a dwelling.
To Word,
for a horse signifies the understanding of the
Cherubs also signify the Word. Here also is described the illustration of the thence the illumination of the
men
24.
Word.
T. 776.
Word and
of the church.
Illus-
by the influx of Divine truth from the heavens is Divine signified by " he rode upon a cherub and did fly." truth in ultimates which is illustrated is signified by the wings of the wind, darkness, dark waters, and thick tration
clouds of the skies.
The
various degrees of the under-
standing receiving illumination are signified by those
That the
things.
the ultimate sense
by
obscurities
of the literal sense
— are thereby dissipated
" at the brightness that
was before him
is
his thick clouds
E. 594.
passed."
12-15.
Here hailstones stand
Since by hail are signified
— or
understood
for falsity
falsities,
from
and by
evil.
fire
A. 7553the evils
PSALM
62
XVIII.
from which they spring, therefore where so also
Blood
cation of truth. is
also the
falsity
destroying good
Word, and
and
in the opposite sense the
In these passages by hailstones and coals of
and
of the church.
The reason
evils
things are from Jehovah
scending from heaven 14.
14,
is,
falsities
See Psalm
18.
vii.
Uttering His voice, hailstones and coals of
and evils of lusts. Thunders and See Psalm
E. 273.
A. 8286.
vi. 2.
Foundations are the truths of
faith, for these truths of
the church are for foundations.
The Lord
is
Lamentations
A. 9643.
called the spirit or breath of our nostrils iv.
20.
vastates the evil
of the world
fire
falsities
A. 7573. lightnings signify the Divine truth in
regard to understanding and illumination.
and
with
E. 503. A. 8153.
evil.
15.
are
of its being said that such because the Divine truth de-
turned into infernal
is
fire
destroying the truths and goods
stand for the devastation of truth and good by
16.
Word
R. 399.
signified falsities
the
falsifi-
the Lord's Divine truth, which
is
falsified.
13-15.
by
truth,
and by the blood
infernal love,
fire is signified
the
spoken of
is
A. 7575.
Hail signifies
13-15.
hail
is fire.
—
Because Divine truth consumes
it is
said in
David
"
The
foundations
were revealed (uncovered) at thy rebuke,
O
Jehovah, at the respiration of the breath of thy nostrils." A. 9818.
See Psalm
By
the world
church in
R. 343.
xi. 6. is
not signified the world of lands, but the
R. 551.
it.
Since the spirit of
God
signifies
Divine truth,
it is
there-
— Psalm 6 — the His lips" — Isaiah 4 — the anointed of Jehovah and breath of His nostrils" — Lamfore called " the spirit of the xxxiii.
entations
"
iv.
spirit of
20:
Job
iv. 9.
mouth
of
Jehovah" xi.
"
E. 183.
PSALM
By
XVIII.
63
and breathing of the nostrils of understood the Divine proceeding, whereby
the breath, spirit
Jehovah
is
the evil are dispersed
and
tensely
That
all
and
down when
cast
flows in in-
it
strongly.
E. 419.
things of the church as to the truths
and as
goods thereof were utterly overturned is signified by the channels of the waters appeared, and the foundaThe channels of the tions of the world were discovered. to the
waters stand for the truths, and the foundations of the world for the goods thereof. To appear and be discov-
That this destructo be utterly overturned. from the hatred and the fury of the evil against
ered
means
tion
is
things Divine
is
signified by, at
at the blast of the breath of
Thy
Thy
O
rebuke,
nostrils.
By
Jehovah,
the rebuke
and the breath of the nostrils of Jehovah is signified the same as by His anger and wrath, elsewhere mentioned in But, as there does not exist any anger or the Word. wrath in the Lord against the evil, but in the evil against the Lord, and these appear to them when they perish as from the Lord, therefore ance. also
is
By
so said according to appear-
understood the east wind, which destroys by
drought, and by
17.
it is
the blast of the breath of the nostrils of Jehovah
its
penetrating power overturns.
Thus the Divine truth appears. High means what is Divine, because by
heaven, where the Divine
is.
said of Jehovah, or the Lord, that
He
himself
17-20.
is
He
dwells
is
it
Therefore in the
on
meant
Word
it is
high,
and
A. 8153.
called the Highest.
From His Divine He
E. 741. P. P.
has prevailed over them. P. P.
19, 20.
The day
of calamity stands for a
weak
state in
respect to the faith of truth, Jehovah being a staff stands
Bringing forth into a large broad power thence. means into the truths which are of faith. A. 9028. 20. That truth is signified by breadth may be evident from See also Psalm xxxi. 8; cxviii. 5, etc. these passages. for
place
R. 861.
PSALM
64
and
Justice
21, 27, 31, 33.
XVIII.
integrity belonged to the Lord.
P. P.
26.
See Psalm xv. 1,2.
A. 612.
A lamp stands for faith, and the intelligence of and the wisdom of good, which are from the Lord
29.
truth,
alone.
A. 9548.
To
lamp or candle
light a
signifies to illuminate the
understanding by Divine truth.
To
enlighten the dark-
ness signifies to dissipate the falsities of ignorance by the
E. 274.
light of truth.
Darkness also signifies in the Word mere ignorance, E. 526. arising from the deprivation of truth. 29,
Also Divine truth.
30.
32.
That God
32.
For who
save our
He
is
One
is
is
God
God?
P. P.
confirmed by these passages. L- 45 save Jehovah? And who is a rock D. P., Page 63. is
the only God.
P. P.
See Psalm xviii. 32. Add: Jehovah liveth, and 32, 47. blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my sal-
D. P., Page 63. Divine. P. P. from His 33-37. 34. That by a hind is signified natural affection is, because it is among the beasts which signify affections, as all those are which are for food and use, as lambs, sheep, goats, and A. 6413. kids, also oxen and cows. By war here mentioned is meant war in the spiritual 35. sense, which is war against evils and falsities, this war vation.
He
God
fights
teaches.
of charity,
By the bow
and by
its
of brass
is
signified the doctrine
being broken by the arms
By
teaching the hands war
enemies in is
effected
is
signified
E. 357.
victory.
this world,
by combats
is
not understood war against
but against enemies in of truth against falses
hell,
which
and against
It appears indeed as if war were here understood, such as David waged against his enemies, and so that
evils.
PSALM
XVIII.
65
Jehovah teaches that war, and how brass
and a
upon the arms, but
also a spiritual
bow
still
bow which
is
Word viewed
in
its
down a bow
war
is
of
understood,
the doctrine of truth,
and
and
this
of brass the doctrine of the
because the
to let
spiritual
good of
essence
is
life,
spiritual.
E. 734-
See Psalm
36.
vii.
A. 1788.
10, 11.
The
right hand of Jehovah is Divine power. A. 10019. Memorable Relation. If you consult the Word and are
such that you can be enlightened, you will perceive that T. 136. by the right hand there is meant omnipotence. See Psalm xvi. 8. 38-41. And subjugates the 42. They have no saviour.
E. 298. P. P.
hells.
P. P.
Since the streets signify the truths of the doctrine of
43.
—
the church, therefore they taught in the streets uel
i.
20 — and
on
this
ii.
Sam-
account the hypocrites prayed at
—
—
Matthew vi. 2, 5. For this and what is falsified is called the mud, the R. 501. dirt, and the dung of the streets. These things are also said from appearances in the the corners of the streets
reason
falsity
world where falses dung, mire, and
spiritual world, for in the cities in that
from
evil reign, the streets
appear
full of
mud. 43, 46. 44.
E. 652.
Therefore they will be destroyed.
Here the people stand
the nations for those
for those
who
who
are in good.
mentioned because they constitute the
P. P.
and
are in truths,
They
man
are both
of the church.
A. 1259. See Psalm
xviii. 5, 6, 15, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43-
L
-
J 4-
That there are in the Word repetitions as of the same thing on account of the marriage of good and truth may be seen more clearly from the passages where nations and peoples are mentioned. By nations are meant those who are in good, and by peoples those who are in truths,' and in the opposite sense those
who
are in
falsities,
wherefore
PSALM
66 44 they
who
peoples,
XVIII.
are in the Lord's spiritual
and they who are
kingdom are called kingdom
in the Lord's celestial
S. 86.
are called nations.
That peoples signify those who are in truths or falsities of doctrine, and nations those who are in the goods or evils of life may be evident from many places in the Word. R. 483.
would be tedious to show from the Word that there are such dual expressions in the Word, appearing like repetiNations and peoples are mentions of the same thing. tioned together, because by nations are meant those who are in good, and in the opposite sense those who are in evil, and by people those who are in truths, and in the It
opposite sense those
who
are in
T. 251.
falsities.
Nations signify those who are in the good of love, and people those who are in the good of charity, and the truths E. 331.
of faith thence derived.
44, 45.
Then
there will be a
new church which
knowledge and worship the Lord.
will ac-
P. P.
D. P., Page 63. Verse quoted. 47-51. A song of that church in praise of the Lord on
47.
P. P.
account of redemption. 49.
A man
of violence stands for those
truths of faith
and the goods
PSALM For the Chief Musician. i.
2.
3.
who
destroy the
of charity.
XIX.
A
Psalm
of David.
The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament showeth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night showeth knowledge. is no speech nor language; Their voice is not heard.
There
A. 6353.
PSALM XIX. 4.
gone out through all the earth, words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course. His going forth is from the end of the heavens, And his circuit unto the ends of it; And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul: The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the Their
And
5.
6.
7.
67
line is
their
simple. 8.
9.
The precepts of Jehovah are right, The commandment of Jehovah is
rejoicing the heart:
pure, enlightening
the eyes. The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever: The ordinances of Jehovah are true, and righteous altogether.
10.
More
to
be desired are they than gold, yea, than
much
fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the
n. 12.
13.
14.
honeycomb, Moreover by them is thy servant warned: In keeping them there is great reward. Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous Let them not have dominion over me:
Then shall I be upright, And I shall be clear from great transgression. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation heart Be acceptable in thy sight, Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer.
O
sins;
of
my
PSALM XIX.
68
Psalm XIX.
The Divine
1-5.
truth will go forth in every direction. P. P.
2.
In these passages by heavens are signified the angelic A. 9408.
heavens.
The
glory of Jehovah,
nifies its internal sense,
The reason why
when concerning
the
thus the interiors of
the interiors of the
Word
Word, sigthe Word.
are called glory
because the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord as a sun is the light of heaven, which gives sight to the angels
is,
and
there,
From
at the
same time
that Divine light
as to exceed all
The
is all
human
intelligence
apprehension.
is
such
A. 9429.
angels of heaven perceive nothing else by glory
than the Divine truth. The glory in which the Lord truth in
its light,
in
which the
is
to
come
signifies
R. 629. Divine
spiritual sense of the
Word
T. 780.
is.
5.
and wisdom.
glory in heaven, which
The sun stands for love. By the sun is here understood the
Lord dwells
The
in the
A. 414. the Divine love, because
good of His own love in the heavens.
tabernacle here stands for the Lord's heaven from
the good of love.
E. 799.
Speaking of the Lord, whose state of Divine power A. 3387. is described by such things as are of space. This truth will go forth from the. Lord from the first things to the last things of heaven and the church.
6. 7.
P. P. 7.
From
the extremity of the heavens to their extremities
A. 9666. all things and every where. precepts of the decalogue were therefore called the testimony, because they were of the covenant, and thus
stands for
% The
between the Lord and man, which conman keeps the precepts, not in the external form, but also in the internal.
of the conjunction
junction cannot exist unless flnly
A. 4197-
PSALM XIX.
69
subject is the Word and the things which are Word, which are manifestly its precepts, statutes, judgments, testimonies, commandments, and ways.
The
8-10.
of the
What
these things signify specifically cannot at all be seen from the sense of the letter, in which sense they are hardly more than repetitions of the same thing. But it may be seen from the internal sense in which one thing is signified by precepts, quite another by statutes, and others by judg-
ments, testimonies, commandments, and ways.
As
what concerns the
to
tinction
is
made
in the
A. 3382.
signification of testimony a dis-
Word between
laws, statutes, judg-
ments, precepts, testimonies, words, commands, truths, covenants, as especially in
may
Psalm
and testimonies
be manifest from very cxix.
where
all
many
in verses 2, 14, 31, 46, 59, 88, 91,
124,
and commandments are signified such by the law and precepts those which and by statutes and judgments those which
testimonies
things as teach
teach doctrine,
life,
teach rituals. 8-12. This Divine
E. 392. truth
perfects
man,
because
wisdom. 9,
in,
A. 9503.
138, 144, 168.
By
passages
those things are named,
it
is
P. P.
10. "The fear of Jehovah is clean" means love, and "the judgments of Jehovah are truth" means faith. A. 2826. The judgments of Jehovah stand for truth Divine, sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb for
enjoyments from good, and pleasures from truth. A. 5620.
Judgment
By
relates to truth,
and
justice to good.
R. 668.
the judgments of Jehovah are signified the truths
and goods
of worship, righteousness or justice being predi-
and worship thence derived. As by gold, and fine gold, it is therefore said that they are more desirable than gold and than much cated of the good of
good
is
life
also signified
fine gold, gold
standing for celestial good, fine gold for
PSALM XIX.
70 10 spiritual good,
tion
and
love.
and
desirable
meaning what
is
of the affec-
Since the goods with which a
fected are also delightful, therefore
it is
man
is
af-
said that they are
sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycombs.
Sweet denoting what is delightful, honey natural good, the dropping of the honeycombs natural truth.
and
E. 619.
There will be no pride. P. P. By Jehovah in the Word of the Old Testament no 15. other is meant than the Lord, for He is called Jehovah God and the Holy One of Israel, the Redeemer, the Saviour, the Maker. A. 7091. Since the Lord by the passion of the cross fully glorified His Human, that is united it to His Divine, and thus made His Human also Divine, it follows that He is Jehovah and God as to both. Wherefore in many places in the Word He is called Jehovah, God, and the Holy One of Israel, the Redeemer, Saviour, and Former. L. 34. 13,
14.
Now, because after the union of the Human with the Divine in himself, which was like that of the soul and the body in man, there were no longer two but one person, according to the doctrine of the Christian world, therefore the Lord as to both is Jehovah and God, wherefore it is sometimes said Jehovah and the' Holy One of Israel, the Redeemer and Saviour, and sometimes Jehovah the Redeemer and Saviour. L. 34.
That the Lord
is
called
Jehovah
is
manifest from these
passages.
L. 38.
These passages prove that Jehovah and the Lord are one, and because they are one, and not two, that the Lord from eternity who is Jehovah himself, is by the assumption of the
That
Human
the
Redeemer and
the Divine which
is
Saviour.
called the Father,
R. 281.
and the
Human which is called the Son, are one like the and the body. R. 613. Memorable Relation. Being confirmed from all these
Divine soul
PSALM XIX. passages, those that sat that
upon
Jehovah assumed the
71
the seats said unanimously
Human
to save
and redeem
men.
R. 962.
The foregoing statement repeated. B. 120. From these passages Isaiah xlviii. 17; xliii. 14: Psalm xxxi. 5, etc., and very many others every man who has eyes,
—
and whose mind has been opened by means of them can see that God, who is one, descended and became man for the purpose of accomplishing the work of redemption. T. 83. T. 188.
Statement of R. 962 repeated in
The
spiritual sense of the first
commandment
no other God than the Lord Jesus Christ
is
to
is,
that
be wor-
shipped, because He is Jehovah, who came into the world and wrought the redemption, without which no man and
no angel could have been saved. T. 294. In that primeval time (the Apostolic Church) all in what was then the Christian world acknowledged that the Lord Jesus Christ was God, to whom was given all power in heaven and earth, and power over all flesh, according to His
own
express words.
T. 637.
Redemption stands for deliverance from damnation. This vindication and liberation was effected by the Lord's subjugating the hells. The continual vindication and liberation is effected by His having glorified His Human, that
is
having
made
it
Divine, for thereby the hells are
kept continually subjugated. This is what is signified by His redeeming man, and by His being called in the Word a Redeemer.
E. 328.
Here by "O Jehovah, my rock" is signified the same as by Jehovah God, namely the Lord as to Divine good and Divine truth, and He is called Redeemer from regeneration, which is effected by Divine truths. E. 411. That the Lord the Saviour Jesus Christ is called in the Word of both testaments a stone and a rock is plain from the following passages, Deuteronomy xxxii. 15, 18, 30: ii. Samuel xxiii. 3: Psalm lxxviii. 10, 11, 22, 32, 35, 42, etc. Coro.
2.
:
PSALM XIX.
72
Thus
there will be
what
is
pure and acceptable.
P. P.
D. P., Page 86. Jehovah my rock and my redeemer. Whole Chapter. The Lord is treated of in the whole Word. Ath.
PSALM XX. For the Chief Musician.
Jehovah answer thee
The name
of the
in the
A
Psalm
of David.
day of trouble;
God
Send thee help from
of Jacob set thee the sanctuary,
up on
And strengthen thee out of Zion; Remember all thy offerings, And accept thy burnt-sacrifice; Grant thee thy heart's
And
We 6.
7.
fulfil all
high;
[Selah
desire,
thy counsel.
triumph in thy salvation, And in the name of our God we will set up our banners Jehovah fulfil all thy petitions. Now know I that Jehovah saveth his anointed; He will answer him from his holy heaven will
With the saving strength of his right hand. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will make mention of the name of Jehovah our God.
8.
They are bowed down and fallen; But we are risen, and stand upright.
9.
Save, Jehovah: Let the King answer us when we
call.
Psalm XX. 1.
In the Word of the Old Testament by the God of Jacob, and by the Holy One of Israel, the Lord himself is sigA. 3305.
nified.
1-5.
A
song in praise of the Lord, that
church.
He
sustains the P. P.
PSALM XX. Jehovah answer up on high.
2.
thee, the
name
73 of the
The sanctuary
2, 3.
truth of faith,
God D.
thee
of Jacob set P.,
Page
stands for the heaven in which
and Zion
for the
heaven in which
Burnt-offerings
and
sacrifices
stand for
63.
the
the good
is
A. 8330. worship,
of love. 3, 4.
is
all
burnt-offerings for worship from love, sacrifices for wor-
ship from faith from love.
See Psalm
3, 6.
ii.
A. 923. R. 612.
6-8, 12.
These things are also said concerning the Lord, and hells, and the salvation Combats and victories are of men thereby obtained. understood by Jehovah answering His anointed from the heaven of His Holiness, by the virtues of the salvation of
3, 6, 7.
concerning His victories over the
His right hand. The salvation of the faithful thereby is understood by His supporting us out of Zion, and by our singing in His salvation. E. 850. 4.
To make
fat the
burnt sacrifice means to render the
worship good.
As
A. 5943.
fat signifies celestial
was therefore a statute should be burned upon the
good,
that all the fat of the sacrifices
it
altar.
By
fat
is
signified all the
good
of
R. 782. heaven and of the
church. 6.
See Psalm
We
E. 11 59. ii.
will set
2, 6.
up our
standard, Jehovah
D.
petitions.
That salvation is from Him. See Psalm ii. 2. Divine power or omnipotence is also
fulfil
P.,
Page
See Psalm
ii.
2, 6.
See Psalm
ii.
2, 6.
A
A. 3008. signified
by the
A. 8281.
right hand.
8.
63.
P. P.
6. 7, 10. 7.
R. 779. all thy
.
A. 9954. E. 375.
horse signifies the understanding of truth
and a
In the opposite sense however a horse signifies the understanding of truth when falsified by W. H. reasonings.
chariot doctrine.
PSALM XX.
74
A
8, 9.
chariot signifies doctrine from the
horseman one who
is
Word, and a
In Zechariah
wise therefrom.
vi.
Word, or the understanding of truth from the Word is signified by horses. This may be still more evident from horses when mentioned in the opposite sense, in which they signify the understanding of the Word and of truth falsified by reasonings, and also destroyed, also one's own intelligence 1-8,
15, the understanding of the
R. 298.
as here.
By
trusting in the chariots
and
in horses,
and by
the
strength of a horse in which Jehovah does not delight
Psalm
10, are signified all things
cxlvii.
self-derived intelligence,
By
the legs of a
man
from which are merely what is from
are signified
from which are merely ish
who
trust in
falsities.
self-will,
E. 355. per-
evils.
That those are saved who
—
which are from
Him, and those
P. P.
trust in themselves.
R. 376. The Lord as King is the Divine truth because this is It is from this that heaven and the signified by a king. R. 664. church are called His Kingdom.
10.
See Psalm
See Psalm
iv. 2.
E. 471.
iv. 2.
PSALM For the Chief Musician.
XXI.
A
Psalm
of David.
The king shall joy in thy strength, O Jehovah; And in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice Thou hast given him his heart's desire, And hast not withholden the request of his lips. TSelah 1
For thou meetest him with the blessings of goodness: Thou settest a crown of fine gold on his head. He asked life of thee, thou gavest it him, of days for ever and ever. great in thy salvation: majesty dost thou lay upon him.
Even length His glory
is
Honor and
PSALM XXI.
75
For thou makest him most blessed
6.
Thou makest him
for evert
glad with joy in thy presence.
For the king trusteth in Jehovah; through the lovingkindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.
7.
And
Thy hand will find out all thine enemies; Thy right hand will find out those that hate thee. Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time
8.
9.
of
thine anger:
swallow them up in his wrath, devour them. Their fruit wilt thou destroy from the earth, And their seed from among the children of men. For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to
10.
11.
Jehovah
will
And
fire shall
the
perform.
For thou
12.
Thou
make them turn their back; make ready with thy bowstrings against
wilt
wilt
their
face.
Be thou exalted, O Jehovah, in thy strength: So will we sing and praise thy power.
13.
Psalm XXI.
1-7.
P. P. General Subject. Concerning the Lord. From His Divine He has all good and truth, thus
honour and 4,
6,
7.
By
P. P.
glory.
the king here mentioned
is
not understood
David, but the Lord, who is called king from the Divine As spiritual which proceeds from His Divine Human. blessing signifies acknowledgment, glorification, and thanksgiving that all good and truth, and thence heaven
and
eternal felicity are "
from Him,
it is
hence evident what
thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness " and by " For thou settest him to be blessings for evermore." Blessings of goodness signify truths from good. A crown of pure gold signifies the good from
is
signified
by
PSALM XXI.
76
which these truths are derived. Honour and glory sigE. 340. nify the Divine good and the Divine truth. Length applied to time signifies perpetuity and eternity, 5. as length of days in Psalms xxi. 4, 5 and xxiii. 6, but if applied to space it stands for the holiness which follows A. 650.
therefrom.
See Psalm
6. 7.
R. 249. R. 289.
viii. 6.
See Psalm xvi. 7. These things are spoken concerning the Lord.. By the honour and majesty said to be laid upon Him are E. 288. understood all Divine truth and Divine good. 7.
This also
is
and
When He is Him are all celestial
said concerning the Lord.
called a blessing,
it
signifies that
spiritual things,
from
which alone are good, and because
they alone are good they alone are true. as there are celestial
worldly,
and
and corporeal
spiritual
Therefore as far
good things
in natural,
things, so far these are good,
and
A. 1420.
so far are blessed.
Those who study the Word are worse off, because it from something profane that is within. There is no good and truth. Their heart is stubborn. P. P. Verse 14. Hence their destruction. In these passages by fire is signified all lust originating 10. in the love of evil, and its punishment which is torment.
8-13.
they study
E. 504.
The time By fruit
D. P., Page 71. of the ground are meant works of faith with11. out charity, for these are works of no faith in themselves A. 348. dead, since they are only of the external man. That those who are of the New Church and in the truth of its doctrine are here meant by the seed of the woman, may be evident from the signification of seed in the following passages: Isaiah lxi. 9; lxv. 23; Psalm xxii. 30: Genesis
and
in the
R. 565.
15, etc.
iii.
By seed
of wrath.
is
signified the truth of doctrine
supreme
sense, Divine truth.
from the Word, E. 768.
.
PSALM
"Thou
12, 13.
XXII.
77
wilt set the shoulder against
them."
To
resist,
thus
shoulder against them means also to
set the
stands for power. 14.
A. 9836.
See P. P. under verses 8-13.
PSALM For the Chief Musician;
1
My
2.
my
God,
Why
P. P.
XXII.
Aijeleth hash-Shahar. of David.
set to
A
Psalm
God, why hast thou forsaken me ? from helping me, and from the
art thou so far
words of my groaning? God, I cry in the day-time, but thou answerest
O my not;
And 3.
O 4.
5.
6.
in the night season,
and
am
not
silent.
thou that inhabitest the praises of
Israel.
But thou
art holy,
Our fathers trusted in thee: They trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: They trusted in thee, and were not put to shame. But I am a worm, and no man;
A 7.
8.
9.
reproach of men, and despised of the people. me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, Commit thyself unto Jehovah; let him deliver him: Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him. But thou art he that took me out of the womb; All they that see
Thou 10.
Thou 11.
didst
art
Be not
my God
trust
since
my
when I was upon my
womb;
mother bare me.
from me; for trouble is near; none to help. Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. far
For there 12.
make me
mother's breasts. I was cast upon thee from the
is
PS AIM XXII.
78 13.
They gape upon me with iViCU mouth, As a ravening and a roaring on. 4
; i.
14.
am
poured out like water, my bones are out of My heart is like wax; It is melted within me. I
And
15.
My
all
strength
is
dried
up
like
joint:
a potsherd;
And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust
of death.
16.
For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.
17.
I
18.
They look and stare upon me; They part my garments among them, And upon my vesture do they cast lots.
19.
But be not thou
may count
thou 20.
my my
all
my
bones.
far off,
O
Jehovah:
succor, haste thee to help me.
Deliver soul from the sword, darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion's mouth; Yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast an-
My
21.
swered me. 22.
23.
name unto my brethren: In the midst of the assembly will I praise thee. Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; I will declare thy
And 24.
stand in
awe
of him, all ye the seed of Israel.
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the
affliction of
the afflicted;
Neither hath he hid his face from him; But when he cried unto him, he heard. 25.
Of
26.
27.
my my vows
thee cometh
1 will
pay
praise in the great assembly: before them that fear him.
The meek shall eat and be satisfied; They shall praise Jehovah that seek
after him: Let your heart live for ever. All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah;
PSALM
And
all
XXII.
79
the kindreds of the nations shall worship before
thee. 28.
For the kingdom
And
29.
30.
he
is
Jehovah's;
the ruler over the nations. All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship: All they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, Even he that cannot keep his soul alive. is
A
seed shall serve him; be told of the Lord unto the next generation. They shall come and shall declare his righteousness Unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it. It shall
31.
Psalm XXII
The
General Subject.
State of the Lord's Passion. P. P.
4, 5, 6, 9,
10-12.
Prayer to the Father that
saken, seeing that that 10.
He was
be not
despised than
the Father's from conception.
Since in the
generations,
He was more
He
Word
and
Former, and
He
for-
all others,
P. P.
natural generations signify spiritual
these are from the Lord,
that taketh from the
He
womb.
is
called the
T. 583.
Here also is described the spiritual regeneration of man by such things as belong to natural generation. By "Thou art my bringer forth from the womb" is signified to be regenerated from the Lord, and made a man of the church. By " Thou makest for me trust from my mother's paps " is signified the being led afterwards, and spiritually
10, 11.
educated. The paps signify spiritual nourishment in such things as appertain to the church, and mother denoting the church. By " I have been cast upon thee from
womb"
the
is
signified that the
from the good of
He The
that 11.
love.
"From
effected all things
reason
why
by
Lord
effected all things
the belly of
truths.
my mother" E. 710.
the belly or the bowels (womb), sig-
nify the interiors of the thought or of the understanding
is
because there are two lives with man, namely, the life of the understanding and the life of the will. To those two
PSALM
80 11
XXII.
life correspond all the things of the body. hence also that the body and the bowels are predicated of thought which is of the understanding, and the heart of
fountains of
.
.
.
It is
E. 622. which is of the will. That man is in the Lord and the Lord in him, and that the Lord has His abode in man if man loves Him, He This abode the Lord prepares for himhimself teaches. self in the womb, on which account Jehovah, or the Lord, in the Word is called creator, former, and maker from the Wis. iii. womb. 11,12. As regeneration and thence the church are signified by going forth from the womb, therefore the Lord is called affection
in the
Word He
that formeth from the
bringeth forth from the erated
womb, and
and made a church are
they
womb, He that who are regen-
said to be carried from the
womb.
A. 4918.
That those who are of the church where the Word is have condemned Him to death, that they have crucified Him, that they have divided His garments, or dissipated P. P. the truths of His Word. A. 5828. See Psalm xvii. 12. 14. R. 241. See Psalm xvii. 12. E. 278. See Psalm xvii. 12. 13-19.
The subject is the Lord's temptations as to 19. Divine truth, which were the Lord's proprium and hence are called my bones, and as to Divine good which was the
15, 18,
Lord's proprium, and hence is called my heart. The of bones is desiring to dissipate these truths by reasonings and falsities, therefore also it immediately fol-
numbering
lows that they parted
my
garments and cast
lots
upon my
vesture, for garments also signify truths, but exterior.
A. 3812.
Dogs stand for those who destroy the goods of faith, who on that account are called the companies of the malignant. To deliver the soul from the sword means
17, 21.
from the
false vastating the truth of faith.
A. 9231.
1
PSALM
The Lord's garments
ig.
XXII.
8
represented truths in the external
form, and His tunic truths in the internal form.
The
di-
vision of the garments represented the dissipation of the
by the Jews. A. 9093. waistcoat (tunic) signifies the garment next to the
truths of faith
The body.
From
the internal sense
are signified truths,
By
truths.
By garments clothe good,
That
and by the Lord's garments Divine and dividing is meant to pull
dissipate them.
in the
and
evil, for
violence
signified
by the
Word
A. 9942. are signified the truths which
either his
was done
to the
Word
good or
Word
R. 166.
his evil.
in the sense of the
in the spiritual sense
soldiers dividing the
Supplication that
A
church
—
also
E. 195. P. P.
not be forsaken.
— from — that the Lord was assisted by the Father — P. P.
20, 21, 22. this
He may
is
garments of the Lord,
but not His coat.
22.
which
in the opposite sense the falsities
man is
a
but not to the
letter,
A. 9942. evident that by garments
casting lots
them asunder and
clothe
it is
will
come
into existence
.
Divine truths from their height are called the horns of
unicorns, hence the horn exaltation signifies
Since by horns
is
so often said to be exalted, for
power from the
is
interior.
signified truth in
its
A. 2832.
power, and in the
opposite sense the false destroying the truth, therefore
speech
By
is
A. 101 82.
attributed to a horn.
the lion
stroying truth, fied the truths
is
here signified what
is
false violently de-
and by the horns of the unicorn are signiE. 316. which prevail against falsities.
Lord as to Divine and the Divine truth received by the angels in the spiritual kingdom of the Lord is the same with Divine good spiritual, and good spiritual is the good of charity, there-
23.
Since kings formerly represented the
truth,
fore also the kings appointed over the sons of Israel called their subjects brethren, although
it
was not
lawful,
on the
other hand, for the subjects to call their king brother,
PSALM
82
much
XXII.
who
lawful thus to call the Lord,
less is it
and Lord of lords. Here to stand in awe
is
King
24.
of
Him means
the truth of faith, for the seed of Israel
the church, or the good
By
fearing the Lord's
and
who
to
worship from
is
the spiritual of
truth of faith.
A. 2826.
name is signified to love the things By fearing is signified to love, and
which are the Lord's. by the Lord's name, all things by which
That
of
E. 746.
kings,
to fear here signifies to love,
loves fears also to do evil to
is
He
is
worshipped.
because every one
him whom he
loves.
R. 527.
Jehovah God involves and thence signifies account Him holy and to revere Him, consequently to
That to
to fear
worship 24, 25.
Him
By
with sanctity and reverence.
the seed of Israel no other seed
E. 696. is
meant than A. 1025.
the spiritual church.
See Psalm
25.
It is said that
on account
R. 939.
xiii. 2.
Jehovah, that
of iniquities,
.
.
.
is
the Lord, hides His face
when
nevertheless
hides nor withdraws His Divine good
which are
by His
signified
And He endured
He
and Divine
face.
— the temptation — by power
never truth,
E. 412. of His
P. P.
Divine.
27-32. Through this there will be a church that will be gathered together from all parts, and it will worship Him. P. P.
In the Jewish church, and in the Word the Lord and His Kingdom were represented, and consequently
28, 29.
the celestial things of love
and all
also the
many
and the
spiritual things of faith,
things which pertain thereto such as
A. 1361.
things which are of the church.
See Psalm xcvi.
People signify those nations those
who
A. 1261.
7.
who
are of the spiritual church,
are of the celestial church.
and
E. 331.
Dust signifies that which was condemned and infernal. mean, that when also Psalm civ. 29 These passages
30.
—
—
PSALM
XXIII.
away from
they turn themselves they expire or die,
and
come damned and
infernal.
83
Lord
the face of the
so return to the dust, that
is,
be-
A. 278. are regenerated, thus those
Seed stands for those who are of the church and in whom the church is, thus in the sense abstract from persons, those things which make a regenerate person, or which make the church with man, which are faith and charity from the Lord. A. 10249.
31.
who
See Psalm xxi.
By
n.
R. 565.
the seed which shall serve
Him
are in truths of doctrine from the
numbered
to the
Lord
are
Word.
for a generation,
they shall be His to eternity.
To
meant those who By: is
it
shall be
signified that
be numbered means to
be arranged and disposed in order, in the present case to be numbered together. or added, thus to be His. E. 768.
PSALM A 1.
2.
3.
4.
Jehovah
is
my
Psalm
XXIII. of David.
shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside still waters. He restoreth my soul: He guideth me in the paths of righteousness
for his
name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear
5.
no
evil;
for thou art with
me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the
presence of
mine enemies:
Thou
My 6.
hast anointed
my
head with
oil;
cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and lovingkindness shall follow the days of my life;
And
I shall dwell in the house of
Jehovah
me
for ever.
all
PSALM
84
XXIII.
Psalm XXIII.
I,
General Subject. Concerning the Lord. Spiritual food is called herbage. When instruction or doctrine from the Word
P. P.
A. 57.
2.
of in heaven, then in the world of spirits,
is
where
spoken
spiritual
appear naturally, are represented to the sight grass, herbage and flowers with Feeding meaning to be instructed. flocks therein. things
meadows green with
A. 5201.
To feed Word the
is to
teach, because the church
flock,
sheep and lambs. the shepherd
By
him
and the men of Hence to feed,
Word
signifies to teach,
known
in the
and
R. 383.
are signified the truths of faith,
likewise the knowledges of truth. It is
called in the
the church are called
that teaches.
waters in the
is
church that
E. 71. to feed signifies to in-
struct, the pasture signifies instruction,
and a pastor or
E. 482. shepherd an instructor. 1-3. Pasture stands for the truths in which man is instructed, and here for such things as relate to spiritual life, for spiritual life is such that if that pasture fails it languishes, and as it were pines away, as does the body when it
lacks food.
A. 6078.
Concerning the Lord. He teaches and leads to the P. P. truths and goods of heaven and the church. These words in the internal sense signify that he I, 2, 5. who confides in the Lord is led into all the goods and truths of heaven, and abounds in the delights thereof. By "the Lord is my shepherd" is understood the Lord. By green pastures are signified the knowledges of truth and good, by the still waters are signified the truths of heaven thence derived, by table is signified spiritual nourishment, by anointing the head with oil is signified wisdom derived from good, by my cup runneth over is sig-
PSALM
XXIII.
85
nified intelligence from truths, the cup signifying here the E. 375. same as wine. Green pastures or pastures of herbage stand for spir2. itual nourishment which is of the soul, wherefore it is
He
said,
my
will restore
A. 7571.
soul.
Waters signify truths, and in particular natural truths, R. 50. which are knowledges from the Word. is signified tranquillity by lying of peace and A state 3. 2, A. 3696. down.
The
4.
shadow
valley of the
of death stands for lower
As valleys were beand below them, therefore by
things which are relatively in shade.
tween mountains and
hills,
valleys are signified the lower or exterior things of the
church, because by
hills
and mountains are
signified its
and by mountains those which are of love to the Lord. A. 4715. Thy rod and thy staff stand for the Divine truth and A. 4876. good which have power. higher or interior things, by
hills
things of charity
Sceptre and staff are also the same word in the Hebrew language. That a staff signifies power is manifest.
4, 5.
R. 485.
To walk
shady valley signifies obscurity of the understanding, in which truths do not appear in thenlight.
Thy
in a
rod and thy
staff shall
console
me
signifies
that Divine truth spiritual, together with Divine truth
natural shall protect, because power is
Divine truth spiritual, the
staff
is
in them.
The rod
Divine truth natural,
both together relate to the power of protecting, for to console
is
to protect.
The meaning
of verse 5
is
spiritual
nourishment by Divine truth. By setting a table is sigBy making fat the nified to be spiritually nourished. head with oil is signified by the good of love. By the cup is signified by the truth of doctrine from the Word. E. 727.
4-6.
By
a table
is
signified a receptacle of things celestial,
thus heaven as to the reception of such things as are from the Lord.
A. 9527.
PSALM
86
XXIII.
Preparing a table and anointing the head with
5.
for being gifted with the
good
of charity
cup runneth over means that the natural with spiritual truth and good. To make the head fat with tial
is
stands
oil
love.
My
thence
filled
and
A. 5120. oil
means
to gift
with celesA. 9780.
good.
was an acknowledged custom anoint themselves and others with oil, see Psalm xlv. It is evident that
xcii.
it
to 7,
10: Ezekiel xvi. 9 etc., not with the oil of holiness,
w ith which 7
the priests, the kings, the altar,
nacle were anointed, but with oil signified
the gladness
and
common
and the
oil,
satisfaction arising
Cup
xi. 6.
stands in these passages for Divine truth.
account of
this signification
this
from the A. 9954. R. 672.
love of good.
See Psalm
taber-
because
it is
also called the
On
cup of
E. 960. Psalm cxvi. 13. Hence there will be no fear of the hells, for He guards, P. P. and imparts good and truth in abundance. P. P. 6. In heaven with the Lord to eternity. A. 650. See Psalm xxi. 5. That dwelling is being and living, thus a state, is evident from many passages in the Word. See also Psalm Dwelling in the house of Jexxvii. 4, and Psalm ci. 7. hovah means being and living in the good of love, for this salvation in
is
A. 3384.
the house of Jehovah.
Heaven and
the church are understood
by the house of
Jehovah.
That
to dwell signifies to live, consequently
E. 220. life,
may
appear from the passages in the Word where dwelling is mentioned as in Isaiah xi. 6; xiii. 20: Jeremiah ii. 6, etc. E. 662.
PSALM XXIV.
87
PSALM XXIV. A
Psalm
of David.
The The
3.
earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof; world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah?
4.
And who shall stand in his holy place ? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart;
1.
2.
Who
hath not
lifted
up
his soul
unto falsehood,
5.
And hath not sworn deceitfully. He shall receive a blessing from Jehovah, And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6.
This
7.
is the generation of them that seek That seek thy face, even Jacob. Lift up your heads, O ye gates;
And And
be ye
lifted up,
after him,
[Selah
ye everlasting doors:
King of glory will come in. W ho is the King of glory? Jehovah strong and mighty, Jehovah mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; Yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in. Who is this King of glory? the
T
8.
9.
10.
Jehovah of
He
is
the
hosts,
King
of glory.
[Selah
t
Psalm XXIV.
The
and good, the earth for and the world for the church in a That Jehovah founded the world upon universal sense. That He estabthe seas is upon what is of knowledge. lished it upon the floods is upon what is of intelligence.
1, 2.
fulness stands for truth
the church in a specific,
A. 6297.
PSALM XXIV.
88
The earth and the orb (world) stand for the church. The seas upon which He has founded the orb are scienThe rivers upon which He has established tific truths.
1
it
A. 9755. R. 551.
are the truths of faith.
See Psalm
ix. 9.
The
and the world stand
earth
for the church,
fulness thereof for all things pertaining to
upon which
He
has founded
it
it.
and the
The
seas
are the knowledges of truth
common. The floods or flowing streams stand for and the church is founded upon both. E. 304. By the earth here also is signified the church as to truth, and the fulness thereof signifies all truth? in the complex. By the world is signified the church as to pood, and by the
in
doctrinals,
inhabitants thereof goods in the complex.
Respecting the church which
1-3.
is
E. 741.
from the Lord through
P. P. Word. That the earth is founded upon the sea means that the church, which is meant by the earth, is founded upon genR. 238. eral truths, for these are its basis and foundations. the
2.
R. 409. R. 902.
Rivers signify truths in abundance,
See Psalm
By
xi. 2, 3.
the earth
knowledges in
is
signified the church,
common which
the floods the truths of faith.
founded.
By
the earth
is
by the seas the man, by
are in the natural
Upon
these the church
is
E. 275. signified heaven and the church in the
grand aggregate, by the seas are signified knowledges and sciences which are the ultimates of the church, and specifically the knowledges of truth and good, such as are in the literal sense of the
Word
rationally understood.
E. 518. 2, 3.
4.
xviii. 8, 16.
R. 589.
See Psalm
xviii. 8, 16.
E. 1057.
See Psalm
v. 7.
See Psalm
From these passages it may be seen who were in the representatives and
R. 624. that to the ancients, significative s of the
PSALM XXIV.
89
was permitted to swear by Jehovah God, in Thereby was signified that they thought what was true, and willed what was good. But it was more especially granted to the sons of Jacob, since they were altogether natural and external men, and not internal and spiritual, and mere external or natural men are desirous of having the truth of a thing attested and confirmed by oath, whilst internal or spiritual men are unwilling, yea are averse to oaths, and account them horrible, especially those where God is appealed to, and the holy things of heaven and the church, and are contented with saying, and with having it said that a thing is so, or church,
it
order to testify verity.
that
it is
E. 608.
true.
See Psalm
xvi. 10.
See Psalm
xvii. 1.
4, 5.
He
truths
who
E. 750. E. 866.
that has clean hands signifies those
from
faith,
who
are in
and by a pure heart are understood those
are in good from love.
Concerning such
it is
said
that they shall receive the blessings from Jehovah,
God
righteousness from the
and and by these are and Divine good.
of salvation,
signified the reception of Divine truth
E. 340.
Those who are not
4-6.
in falsities
and
evils will
be in
it.
P. P. 5.
Verse quoted.
6.
See Psalm
D. are treated
It is
manifest that the gate of heaven
are with man, that
is
truth from the Lord,
Matthew 7-10.
vii.
where there
and thus
13-14.
attributed glory.
The Lord
is
is
is
is
L. 33. where angels
influx of
good and
there are two gates.
See
A. 2851.
Since Divine truth
Word, the Lord as by kings, therefore
63.
This also
of.
concerning the Lord. 7-9.
Page
A. 4281.
The Lord's combats
7, 8.
P.,
xiv. 7.
is
represented by royalty in the
Divine truth being represented to the Divine truth as to a king is
to the
A. 5922. here called the King of glory from the
PSALM XXIV.
90 7
Divine truth from which
dued the
He
and sub-
fought, conquered,
A. 10053.
hells.
Gates in the good sense stand for an opening into
By gates in the Word is signified an entrance heaven and into the church by good and truth, and A. 10483. also the influx of truth and good with man. That the Lord is Jehovah, that is that Jehovah is the heaven. into
Lord is That
Lord
the
They and
L. 38.
also manifest. is
will receive
Human.
His
glorified
King is manifest. R. the Lord who has conquered the called
P. P.
D.
Verses quoted.
The
7, 9.
664. hells
Page
P.,
58.
doors of the world being lifted up stands for the
opening and elevation of hearts
to the
who
Lord,
is
the
and thereby giving communication, that is, that He may flow in with good of charity, and with truth The Lord is called the King of glory from truth of faith. A. 8989. which is from good. Since there are both ways and doors in the spiritual world, and angelic spirits actually go in the ways and enter
King
of glory,
through the doors when they enter heaven, therefore door, and portals are often mentioned in the Word, and R. 176. by them entrance is signified. R. 899. See Psalm ix. 15.
gates,
See Psalm 8.
By wars
ix.
E. 208.
15.
in the
Word
spiritual
are fightings against the truth,
sonings from
In the
8, 10.
wars are
and are
which on by rea-
signified,
carried
R. 500.
falsities.
Word where mention
made
meant which is against falsities the same thing, which is against the is
of
war
is
in the internal sense spiritual war,
and
evils,
or what
is
A. 8273.
devil, that is the hells.
Since the
Lord alone conquered the
aid of any angel, therefore glory,
He
is
hells
called:
without the
The King
Jehovah strong and mighty, the mighty
of
in battle.
L. 14.
The
foregoing statement repeated in
T. 116.
;
.
PSALM XXV.
91
PSALM XXV. A i. 2.
3.
Psalm
of David.
Jehovah, do I lift up my soul. God, in thee have I trusted, Let me not be put to shame; Let not mine enemies triumph over me. Yea, none that wait for thee shall be put to shame: They shall be put to shame that deal treacherously
Unto
thee,
O my
without cause.
O
4.
Show me thy ways,
5.
Teach me thy paths. Guide me in thy truth, and teach me;
Jehovah;
For thou art the God of my salvation; For thee do I wait all the day. 6.
7.
O Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses For they have been ever of old. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transRemember,
gressions
:
1 1
According to thy lovingkindness remember thou me, For thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah. Good and upright is Jehovah: Therefore will he instruct sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in justice; And the meek will he teach his way. All the paths of Jehovah are lovingkindness and truth Unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. For thy name's sake, O Jehovah,
12.
What man
8.
9.
10.
Pardon mine
13.
14.
15.
iniquity, for
it is
great.
he that feareth Jehovah? Him shall he instruct in the way that he shall choose. His soul shall dwell at ease; And his seed shall inherit the land. The friendship of Jehovah is with them that fear him; And he will show them his covenant. Mine eyes are ever toward Jehovah; For he will pluck my feet out of the net. is
PSALM XXV.
Q2 1
6.
For 17.
thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; am desolate and afflicted. troubles of my heart are enlarged:
Turn
I
The
Oh 18.
bring thou Consider mine
And 19.
forgive all
me
out of
affliction
my
my
and
distresses.
my
travail;
sins.
Consider mine enemies, for they are many; they hate me with cruel hatred. Oh keep my soul, and deliver me: Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in thee. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for thee.
And 20.
21.
22.
Redeem Israel, O God, Out of all his troubles.
Psalm XXV. 1-3.
Prayers of the church to the Lord, that they
may
4-6. 4, 5.
That they may be taught truths. Here also a way manifestly stands
Thus
instead of a
way
be
P. P.
protected from the hells.
P. P. for truth.
angels perceive truths,
A. 627.
and
this
as well in the historic as in the prophetic parts of the Word. A. 2333.
In these passages by a way opposite sense false.
is
signified truth,
and
in the
A. 10422.
Sins stand for evils derived from a depraved will, and transgressions for evils derived from a perverse under-
6, 7.
standing.
A. 9156.
Every one may know that recollection or remembrance cannot be predicated of the Lord, since things past and future in Him are eternal, that is are present from eterTo remember when concerning the Lord nity to eternity. stands for to have compassion, and thus to preserve or A. 9849. deliver from a principle of mercy. 7-1 1. That their sins may be forgiven from mercy. P. P.
PSALM XXV. See Psalm
io.
93 A. 4197.
xix. 8.
Because the good of love and the truth of faith are in the closest conjunction, and the one is not given without the other, therefore this form of speaking was usual among the ancients, because it was known to them that the good of love was inseparable from the truth of faith, for this reason also these two are often spoken of conjointly in the
A. 6180.
Word.
The compact
of a covenant
on the part of the Lord
is
A. 6804. mercy and election. Since by a covenant is signified conjunction, and since that is by the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord the
Word
—
—
is
effected conjunction, therefore all things
which are of the Divine truth from the Lord or which are A. 9396. of the Word, are called a covenant. E. 392. See Psalm xix. 8-10. 12. The man that feareth Jehovah stands for him who worships Him, and that this is said of the spiritual man is A. 2826.
manifest. 12, 13.
See Psalm
12-14.
Thus they
have good and conjunction. P. P. Prayer of the church to the Lord, and in the highest
15-20.
sense of the
will
Lord
He may
fights,
21.
E. 750.
xvi. 10.
to the Father, that,
because
He
For perfection
is
alone P. P.
assist against the hells.
P. P.
His,
one who is true from good, or who A. 612. speaks and does truth from charity.
21.
An
By is
upright
is
entire or integrity in the internal sense of the
signified
to the
man
Divine truth in
Divine precepts.
.
effect,
which
is
a
life
Word
according A. 9905.
P. P. And thus there is redemption. To redeem Israel from his troubles signifies to liberate those who are of the church from falsities which bring
22.
trouble.
E. 328.
:
PSALM XXVI.
94
PSALM A i.
Judge me,
Psalm
XXVI.
of David.
Jehovah, for
I
have walked in mine
integrity I
have trusted also in Jehovah without wavering.
Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; Try my heart and my mind. For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes;
And
I have walked in thy truth. have not sat with men of falsehood; Neither will I go in with dissemblers. I hate the assembly of evil-doers, I
And
will
not
sit
with the wicked.
wash my hands in innocency: So will I compass thine altar, O Jehovah; That I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, And tell of all thy wondrous works. I will
Jehovah, I love the habitation of thy house, the place where thy glory dwelleth. Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of blood; In whose hands is wickedness,
And
10.
And ii.
12.
their right
hand
is full
of bribes.
me, I will walk in mine integrity: Redeem me, and be merciful unto me. My foot standeth in an even place: In the congregations will I bless Jehovah.
But as
for
Psalm XXVI. -6, ii.
To
the
Lord belong
perfection, purity,
and innoP. P.
cence.
See Psalm
vii. io.
See Psalm
vii.
10.
A. 5385. A. 10032.
See Psalm
vii. 10.
R. 14°-
See Psalm
vii.
10.
E. 167.
PSALM XXVI. 3.
See Psalm xxv. 10.
4.
Mercy is love, and See Psalm i. 1.
6.
95 A. 6180.
truth
A. 10577. E. 687.
is faith.
Innocent in the proximate sense signifies one who is evil, which they also testified formerly by washing of the hands, the reason whereof was this, that the good which is from the Lord with man is without blame and without
without blame and without
A. 9262.
evil.
Since by the altar was represented the
6, 7.
was the very holy every thing which touched it
vine good, therefore sanctified
it
Lord as
— See
Since the worship of the
thence signified by the altar,
meant by the
Lord was represented and it
is
manifest that nothing
altar in Revelation
vi.
9.
and
else-
R. 392.
where.
To wash from
and Exodus
A. 9714.
xxix. 37.
else is
to Di-
of holies,
evils
signifies
the hands in innocency signifies to be purified
and
falsities.
To compass
the altar of Jehovah
conjunction with the Lord by worship from the
good of love, which worship being performed by truths see verse 7. E. 391. from good, it is therefore added
—
He
8.
7,
has the Divine love of saving.
P. P.
Since habitation signifies heaven where the
8,
also signifies the stitute
heaven.
Lord
10, 11.
He
falsities,
11,
is
In
in
this
and
combats with the malicious. passage to redeem signifies to
is
P
from
E. 328.
merciful unto me.
D.
There
P. liberate
to reform.
Redeem me and be
11, 12.
it
A. 9481.
the Lord. 9, 10.
is,
good of love and of faith, for these conHabitation in the supreme sense signifies
redemption when
He
P.,
conquers.
Page
86.
P. P.
96
i.
.
Jehovah
Whom
PSALM
XXVII.
A Psalm
of David.
light
and
my
salvation;
shall I fear?
Jehovah
the strength of
is
Of whom 2.
my
is
PSALM XXVII.
my
life;
shall I be afraid ?
When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
3.
Though a
My 4.
host should encamp against me, heart shall not fear:
Though war should rise against me, Even then will I be confident. One thing have I asked of Jehovah,
that will I seek
after:
That of
may
I
my
dwell in the house of Jehovah
all
the days
life,
To behold the beauty of Jehovah, And to inquire in his temple. 5.
For
day of trouble he
in the
will
keep
me
secretly in
his pavilion:
In the covert of his tabernacle
will
he hide me;
He will lift me up upon a rock. And now shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies -
6.
round about me;
And
I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy;
I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto 7.
8.
Jehovah. Jehovah, when I cry with my voice: Have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto
O
Hear,
thee,
Thy 9.
face,
Jehovah, will
I seek.
Hide not thy face from me; Put not thy servant away in anger: Thou hast been my help; Cast
me
not
salvation.
off,
neither forsake me,
O God
of
my
PSALM XXVII. io.
When my
father
Then Jehovah ii.
Teach me thy way,
And 12.
13.
14.
and
me
lead
my
will take
O
97
mother forsake me,
me
up.
Jehovah;
in a plain path,
Because of mine enemies. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty. / had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living. Wait for Jehovah:
Be
and
strong,
let
thy heart take courage;
Yea, wait thou for Jehovah.
Psalm XXVII.
What
1-3.
the
Lord says
to the Father:
the hells which fight against
The camp
3.
of the saints
kingdom
He
does not fear
Him.
— Revelation Lord on
P. P.
xx. 9
— stands
for
which is the church. As most things in the Word have also an opposite sense so likewise has a camp, which then signifies evils the heaven, or
and
falsities,
By wars
of the
and accordingly
Word
in the
earth,
A. 4236.
hell.
spiritual
wars are
signified.
R. 500.
By an army
in the
church, and also also
4, 5.
its falsities
by a camp. See Psalm
4.
Word
the truths
and
evils
and goods
of the
are signified, hence
R. 862. xxiii. 6.
See Psalm
xxiii. 6.
See Psalm
xxiii. 6.
See Psalm xv.
Here mention
is
1, 2.
A. 3384. E. 220. E. 662. R. 585.
made of the house of Jehovah, a temple, By the house of Jehovah is
a tent, and a tabernacle.
church which is in the good of love to the Lord, by temple the church which is in truths from that
signified the
PSALM XXVII.
98
by the tent of Jehovah is signified Divine truth, and by the tabernacle Divine good. Hence it is evident that by dwelling in the house of Jehovah all the days of the life, is not meant to dwell in the house of Jehovah, but in the good of love to the Lord. By visiting in the morning the temple of Jehovah is meant to inquire into and learn the
4 good,
By
truths of that good.
hiding in the tent
is
signified to
By
hold in Divine truth and to protect from
falses.
cealing in the secret of the tabernacle
signified to hold
the Divine good
upon a rock
is
and
from
to protect
is
sence
is
exalting
signified to instruct in interior truths.
In the highest sense the Lord as to His
4-6.
By
evils.
con-
the tent, the tabernacle,
E. 799. Es-
Human
and the temple. A.
414.
P. P. 4-10, 13, 14. His union with the Father. By a tent is expressed what is celestial, by shouting, 6. singing,
and singing
praises,
what
is
spiritual therefrom.
A. 420. 8.
8. 9.
See Psalm
iv. 7.
A. 10579.
See Psalm
iv. 7.
R. 939.
See Psalm
iv. 7.
See Psalm
xiii. 2.
See Psalm
xvii. 15.
By
seeing the face of the
E. 412.
A. 5585. A. 5585.
.
Lord
is
not meant to see His
know and acknowledge Him
as He is with regard to His Divine attributes which are many. They who are conjoined with Him by love know Him and thus
face,
but to
R. 939.
see His face.
The
Word, and of and beseeching
interior things of the church, of the
worship are signified by seeing, seeking, the face of Jehovah. 9.
E. 412.
Lord as to Divine truth is understood by David, therefore by servant in all such passages is understood in the spiritual sense one who is subservient. David Since the
frequently calls himself the servant of Jehovah. 10.
E. 409.
Father and mother stand for good and truth, which are
PSALM XXVII. said to have forsaken
he
is
when man
99
observes that of himself
not able to do anything good, or to
know anything
true.
A. 3703.
Whereby He
11, 12.
"Deliver
12.
me
will
subjugate the
not to the soul of
signifies the life of the spirit of the
See Psalm
12, 13.
iii.
my
P. P.
hells.
enemies" the soul
man.
E. 750.
A. 10481.
2, 3.
See Psalm iii. 2, 3. E. 671. There can be only one life, from which is the life of all, and there can be no life which is life except through faith in the Lord, who is life, nor can there be faith in which is life except from Him, thus in which He is.
13.
—
—
A. 290.
Here and
spoken of in the plural, because there are two faculties in man, one which is called understanding and is of truth, and the other which is called will and is of good. These two lives or faculties of life make one when the understanding is of the will, or
what
the
is
Making spiritual
in other passages lives are
same when
life,
or
truth
is
quickening,
alive,
life
in heaven,
A. 3623.
of good.
and
life
which
is
manifestly
mean
also simply called
A. 5890.
life.
The
reason
why
the church
is
signified
by the earth
is,
because by earth or land the land of Canaan is often meant, in which was the church, the heavenly Canaan is nothing else. R. 285.
Heaven
is
called the land of the living.
Since the earth signifies the church, is
there
is
heaven,
of the living, 11,
it is
therefore called the earth or land
and the land
and Ezekiel
E. 186.
and where the earth
of
life.
xxxii. 23-27.
See also Isaiah xxxviii. E. 304.
PSALM XXVIII.
IOO
PSALM A i.
Unto
My
of David.
Jehovah, will
I call:
rock, be not thou deaf unto
Lest,
if
become Hear the
like
me;
unto me, them that go down into the
thou be
I 2.
O
thee,
Psalm
XXVIII.
silent
voice of
my
supplications,
pit.
when
I cry unto
thee,
up my hands toward thy holy oracle. not away with the wicked, the workers of iniquity; That speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts. Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings: Give them after the operation of their hands;
When 3.
4.
I
Render 5.
He
7.
8.
9.
to
them
their desert.
Because they regard not the works of Jehovah,
Nor 6.
lift
Draw me And with
the operation of his hands,
will
break them
down and
not build them up.
Blessed be Jehovah,
Because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. Jehovah is my strength and my shield; My heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: Therefore my heart greatly rejoice th; And with my song will I praise him. Jehovah is their strength, And he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed. Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: Be their shepherd also, and bear them up for ever.
PSALM XXVIII.
IOI
Psalm XXVIII.
A pit
I.
A. 4728.
signifies falsity.
Here also Jehovah, and rock are mentioned, because by Jehovah is understood the Lord as to Divine good, and by rock the Lord as to Divine truth. Since both these it is twice said " be not silent unto me," one having reference to Divine good, and the other to Divine truth.
are understood, therefore also
unto me,
lest if
thou be
silent
E. 411.
See Psalm 1-5.
may 6.
Inv. 35. to the Father that the hypocrites
xviii. 3, 32, 47.
Prayer of the Lord be subjugated.
P. P.
Blessing involves every good celestial, spiritual, natural. sense.
and
also
These are signified by blessing in the internal In the external sense by blessing is signified every
worldly, corporeal,
and
earthly good, but these
if
they be a
blessing will be of necessity from internal blessing, for this
alone
every
is
blessing, because
felicity,
be Jehovah
Lord from
and
it is
eternal
and joined with
the very being of blessings.
is
every good for those
signifies
Blessed
who worship
the
A. 1096.
internals.
To bless Jehovah, or the Lord, and to be blessed by Jehovah, or the Lord, was a common form of speech. It was therefore common also to say "Blessed be Jehovah." A. 1422.
By
meant all the good which man has from the Lord, as power and opulence, and the things which accompany them, but especially all spiritual good, as love and wisdom, charity and faith, and thence the joy and happiness which are of life eternal. Because all these are from the Lord it follows that they are in Him, for unless
blessing
is
they were in
Him. Hence the Word.
Him
it is
they could not be in others from
that the
Lord
is
called "Blessed" in
R. 289.
PSALM XXVIII.
102
P. P. He will assist and will prevail. Here because song signifies confession from joy of heart, therefore it is said "my heart greatly rejoiceth, and with
6-8. 7.
my 7. 8.
8.
song
xviii.
unto him.''
E. 326.
A. 8261.
1-3 et seq.
See Psalm
ii.
2.
A. 3008.
See Psalm
ii.
2, 6.
See Psalm
ii.
2, 6.
A. 9954. R. 779.
See Psalm
ii.
2, 6.
May
9.
will I confess
See Psalm
those be saved
E. 375.
who
are in the truths
and good
of
P. P.
the church.
PSALM XXIX. A i.
2.
3.
Psalm
of David.
O
ye sons of the mighty, Ascribe unto Jehovah, Ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength. Ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due unto his name; Worship Jehovah in holy array. The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters: The God of glory thundereth,
Even Jehovah upon many 4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
The The The
waters.
powerful; voice of Jehovah is full of majesty. voice of Jehovah breaketh the cedars; Yea, Jehovah breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox. The voice of Jehovah cleaveth the flames of fire. The voice of Jehovah shaketh the wilderness; Jehovah shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to calve, And strippeth the forests bare: And in his temple everything saith, Glory. Jehovah sat as King at the Flood; voice of Jehovah
is
Yea, Jehovah sitteth as King for ever. Jehovah will give strength unto his people; Jehovah will bless his people with peace.
PSALM XXIX.
103
Psalm XXIX.
Here the sons of the gods, or Elim, stand for truth Diwhich it is manifest that power is predicated.
1.
vine, of
A. 4402.
The Divine the
truth in the heavens
Old Testament
guage angels
is
God is called who are in the
is
meant by God. Elohim in the
what
in the
Word
of
In the original lanplural,
and
also the
heavens, because they are recipients
of the Divine truth are called gods.
A. 7268.
Those who are in truths from the Word will adore the Lord, who is the Word. P. P. In the ornament beauty of holiness means in the
1-4.
2.
—
—
genuine truths of the church. Spiritual waters are meant, that
3.
'
is
A. 10540.
spiritual things
are of truth.
which
A. 2702.
Voice stands for Divine truth, waters stand for the truths in the heavens and from the heavens. A. 9926. By waters in the Word are meant truths in the natural
which are
man.
R.
The Lord speaking through heaven from Divine is
similarly
spoken of in Revelation
i.
15; xix. 6: Ezekiel
R. 614.
2.
xliii.
50.
truths
"His voice was
like the voice of
many
waters," Ezekiel
By this is understood Divine truth. 2. E. 71. Voice stands for whatever proceeds from the Lord and perceived by angels and by men. E. 261.
xliii.
is
3-9.
The
subject treated of in this
Psalm
Divine truth which destroys falses and
is
concerning the
evils.
This Di-
vine truth
is
the voice of Jehovah.
The
glory which
is
mentioned
is
the Divine truth which
is
in
heaven and
in
the church.
By
the voice of Jehovah, which
A. 9926. is
the thunder here,
is
meant the Divine truth, or the Word, in its power. By the great waters upon which Jehovah sitteth are meant its
:
PSALM XXIX.
104 3
By the cedars and by Lebanon which He breakand breaketh to pieces, are meant the falsities of the By the calf and the son of unicorns, the natural man. and of the sensual man. By the natural of the falsities truths.
eth
flame of
fire,
the affection for falsity.
By
the wilderness
the wilderness of Kadesh, the church where there is no truth and no good. By the hinds which the voice of Jehovah maketh to be in travail, are meant the Gentiles
and
who
By
are in natural good.
eth bare, the knowledges
the forests which
and cognitions which
He makWord
the
opens to them. Therefore it follows that " in His temple doth every one speak of glory" means, that in everything in the Word there are Divine truths, for the temple signifies the Lord and hence the Word, also heaven and the church, and glory signifies the Divine truth.
That a fies
great voice
the Divine truth
when
is
S. 18.
heard from heaven
it is
manifest.
See Psalm
signi-
lxviii. 32,
33
R- 37The subject here treated of is concerning the Divine which proceeds from the Lord, and which in one expresIts effect both with the sion is called the Divine truth. Joel
ii.
11.
good and with the
evil is
described by such things as are
E. 261. here mentioned. 3-1 1. Here again the voice of Jehovah stands for truth Divine and its power, thus also for the Word, since this is .
A. 7573.
truth Divine.
3~5> 7~9-
The voice
of
Jehovah
is
taken for the
Word itself,
for the doctrine of faith, for conscience or internal adA. 219. monition, and for every reproof therefrom. A voice signifies annunciation, and in a good sense annunciation from the Word, which voice is called the voice
of Jehovah. 3-5, 7-9, 11. The power of Divine truth the voice of Jehovah.
5-1
1.
The power
6.
By
the fatted calf
of Divine truth
— Luke
A. 6971. is
also
from the Lord.
xv. 22, 23
meant by A. 10182. P. P.
— common goods
PSALM XXX.
common
corresponding to
same
is
By
the cedars of
signified,
by a
truths are understood.
by calves and
signified
calf
Lebanon is
I05
The
heifers in other places.
A. 9391. the knowledges of truth are
signified the affection of
knowing. R. 242.
A
7.
flame of
fire is
the Divine truth proceeding from the
Lord.
A. 6832.
Bringing forth or bearing
9.
signifies fruitfulness as to the
A. 2584.
things of doctrine.
an internal sense which is spiritual in " the voice of Jehovah hath made the hinds to calve" is manifestly evident from this, that immediately afterward it is said "but in His temple every one saith glory" which words do not combine with those which precede concerning hinds and forests without a spiritual sense. A. 6413.
That
there
is
It is plain that a flood, or inundation of waters, signifjfe^ nothing else than temptations and vastations. A. 739.
10.
11.
See Psalm
ix. 8.
See Psalm
iv.
E. 687.
R. 306.
7-9.
When evils and falsities are removed and no more infest, then the Lord flows in with peace, in which and from which are heaven/ and the delight which fills with beatitude the interiors of the mind, consequently celestial joy. E. 365.
PSALM XXX. A
Psalm; a Song
i.
at the Dedication of the
I will extol thee,
O
House.
A
Psalm
of
David.
Jehovah; for thou hast raised
me
up,
And
hast not
made my
foes to rejoice over me.
2.
O
3.
unto thee, and thou hast healed me. Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down
Jehovah
I cried
O
to the pit.
my
God,
;
PSALM XXX.
I06 4.
Sing praise unto Jehovah, O ye saints of his, give thanks to his holy memorial name. For his anger is but for a moment; His favor is for a lifetime:
And 5.
6.
Weeping may tarry for the night, But joy cometh in the morning. As for me, I said in my prosperity, never be moved. of thy favor hadst made my mountain to stand strong: Thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled. I cried to thee, O Jehovah; And unto Jehovah I made supplication: What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to I shall
7.
8.
9.
Thou, Jehovah,
the pit ? Shall the dust praise thee ? shall
10.
11.
12.
it declare thy truth ? Hear, O Jehovah, and have mercy upon me: Jehovah, be thou my helper. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with
gladness the end that not be silent.
To
O
Jehovah
my
my
glory
God, I
may
sing praise to thee,
will give
and
thanks unto thee for
ever.
Psalm XXX. 1-13.
The
glorification of the
Human
of the
Lord
after
He
has suffered temptations, even the last of them which was P. P.
that of the cross. 2.
That
the
Lord alone preserves from
evils is
evident from
and
also preserv-
the signification of healing, as relieving
ing from 4.
That
evils, for
diseases signify evils.
pits are falsities is
because
A. 8365.
men who have been
in
under the have been removed from them,
principles of falsity are kept after death awhile
lower earth, until
and
as
it
See Psalm 5.
falsities
were rejected
Memorial
—
A. 4728.
to the sides.
vi. 6.
remembrance
—
E. 186. is
predicated of the
PSALM XXX.
I07
quality of the Divine in worship, as to both truth
and 6.
A. 6888.
"The morning cometh and also 11,
and good,
specifically as to good.
12
who
—
signifies that
are of the
those
who
New
the night "
— Isaiah
xxi.
although those have illumination
Church, yet that
The
are in the old.
like
is
it
is still
signified
night to
by morning A. 10134.
here.
When
and truth is received the state of the church in the world is as morning and day, when the light of truth does not appear, and truth is not the light of truth appears
received, the state of the church in the world
and
night.
is
as evening C. J. 13.
Every man who is born in the church, or in whom the church has commenced first comes into its light such as it is in the dawn and morning. Coro. 5. 8. See Psalm xiii. 2. R. 939. See Psalm xiii. 2. E. 412. 12. Dancing is here predicated of truths, and joy of goods,
and
so loosening sackcloth stands for taking
away mourn-
ing over destroyed good.
A. 4779. Since in ancient times the gladnesses which excelled all
others were spiritual gladnesses, that
is from affections of which were those of good and truth, therefore also it was then allowed to adjoin dances to songs and musical harmonies, and so likewise in these ways to testify joy. This is why dances are mentioned in the Word, and
spiritual loves
thereby are signified gladnesses of affections for truth, or faith
from good or
internal things are described
ternal, so also the joys
interiors of
A. 8339.
charity.
Word
by exand gladnesses which are in the man by plays or sports and dances.
Since in the
—
—
A. 10416.
Mourning on account of vastated truth in the church was represented by putting on sackcloth. R. 492. Sack signifies mourning, and to gird a sack over the body instead of a garment signifies mourning on account of the truth of the church being destroyed.
E. 637.
;
PSALM XXXI.
108
PSALM XXXI. For the Chief Musician. i.
A
Psalm
of David.
Jehovah, do I take refuge; In thee, Let me never be put to shame:
me in thy righteousness. Bow down thine ear unto me; deliver me Be thou to me a strong rock, Deliver
2.
speedily:
A 3.
4.
5.
house of defence to save me. For thou art my rock and my fortress; Therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me. Pluck me out of the net that they have laid privily for me; For thou art my stronghold. Into thy hand I commend hast redeemed me,
Thou
my
O
spirit:
Jehovah, thou
God
of
truth. 6.
I hate
But 7.
them
that regard lying vanities;
I trust in Jehovah.
I will be glad
and
rejoice in thy lovingkindness
For thou hast seen 8.
my
affliction:
Thou hast known my soul in adversities: And thou hast not shut me up into the hand
of the
enemy;
Thou 9.
hast set
my
feet in
a large place.
Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea, my soul and
my body my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: .
10.
For
My
strength faileth because of mine iniquity, bones are wasted away. Because of all mine adversaries I am become a re-
And my 11.
proach,
12.
Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
PSALM XXXI. 13.
For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me,
They 14.
IO9
But
away my
devised to take
O
I trusted in thee,
Thou
I said,
art
my
life.
Jehovah:
God.
My
15.
times are in thy hand: Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from
16.
Make thy face to shine upon thy Save me in thy lovingkindness. Let me not be put to shame, O
them that persecute me.
17.
called
upon
servant:
Jehovah; for
I
have
thee:
Let the wicked be put to shame,
let
them be
silent in
Sheol. 18.
19.
Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt. Oh how great is thy goodness, Which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, Which thou hast wrought for them that take refuge in thee,
20.
Before the sons of men! In the covert of thy presence wilt thou hide them from the plottings of
Thou
wilt
strife of
21.
man:
keep them
secretly in a pavilion
from the
tongues.
Blessed be Jehovah;
For he hath showed
me
his marvellous lovingkindness
in a strong city. 22.
me, I said in my haste, cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice
As
I
for
am
of
my
sup-
plications,
23.
When I cried unto thee. Oh love Jehovah, all ye Jehovah preserveth the
And 24.
his saints: faithful,
rewardeth him that dealeth proudly. your heart take courage, All ye that hope in Jehovah.
Be
plentifully
strong,
and
let
PSALM XXXI.
IIO
Psalm XXXI. Prayer of the Lord
1-5.
protected from those
to the Father, that
who
devise
He may
be
P. P.
evil.
Inv. 35. See Psalm xviii. 3, 32, 47. Jehovah is called Redeemer and Saviour, and as the
3, 4. 6.
Lord alone is the Redeemer and Saviour, it is He who is L. 38. meant by Jehovah. By spirit is meant the life of the regenerate, which is called spiritual
L. 49.
life.
These passages prove that Jehovah and the Lord are R. 281.
one.
See Psalm
xix. 15.
See Psalm
xix. 15.
To redeem means form by truths. 6-1 1. And who want
R. 613. T. 83. to liberate
from
falsities
and
to re-
E. 328.
Him, whence He has
to slay
grief of
P. P.
heart.
Thou
hast redeemed
me
Jehovah,
God
of truth.
D. 8.
See Psalm
9.
To
P.,
Page
86.
E. 660.
v. 12.
A. 161 3. stand in a broad place means in truth. signification of broad in spaces is the extent as to
The
truths,
and thus as
truth of the church
to is
what
is
of doctrine.
By breadth
signified.
the
A. 4482.
That length in the Word signifies good and breadth A. 9487. may seem a paradox, but still it is so. H. 197. In the Word by breadth is signified truth.
truth
By By
breadth breadth
is is
signified truth. signified the truth of doctrine
R. 861.
from the
Word, wherefore by causing his feet to stand in the breadth is signified to cause him to live according to Divine E. 666.
truths.
10.
By
the eye, the soul,
and
the belly are here signified the
understanding, and thence the thought of truth, interior
PSALM XXXI. and
Thus by
exterior.
Ill
the belly are signified the interiors
which are said to be consumed with E. 622. grief when they perish by falsities. By these words, also in Psalm xliv. 26, is described a state of temptations, by the eye is signified the understanding, by the soul the faith and understanding of truth, and by the belly the faith and understanding of good. The reason why this is signified by the belly is, because the belly receives the food, and by food and bread is signified the good which nourishes, in the present case the of the understanding,
understanding and faith. The defect thereof in temptations is signified by consuming for indignity, bowing down to the dust,
and cleaving
to the earth in
Psalm
xliv. 25, 26.
E. 750.
12-14.
They
15-22.
Through
16, 17.
It is
treat
Him
with contumely, as upon the cross. P. P.
trust in the
Father
He
is
delivered.
P. P.
manifest that to
make
the face to shine
be merciful, and to lift up the countenance the face here again standing for mercy. 17.
See Psalm xxvii.
8, 9.
See Psalm xxvii.
9.
Here by Jehovah making servant
is
is
to
to give peace,
A. 5585.
R. 939. E. 409. his face to shine
upon
his
signified illumination in Divine truth
from Divine love, for the Divine truth which proceeds from the Lord as a sun in the angelic heaven communicates all the light which is there, and also illuminates the minds of the angels, and fills them with wisdom, wherefore the face of the Lord, in the proper sense, is the sun of the angelic is
heaven. 21. if
E. 412.
Interior truths are said to be hiding, for the reason that
they had been revealed, they would then have been
profaned.
By tongues signified.
A. 4391. in the opposite sense false doctrines are
R. 282.
PSALM XXXI.
112 21
See Psalm xxvii.
By
R, 939.
8, g.
being hid in the secret of Jehovah's presence
is
non-appearance of the Divine good before To be kept secretly in a pavilion signifies to be others. kept in Divine truth. The pride of man and the strife of
signified the
tongues signify the evils of what pride
evil, for
Man
self.
tongues
is false,
and the
falsity of
predicated of evil because of the love of
is
signifies truth
and
also falsity.
The
strife of
E. 412.
signifies the falsity of evils.
Here by the secret of Jehovah's presence in which He is said to hide them is signified the Divine good of the Divine love, for the presence of Jehovah signifies the good of By the pride love, and secret signifies inwardly in man. By the of man is meant the pride of his own intelligence. pavilion in which he is said to hide them is signified Divine truth, and by the strife of tongues the falsity of religion, from which they reason against truths, hence it is evident E. 455. what these words signify in their series. A. 1096. 22. See Psalm xxviii. 6. A. 1422. See Psalm xxviii. 6. R. 289. See Psalm xxviii. 6. 23.
He
From is
despair
He
imagines himself to be forsaken, but P. P.
not.
24. 25.
Let there be trust in the Lord.
PSALM A Psalm Blessed
Whose
is
sin
Blessed
is
XXXII.
of David.
Maschil.
he whose transgression is
P. P.
is
forgiven,
covered.
the
man
unto
whom
Jehovah imputeth not
iniquity,
And
in
whose
spirit there is
no
guile.
kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
When
I
PSALM XXXII.
113
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. [Selah I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide:
4.
My
5.
my transgressions unto Jehovah; thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. For this let every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto him. Thou art my hiding-place; thou wilt preserve me from
I said, I will confess
And 6.
7.
trouble;
Thou
wilt
me
compass
about with songs of deliverance [Selah
I will instruct thee
8.
and teach thee
in the
way which
thou shalt go: I will counsel thee with
Be ye not
9.
mine eye upon
thee.
as the horse, or as the mule, which have no
understanding; trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, Else they will not come near unto thee. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; But he that trusteth in Jehovah, lovingkindness shall
Whose 10.
compass him about. in Jehovah, and
Be glad
11.
And
shout for joy,
all
rejoice, ye righteous; ye that are upright in heart.
Psalm XXXII. 1.
Mention
is
made
of transgression
and
also of sin, be-
cause of the marriage of truth and good in everything of the Word, for transgression signifies evil against truth, which is less, and sin evil agains't good, which is more
A. 6563. P. P.
grievous. 1, 2.
2.
The
just
man
See Psalm, v.
By
spirit is
is
happy.
7.
meant the very
life
of
man.
It
A. 9013. denotes in-
PSALM XXXII.
114 2
tellectual life or the life of truth.
the consideration that
by
spirit
This
is
manifest from
in the natural sense is
meant the life of the respiration of man, and the respirawhich is of the lungs, corresponds to the life of truth, which is the life of faith and thence of the understanding, whilst the pulse, which is of the heart, corresponds to the tion,
life
A. 9818.
of the will, thus of the love.
Because the life of man varies according to his state, therefore by spirit is meant the varying affection of life with man, here a
The
life
L. 48.
of various evil affections.
angels also explained to
me
the
meaning
of the
Word
in Psalm xxxii. 2 from the letters or syllables alone, showing that the sum of their meaning was that the Lord is merciful even to those that do evil. S. 90. Spirit signifies the mind of man, and such things as are of the mind. T. 156. T. 278. The statement of S. 90 repeated in E. 866. See Psalm xvii. 1. Roaring signifies grievous lamentations. See also 3. Psalm xxxviii. 8 and Job hi. 24. R. 471. Roaring signifies grievous lamentations from grief of
E. 601.
heart. 3, 4.
The
5-7.
Confession of infirmities and deliverance.
6, 7.
The inundation of waters stands for temptation, which
is
8, 9.
also called a flood.
He
10,11. II.
grievousness of temptations
is
described.
P. P. P. P.
A. 739. P. P.
wise
Let there be
See Psalm xiv.
is
7.
trust.
P.P. E. 660.
PSALM XXXIII.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
115
PSALM XXXIII. Jehovah, O ye righteous:
Rejoice in Praise is comely for the upright. Give thanks unto Jehovah with the harp: Sing praises unto him with the psaltery of ten strings. Sing unto him a new song; Play skilfully with a loud noise. For the word of Jehovah is right; And all his work is done in faithfulness. He loveth righteousness and justice: The earth is full of the lovingkindness of Jehovah. By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in storehouses. Let all the earth fear Jehovah: Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought; He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
11.
12.
The The
counsel of Jehovah standeth fast for ever, thoughts of his heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, The people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
13.
Jehovah looketh from heaven;
He 14.
all the sons of men; the place of his habitation he looketh forth all the inhabitants of the earth, that fashioneth the hearts of them all,
beholdeth
From Upon
15.
He
16.
That considereth all their works. There is no king saved by the multitude
17.
A A
of a host: not delivered by great strength. horse is a vain thing for safety; Neither doth he deliver any by his great power.
mighty
man
is
PSALM XXXIII.
Il6 1 8.
19.
20.
Behold, the eye of Jehovah
is
upon them
that fear him,
Upon them that hope in his lovingkindness; To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine. Our soul hath waited for Jehovah:
He
21.
22.
is our help and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in him, Because we have trusted in his holy name. Let thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, be upon According as we have hoped in thee.
us,
Psalm XXXIII. See Psalm xviii. 1. E. 326. Joy of heart arises from celestial and from spiritual love. The words " rejoice O ye righteous " are predicated
1, 2.
1-3.
of those
who
are in celestial love,
"
Confess to Jehovah
with the harp and sing unto him with the psaltery" of those
who
Truth
1-4.
of faith concerning
is
said
E. 326.
are in spiritual love.
which such things are
said.
and goods of faith were celeharp and psaltery and w ith singing, and
Spiritual things, or truths
brated with the
T
the like, but the holy or celestial -things of faith were cele-
brated with wind instruments, such as the trumpet and its
kind.
It
was
for this reason that there
were so
many
instruments about the temple, and that this or that was
A. 420. song in praise of the Lord because the church is P. P. from Him through the Word. R. 279. See Psalm xviii. 1. 3. Harps signify confessions of the Lord from spiritual 3. so often celebrated with certain instruments.
1-9.
1,
2,
A
truths.
and 2-5.
Psaltery
and harps correspond
Since
truths
harp."
it is
goods R. 276.
to spiritual
truths.
the harp signifies confession from spiritual therefore said " Confess unto Jehovah upon the
The
psaltery
and an instrument
of ten strings
PSALM XXXIII. signifies spiritual
117
corresponding good.
The
truth of the
good is signified by "the Word of Jehovah is right" and the good of the truth by "all his works are done in truth." E. 3 2 3>
That gladness
2-7.
of heart
was
signified
by songs
is
plain.
A. 8261. 6.
Life the
is
men
described by breathing and by breath, because
Most Ancient Church perceived
of the
and
the states
by the states of respiration, which states were gradually changed in their posterity. The Lord of love
faith
likens the spirit or
The
life to
man
regeneration of
the wind,
— see John
when speaking
hi. 8.
of the
A. 97.
host of them, or of the heavens stands for truths.
A. 3448.
That by the wind
Jehovah or His breath is signified the life which is of heaven, and which is of the man who is in heaven, that is of a regenerate man, is evident. of
A. 8286. Breathing was a representation of vivification by faith
and
love.
By heavens
A. 9229. are signified the angelic heavens, but by
the angelic heavens are signified Divine truths, since the
angels are receptacles of Divine truths proceeding from the Lord.
The Word
A. 9408.
Jehovah is the Divine truth, as also the spirit of His mouth. That this is the Lord is manifest from John i. 1-3, 14. A. 9818. The Word of Jehovah is the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord, the breath of the mouth of Jehovah is life thence derived. The heavens thence made and all the host of them are the angels so far as they are receptacles of
The reason why the heavens stand for because angels constitute heaven. A. 9987. The Word is from the Lord and concerning the Lord, and thus the Lord. All thought, speech, and writing deof Divine truth.
angels
is
rives its essence
and
life
from him who thinks, speaks, and
PSALM XXXIII.
Il8 6
writes, the
alone
is
man
Word which love,
and
Lord, a
in
with his quality
is
in them, but the
its
the Divine truth of the Divine
man
Lord
Without the Divine truth of the essence is the Divine good of the Divine
Word.
in the
cannot have
of the
R. 200.
truths of heaven
The goods and
wisdom
life.
—
W ord T
and
the church are
—
hosts, by armies and in the R. 447. opposite sense evils and falsities. Men who are in Divine truths from the Lord when acting against evil and falsities, consequently against bands of devils, who considered in their essence are no other than evils and falsities, are in the spiritual world like lions, although as to their bodies they have no more strength than signified in the
The reason why
sheep.
there
God
is
such strength inherent in
good itself and truth itself, and He created the universe by the Divine truth, and all the laws of order, by which He preserves the universe, are Divine truth
is,
because
is
T. 87.
truths.
That the universe was created by the Divine truth is openly said in John i. 1, 3, 10 and here. By the Word in T. 224. both these places is meant the Divine truth.
The spirit of God signifies Divine truth, called " the spirit of the mouth of Jehovah." That in
the
Psalm
it is
therefore
E. 183.
moon, and the stars are called armies plain from numerous passages. See
the sun, the
Word
is
cxlviii. 2, 3:
Genesis
ii.
1:
Jeremiah
xxxiii. 22.
E. 573-
By the Word is here understood Divine truth. E. 700. The Lord has infinite power by the Divine proceeding, which in general is called Divine See Psalm xxix. 3. 6, 7.
By
the sea Divine truths with those
borders of heaven are signified.
E. 726.
truth.
A. 2702.
who
are in the
R. 238.
The Word of Jehovah by which the heavens were made, and the breath of His mouth by which is made all the host of them signifies the Divine truth proceeding from
PSALM XXXIII.
Hq
the Lord, the host of heaven standing for all things of and faith. The waters of the sea which he gathers together as a heap signify the knowledges of truth, and love
truths in general
which are together in the natural man.
The depth which he
layeth up in storehouses signifies sensual scientifics, which are the most common and ultimate of the natural man, and in which at the same time are truths interior or superior, whence they are called store-
houses.
By 8.
E
depths are also signified Divine truths.
Here
2?5>
E. 538. are in the
by the earth are signified those who and by the inhabitants of the world those who are in the goods of the church. E. 741. 18. See Psalm xxii. 24. R c 2 j. also
truths of the church,
8,
Since the fear of Jehovah signifies the reception of Diand mercy the reception of Divine good, therefore it is said that the eye and the good pleasure of Jehovah vine truth,
upon them that fear Him, upon them that hope in His merc 7E. 696. 10. See Psalm xviii. 44. S_ 85 See Psalm xviii. 44. r ^g. See Psalm xviii. 44. T. 2^1. are
Nations stand for those those
who
are in
falsities,
the latter are signified,
who are in evil, and people for and because both the former and
it
is
therefore said that Jehovah
rendereth vain the counsel of the nations, the devices of the people.
He
subverteth E. 175.
People stand for those who are against the truth of the spiritual church, thus who are in falsities, and nations
who are against the goods of the celestial church, who are in evils. These things are also signified by people and nations who were driven out of the land of
those
thus the
Canaan. 10, 11. it
1 1.
Howsoever much the
E. ??i evil
may
fight against
will continue.
The reason why generations stand for what is
it, still
p.
eternal
p is,
PSALM XXXIII.
120
because by them, in the internal sense, are meant the genEternity is predicated of erations of faith and charity. the Divine-celestial or good,
and generation
of the Divine-
A. 9789
spiritual or truth.
who
12-15.
Happy
16-17.
Self-intelligence effects nothing.
17.
18.
are they
See Psalm xx.
8, 9.
See Psalm xx.
8.
See Psalm xx.
8, 9.
are of that church.
P. P.
E. 355
W.
See Psalm
xix. 9, 10.
See Psalm
xi. 4.
See Psalm
xi. 4.
P P
H
R. 298 A. 2826 '
•
A. 10569 R. 48
E. 68 See Psalm xi. 4. That famine, or hunger signifies the desire of knowing and understanding the truths and goods of the church
18, 19.
is
R. 323.
manifest.
See Psalm
By them
E. 186.
vi. 6.
that fear Jehovah are understood those
love to do His precepts. signifies to rescue
from damnation. give spiritual
life
deliver their soul
who
from death
them from evils and falsities, and thereby To keep them alive in famine means to according to the desire. trust in the Lord.
Those are saved who See Psalm xvi. 10.
18-22. 19.
To
E. 386. P. P.
E. 750.
PSALM XXXIV. A
Psalm
i.
of
David; when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.
I will bless
Jehovah at
all
times:
His praise shall continually be in 2.
3.
My
my
make
mouth.
her boast in Jehovah: The meek shall hear thereof, and be glad. Oh magnify Jehovah with me,
And
soul shall
let
us exalt his
name
together.
PSALM XXXIV. 4.
I
sought Jehovah, and he answered me,
And 5.
7.
8.
9.
10.
delivered
me from
all
my
fears.
They looked unto him, and were
And
6.
121
radiant;
confounded. This poor man cried, and Jehovah heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of Jehovah encampeth round about them that fear him, And delivereth them. Oh taste and see that Jehovah is good: Blessed is the man that taketh refuge in him. Oh fear Jehovah, ye his saints; For there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good their faces shall never be
thing. 11.
Come, ye
children, hearken unto
I will teach
you the fear
me:
of Jehovah.
12.
What man is he that desireth life, And loveth many days, that he may
13.
Keep thy tongue from
14.
15.
16.
17.
see
good ?
evil,
And thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; Seek peace, and pursue it. The eyes of Jehovah are toward the righteous,
And his ears are open unto their cry. The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. and Jehovah heard, them out of all their troubles. nigh unto them that are of a broken
The
righteous cried,
And
delivered
18.
Jehovah
19.
And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous;
20.
He
is
But Jehovah delivereth him out
21.
22.
of
them
heart,
all.
keepeth all his bones: Not one of them is broken. Evil shall slay the wicked; And they that hate the righteous shall be condemned. Jehovah redeemeth the soul of his servants; And none of them that take refuge in him shall be
condemned.
PSALM XXXIV.
122
Psalm XXXIV. Song
1-12.
who
We may
5.
in praise of the
trust in
those
who
A camp
Lord because He
call
and
delivers those
P. P.
all evil.
Word
often read in the
See Psalm 8.
Him from
that the
Lord answers R. 376.
cry.
E. 471.
iv. 2.
in the spiritual sense signifies all the things of
the church which rank themselves
among
its
truths
goods. 8, 10.
10, 11. its
and
R. 862.
See Psalm
xxii. 24.
See Psalm
xxii. 24.
That the
celestial
truth,
R. 527. E. 696.
who
are in power from good
which are from the Lord, are meant by
evident.
See Psalm
xxxiii. 18, 19.
and
lions is
A. 6367. R. 323.
Here also they that fear Jehovah, and with whom there no want signify those who love to do the precepts of the Lord. They that seek Jehovah, and who shall not want any good thing signify those who for this are loved by the Lord, and receive from Him goods and truths. The young lions that are said to lack and suffer hunger signify those whose knowledge and wisdom are self-derived, to lack and suffer hunger means that they have is
neither truth nor good. 13. is
In respect to of the will,
lives
E. 386.
they signify in the plural both what
and what
is
of the understanding, conse-
and what is of truth, for the life of man is nothing else than good and truth wherein is life from the Lord, since man without good and truth, and life A. 3623. therein, is no man. P. P. 13-23. He saves the good, and the evil perish. E. 866. See Psalm xvii. 1. 14. R. 306. See Psalm iv. 7-9. 15. Here peace is used to denote all things belonging to quently what
is
of good,
-
PSALM XXXIV. heaven and life is
whence the
to the church,
Since this
derived.
it is
and
common
in consequence of the
from God, believe that idea,
and
evil,
also signified
because the simple,
idea that all things are
from God, especially Wherefore according to that
also according to appearance, to Je-
hovah, or the Lord,
ment, and
is
evil is also
the evil of punishment.
common
evil,
is
when
attributed anger, revenge, punishyet those things are not
from the
Lord, but from man. See Psalm
Now
are evil
E. 365.
it."
the face of Jehovah, or the Lord,
anger, revenge, punishment,
who
from
said "depart
and do good: seek peace and pursue
By
felicity of eternal
only given to those
is
principled in good, therefore
17.
123
xiii. 2.
because such persons
expose themselves to the
— who have
evil of
A, 9306. R. 939. lived in evil
punishment and
—
to hell,
they therefore suppose that this proceeds from the Lord,
and that He regards them with a stern countenance, and them down into hell, and punishes them nearly in the same way as a man who is in anger, whereas the Lord never regards any one but from the purest love and mercy. casts
It is
from the above appearance
to the evil, that the ex-
pressions in these passages are used in the 19.
The reason why
to
approach stands
Word.
E. 412.
for conjunction
and presence
is, because in the other life the distances of one from another are altogether according to the dissimilitudes and diversities of the interiors, which are of thoughts and affections. God is said to be nigh at hand
to those
22.
They
22, 23.
who
desist
from
evil.
that use violence shall be held guilty.
Guilt
is
the blame or imputation of sin
transgression against good for all sin
A. 9378. A. 376.
which remains,
Lord is redemption. Jehovah redeemeth 23.
and
its
truth.
Thus
and
of
guilt stands
separation by good from the
A. 3400. the soul of His servants.
D.
P.,
Page
87.
PSALM XXXV.
124
PSALM XXXV. A i.
2.
3.
4.
6.
7.
of
David.
O Jehovah, with them that strive with me: Fight thou against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that pursue me: Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that seek after my soul: Let them be turned back and confounded that devise Strive thou,
my 5.
Psalm
hurt.
Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of Jehovah driving them on. Let their way be dark and slippery, And the angel of J ehovah pursuing them. For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit;
8.
Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul. Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself:
With destruction 9.
10.
let
him
fall therein.
And my
soul shall be joyful in Jehovah: It shall rejoice in his salvation. All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee, deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for
Who
him, Yea, the poor and the needy from him that robbeth
him? 11.
12.
13.
Unrighteous witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I know not. They reward me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth:
my soul with fasting; prayer returned into mine
I afflicted
And my
own bosom.
PSALM XXXV. 14.
I
behaved myself as though
my I
it
had been
I25
my
friend or
brother:
bowed down mourning,
as one that bewaileth his
mother. 15.
But
in
mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered them-
selves together:
The
abjects gathered themselves together against me,
and I knew it not; They did tear me, and ceased 16.
17.
18.
I will praise thee 19.
20.
not:
Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth. Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, My darling from the lions. I will give thee thanks in the great assembly:
among much
people.
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. For they speak not peace, But they devise deceitful w ords against them that are T
quiet in the land. 21.
22.
23.
24.
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me; They said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it. Thou hast seen it, O Jehovah; keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me. Stir up thyself, and awake to the justice due unto me, Even unto my cause, my God and my Lord. Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to thy righteousness;
And 25.
let them not rejoice over me. Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have
26.
Let them not say, We have swallowed him up. Let them be put to shame and confounded together that
it:
rejoice at
my
hurt:
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.
— PSALM XXXV.
126
Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor
27.
my
righteous cause:
Yea,
Who And And
28.
them say continually, Jehovah be magnified, hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness of thy praise all the day long. let
XXXV.
Psalm
In these passages by fighting, taking hold of shield buckler, and drawing out the spear is not signified to use those arms of war, since they are spoken of concerning Jehovah. It is so said, because all the arms of war sig-
1-3.
and
By
nify such things as appertain to spiritual war.
since
shield,
defends the head,
it
is
signified
a
defence
against falses which destroy the understanding of truth.
By
a buckler, since
it
defends the breast,
is
signified de-
fence against the falses which destroy charity, which will of good.
body,
a spear, since
it
defends
added, "say to
it is
my
soul, I
all
By
signified defence in general.
is
things
By
am
is
the
parts of the
reason of such
thy salvation." E. 734-
The combats
1-9.
of the
Lord against the
hells,
subjugation and overthrow. See Psalm
2, 3. 7,
8,
The
17.
church
their
P. P.
R. 436.
v. 13.
state
and
of
consummation
of the Israelitish
described in both the historical and prophetic Word. The vastation, desolation and con-
is
parts of the
summation Isaiah lxxiii.
ix.
of that church are
12-20;
xxii.
17-19; lxxiv.
still
further mentioned in
4-14: Jeremiah
3, etc.
vii.
31-34: Psalm Coro. 59.
consummation was accomplished when upon the cross, " It is consummated" D. P., Page ^. finished. Let destruction come upon him at unawares, and 8, 17. Lord rescue my soul from into destruction let him fall. D. P., Page 32. destruction.
The
the
last of the
Lord
cried out
PSALM XXXV.
127
bones in the spiritual sense are A. 3812. 10. In the Word the proprium, and indeed a proprium A. 149. vivified by the Lord, is signified by bones.
9, 10.
It is manifest that
the intellectual proprium.
for scientific truths. The needy in this mean those who are in little truth, and the poor those who are in little of good, and are infested by evil and From those infestations also the needy are called falses.
Bones stand
passage
afflicted in the original tongue, for to
be
afflicted is to
by falses. See Psalm ix. 19. See Psalm ix. 19.
10-16.
be
A. 9209.
infested
R. 209. E. 238.
They purpose
putting
Him
to
death for desiring
which causes Him grief. P. P. is man's very self, thus his proprium, and hence appropriation and conjunction by love. My prayer shall return unto mine own bosom, meaning that A. 6960. it would return to himself. R. 492. See Psalm xxx. 12. E. 637. See Psalm xxx. 12. Soul is used to denote the life of the spirit of man, 13, 25. E. 750. which is called his spiritual life. By the lame in the Word are also signified those who 14, A. 4302. are in no good, and thence in no truth. In the churches before the advent of the Lord, which were representative churches, mourning represented spiritual grief of mind arising from the want of truth and good, for mourning was on account of oppression by an enemy, for the death of a father or mother, and other things of a their good,
13.
The bosom
similar nature. 15, 16.
E. 372.
Since sensual
men do
not see any truth in
its light,
but argue and wrangle about everything as to whether
it
is so,
and
them
as gnashings of teeth, which in themselves are the
these altercations in the hells are heard out of
collisions of falsity
by gnashing of
and
teeth.
truth,
it is
manifest what
is
meant
R. 435.
PSALM XXXV.
128
By gnashing
16
of teeth are understood the effort
of destroying truths sities in
the extremes,
combating
of
by
falsities, for
and gnashing signifies the vehemence This effort and act are also from
correspondences.
E. 556.
Real confession of the heart, because celestial love, is in a genuine sense confession. is
it
is
from
The man
acknowledges that all good is from himself. I will in the great congive thee thanks
in this confession
from the Lord, and that confess to thee
—
gregation.
Prayer that He He will have joy.
may
See John xv. 25
19.
act
for them.
17, 18.
who
and
the teeth signify fal-
all evil is
—
A. 3880. be preserved from them, whence
— where the sense
P. P. is
the same.
A. 6752.
Word
meant by the law in the widest sense may be evident from John xv. 25 " they hated me without a cause." This is written in Psalm xxxv. 19.
That
all
things of the
are
L. 10.
That the Lord
fulfilled all things of
the
Word is manifest the Law and the
from the passages where it is said that Scripture were fulfilled by Him, and that all things were finished, as from John xv. 25, this is written in Psalm T. 262. xxxv. 19. By the law in the broadest sense is meant the whole T. 288. See previous paragraph under T. 262. ord. P. P. 19-21, 25. They blaspheme Him. R. 624. See Psalm xvii. 1. 20, E. 866. See Psalm xvii. 1. P. P. From His Divine He will overcome them.
W
r
See Psalm xxvii.
Hence the
E. 409.
9.
justice of the
Lord
will
be praised in P. P.
28.
Here
also
by the tongue
is
signified confession
said that
from the
meditates
—
doctrine of the church, for
it is
speaks,
predicated of the good, and
— righteousness
is
praise of the truth thereof.
it
E. 455.
.
PSALM XXXVI.
I29
PSALM XXXVI. For the Chief Musician. i.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
A
Psalm
of
David the servant
of Jehovah.
transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes. For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, That his iniquity will not be found out and be hated. The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise and to do good.
The
He deviseth iniquity upon his bed; He setteth himself in a way that is not good; He abhorreth not evil. Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, is in the heavens; Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the skies. Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; Thy judgments are a great deep: O Jehovah, thou preservest man and beast.
How And
precious
is
thy lovingkindness, O God! men take refuge under the shadow
the children of
of thy wings. 8.
They
shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; And thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy
pleasures. 9.
10.
For with thee is the fountain of In thy light shall we see light.
Oh
life:
continue thy lovingkindness unto them that
know
thee,
And 1 1
12.
thy righteousness to the upright in heart. Let not the foot of pride come against me, And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away. There are the workers of iniquity fallen: They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.
PSALM XXXVI. Psalm XXXVI. Respecting hypocrites, that they think
1-5.
P. P.
evil.
Within my heart." See Psalm v. 10. R. 44. See Psalm v. 10. E. 313. See Psalm v. 7. 4. R. 624. See Jeremiah ix. 4, 5. By the lips and tongue with which they speak a lie and guile is signified the thought "
2.
with intention of persuading falses against truths, and of seducing, for the lips
and tongue
same as
signify the
mouth.
the
E. 866.
4, 5.
See Psalm
6.
See Psalm xxv. 10.
They who
R. 137.
iv. 4.
A. 6180.
kingdom speak of and they who are in the Lord's celestial kingdom speak of mercy. Mercy is love, and truth is are in the Lord's spiritual
favor or grace,
A. 10577.
faith.
The Lord
a sun, and the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord as a sun presents all the light there.
in the angelic
By
heaven
is
the air the light of truth
for the air gives light
understood,
is
The same Mercy signifies
from the sun.
by the terms clouds, or ethers. good of the Divine love, and truth the Divine
is
signified
the Divine
truth.
E. 541.
Here both mercy and justice are in like manner of love, and truths and judgments are of faith. A. 2235. A. 9263. See Psalm xv. 2. In these passages judgments righteousness stands
6, 7*
—
—
for Divine truth.
A. 9857.
Since government from good, such as celestial
truth,
kingdom,
such as
it
is is
called justice,
it is
and government from
in the Lord's spiritual
called judgment, therefore in the
in the Lord's
Word
kingdom,
justice
is
and judg-
ment are mentioned where heaven and the church are of. By justice is signified celestial good, and by judgment spiritual good, winch is in its essence truth. H. 216. treated
PSALM XXXVI. Justice
compared
is
131
predicated of Divine good, wherefore
it
is
mountains of God, for by mountains of are signified the goods of love. Judgments are pred-
God
to the
icated of Divine truths, wherefore they are
great abyss for by
it is
signified
compared
Divine truth.
to a
E. 946.
It ought to be acknowledged that all good and truth P. P. from the Lord. Man and beast stands for interior and exterior good.
6-10. is
7.
A. 7523-
The reason that judgment and justice are mentioned many times in the Word is that judgment is predicated truth
and
same
tiling,
justice of good.
These
so of
repetitions, as of the
are on account of the marriage of good
truth.
and
S. 85.
Lord and and thus where the Lord is, R. 336. are signified by mountains and hills. By man and beast together is signified man as to spirR. 567. itual and natural affection. Justice has relation to the good of truth, and judgment
Heaven and
the church, where are love to the
love towards the neighbor,
R. 668.
to the truth of good.
Since in the
Word
justice
is
predicated of love, and
judgment of wisdom, therefore some passages shall be adduced to prove that the government of God is effected in the world by means of those two. See Psalm lxxxix. 14, 15: Jeremiah ix. 24: Isaiah xxxiii. 5: Amos v. 24: Psalm lxxii. 2, etc. T. 51. Because righteousness or justice in the Word is predicated of good, and judgment of truth, it is said that the righteousness of Jehovah is like the great mountains, and His judgments are a great deep. The great mountains signify the good of charity, and the great deep signifies truths in common, which are called truths of faith. E. 405.
By and
depths are also signified Divine truths in abundance,
the arcana of Divine wisdom.
E. 538.
PSALM XXXVI.
132
By man and affection
beast is signified the interior affection which whence intelligence is derived, and the exterior which is natural, whence comes science corre-
sponding
to intelligence.
is
8.
spiritual,
See Psalm
xvii. 8.
See Psalm
xvii. 8.
"
How
excellent
E. 650.
A. 8764. R. 245.
— precious —
thy lovingkindness "
is
the holy things of the church are signified
See Deuteronomy
or precious.
See Psalm
by things costly R. 789.
13-15.
xxxiii.
E. 283.
xvii. 8.
Fatness evidently stands for good, for it is said in Jeremiah xxxi. 13, 14, that their soul shall be satisfied, and
8, 9.
good of Jehovah, which is nothing else than A. 5943. which is from Him. Fat things signify celestial goods and their affections, 9. R. 782. and the enjoyments of their affections. By the fatness with which the houses shall be filled is signified the good of love and the satisfaction thence deBy the Houses stand for things of the mind. rived. river of the delights of which they shall drink is signified it is
the
called the celestial
intelligence
and
the happiness thence derived.
Fatness and the fountain of
9, 10.
life
E.
n 59.
stand for the celes-
and light, for A. 353. from love. Revelation vii. 17, By "living fountains of water" By waters the Lord and also the Word are signified. tial,
which
is
love, the river of thy pleasure
the spiritual which
is
truths are signified.
when lives
they are
By
—
By Divine of the
according to them
effected. is
made
faith
life
truths of the
which
— conjunction
is
signified to lead
fatness
by the truths of the
is
with the Lord
Word to conjunction
good
and by the river To make them drink
of love,
from that good.
With thee is the fountain of life signifies Lord and from Him there is Divine truth.
to teach.
that with the
is
R. 384. signified the
of pleasures truths
means
—
leading them to the living fountains of water
with the Lord.
By
Word
done when one
PSALM XXXVII.
I33
Since this is signified by the fountain of life it is therefore added " in thy light shall we see light," for the light of the E. 483. Lord is Divine truth. A. 290. 10. See Psalm xxvii. 13. A. 3623. See Psalm xxvii. 13. The light which is life from the Lord in heaven is there called Divine truth, since it affords light to the minds of those who are there, and hence appears as light before their E. 186.
eyes.
Since the
Lord
is life
and every man
from Him, therefore also and vivifies see John v.
—
a fountain of
He
is
a recipient of
teaches that
21.
Hence
also
E. 11 20.
life.
Those who acknowledge the Lord possess
all
good and P. P.
truth.
12.
life
He gives life God is called
The Lord
protects
from
evil,
and
the evil perish. P. P.
PSALM XXXVII. A
Psalm
of David.
i.
Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, Neither be thou envious against them that work un-
2.
For they
righteousness. shall soon be cut down like the grass, wither as the green herb. Trust in Jehovah, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on his faithfulness.
And 3.
4.
5.
6.
Delight thyself also in Jehovah; And he will give thee the desires of thy heart. Commit thy way unto Jehovah; Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass. And he will make thy righteousness to go forth as the light,
And
thy justice as the noonday.
PSALM XXXVII.
134 7.
Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
8.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: Fret not thyself,
9.
it
tendeth only to evil-doing.
For evil-doers shall be cut off; But those that wait for Jehovah, they
shall inherit the
land. 10.
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and he shall not be.
11.
But the meek
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
For he seeth that his day is coming. The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way. Their sword shall enter into their own heart, And their bows shall be broken. Better
18.
And 19.
20.
21.
is
a
little
that the righteous hath
abundance of many wicked. For the arms of the wicked shall be broken; But Jehovah upholdeth the righteous. Jehovah knoweth the days of the perfect;
Than 17.
shall inherit the land,
And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peac^. The wicked plotteth against the just, And gnasheth upon him with his teeth. The Lord will laugh at him;
the
be for ever. put to shame in the time of evil; And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: They shall consume; in smoke shall they consume away. The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again; their inheritance shall
They
shall not be
But the righteous dealeth
graciously,
and
giveth.
PSALM XXXVII. 22.
135
For such as are blessed of him
shall inherit the land; they that are cursed of him shall be cut off. man's goings are established of Jehovah;
And 23.
A
And he
delighteth in his way.
24.
Though he
25.
For Jehovah upholdeth him with his hand. I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken,
Nor 26.
he shall not be utterly cast down;
begging bread. day long he dealeth graciously, and lendeth;
his seed
All the
And 27.
fall,
his seed
Depart from
is
blessed.
and do good; dwell for evermore. For Jehovah loveth justice, And forsaketh not his saints; They are preserved for ever: But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. The righteous shall inherit the land, And dwell therein for ever. The mouth of the righteous talketh of wisdom, evil,
And 28.
29.
30.
And 31.
32.
And 33.
justice.
seeketh to slay him. will not leave him in his hand, condemn him when he is judged.
Jehovah
Nor 34.
tongue speaketh
his
The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps shall slide. The wicked watcheth the righteous,
Wait
And
for Jehovah,
he
and keep
his
way,
will exalt thee to inherit the land:
When 35. 36.
37.
38.
39.
the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; For there is a happy end to the man of peace. As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together: The end of the wicked shall be cut off. But the salvation of the righteous is of Jehovah:
I
He
is
their stronghold in the time of trouble.
PSALM XXXVII.
I36 40.
And Jehovah helpeth them, and rescueth them: He rescueth them from the wicked, and saveth them, Because they have taken refuge in him.
Psalm XXXVII. Comparison
General Subject. with the I.
lot of the
of the lot of the evil
P. P.
good.
and by a zealous God is meant in the genuine sense love and mercy, but in a sense not genuine, such as is seen by those who are in evils and falA. 8875. sities, anger and vastation are signified.
By
the zeal of Jehovah,
8-10, 12-15, *7, 20, 21, 28, 32, 35, 36, 38. Although the evil nourish for a short time, yet they perish, and are
1, 2,
down into hell. The grass and the green herbage stand
P. P.
cast 2.
for
what
Word
green grass in the
is
signified that
truth of the church or of faith, which
man.
the natural
— Revelation
viii.
of faith perished,
when
most
A. 996.
vile.
By
is
there
is
By 7
all
—
is
good and
springs
first
up
the green grass being burnt
in
up
signified that every living thing
and every
no affection
living thing of faith perishes for good,
and perception
of
R. 401.
truth.
When
and good which come from heaven do not man in knowledges and scientifics, but in evils and falsities which are from hell, then scientifics are not alive but dead, and correspond to grass withered and burnt up. E. 507. 3-7, 11, 16, 18, 19, 22-31, 34, 37, 39, 40. The good are P. P. saved by the Lord, and taken up into heaven. " Thy judgment as the noon-day " 6. as the south. truth
find a receptacle with
—
The south
signifies the intelligence
which
is
procured by
The knowledges are celestial and spiritual which are so many radiations of light in heaven.
knowledges. truths
A. 1458.
PSALM XXXVII. Judgment and judgments stand
137
for Divine truth.
A. 9857.
See Psalm xxxvi.
The Divine in the
Word by and
justice,
in the
love
Word
S. 85.
7.
and
the Divine
wisdom are understood
and judgment, the Divine love by wisdom by judgment, wherefore and judgment are predicated of God.
justice
the Divine justice
W.
11, 37.
By
See Psalm xxxvi.
7.
See Psalm xxxvi.
7.
See Psalm the
meek
iv.
38.
R. 668. T. 51. R. 306.
7-9.
or afflicted are here
By
in temptations in the world.
meant those who are abundance of peace
the
which they shall delight themselves are signified the which succeed temptations, for after temptations there are given delights from the Lord by virtue of the conjunction of good and truth at the time, and of conin
delights
junction with the Lord thence derived. 12.
See Psalm xxxv. 15, 16. See Psalm xxxv. 15, 16.
14.
See Psalm
E. 365.
R. 435. E. 556.
R. 209. the miserable and poor are here also understood
By who are
they
ix. 19.
spiritually such,
but yet desire the knowledge
and good. This is evident, for it is said that the wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow. The sword signifies what is false combating against Their bow the false truth and endeavoring to destroy it. of truth
doctrine against the doctrine of truth, wherefore that they do this to cast
down
the miserable
it is
said
and poor. E. 238.
14, 15.
By
the sword
is
signified falsity
combating against
and by bow the doctrine of what is false. To cast the poor and needy signifies to pervert those who are in ignorance of truth and good. E. 357. 16-34. The just one is thus described. These things are the good of charity which are the just. That those goods truth,
down
PSALM XXXVII.
1^8 of charity are
with man,
is
from the Lord, so that they are of the Lord
known
See Psalm
18. 19.
to the church.
A. 9263. R. 323.
xxxiii. 18, ig.
Here the days of the upright signify the states of those are in good and thence in truths, or who are in charity and thence in faith. By their inheritance being for ever is signified that they belong to the Lord alone and are in heaven. By their not being ashamed in the time of evil is signified that they shall conquer when they are tempted by evils. By their being satisfied in the day of famine is signified that they shall be supported by truths, when they The time of evil are tempted and infested by falsities. and the day of famine signify states of temptations, and E. 386. temptations are from evil and falsities. D. P., Page 32. The days of famine and evil time. 19. 20. The falsities of lusts welling up out of the evil loves are also described in the Word by smoke from fire, and from
who
R. 422.
See Genesis xix. 28.
a furnace. See Psalm
E. 494.
xviii. 9.
Here by the wicked perishing, and the enemies of Jehovah being consumed into smoke is signified that they They are called wicked shall perish by the falsities of evil. who are in falsities, and enemies who are in evils. Smoke stands for the falsity of 21.
In the
E. 539.
evil.
Word where mention
is
made
of borrowing
and
be instructed and to instruct from It is charity to give to the good, the affection of charity. and it is not charity to give to the evil what they ask and A. 9174desire.
lending
By
it
signifies to
being merciful and lending
22.
is
who are in genuine charity. By benediction or blessing when
those
described the state of A. 9174-
predicated of
man
is
understood nothing else but the reception of Divine truth and Divine good, because in them are contained heaven
and 30.
eternal happiness.
The mouth from
E. 340.
correspondence, thus in the spiritual
PSALM XXXVIII.
139
sense, signifies the thought, but in the natural sense utterance or enunciation. Here by the mouth is signified thought from the affection, for thence man meditates wis-
dom, and not from the mouth and its speech. E. 580. See Psalm xxxvii. 2 add: that by green or growing
35.
green
is
signified living or alive
is
R. 401.
manifest.
By green is signified what is living or alive. A vegetable object when it flourishes, that is, whilst it as it were lives is green, but when it no longer flourishes, or as it were then the verdure perishes.
dies,
37.
He
right
is
called just
who
E. 507.
does good, and he
does truth therefrom, which also
and judgment. faith,
who
is
is
to
called up-
do
justice
Holiness and justice are the celestial of
uprightness
and judgment are
the spiritual there-
from.
A. 612.
Peace in the supreme sense representative sense
from the Lord
it
signifies the
signifies
Lord, and in a
His kingdom, and good which flows into
therein, thus the Divine
good, or into affections for good, which also causes joy
and happiness from the inmost. A. 3780. See Psalm xxv. 21. A. 9905. That it is Divine and heavenly peace which is meant by peace in the Word, may be evident from Isaiah In. 7; liv. 10: Jeremiah xvi. 5; xxv. 37: Haggai ii. 9, etc. H. 287.
PSALM A i.
2.
3.
Psalm
XXXVIII.
of David, to bring to
remembrance.
O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation;
Neither sin.
is
there
any health
in
my
bones because of
my
PSALM XXXVIII.
140
5.
For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. My wounds are loathsome and corrupt,
6.
I
4.
7.
8.
Because of my foolishness. am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh. I
am
I
have groaned by reason of the disquietness of
faint
and
sore bruised:
my
heart. 9.
all
And my 10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
Thou 16.
17.
18.
my
before thee; not hid from thee. My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off. They also that seek after my life lay snares for me; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long. But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs. For in thee, O Jehovah, do I hope:
Lord,
desire
groaning
wilt answer,
O
Lord
my
God.
Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slippeth, they magnify against me. For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
For
For
I said,
I will declare
I will be sorry for 19.
is
is
mine
my
iniquity;
sin.
lively, and are strong; they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.
But mine enemies are
And 20.
21.
themselves
Forsake me not, O Jehovah: O my God, be not far from me.
PSALM XXXVIII.
Make
22.
141
haste to help me,
my
Lord,
salvation.
Psalm XXXVIII.
The
i-il.
grievousness
of
the
Lord's
temptations
See Psalm
4.
is
P. P.
described.
R. 306.
7-9.
iv.
They alone have peace who are in good and thence truths, and not those who are in evils and thence
in in
E. 365.
falsities.
Because stench stands for that which is of aversion, Word stench is used to express aversion. That
5. 6.
in the
they
who
are in evils
about them
is
and thence
in falsities carry a stench
very manifest from the hells which are called
the hells of corpses, where are assassins,
and those who A.
are most tenacious of revenge.
A
boil signifies defilement
7 161.
and blains the That wounds also signify
from
blasphemies which are thence. such things is manifest from Isaiah
evils,
i.
A. 7524.
6.
and wounds signify evils in the outmosts, arising R. 678. from more internal evils, which are lusts. Sores
Wounds stand for the evils of the will, which are evil works; they are said to stink and be corrupt by reason of foolishness, when the delight of the will and of the thought thence derived 5-8.
By
is
to
E. 962.
do them.
diseases are signified the corruptions
spiritual
life.
and
evils of
Therefore by the various kinds of diseases
are signified also the various kinds of corruptions
6.
Stripe in the original tongue is expressed signifies
and
A. 8364.
evils of that life.
by a term which
blackness arising from a collection of blood, or
Blood in the internal sense is the truth of faith from the good of love, and in the opposite sense truth fal-
of gore.
—wounds or bruises and profaned. Therefore — means truth injured or extinguished. A. 9057.
sified
stripe
PSALM XXXVIII.
142
By
12.
6,
plagues nothing else
men
plagues, which affect
is
but spiritual
signified
as to their soul,
and destroy R. 657.
them. 7.
See Psalm xxxv. 14.
E. 372.
9.
See Psalm xxxii.
3.
R. 471.
See Psalm xxxii.
3.
10,
16-23.
E. 601.
Trust in the Father that the
hells
will not
P- P-
prevail.
12, 13.,
Those who are
of the church purpose to
Him P. P.
put to death. 14, 15.
See Psalm xi. 6. He bears all things with patience.
16.
See Psalm
13,
have
A. 9348. P. P.
A. 300.
xviii. 3, 29, 30, 32.
PSALM XXXIX. For the Chief Musician, for Jeduthun. 1.
Psalm
of David.
my ways, tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me. I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from I said, I will take
That
2.
A
heed
I sin not with
to
my
good;
And my 3.
4.
stirred.
heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned; Then spake I with my tongue: Jehovah, make me to know mine end,
And Let 5.
sorrow was
My
the measure of
me know how
Behold, thou hast
And my
my
days,
frail I
what
it is;
am.
made my days
as handbreadths;
life-time is as nothing before thee:
Surely every
man at his
best estate
is
altogether vanity. [Selah
.
PSALM XXXIX.
I43
Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain:
He
heapeth up
riches,
and knoweth not who
shall
gather them.
And now,
My
hope
Lord, what wait I for ? is
in thee.
me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish. Deliver
was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it. Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: I
10.
1 1
Surely every 12.
man
is
vanity.
[Selah
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee,
give ear unto
my
cry;
A sojourner, 13.
as all my fathers were. spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
Oh
*
Psalm XXXIX.
The Lord's
1-4, 9-12.
patience in the state of temptations. P. P.
by these words the times of life only were understood, the end of which he desired to know, It
5, 6.
and
appears as
if
that those times pass
away
quickly, but in the spiritual
sense times are not understood, but instead thereof states of
life.
know
he
may
the quality thereof, thus
what
Therefore by verse
the state of his
life
and
5
is
signified that
would remain with him. By "behold, my days as a handbreadth" is signified that the quality of the state of his life was of very little moment. "My time is as nothing before thee," signifies that the state of his life was of no avail. Time and day quality of
life
thou hast given
PSALM XXXIX.
144
in the Word signify states of life as to truth and as to good, and thence as to intelligence and wisdom. Consequently it is here meant that both the latter and the former as far E. 629. as they were from himself were worth nothing. P. P. 5-8. He desires the end of the temptations. 11. to
Plagues signify spiritual plagues which affect men as their souls and destroy them, which are evils and
R. 657.
falsities.
13.
By
a stranger just as by a sojourner
and inhabitant from another
comer by a stranger are
is
land, but
signified a
signified those who were instructed in the truths of the church and who received those truths, by sojourners those who were not willing to be instructed in the truths of the church, because they were not willing to receive them.
A. 8002.
Prayer
13, 14.
to the
Father that
He
be not forsaken. P. P.
PSALM For the Chief Musician.
XL.
A
Psalm
of David.
I waited patiently for Jehovah; And he inclined unto me, and heard
my
cry.
brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my
2.
He
3.
And
goings.
4.
he hath put a new song in unto our God:
my
mouth, even praise
Many shall see it, and fear, And shall trust in Jehovah. Blessed is the man that maketh Jehovah his trust, And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5.
O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done,
Many,
PSALM XL.
I45
And
thy thoughts which are to us-ward! set in order unto thee; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered. Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I am come; In the roll of the book it is written of me: I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart. I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, Jehovah, thou knowest. I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; 1 have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great assembly. Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O
They cannot be
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
Jehovah; Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me. Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me: Make haste to help me, O Jehovah. Let them be put to shame and confounded together
That seek after my soul to destroy it: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt. Let them be desolate by reason of their shame That say unto me, Aha, aha. Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: Let such as love thy salvation say continually, Jehovah be magnified.
PSALM XL.
146
am
poor and needy; Lord thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer;
But
17.
I
Yet the
Make no
tarrying,
O my
God.
Psalm XL. Thanksgiving and celebration of the Father, that
1-6.
has helped Him.
A pit is
3.
He
P. P.
the vastation of falsity,
and
in the abstract sense
A. 4728.
falsity.
and vastation of the man of the church, or of the church in man, was represented by the captivity of the Jewish people in Babylon, and the raising up of the
The
desolation
church by the return from that captivity, as described in
Jeremiah throughout, especially chapter Desolation
end.
is
man
captivity,
xxxii. 37 to the then being kept as it
were bound, wherefore too by those who are bound, in prison,
and
in a pit are signified those
who
Clay
is evil
Jehovah
Lord as
By
is
from which
is falsity.
called the rock,
and then
to faith. is
is
understood the A. 8581.
-
the pit of devastation
are in des-
A. 5376. A. 6669.
olation.
signified the false of doc-
and by the mire of clay evil of life. By setting his upon a rock is signified to cause him to live according
trine,
feet
Divine truths, for by a rock
to
of doctrine
Lord
is
also signified the truth
from the Word, and in the supreme sense the E. 666.
as to Divine truth.
See Psalm
xviii. 3,
32-47.
Inv. 35. glorification of the
It is evident that a song means Lord on account of liberation, for songs involved gladness gladness of heart of heart, and exaltation of the Lord on account of the Lord's coming and salvation thereby, and exaltation on account of victory over spiritual enemies.
3, 4.
—
A. 8261.
PSALM XL.
From
7, 8.
these passages
147
now
it is
manifest that sacrifices
were not commanded, but permitted, also that nothing else was regarded in the sacrifices but the internal, and that
it
was the
internal, not the external, that
was
ac-
A. 2180.
ceptable.
Lord were testisuch things as are offered by the heart, which
It is evident that presents offered to the
fications of
are the things of faith
He came into
7-9.
He might 7. 9.
It
is
do the
and
charity.
the world, as
is
written in the
is
P. P.
will of the Father.
evident what sacrifices
where there Hosea vi. 6.
A. 9293. that
Word,
no charity and
and
faith.
burnt-offerings are
See
Amos
v. 22, 24:
A. 922.
sons of Israel would have believed and acted altogether otherwise, if they had been willing to receive the doctrine of love and of faith to the Lord, and of charity
The
toward the neighbour.
known and
In
this
case they
would have
believed that burnt-offerings, sacrifices, meat-
offerings, libations,
them from any
and eating
guilt or sin,
the worship of God,
of sacrifices did not purify
but that they were purified by
and repentance from
the heart.
A. 9409. 8.
The Word Here as
is
R. 256.
meant by the book.
in other places of the
Word where
a book
is
mentioned, a volume or scroll is thereby understood, for in ancient times they wrote upon parchments, which were rolled together, and the parchment was called a book. E. 299.
Some passages concerning lected
from the prophesies of
14, 15; xlix. 10: 9.
The
Numbers
coming of the Lord colthe Old Word, Genesis iii.
the
xxiv. 17.
expression good pleasure in the
Coro. 60.
Hebrew tongue
is done according to the good pleasure of Jehovah God signifies to live according to His precepts. This is His good pleasure or will because from Divine love He wills that all may be saved, and by it they are saved.
also signifies will, for will is well pleasing.
whatever
To do
the
E. 295.
PSALM XL.
I48
By
— inward
the bowels
— are
parts
signified the in-
E. 622.
teriors of the thought.
10,
He
11.
kingdom
also preached the gospel of the
of
God, and taught. P. P. A. 6180. 12. See Psalm xxv. 10. 13-16, 18. Trust from His Divine against those who purpose to put
Him
And
those
17.
let
to death.
P. P.
who worship
the
Lord
rejoice in
Him. P. P.
To
rejoice
and
to
be glad
affection of the heart
tion of the heart of the soul
To and
is
is
signifies to
and the
soul.
of the will,
and
have delight of the
Delight of the affecdelight of the affection
of the understanding.
good and
rejoice is predicated of
to be glad
is
predicated of truth
its
R. 507. love or affection,
and
of
its
love or
E. 660.
affection.
The needy denote those who are in little truth, and the poor those who are in little of good, and are infested by
18.
and
evils
See also Psalm xxxv. 10.
falses.
A. 9209.
R. 209. See Psalm ix. 19. By the miserable and poor are not understood those
who
are so as to worldly riches, but as to spiritual riches,
since
David spoke
this
concerning himself.
PSALM For the Chief Musician. i.
Blessed
2.
Jehovah Jehovah
is
E. 238.
XLI.
A
Psalm
of David.
he that considereth the poor:
will deliver
him
will preserve
in the
day of
evil.
him, and keep him
alive,
And And 3.
he shall be blessed upon the earth; deliver not thou him unto the will of his enemies. Jehovah will support him upon the couch of languishing:
Thou makest 4.
I said,
Heal
O
my
all his
bed
in his sickness.
Jehovah, have mercy upon me: soul; for I have sinned against thee.
PSALM
XLI.
149
Mine enemies speak evil against me, saying, will he die, and his name perish ? And if he come to see me, he speaketh falsehood;
5.
When 6.
His heart ga there th iniquity to itself: When he goeth abroad he telleth it. All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt. An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him; And now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
7.
8.
9.
Who
did eat of
Hath
lifted
But thou,
10.
me That
By
up
O
my
bread,
me. Jehovah, have mercy upon me, and raise his heel against
up, I
may requite them. know that thou delightest
in me, Because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity,
11.
12.
this I
settest me before thy face for ever. Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel,
And 13.
From everlasting and Amen, and Amen.
to everlasting.
Psalm XLI. 1-4. is
3.
He who is in temptations, and consequent afflictions, always upheld, and thereby vivified. P. P. The will of his enemies the soul of his enemies. See
—
Psalm
See Psalm
4.
4, 5.
R. 137.
iv. 4.
See Psalm xxx.
nification, the
5-8.
E. 750.
xvi. 10.
The
hells
Lord
add: Because healing has
2,
this sig-
also calls himself a physician.
among
A. 8365. themselves devise evils against the
Lord.
And
9.
10. is.
P. P.
think that
He
is
to be utterly destroyed.
So also do those who are of the church where the
P. P.
Word P. P.
PSALM
150 This
is
XLI.
spoken concerning the Jews who were
session of Divine truths, because they
in pos-
had the Word. E. 617.
They
11, 12.
not succeed, and will themselves be
will
destroyed.
14.
P. P.
Perfection belongs to the Lord.
13, 14.
See Psalm
That
God
the
Lord as
of Israel
is
many
Isaiah
to the
Divine natural
plain from
See Exodus xxiv.
In
P. P.
A. 1096.
xxviii. 6.
many
is
meant by the
passages in the Word. A. 7091.
9, 10.
places the
Lord
xvii. 6; xxi. 10, 17:
is
called the
Jeremiah
vii.
God
of Israel.
3; ix. 15: Ezekiel
L. 39.
viii. 4, etc.
See Psalm
That
the
R. 289.
xxviii. 6.
Lord
is
called the
God
of Israel
is
evident also
from very many passages.
T. 93.
Amen signifies verity, thus the Lord himself, since when He was in the world He was Divine truth (verity) E. 228.
itself.
PSALM For the Chief Musician. 1.
As the hart panteth
3.
4.
Maschil of the sons of Korah.
after the water brooks,
O God. God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God ? My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God ? These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, So panteth
2.
XLII.
My
my
soul after thee,
soul thirsteth for
With the voice holyday.
of joy
and
praise, a multitude
keeping
PSALM
Why
5.
down,
art thou cast
XLII.
O my
I51 soul?
And why art thou disquieted within me ? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him For the help of his countenance. O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember thee from the land
6.
of the
Jordan,
And
Hermons, from the
hill Mizar. deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
the
Deep
7.
calleth unto
Yet Jehovah will command his lovingkindness in the day-time; And in the night his song shall be with me, Even a prayer unto the God of my life. I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten
8.
9.
me?
Why
go I mourning because of the oppression of the
enemy ? As with a sword
10.
in
my
bones, mine adversaries re-
proach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God ? Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me ? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.
11.
Psalm XLII. 1-7.
The
state of grief
and perturbation
of the
Lord from
temptations, with trust from the Divine. 2.
3.
Hart
is
brooks
is
To
P. P.
here affection for truth, panting for the water for desiring truths.
A. 6413.
thirst signifies to desire truths.
See Psalm xxvii.
R. 956.
R. 939. In these passages by the face of Jehovah, by His presence, His countenance, and appearing before Him are understood the interior things of the church, of the Word,
3, 6.
and
8, 9.
of worship, because Divine
good and Divine
truth,
PSALM
152
XLII,
and thus the Lord himself are
them, and from them in
in
the externals, but not in externals without them.
E. 412.
In David they were called praises and thanksgivings that were made upon instruments. See also Psalm
5.
xxxiii. 1-4.
A. 420.
See Psalm
vii. 18.
A. 3880.
See Psalm
vii.
18.
E. 326.
The land
Jordan stands for that which is low, and so for that which is distant from the celestial, as man's externals are from his internals. A. 1585. Remembering from the land of Jordan means from what is last and thus from what is low. A. 4255. Here also the deep manifestly stands for the extreme of
7.
8.
of
temptation.
A. 756.
The deeps stand xvii.
— thus also for
8
— Revelation
for the hells
-
from
falsities
xi.
lusts, for these
7
and
are in
and make them. Since these things are signified by deeps, by them are also signified temptations, for temptations are effected by falsities and evils injected from the hells. In this sense it is written in David, Psalm xlii. 7 and Psalm lxxi. 20. A. 8278. In these passages also the temptations of the Lord by which He subjugated the hells, and glorified His humanity By waves and billows whilst in the world are described. the hells
are signified evils the earth
and
or lowest pit
4-6
— are
evils
8-1 1.
and
sea,
and and
— Psalms
falsities.
By
likewise
by the
lxix. 1,
signified the
hells
deeps, the depths of pit
and
the deepest
2-14, 15; lxxi. 20; lxxxviii.
where and whence those E. 538.
falsities are.
The growing
grievousness of the temptations even P. P.
to despair.
9, 10.
By truth,
E. 372. See Psalm xxxv. 14. " God my rock " is understood the Lord as to Divine
and
in the present instance as to defence.
See Psalm 12.
The
xviii. 3,
expression "the health of
E. 411. Inv. 35.
32-47.
my
countenance"
sig-
PSALM nines
all
XLIII.
things within, that
is
153
to say, all things of the
mind and affections, consequently to love and faith, which on account
all
things pertaining
of their saving nature
are here called health, the health of the countenance. E. 412.
Confidence from the Divine that
He
will
be raised up. P. P.
PSALM 1.
O
Judge me,
XLIII.
God, and plead
my
cause against an un-
godly nation:
Oh 2.
me from the deceitful and unjust man. God of my strength; why hast
deliver
For thou cast
Why
art the
me
thou
oft?
go I mourning because of the oppression of the
enemy ? 3.
Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me: Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, And
4.
to thy tabernacles.
Then
will I
go unto the altar of God,
Unto God my exceeding joy; And upon the harp will I praise 5.
Why
art thou cast
thee,
O
is
in
God;
the help of
God,
my God.
O my
soul? art thou disquieted within me
And why Hope thou
Who
down,
?
for I shall yet praise him,
my
countenance, and
my
God.
PSALM
154 See Psalm xv.
3
A
3,
XLIII.
E. 405.
i.
church with regard to the truth of doctrine. Heaven and the church as to the doctrine of the good of love were signified by a tabernacle, and the doctrine of truth from that good by a tent, on account of the holy worship by the most ancient. E. 799. Referring to knowledges of good and truth. A. 420. 4. Altar stands manifestly for the Lord. Thus the buildtent signifies the
ing of an altar in the ancient and in the Jewish church
was
for a representative of the Lord.
The
altar
A. 921.
upon which burnt-offerings and was the principal representative of
were offered was afterward the temple.
sacrifices
the Lord,
A. 2777. con-
as
Heaven
is
called the habitation of
sideration, that the Divine of the it is
God from
Lord dwells
there, for
the Divine truth proceeding from the Divine good of
Lord which makes heaven, since it gives who are there, and the Lord dwells in from himself with the angels. See Psalm xxvi. 6, 7. See Psalm xxxiii. 2, 3. See Psalm xxvi. 6, 7.
the
angels is
this
The harp See Psalm
By
signifies
confession from
xxxiii. 2-5.
the altar of
God
life to
A. 9594. A. 9714.
spiritual
R. 276. R. 392. truths.
E. 323.
-
is
the
that which
here understood the Lord as to
His Divine human, for the subject treated of is the way The way to heaven is to heaven and to the Lord there. understood by " send out thy light and thy truth, let them lead me" light meaning illumination in which truths appear. Heaven, into which it leads, is understood by "let
them bring me unto thy holy
By
God
hill,
and
to thy tabernacles."
understood where the Lord is in the good of love, and by God is understood where the the altar of
Lord
is
is
in truth of that good.
Prayer to the Father that Divine truth
Him.
E. 391.
may
comfort P. P.
PSALM XLIV.
155
Since the harp signifies confession from spiritual truths,
4.
and
who
spiritual truths are
dissipate falsities,
who
what the angels are
are in the Lord's spiritual kingdom, are in them,
and therewith
— therefore
affected with
— which
it is
said
— see
i.
Harps
signify confessions of the
Lord from
See Psalm
xlii.
spiritual
R. 276. E. 412.
truths. 5.
Samuel E. 323.
xvi. 23.
4, 5.
12.
Consolation.
P, P.
PSALM For the Chief Musician. 1.
We
A
XLIV.
Psalm
have heard with our
of the sons of
ears,
O
Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their In the days of 2.
Thou
3.
4.
5.
7.
8.
Maschil.
God,
days,
didst drive out the nations with thy hand; didst plant:
didst afflict the peoples;
But them thou didst spread abroad. For they gat not the land in possession by
their
own
sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, Because thou wast favorable unto them. Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob. Through thee will we push down our adversaries: Through thy name will we tread them under that rise
up against 6.
Korah.
old.
But them thou
Thou
also
the spirits themselves
For
I will
us.
not trust in
my
bow,
Neither shall my sword save me. But thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And hast put them to shame that hate us. In God have we made our boast all the day long, And we will give thanks unto thy name forever. [Selah
PSALM XLIV.
156 9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
But now thou hast
cast us off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts. Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves. Thou hast made us like sheep appointed for food, And hast scattered us among the nations. Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased thy wealth by their price. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.
14.
us a byword among the nations, shaking of the head among the peoples. All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me, For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth, By reason of the enemy and the avenger. All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten
Thou makest
A 15.
16.
17.
thee,
we dealt falsely in thy covenant. not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way, That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death. If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god; Will not God seaich this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Neither have
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
Our
heart
is
Awake, why
sleepest thou,
O
Lord?
Arise, cast us not off for ever. 24.
25.
26.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression? For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaveth unto the earth. Rise up for our help, And redeem us for thy lovingkindness' sake.
PSALM XLIV.
157
Psalm XLIV.
The church was
1-5.
established by the
Lord among the
ancients, evils having been cast out.
By
2.
fathers are signified those
P. P.
who were
of the ancient
church.
The
3. 4.
light of the
countenance of Jehovah
truth from Divine good, so also the right
A. 6075. Divine
is
hand and arm. A. 8281.
4.
and thy arm, and the light of thy faces because the right hand stands for power, the arm for strength, and the light of faces Divine truth from It
is
said thy right hand,
A. 10019.
the Divine good.
See Psalm
5. 6.
6.
iii.
2, 3.
A. 10481.
—
—
push down Thrusting one's enemies with the horn also means destroying falsities by the power of truth and good of faith. Who cannot see that in these passages no mention would have been made of thrusting with the horn as done by men, unless by the signification of horns A. 9081.
as power.
By
treading under foot in these passages
is.
also signified
E. 632.
to destroy.
P. P. This was done by God, and not by man. sigarmies is their forth with going God not 11. By 10, nified that He did not defend them, because they were in falsities of evil, for armies stand for falsities of evil, hence it is said that they were cast off and put to shame, and
6-9.
made evil
10-13, 20. as is
if
back from the enemy, the enemy meaning E. 573. from hell.
to turn
which
is
Nevertheless the hells
now
there were no Divine presence,
prevail against
whence
it is
P. P.
no church.
12-14. truths,
By
and being sold is signified to alienate be alienated from them, and to accept falses
selling
and to and be captivated
for truths
14-17.
He
Him
that there
is
thereby.
blasphemed by the
evil of the
E. 840.
church.
P. P.
PSALM XLIV.
158 15.
See Psalm
xviii. 44.
S. 86.
See Psalm
xviii. 44.
T. 251.
See Psalm
xxxiii. 10.
E. 331.
P. P. Notwithstanding that perfection is His. "The heart has averted itself backwards." In the 19. other life spirits turn themselves according to their loves. They who love the Lord and the neighbour look contin-
18-22.
ually to the Lord,
.
.
.
but they
the world above all things turn
Lord, and turn themselves to there
who
who love themselves and away the face from the
hell,
and every one to those and this also
are in a similar love with himself,
in every turning of their
A. 10420.
body.
That those are here meant by the dragon who are faith alone, and reject the works of the law as not sav-
19, 20. in
ing,
has been several times attested to
me by
living ex-
R. 537.
perience in the spiritual world.
Treating also concerning temptations. That he was then secluded from influx out of heaven like the sensual
what was good and what was by God breaking him in the place of dragons, and covering him with the shade of death, the place of dragons denoting where they who are dragons are in hell, namely, who have destroyed all good in themselves. The false in which these are is called the shade of death. man, so as not
to perceive
true, is signified
23.
He
is
so treated
By
on account
of the Divine.
E. 714. P. P.
meant they who are rejected, and held in hatred by the evil in the world of spirits, and who might be led away, also they who desire to know truths, but cannot on account of the
23, 24.
the slain are
treated with abuse,
falsities
in the
church
Matthew
may be
evident.
See Zechariah
R. 325. John xvi. 2, 3, etc. In the spiritual sense murder means all modes of killing and destroying the souls of men. These modes are various and manifold, as turning them away from God, religion, and Divine worship, by throwing out scandals
xi. 4, 5, 7:
xxiv. 9:
PSALM XLIV. against them,
I59
and by persuading to such things as cause Such things are done by and satans in hell, with whom they who
aversion and also abhorrence. all
the devils
and
violate
prostitute the holy things of the church in this
world are conjoined.
Word
In the prophetic
they
they destroy are meant by the slain.
By
being killed
for the slaughter
whom
T. 310.
day long, and accounted as sheep meant that of ourselves we are perfalse persuasions, and are seduced by
all
is
petually falling into
them, and especially when these prevail. E. 315. Therefore may the Divine bring Him help. P. P.
24, 27.
See Psalm xxvii.
25.
See Psalm
He
25. 26.
is
xiii.
R. 939.
8, 9.
E. 412.
2.
in the last state of temptation, as
He were
if
P. P.
forsaken.
25-27.
When man
away from dust and with his
turns himself
Jehovah he cleaves
to the
the face of belly to the
A. 247.
earth.
26.
By dust also is signified what is damned. By the soul and the belly in the spiritual
nified the
is
sense
to the dust
and cleaving
being imbued with
here signified what
is
to the earth
falsities, for
infernal
That the Lord as
and accursed.
See Psalm
signi-
E. 622. E. 750.
to the
Human
is
the
Redeemer
not denied in the church.
To redeem
is
by dust and earth
See Psalm xxxi. 10. 27.
is sig-
thought of the understanding, and by the being
bowed down fied the
A. 7418.
is
R. 281. R. 613.
xix. 15.
and to liberate from falsities, and also to vindicate and liberate from hell. All the evils and falsities with man rise up from hell. Since they are removed by reformation and regeneration from the Lord, these are also signified by E. 328. redeeming, or by redemption. Arise for our help, and ransom us for thy mercy's sake. D. P., Page 87. signifies to vindicate
from
evils
;
PSALM XLV.
l6o
PSALM XLV. For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. Korah. Maschil. A Song of i.
A
Psalm
of the sons of
loves.
My I
heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; speak the things which I have made touching the
king:
My
tongue
is
the pen of a ready writer.
2.
Thou
3.
poured into thy lips: Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one,
4.
Thy And
Grace
5.
6.
7.
men;
is
and thy majesty. on prosperously, Because of truth and meekness and righteousness: And thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. glory
in thy majesty ride
Thine arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under thee; They are in the heart of the king's enemies. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: A sceptre of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness: Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With
8.
art fairer than the children of
the
oil of
gladness above thy fellows.
All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments
and
cassia;
have made
thee glad. 9.
10.
Kings' daughters are among thy honorable women: At thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir. Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear;
11.
12.
13.
Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house: So will the king desire thy beauty For he is thy lord; and reverence thou him. And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; The rich among the people shall entreat thy favor. The king's daughter within the palace is all glorious: Her clothing is inwrought with gold.
PSALM XLV. 14.
She
shall be led
The
virgins her
l6l
unto the king in broidered work:
companions that follow her
Shall be brought unto thee.
With gladness and
15.
They
rejoicing shall they be led:
shall enter into the king's palace.
Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, Whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth. I will make thy name to be remembered in all genera-
16.
17.
tions
:
Therefore shall the peoples give thee thanks for ever
and
ever.
Psalm XLV. General Subject. The glorification of the Human of P. P. and heaven and the church from Him. R. 279. 1. See Psalm xviii. 1. A magnificent word respecting the Lord, and respect1, 2. P. P. ing conjunction with Him. I_ 3> 5* To ride upon the word of truth and of gentleness Here, of justice is to teach the doctrine of truth and good. as elsewhere in the Word, the terms word, lip, and tongue the Lord,
That they are
signify distinct things.
concerning charity
is
evident, because
things of doctrine it is
called a song
A. 1288.
of loves.
To
I, 4, 5.
for the
ride
upon the word
understanding of truth, and upon the word of the
gentleness of justice for the
2-18.
He who knows
The Divine
3, 4.
A
truth
is
horse signifies
Lord
That is
these
Consequently
it is
is
A. 2761.
meant by David,
himself.
L. 44.
P. P. His alone. the understanding of truth in the W. H,
things
evident from
of good.
Psalms wrote so often con-
in his
when concerning
church.
3-10.
wisdom Lord
that the
may know why David cerning the Lord, 3.
of truth stands manifestly
all
also
are
said
concerning the
the particulars of this Psalm.
himself of
whom
it is
said, "
God hath
PSALM XLV.
1 62
God, with the oil of joy, and all thy garments with myrrh, aloes, and cassia." The signification thereof may appear from the series, namely, that He has Divine wisdom, and that from Him is the doctrine of Divine truth is signified by, " thou art fair, far above the sons of men, grace is poured upon thy lips." To be fair The sons of men those w ho are insignifies to be wise. telligent in Divine truths, and lips doctrinals. His omnipotence by virtue of Divine truth proceeding from Divine
3 anointed thee, thy
r
good, and thence the destruction of falses and
subjugation of the hells
upon thy
thigh,"
sword
signified truth
is
destroying
is
and the remainder
and combat, by
the
of verity,
chariots, the doctrine of truth,
struct
of verses 4
5.
By and
same as by
by riding upon
the right
and
sword
false
and
combating against the
by the word
it,
evils,
signified by, "gird thy
it
to in-
hand omnipotence, by
arrows truths combating, by people those w ho are in falses of evil, by the enemies of the king those who are T
That hence
against truths thus the hells.
and dominion would be His
the
kingdom
by verse 7. The sceptre of rectitude stands for Divine truth which has power and the kingdom. That He liberated the good from damnation by destroying the evil, and that on that account the essential Divine united itself to His Human is signified by verse 8. To love justice and to hate evil signifies to vindicate the good from damnation by destroying the
evil.
To
for ever
anoint with the
oil
is
signified
of joy signifies to unite
God, thy God
himself by victories over temptations. signifies the reciprocal unition of the
Divine,
and
of
the Divine with
the
Human
with the
Human.
Divine
by verse 9. Myrrh the good of the ultimate degree, aloes the good of That spirthe second, and cassia the good of the third. truths united to Divine goods are signified
itual affections of truth
kingdom
is
signified
who are of His The daughters of kings
belong to those
by verse
10.
stand for the spiritual affections of truth, which are called
PSALM XLV. when
163
That heaven and and conjoined to Him because principled in love to Him and from Him is signified by verse 10. The queen signifies heaven and the church, at thy right hand in His protection by virtue of conjunction with Him. Best gold of Ophir signifies the E. 684. good of love to the Lord. "Instead of thy Here, the Lord is treated of. 3, 14, 17. fathers shall be thy sons" means that Divine truths shall precious
the truths are genuine.
the church are in His protection
be as Divine goods. The king's daughter the love of the clothing inwrought with gold the quality of
truth,
that truth derived
from good.
and His Divine Human, as
is
The
subject
is
Lord
A. 3703.
Psalm. 4.
the
manifest from the whole
Speaking of the Lord, where sword stands for truth comTo gird the sword bating and thigh for the good of love. upon the thigh signifies that the truth from which He A. 3021. would be from the good of love. sword upon the thigh, because truth combating against the false and evil and conquering must be derived from good. All the power of truth is from that Truth without good is not indeed truth, for it is source.
would
fight
It is said the
only a scientific principle without
life,
hence truth without
good has no power.
The of the
Lord the Divine good
A sword signifies
4, 5.
A. 10488.
thigh signifies the good of love,
and when speaking R. 830.
of the Divine love.
the truth of faith combating.
Lord is treated of. See Psalm viii. 6. A horse means the understanding
Here
A. 2799. R. 249.
the
of truth
— ride upon
R. 298. Word of truth. This passage also treats concerning the Lord. To gird the sword upon the thigh signifies Divine truth com-
the
bating from Divine good.
A
E. 288.
sword truth combating against falsities and deR. 52. stroying them. This is said of the Lord.
4-6.
PSALM XLV.
164 4
These words are concerning the Lord, and concerning His combats with the hells, and concerning His victories T. 86. over them. By a sword is signified truth combating and destroying. This destruction appears especially in the spiritual world, where they who are in falsities cannot sustain the truth, but are in a state of anguish, as if they struggled with death
when
they
come
into the sphere of light, that
into the sphere of Divine truth.
is
E. 131.
He has powerfully conquered the hells by means of P. P. Divine truth. Of the judgment executed by the Lord. D. P., Page 72. This also is concerning combats with the hells and concerning their subjugation, for the Lord is treated of in the whole of this Psalm, namely, His combats, His
4-8.
glorification,
and the salvation
of the faithful
by Him. L.
See Psalm xxiv.
8, 10.
14.
T. 116.
D. P., Page 59. this Psalm. Verses quoted. These things are said concerning the Lord. To gird the sword upon the thigh signifies Divine truth combating from Divine good, wherefore it is said, with thy Glory when predicated of the glory and thy majesty. Lord signifies truth, and majesty Divine good. To ride prosperously signifies to combat from Divine good. The omnipotence and omniscience of the Lord are signified by "thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things." "King's daughters among thy honorable women" sigThe queen upon thy right nify the affections of truth. hand in gold of Ophir, signifies heaven and the church and those therein who are in truths from good, the right hand standing for truth in light, and gold of Ophir the E. 298. good of love. Speaking of the Lord. Riding upon the word of truth 5. means being in the very understanding of truth. A. 6534.
4
to
end of
4, 5, 10.
W. H.
1
PSALM. XLV.
66
Gold stands
io.
for the
good
of love.
Gold from Ophir
See Psalm xxxvi.
To
stand before
R. 789.
8.
God
signifies to
be in the Divine truth,
consequently with the Lord.
The
is
A. 9881.
spiritual good.
E. 639.
subject treated of in this Psalm
By the
Lord and His kingdom.
is
concerning the
daughters of kings
among
the precious ones are signified the affections of truth,
which are called among the precious, because precious in Word is predicated of truths. By the queen standing at the right hand in gold of Ophir is signified the church from the reception of good from the Lord, for all things with man which belong to his right side have reference E. 11 20. to good, and those on the left to truth. the
Thus
also there are affections for truth,
and
in these
P. P.
are the societies of heaven.
10-16.
By
the church as a wife, tions for
Lord is here meant, by the queen by the daughters and virgins affec-
the king the
good and
The Lord
R. 620.
truth.
also describes His marriage with the
church
M. 21. T. 748. The foregoing statement repeated in By the daughters of kings are signified affections of Divine truth, by the queen at his right hand in purest
in these words.
gold of Ophir
is
signified
heaven and the church, which
are in Divine truth from Divine good.
and
incline the ear
To
hear, to see,
which are predicated of the king's
daughter signify to hearken, perceive, and obey, thus to understand, to act, and be wise from the Lord. That then she will be accepted of the Lord is signified by, then shall the king be delighted in thy beauty, beauty being predicated of the affection of truth, for this constitutes
the beauty of angels.
Bow
thyself
down
to
him
signifies
worship from a humble heart. The daughter of Tyre with an offering signifies worship from those who are in The rich of the people shall the knowledges of truth.
PSALM XLV.
167
in intelligence
from those who are from those knowledges. The daughter of
the king
glorious within signifies the spiritual affec-
entreat thy face signifies adoration
is all
which is called glorious from the abundance Within signifies the spiritual. Her clothing of truth. inwrought with gold signifies investing truths formed from She shall be brought to the king in the good of love. raiment of needlework signifies appearances of truth, such The virgins after as are in the literal sense of the Word. tion of truth,
her, her friends signifies the spiritual-natural affections
of truth,
which are
of service.
With joy and exultation come into the palace of joy into heaven where the
they shall be brought, they shall the king, signifies with celestial
Lord
E. 863.
is.
Daughters stand for goods very frequently in the Word. Here the good and beauty of love is described by the daughter. A. 490. 10 et seq. Since all things which are in the books of the 10-17.
Word, as
well those in the historical as those in the pro-
phetical books are representative vine-celestial
and
and
significative of
Di-
spiritual things, therefore the affection
described by the daughter of a king, and by her garments. A. 9942. By the king's daughter is signified the 10, 11, 14, 15. of that truth
the truth
is
itself
and thence the church. E. 395. Gold from correspondence signifies the good of
affection of truth,
10,
14.
R. 913. This passage treats of the Lord. By the king's daughter is understood the church which is in the affection of truth, and which is described by king's daughters being among her honorable women, by whom are understood the love.
affections of truth themselves.
By
the queen
stood the Lord's celestial kingdom, which
is
under-
good by her clothing is understood that truths are derived from good. E. 242. Of the church where the Word is: it should depart 11. from the affections of the natural man, P. P. of love,
is
in the
1
PSALM XLV.
68
Thus
12.
will
it
be the church of the Lord.
See Psalm xx.
12, 14, 15.
What is meant by
13.
P. P.
R. 664.
10.
the daughter of Zidon
and the daughand of
plain from the signification of Zidon
ter of
Tyre
Tyre.
A. 3024. See Arcana No. 1 201. daughters are also signified the false religions of nations, as the daughter of Tyre, the daughter of
By many
Edom
is
— Lamentations —
iv.
22
— the
daughters of Chal-
A. 6729. Psalm cxxxvii. 8. deans and of Babylon, In this passage is described the church as to the affection of truth, and she is called the daughter of a king, for daughter stands for the church as to affection, and king A. 10227.
for truth.
By
Word,
the rich in the
those
who
meant and good, and
in the spiritual sense, are
are in the knowledges of truth
by riches the knowledges themselves, which are spiritual riches.
This
is
said of
Tyre
the knowledge of truth
The church which
is
is
— Ezekiel and good
is
xxviii. 4, 5
—
in fact
H. 365. by which R. 206.
signified.
here described as to the affection of truth,
understood by the daughter of Tyre, for a daughchurch as to affection, and a king' de-
ter stands for the
E. 236.
notes truth.
Here by the king's daughter is signified the spiritual affection of truth, and by the daughter of Tyre the To be affection of the knowledges of truth and good. enriched with these is signified by being there with a gift.
13, 14.
By
the rich
among
the people are signified the intelligent,
and abstractedly the gifted with these
is
intelligence of truth signified
and good,
by entreating
face, for in the spiritual affection of truth are all
to be
his favour or
contained
things pertaining to intelligence, which are therefore
signified
by the
face.
E. 412.
13-15. And thus it will have cognitions of truth and good P. P. with subservient knowledges. The king's daughter represents the Lord's spir14, 15.
PSALM XL VI. itual
169
kingdom, the virgins her companions that follow
her represent affections for truth.
The
A. 3081.
king's daughter standing for affection for truth, her
clothing inwrought with gold for truths wherein
broidered work for the lowest truths.
The
good,
king's daughter stands for the affection for truth,
needlework for the scientific of truth. The king's daughter is the church as
A. 9688. to affection for
R. 166.
truth.
By
is
A. 5954.
the king's daughter
is
signified the spiritual affection
and hence the church from those who are in that The king signifies the Lord as to Divine truth, the raiment of needlework intelligence and wisdom from of truth
affection.
The embroidery in which she should be brought to the king signifies the knowledges of truth.
that truth.
E. 195. 14,
15,
17.
The
king's daughter
is
the Lord's spiritual
kingdom, which is called His spiritual kingdom from the Lord's Divine truth, here described by her clothing inwrought with gold and of broidered work. Sons are the truths of that kingdom that are from the Lord's Divine which should be princes, truth that is primary. A. 5044. 16. So there will be conjunction with the Lord in heaven. P. P. 17.
18.
primary truths. The whole church will serve the Lord.
It will possess
PSALM For the Chief Musician. A Alamoth.
XLVI.
Psalm
1.
God
A
of the sons of
Korah;
set to
Song.
is our refuge and strength, very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change, And though the mountains be shaken into the heart
A 2.
P. P. P. P.
of the seas;
PSALM XLVI.
170 3.
Though Though
and be troubled, mountains tremble with the swelling
the waters thereof roar
the
thereof.
make
[Selah glad the
4.
There
5.
The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved:
a
is
river, the
streams whereof
God,
city of
God
6.
7.
will help her, and that right early. nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: He uttered his voice, the earth melted. Jehovah of hosts is with us;
The
The God 8.
What 9.
10.
of
Jacob
Come, behold
is
our refuge.
[Selah
the works of Jehovah,
desolations he hath
made
in the earth.
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariots in the fire. Be
still,
and know
I will be exalted
that I
among
am
God:
the nations, I will be exalted
in the earth. 11.
Jehovah of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge.
[Selah
Psalm XLVI. See Psalm
1.
R. 279.
xviii. 1.
There will be protection from the Lord when the P. P. last judgment comes and continues. 2-4. By the words "Though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea" are signified the evils of the love of self and of the world, which strike or dazzle the mind according to their 1-4, 7, 8.
E. 405.
increase. 3, 4.
and
That mountains and
hills
love toward the neighbour
festly
Lord more mani-
signify love to the
may
be
still
evident from their opposite sense in which they
signify infernal loves,
love of the world, as
is
which are the love of manifest here.
self
and the R. 336.
PSALM XL VI,
I71
By hell,
the depth of the sea and by the deep is signified the where are the falsities of evil and whence they arise.
E. 538.
By
3-5.
by waters.
truths are signified
These words
3-6.
abundance, because R. 409.
rivers are signified truths in
in the spiritual sense involve the follow-
ing particulars, that although the church with thereof perish,
the
still
By
shall not perish.
Word and
the earth
all
things
the Divine truth therein
is
by being removed, put
in motion, roaring, being troubled,
and shaking are signified the states perish, and falses and evils enter in quently the states of the church
and desolated as
goods,
by and
signified the church,
the mountains the goods of love, by the waters truths,
thereof
when
to truths.
when they
their place, conseit is
vastated as to
That the Word
not perish, or the Divine truth which
is
shall
of the church
is
by the river whose streams shall make glad the God, which shall not be removed, a river signifying
signified city of
here the
same as a
fountain, namely, the
Word
because
by which are signified truths. The city of God signifies the church as to doctrine. To make glad signifies influx and reception from joy of heart. streams are predicated of
Not
to be
moved
it,
signifies
not to perish with regard to
anything thereof.
Here
E. 518.
See Psalm
3, 4, 7, 9.
it is
xviii. 7, 8.
evident that by the earth
By mountains
is
R. 285. meant the church.
are signified the goods of love, which are
said to be carried into the midst of the sea
when
the essen-
knowledges of truth are perverted. E. 304. By the Holy City which is also called the Holy Jerusa5. lem nothing else is meant than the kingdom of the Lord universal, or in each one in particular in whom the kingtial
dom
of the
Waters,
Lord rivers,
and depths stand
Lord. See Psalm
A. 402.
is.
for truths
from the A. 2702.
vii.
18.
A. 8153.
PSALM XLVI.
I72 See Psalm
xliii. 3, 4.
See Psalm
xliii. 3.
By
5, 6.
A. 9594. E. 799.
city in the spiritual sense is
By Jerusalem
is
understood the
Jerusalem
the doctrine of truth. the city of
God and
meant
doctrine.
celestial is
R. 194. church as to
called the holy city,
the city of a great king.
E. 223.
By morning in these places is meant the coming of the 6. Lord, when He came into the world and established a R. 151. new church, in like manner now. Morning means
the
night the last time of
See Psalm
first
time of the church, evening and
T. 764.
it.
E. 179.
v. 4.
Coro. 5. See Psalm xxx. 6. Those who are of the church and in the doctrine of 6, 7. P. P. truth will be saved by the Lord when He comes.
By the God of Jacob and the Holy One of Israel Word of the Old Testament the Lord himself
7, 8.
the
is
A. 3305.
signified.
9,
in
and the various arms of to spiritual combat, these are broken when cupidities and falsities ceasing, A. 1664. the man comes into the tranquillity of peace. Here the bow and arrows plainly stand for doctrinals 10.
War
war stand
stands for combats,
for those things
which belong
A. 2686.
of falsity.
By wars
in the
Word
spiritual
wars are
signified.
R. 500.
Here
by Jehovah making wars
also
extremity of the earth
is
signified that
to
cease to the
He makes combats
understood in the spiritual sense, which are combats of falses against the truths and goods of the
to cease as
E. 734.
church.
They
will
have no fears of the
See Psalm
nor of infestations P. P.
therefrom. 10.
hells
xi. 2.
R. 299.
Since by wars are signified spiritual combats, which
PSALM are here those of what
XLVII.
173
false against the truth
is
and
the
good pertaining to the church, it is evident what is meant by Jehovah making wars to cease unto the end of the earth, namely, that all combats and all disagreement should cease from first principles to the ultima tes of the truth of the church, the end of the earth signifying its ultima tes. That there shall be no combat of doctrine against doctrine is signified by His breaking the bow, that there shall be no combat from any falsity of evil is signified That everything of by His breaking the spear asunder. the doctrine of falsity shall be destroyed is signified by burning the chariot in the fire. E. 357. This is from the Lord. P. P. 11, 12. D. P. Page 63. 12. Verse quoted. t
PSALM For the Chief Musician.
Oh
clap your hands,
A
XLVII. Psalm
of the sons of Korah.
ye peoples; with the voice of triumph. all
Shout unto God For Jehovah Most High
is
terrible;
He is a great King over all the earth. He subdueth peoples under us, And nations under our feet. He chooseth our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom he loved. God is gone up with a shout, Jehovah with the sound of a trumpet. Sing praises to God, sing praises: Sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
For God
is
the
King
of all the earth:
Sing ye praises with understanding. God reigneth over the nations: God sitteth upon his holy throne. The princes of the peoples are gathered together To be the people of the God of Abraham; For the shields of the earth belong unto God:
He
is
greatly exalted.
[Selah
PSALM
174
XLVII.
Psalm XLVII.
1-3.
P. P. General Subject. The Lord's kingdom. A song in praise of the Lord, that He reigns over the P. P.
church. 2,
Since there are various affections of good
6-9.
and each expresses
by a sound agreeable
itself
Word
quality, therefore in the
and
truth to
its
various kinds of instru-
ments are mentioned, especially in David, by which similar affections
4,
4.
5.
E. 326.
are signified.
Lord is called king is manifest. That He will remove falsities and evils. See Psalm xviii. 44. 9, 10. See Psalm xviii. 44. See Psalm xviii. 44. See Psalm xviii. 44. That He will establish a church. 6. That
3, 7-9.
R. 664.
the
P. P. S. 86.
R. 483. T. 251. E. 331. P. P.
Shout stands for the truth of spiritual good, the voice
6.
of a trumpet for the truth of celestial good.
The reason why
A. 8815.
a trumpet or horn signifies Divine
truth about to be revealed from heaven
is because Divine sometimes heard as the sound of a trumpet when flows down from the Lord through the heavens to man,
truth it
for
is
it is
augmented
in
descent
its
and thus
The
signification of a
trumpet
ifested
and revealed out
of heaven.
He
7.
8. 9.
is
is
flows
E. 55.
in.
the Divine truth
therefore to be praised in song,
because His kingdom
is
man-
E. 262. P. P.
over the whole church. P. P.
9.
See Psalm
ix. 8.
10.
See Psalm
vii. 10, 11,
E. 687.
Trust
add.
is
again meant. A. 1788.
It is
known from
freedom
is
the Lord's
truly worship,
and
Word
that
pleasing to the Lord, wherefore
that worship from
what
it is
is
spontaneous
is
thus said in David.
T. 495.
And
over the heavens.
P. P.
PSALM XLVni.
PSALM A i.
2.
175
XLVIII.
Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.
Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, in his holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, The city of the great King. God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge.
For,
lo,
the kings assembled themselves,
They passed by together. They saw it, then were they amazed; They were dismayed, they hasted away. Trembling took hold
of
them
there,
Pain, as of a woman in travail. With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish. As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God: [Selah God will establish it for ever. 9.
10.
We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of thy temple. As is thy name, O God, So is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: Thy
11.
12.
13.
14.
right
hand
is full
of righteousness.
Let mount Zion be glad, Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of thy judgments. Walk about Zion, and go round about her; Number the towers thereof; Mark ye well her bulwarks; Consider her palaces: That ye may tell it to the generation following For this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide even unto death.
PSALM
176
XLVIII.
Psalm XLVIII. See Psalm
i.
1-4,
9.
R. 279. ad-
xviii. i.
The
kingdom
spiritual
the
of
how
Lord,
P. P.
mirable!
R. 194. are more remote from
Cities signify doctrines or doctrinal tenets.
2.
The
2, 3.
north stands for those
the light of good lxxxix. 12-13
—
and
truth,
who
for those
who
and the
right
hand
_
why Jerusalem was was because by God in the Word The
is
— Psalm
are nearer thereto.
reason
A. 3708.
called the city of
God
Old Testament understood the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord. of the
E. 223.
By
2-4.
these words
is
described the worship of the Lord
from truths originating in good. The worship of the Lord from spiritual truths and goods, and the pleasure of the soul thence derived is signified by verse 2, and by "beauWorship is understood tiful in elevation" in verse 3. by being "great and greatly to be praised." Spiritual truth which is from spiritual good is understood by "the city of our God." The mountain of His holiness, and the pleasure of the soul thence derived is understood by "beautiful in elevation," or for situation. Worship from celestial good is understood by "the joy of the whole Truths from that good are underearth is mount Zion." stood by, "on the sides of the north the city of a great king."
The
sides of the north
mean
truths from celestial
good, and the city of the great king, the doctrine of truth
thence derived.
By Zion
3, 4.
and
in the
E. 405.
Word
is
the church where the
not meant Zion, but heaven
Lord
3, 4,
12-15.
reigns
by His Divine E. 850.
truth.
See Psalm
ii.
6-8, 12.
R. 612.
Here is described the terror and confusion occasioned by an east wind, the description being taken from what
5-8.
PSALM
XLVIII.
177
passes in the world of spirits, which internal sense of the
is
involved in the
Word.
A. 842. P. P.
It will dissipate all falsities.
Despair or extremity of pain is also described in the A. 8313. Word by the pain of a woman in travail. of The knowledges truth and good are also de8. 7, scribed by ships. Ships cross the sea and bring back the
5, 7.
5,
which supply the natural man for every use, of good and truth are the necessaries which supply the spiritual man for its uses, for from them necessaries
and the knowledges is
the doctrine of the church,
and according
to this is
life.
R. 406. Tarshish stands for rituals or doctrinal teachings. A. 1156.
8.
By
wind
the east
is
signified
what
is
of lusts
fantasies. Falsities
Isaiah
An
it
ii.
from
11-16;
evil
are signified by ships.
xxiii. 1, 14.
and
their
A. 5215. See also A. 6385.
wind signifies means of destruction, because was dry and tempestuous, hence also it signifies means east
of devastation.
See Psalm
xi. 6.
A. 7679. R. 343.
It is evident what effect is produced by the wind coming from the east which is called the eastwind, namely, that with the evil it disperses all the goods and truths which they exhibited in an external form before the world, and which they assumed for the sake of appearances. Hence it
is
wind.
and drying up are ascribed to this wind also destroys all things where the earths, their habitations, and their treasures,
that withering
The
east
evil are, their
for the reason that in the spiritual world these are correspondences of the states of those who dwell there, wherefore when they perish the things which correspond perish
E. 41Q.
also.
By
wind are signified devastation and desolaby the wind which comes from the east in the
the east
tion, for
PSALM
178 spiritual
XLVIII.
world the abodes of the evil are overturned from and they themselves with the treasures
their foundations,
in
which they had placed
their hearts are cast out into the
E. 514.
hells.
Since Zion signifies the celestial church,
9.
and Jerusalem
the church with regard to the doctrine of truth, therefore
Zion
is
city,
the city of God,
10.
called the city of Jehovah,
See Psalm
is
and Jerusalem the holy
city of a great king.
E. 223.
R. 44.
v. 10.
By temple
10. 11.
and the
here signified the church which
is
in
from good, which is called the spiritual church, in the midst thereof signifies in the inmost and thence in the whole thereof, wherefore it is said, according to thy name, To the ends of so is thy praise to the ends of the earth. the earth means even to the ultimates of the church, the truths
earth denoting the church.
This
is
the Divine
11.
See Psalm xvi.
12.
See Psalm xv.
See Psalm
Human.
E. 313. P. P.
E. 298.
8.
E. 405.
1.
E. 660.
xl. 17.
Towers stand for the interior truths which defend A. 4599. of love and charity. 12-14. To number means to know of what quality they The Lord alone knows the quality of the affection are. of each, and arranges all into order according to it. R.364. By "mount Zion" which is here called on to rejoice is 12, 13.
what
is
signified the celestial
church which consists of those who By "the daughters of Judah"
are in love to the Lord.
who
are exhorted to be glad are signified the affections
good and truth with those who are of that church. Because of thy judgments signifies because of the Divine "Walk truths which are with them from the Lord. about Zion and go round about her" signifies to embrace from love the things pertaining to that church. To " number her towers " signifies to ponder on the superior of
PSALM XLIX. or interior truths of that church, to see
and consider the
and
interior truths.
quality of them,
"Mark
I79
number meaning to and towers superior
ye well her bulwarks" sig-
which defend the church "Consider her palaces" signifies to perceive the goods of truth, for houses stand for goods, and palaces the more noble goods of truth. "That ye nifies to love the exterior truths
against
may
falsities.
tell
it
manence
From
of
to the generation following"
them
means
this are all things of
the per-
E. 453.
to eternity.
heaven and of the church. P. P.
See Psalm
12-15. 15.
E. 850.
xlviii. 3, 4.
Because the Lord reigns
PSALM For the Chief Musician.
A
P. P.
there.
XLIX. Psalm
of the sons of
1.
Hear
this, all
Give
ear, all
2.
Both low and high, Rich and poor together. My mouth shall speak wisdom;
3.
And
Korah.
ye peoples; ye inhabitants of the world,
the meditation of
my
heart shall be of under-
standing.
mine ear to a parable: open my dark saying upon the harp. Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, When iniquity at my heels compasseth me about ?
I will incline I will
They
that trust in their wealth,
And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for, him (For the redemption of their
And
it
life is costly.
faileth for ever),
That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption.
PSALM XLIX.
l8o 10.
For he
The And
ii.
shall see
fool
Wise men
it.
and the
die;
brutish alike perish,
leave their wealth to others. Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever,
And
their dwelling-places to all generations;
They 12.
He 13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
call their
But man being is
lands after their own names. honor abideth not:
in
like the beasts that perish.
This their way is their folly: [Selah Yet after them men approve their sayings. They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd: And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it. But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; [Selah For he will receive me. Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased: For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him. Though while he lived he blessed his soul (And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself), He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They
shall never see the light.
Man
that
is
in honor,
and understandeth
not,
Is like the beasts that perish.
Psalm XLIX. 1-5.
Let there be attention
2-4.
By
to the following:
P. P.
— homo — are truths which are from the Lord by the Word, which are — are man — and by the sons the sons of
man
doctrinals,
signified spiritual
of
vir
signified
which are from the underBy the standing, thus the understanding of the Word. rational
and natural
truths,
PSALM XLIX.
l8l
rich and needy are signified those who attain much wisdom from them, and those who attain but little. E. 724. 5.
See Psalm
xxxiii. 2, 3.
6.
By
meant the lowest natural or the
heel
is
R. 276. corporeal.
A. 259.
who are merely natural, and boast of knowledges and their own intelligence. P. P. 8. The propitiatory signifies cleansing from evils, thus the Respecting those
6, 7.
But it is to be noted that those expiawere not real cleansings from evils, nor remissions of sins, but that they represented them. A. 9506. 8-10. No salvation comes from that source. P. P. A brother cannot ransom a man, but God will ran8, 16. som my soul from the hand of hell. D. P., Page 87. remission of sins.
tions
See Psalm xxxvi.
9.
11.
A
R. 789.
8.
beast of burden also, in the original tongue,
expression derived from what
from what 11-14.
is
brutish
and
only to a small degree Conscious.
is
However much they may boast
15,
16. is
an
A. 9140.
of such things, they P. P.
perish.
15.
is
foolish, thus
and come into hell. See Psalm ix. 14. See Psalm vi. 6. See Psalm xviii. 5, 6. 16. See Psalm xviii. 5, 6. See Psalm xxxi. 6, add: The Lord as
P. P.
A. 61 19. E. 186.
R. 321. R. 870. to the
Human
the Redeemer.
R. 281.
See Psalm
R. 613.
xix. 15.
Here to redeem from the power of the grave or hell means to liberate. To receive denotes to claim for his own and to conjoin them to himself, or to cause them to be His, as servants sold and redeemed. E. 328. Salvation
17-21.
is
solely in the Lord.
Knowledge and one's own
save after death.
P. P. intelligence does not
P. P.
1
PSALM
82
L.
PSALM A i.
Psalm
of
L.
Asaph.
The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, hath spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun the going down thereof.
2.
Out
3.
God hath shined forth. Our God cometh, and doth
unto
of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
8.
not keep silence: devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him. He calleth to the heavens above, And to the earth, that he may judge his people: Gather my saints together unto me, Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; [Selah For God is judge himself. Hear, O my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify unto thee; 1 am God, even thy God. I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices;
9.
I will take
A
4.
5.
6.
7.
fire
thy burnt-offerings are continually before me. no bullock out of thy house, Nor he-goats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is -mine,
And
10.
And 11.
12.
the cattle
know
14.
15.
is
mine, and the fulness thereof.
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats ? Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay thy vows unto the Most High; And call upon me in the day of trouble:
and thou shalt But unto the wicked God saith,
I will deliver thee, 16.
hills.
all
For the world 13.
upon a thousand
the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; I
glorify
me.
What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,
PSALM 17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
L.
183
Seeing that thou ha test instruction,
And castest my words behind thee ? When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with And hast been partaker with adulterers. Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
him,
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as
Thou
thyself:
But
I will reprove thee,
and
set
them in order before
thine eyes. 22.
23.
Now
consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver: Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth
me;
And
to
W
I
r
ill
him that ordereth show the salvation
Psalm ,
his
of
way
aright
God.
L.
The reason why from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof signifies all, from first to the last, who are in the good of love to the Lord is because all who are in heaven have
their habitations according to the quarters,
and they who are
in the good of love to the Lord dwell from the east to the west, in the east those who are in the clear good of love, and in the west those who are in the obscure good of love. E. 401. In very many passages the north and south are not mentioned but only the east and west, by which are under-
who
are in the good of love to the Lord,
stood
all
good
of charity
and
in the
toward the neighbour. These quarters also involve the two others, because all who are in good also are in truths, for good and truth everywhere act as a one.
E. 422.
1
PSALM
84
i, 2.
See Psalm
xl. 8.
1-5.
See Psalm
ii.
L.
Coro. 60.
R. 612.
6-8, 12.
These words treat manifestly of judgment upon all from Zion, thus from the Lord by Divine truth. The separation of the good from the evil is understood by calling the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. Judgment upon all is signified by crying to the heaven
upwards and
The
to the earth to judge the people.
ering together of the good
and
their salvation
gath-
under-
is
my saints unto me. The Divine truth which the Lord is in His glory is understood by out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God shall shine forth.
stood by, gather in
E. 850.
The Lord
1-6. is
5,
come
for
judgment
whom
to those with
P. P.
the church.
D.
Verses quoted.
2-6. 3.
will
P.,
Page
72.
See Psalm
xi. 6.
R. 343.
See Psalm
xi. 6.
E. 419.
E. 504. See Psalm xi. 6. The goods which the sons of Israel should enjoy if 16. they kept the precepts and statutes, and afterwards the
which should come upon them if they did not keep The covenant is mentioned and thereby are signified the external rites which the sons of Israel were to evils
them.
E. 701.
observe.
7-13.
The Lord
does not desire sacrifices and external P. P.
worship.
9-14.
The reason why
wild beasts in the
also the affections of truth
and good
pression from which they are so original tongue signifies is
called "chajah,"
life,
because the ex-
named and
called in the
and chajah
E.
signifies life.
t,88.
A. 2180.
my field
with
me
stand for the regenerated man, thus for what
in him.
signify
for wild beast in that tongue
See Psalm xl. 7, 8. 9, 13, 14. Here the wild animals of 10, 11.
God
is,
Word
or with is
living
A. 908.
PSALM Since by wild beast is
of a twofold origin,
is
185
L.
evil
and the false and from honesty,
Word
are also signified
signified the false,
namely from
therefore by wild beasts in the
the well-disposed nations, which although they are in the false,
are yet in probity of
life.
In
this sense the
term wild
A. 9335. In the spiritual world a man's affections appear at a distance like beasts, and beasts viewed in themselves are beast
is
here used.
nothing but forms of natural affections, but
men
are not
only forms of natural affections, but also of spiritual at
same time. R. 567. These things are indeed said concerning sacrifices, and that the Lord does not delight in them, but in confession of the heart and invocation, but still by the w ild beast of the forest and beast in the mountains, and by the bird of the mountains and wild beast of the field are signified the the
T
affections,
such as appertain to the
man
of the church.
E. 650. 11.
See Psalm
By
viii.
R. 757.
7-9.
birds are signified things rational
thoughts, ideas
and
and
intellectual,
reasonings, thus truths or falses.
E. 11, 12.
The
states of the
1
100.
church are described by beasts. Coro.
3.
These things are said concerning sacrifices, that the Lord does not delight in them, but in confession and works, for it follows If I should see verses 13 and 14. be hungry signifies if I should desire sacrifices, but since the Lord desires worship from goods and truths, it is said, for the world is mine and the fulness thereof, fulness signifying goods and truths in their w hole complex. This is said indeed concerning the beasts which should be sacrificed, but by them, in the spiritual sense, are signified various kinds of good and truth. E. 741. See Psalm vii. 18. A. 8153. 14. 12.
—
T
14, 15.
He
desires confession of the heart.
P. P.
PSALM
1 86
14, 23.
The
L.
votive sacrifices, which were another kind of
peace offering, in the external sense signified recompense, in the internal sense the will that the Lord should provide,
and
in the
supreme sense a
why mention
is
made
state of providence.
of each in the
Word
This
is
throughout.
A. 3880. External worship
16-20.
is
of
no
avail, so
long as
evils are
P. P. committed. 17-19. Speaking of a wicked person and running with a thief meaning to alienate truth from himself by falsity.
A. 5*35-
The
last state of the
church
is
called a thief
who
will
climb up into the houses and enter in at the windows, namely, that it is falsity, which will then take possession of the whole man, both his voluntary and his intellectual, A. 8906. and thus will take away all truth and good. R. 624. See Psalm v. 7. 19. E. 866. See Psalm v. 7. P. P. 22. They do evils and therefore evil befalls them.
PSALM
LI.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. i.
Have mercy upon me, kindness
According
O
God, according
to thy loving-
:
to the
multitude of thy tender mercies blot
my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine And cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions; And my sin is ever before me. out
2.
3.
4.
iniquity,
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight; That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest.
PSALM 5.
LI.
187
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part thou wilt make me to
And
6.
know
wisdom. 7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which thou hast broken may
rejoice.
Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold me with a willing spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; And sinners shall be converted unto thee. Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God,
thou
God
my salvation; And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. O Lord, open thou my lips; And my mouth shall show forth thy praise. of
15.
16.
For thou
17.
Thou hast no The sacrifices
A
delightest not in sacrifice;, else
would
I give
it:
pleasure in burnt-offering. of God are a broken spirit:
broken and a contrite heart,
O
God, thou
wilt not
despise. 18.
19.
Do good
in thy good pleasure unto Zion: Build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then wilt thou delight in the sacrifices of righteousness,
In burnt-offering and whole burnt-offering:
Then
will they offer bullocks
upon
thine altar.
1
88
LI.
Psalm
LI.
He may
Prayer that
1-7.
PSALM
be purified of the infirmities P. P.
derived from the mother.
Iniquity stands for evil against the goods of faith,
4, 5.
sin
means
evil
against the goods of charity
and
love,
and
transgression evil against the truths of faith, since this latter is evil
proceeding from a perverse understanding,
thus
known from
fore said, I
acknowledge
and
is
the truths of faith.
my
It is there-
A. 9156.
transgressions.
Here being washed plainly stands for being purified A. 3147from evils and their falsities. To be washed signifies to be cleansed from evils and R. 378. falsities, and so to be reformed and regenerated. That the washing of man's spirit was meant by that of his body, and that the internals of the church were represented by externals, such as were in the Israelitish church, is clearly manifest from these words of the Lord. T. 671. To wash manifestly means to purify from falsities and To wash from iniquity stands for purification from evils. Since the waters of falsities, and from sin from evils. expiation were prepared from hyssop, it is therefore also E. 475. said, purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean.
4, 9.
6.
What
8.
See Psalm
vii.
10.
A. 5385.
See Psalm
vii. 10.
A. 10032.
See Psalm
vii.
10.
R. 140.
is
interiorly
pure
is
A. 10296.
signified.
add: here the reins are expressed by another word in the original tongue, which involves both See Psalm
vii.
10,
the separation of falsities from truths,
goods.
Hence
it
is
and
of evils
from
clear that the reins signify purifica-
E. 167. and separation. White signifies truth, and truths are what detect falsities and evils pertaining to man, and so purify him. tion
8, 9.
E. 196.
8-12.
If
He
be purified of them
He
will
be pure.
P. P.
PSALM
LI.
189
Washing and being made whiter than snow stands for being purified from sins by the reception and putting on of the Lord's justice. A. 4007.
9.
That hyssop is a means of purification is very manifest. Being purged with hyssop and made clean stands for external purification, being
snow
washed and made whiter than Snow and whiteness are
for internal purification.
predicated of truth.
Snow
is
See Psalm 10.
The
A. 7918.
predicated of truth from
its
whiteness.
A. 8459A. 9506.
xlix. 8.
exulting of the bones which were bruised signifies
recreation by truths after temptations.
Since joy
is
A. 3812.
predicated of good and gladness of truth,
both are mentioned, otherwise one expression would have been sufficient. Such is the holy manner of speech which is
found
in the
Word,
may
to the
end that in each
single expres-
is the marA. 8339. good and truth. Both joy and gladness are mentioned, because joy is predicated of good and gladness of truth, or joy is of love and gladness is of wisdom, for joy is of the heart, and gladness of the soul, or joy is of the will, and gladness of
sion there
be the heavenly marriage, that
riage of
the understanding.
See Psalm
xl.
S. 87.
The statement under See Psalm 12.
To
87 repeated in
S.
E. 660.
xl. 17.
create in the
Word
be created also
reform and to reR. 254. T. 573. to be regenerated.
signifies to
generate.
To
R. 507. T. 252.
17.
signifies
Since the creation of the universe angelic heaven from the
human
had for its end an and at the same
race,
time a church on earth, and since the salvation of man is thus a continuation of creation, therefore, throughout the
Word is
to
use
form
is
made
of the
for heaven.
term to create, and
its
meaning T. 773.
PSALM
190
To
12
LI.
renew a right
within signifies to reform
spirit
good of
as to the truth of faith, for the heirt signifies the love, is
and
the spirit a
life
according to Divine truth, which E. 294.
the truth of faith.
To
good
create a clean heart signifies to reform as to the
of love, to
create signifies to produce
anew
to
form and prop-
on which account it is that regeneration by which the universal heaven formed angels, and the universal church formed of men exists,
erly to regenerate, is
of
a
new
consists,
creation,
and
Coro. 23.
subsists.
Since the understanding corresponds to the lungs
12, 13.
and hence thought to the respiration fore by soul and spirit in the Word is standing.
The
of the lungs, theresignified the
heart signifies the love of the
under-
will.
w. See Psalm xxxi.
12-14.
383. L. 49.
6.
D.
Verses quoted.
12-14, 19.
A
P.,
Page
clean heart stands for a will averse to
which are things unclean.
A
77.
evils,
firm spirit stands for the
understanding and faith of truth. A broken spirit and a broken heart stand for a state of temptation and the conA. 9818. sequent humiliation of each life.
Heart signifies the good of love and spirit the truth of from which man has spiritual life, for there are two things which constitute the life of man, namely, good and faith,
E. 183.
truth united.
The
12, 14.
regeneration those
who
receive
operation of these virtues
—
the
is
believe in
Him, and
it is
Holy
— reformation and
Spirit that the
Him and who meant by the
Lord sends
to
dispose themselves to
spirit in these passages.
T. 143-
In the Old Testament the Holy Spirit is nowhere mentioned, but only the Spirit of Holiness in Psalm li. and T. 158. twice in Isaiah lxiii.
13.
13, 14.
15-17.
And He is will He
So
holy.
P. P.
teach Divine truths.
P. P.
PSALM Not
18, 19.
19,
external but internal worship.
See Psalm
xl. 7, 8.
See Psalm
xl. 7, 9.
By
191
LII.
spirit is
P. P.
A. 2180.
meant
spiritual life for those
A. 9409. are in
who
humiliation.
Man's
L. 49.
spirit is his
mind and whatever proceeds from T. 156. R. 392.
him. See Psalm xxvi.
20, 21.
By Zion
is
6, 7.
understood the church that
the good of love,
and by Jerusalem
principled in the truths of doctrine.
is
principled in
the church which
Hence
by, " do
is
good
good pleasure unto Zion, build thou the walls of is signified to restore the church by leading it into the good of love, and by instruction in truths of doctrine. Worship from the good of love, in this case, is signified by verse 21. Righteousness is predicated of Worship celestial good, and burnt-offerings signify love. in such case from the good of charity is signified by, then in thy
Jerusalem,"
shall they offer bullocks
upon
nify natural spiritual good,
Bullocks
thine altar.
which good
is
E. 391.
charity.
He
sig-
the good of
will institute a
church in which
will
be worship from P. P.
good.
PSALM
LII.
For the Chief Musician. Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.
O
1.
Why
2.
The lovingkindness of God endureth continually. Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness,
boastest thou thyself in mischief,
Like a sharp razor, working 3.
mighty
man?
deceitfully.
Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness.
[Selah
PSALM
192
LI I.
Thou
Invest all devouring words, thou deceitful tongue. God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy And root thee out of the land of the living.
4.
5.
The And
6.
is
the
But trusted
And
[Selah
righteous also shall see it, and fear, shall laugh at him, saying,
Lo, this
7.
tent,
man
in the
that
made not God
abundance
his strength,
of his riches.
strengthened himself in his wickedness. I am like a green olive-tree in the house
But as for me, of God:
8.
1 trust in the
lovingkindness of God for ever and ever. thanks for ever, because thou hast done
I will give thee
9.
And
I will hope in thy name, for ence of thy saints.
Psalm
good, in the pres-
it is
LII.
Respecting hypocrites: they will be in hell and will
1-8.
P. P.
perish. 4.
See Psalm
v. 7.
4, 6.
See Psalm
v. 7.
A. 9013. R. 624.
See Psalm xxxvi.
Heaven because
7.
it
E. 866.
4.
lives
from the Lord
is
called the land
A. 290.
of the living.
See Psalm xv.
R. 585. Speaking of Doeg the Edomite, that he should be expelled from all the good of the church and also from all the truths thereof is signified by being plucked out of the tabernacle,
1, 2.
and rooted out
of the land of the living, the
tabernacle standing for good, the land, the church,
and
E. 799. who are in truths from good. those who trust in their own intelligence.
the living those
So likewise
9.
P. P. 10.
That by green or growing green
alive is manifest.
is
signified living or
R. 401.
PSALM
An
olive signifies love
LIII.
and
charity, because the olive
tree signifies the celestial church.
An
man
olive tree signifies the
193
R. 493. of the celestial church.
T. 468. See Psalm xxxvii. 35. It is said, "as a green olive tree in
because by the green olive tree love springing
up by means
by the house of God is Those who trust
10, 11.
i.
2.
3.
signified the church.
in the
set to
Lord
E. 638.
will flourish.
P. P.
LIII.
Mahalath.
Maschil of David.
fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none that doeth good. God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God. Every one of them is gone back; they are together be-
come
Have
Who And 5.
good of Word, and
signified the
The
There 4.
house of God,"
of the truths of the
PSALM For the Chief Musician;
is
E. 507. tiie
is
filthy;
none that doeth good, no, not one.
the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eat up my people as they eat bread,
call
God ?
not upon
There were they in great fear, where no fear was; For God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee:
Thou
hast put
them
to
shame, because
God hath
re-
jected them. 6.
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Then
shall
Jacob
rejoice,
and
Israel shall be glad.
I
PSALM
Q4
LILT.
Psalm LIH. Every one has departed from God, there
1-4.
5. 6.
is
no one P. P.
left.
They have destroyed
the church without any cause. P. P.
6.
See Psalm xxvii.
See Psalm xxxiv. 7.
A. 4236.
3.
See Psalm xiv.
7.
R. 862. R. 591. R. 612.
See Psalm xiv.
7.
E. 460.
See Psalm xiv.
8.
7.
See Psalm
xl.
17.
E. 660.
See Psalm
xiv. 7.
E. 811.
See Psalm xiv.
E. 850.
7.
Therefore there
will
be a
new church from
the Lord. P. P.
PSALM
LIV.
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David; when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us? 1.
Save me, O God, by thy name, judge me in thy might.
And 2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Hear
my
prayer,
O
God;
Give ear to the words of my mouth. For strangers are risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: [Selah They have not set God before them. Behold, God is my helper: The Lord is of them that uphold my soul. He will requite the evil unto mine enemies: Destroy thou them in thy truth. With a freewill-offering will I sacrifice unto thee: I will give thanks unto thy name, O Jehovah, for it is good.
7.
For he hath delivered me out of all trouble; And mine eye hath seen my desire upon mine enemies.
PSALM
LIV.
195
Psalm LIV. Prayer
1-5.
to the
Father that
that wish to destroy
He may
P. P.
Strangers also here stand for evils
5.
the violent for the
Word alone who
same
They who look
truths.
assist against those
Him.
and
the falses of
evil,
offering violence to goods
and
at the sense of the letter of the
understand nothing
are out of the church,
else
and
by strangers but those
that they rose
up against
Nevertheless there does not anything of person
David.
enter into tne heavens, but the things which are signified,
thus not strangers but instead of them strange things,
which are those which are alienated from the church, thus evils and the falses of evil which destroy the church. By David also against whom they arose, is perceived the Lord. A. 10287. 5, 6.
See Psalm
6, 7.
He
7,
hi. 2, 3.
assists against
See Psalm
them and they
A. 10481. will perish.
P. P.
v. 10.
R. 44. That all true internal worship is not from compulsion, but from freedom, and that if worship is not from freedom it is not internal worship is evident from the Word, as
from the sacrifices which were free-will offerings or vows, or offerings of peace or thanksgiving, which were called gifts
and
offerings.
See Psalm
xlvii. 10.
A song in praise of assistance.
A. 1947.
T. 495. P. P.
PSALM
196
PSALM
LV.
LV.
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. 1.
God; to my prayer, hide not thyself from my supplication.
Give ear
And 2.
Maschil of David.
Attend unto me, and answer me:
am restless in my complaint, and moan, Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me. My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest. Lo, then would I wander far off,
I 3.
5.
[Selah would lodge in the wilderness. would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest. Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city. Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it. Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets. For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from him: But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend.
I
I
13.
14.
15.
We We
took sweet counsel together; in the house of God with the throng. Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
walked
:
PSALM 16.
As
me,
for
I will call
And Jehovah
LV.
197
upon God;
17.
me. Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I com-
18.
And he will hear my voice. He hath redeemed my soul
plain,
that 19.
will save
and moan; in peace
from the
For they were many that strove with me. God will hear, and answer them,
Even he that abideth of old, The men who have no changes, 20.
21.
22.
battle
was against me;
[Selah
And who fear not God. He hath put forth his hands
against such as were at peace with him He hath profaned his covenant. His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords. Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee:
He 23.
will
never suffer the righteous to be moved. O God, wilt bring them down into the
But thou,
pit
of destruction:
Bloodthirsty their days;
But
and
deceitful
men
shall not live out half
I will trust in thee.
Psalm LV. 1-6, 10.
The
grievousness of temptations
is
described, in
P. P. which He prays to the Father. These things are said concerning temptations in 5, 6. which evil and falses break in from hell and strike with terror for fear of damnation, for the good are terrified and tremble from imminent dangers of the soul, thus from the irruption of evils into the thoughts and intentions of the will. There are therefore various commotions of the
PSALM
198
mind which are
LV.
by trepidations of the and horror, which the order in which they
specially signified
heart, terrors of death, fear, trembling,
mentioned according
are
to
succeed.
6-8.
E. 677.
The
tress.
subject here treated of
Fearfulness
temptation and dis-
is
and trembling describe that distress; and circumspection
the investigation of truth in that state as to whither he that I
had wings
and be
at rest."
may like
signified
by
a dove, for then would I
fly
turn himself
The w ings T
itual affection of truth, to fly
to rescue the life thereby is
I
wander
far off
"
Oh
away
of a dove stand for the spir-
away and be is
means That there
at rest
from damnation.
as yet no hope of deliverance
would
is
signified by, "
and remain
Lo, then
in the wilderness."
E. 282. 7-9.
He would
fain give
up
the combats, because of their P. P.
grievousness. 9.
See Psalm
xi. 6.
R. 343. E. 419. R. 194.
See Psalm
xi. 6.
10.
See Psalm
xlviii. 2.
10-12.
See Psalm
xviii. 49.
A. 6353.
P. P. The malice of the hells is described. By a wall is signified that which protects, and in 11. 12. speaking of the church the Word in the literal sense is
10-15.
R. 898.
signified.
12.
See Psalm
16.
They
17-19, 23.
will
E. 866.
xvii. 1.
be cast
down
P. P.
into hell.
Prayer to the Father, and
He
will
bring help, P. P.
Here therefore shall be adduced the passages which prove that Jehovah and the Lord are one, and because they are one and not two, that the Lord from eternity, who is Jehovah himself, is by the assumption of the Human the Redeemer and Saviour. Isaiah lxiii. 16: R. 281. Psalm xix. 14: Jeremiah 1. 34, etc. R. 613. See Psalm xix. 15.
18, 19.
PSALM
19.
See Psalm
xix. 15.
See Psalm
iv.
LV.
199 E. 328. R. 306.
7-9.
by the third commandment is and then peace because there is protection from hell, for by Sabbath is signified The Lord is thererest, and in this highest sense peace. In the
celestial sense
meant conjunction with
the Lord,
fore called the Prince of peace,
and
also
He
calls
himself
T. 303.
peace.
Lord is signified, and falsities. E. 365.
Salvation by conjunction with the
and
the consequent removal of evils
He
hath ransomed
— redeemed — my soul D.
20.
See Psalm
The
fear of
sanctity
by
Page
87.
R. 527.
xxii. 24.
Jehovah
in peace.
P.,
signifies
worship in which there
truths.
is
E. 696.
against the evil and hypocrites. P. P. smooth or alluring mouth is predicated of falsity, and the heart and soft things therefrom of evil. A. 3527. These things are said of those who make a pre22, 24. tence of good affections whilst they speak falsities by which they seduce. By the words of their mouth being smoother than butter is signified good pretended by the affections, butter standing for the good of external affecTheir words being softer than oil signifies similar tion. things, oil standing for the good of internal affection. Yet were they drawn swords signifies that nevertheless they are falsities destroying good and truth, drawn swords signifying falsities destroying. But thou, O God, shalt cast them down into the pit signifies into the hell where
20-22, 24. 22.
A
the destructive falsities of that kind prevail.
By
E. 537.
which is not from ignorance but from a deliberate purpose of deceiving, as is the
24.
guile
is
signified the false
case with the impious.
F. 866.
PSALM
200
LVI.
PSALM
LVI.
For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him i.
Be merciful unto me,
me
O
God;
for
A Psalm in
of
Gath.
man would
swallow
up:
day long he fighting oppresseth me. Aline enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me. What time I am afraid, All the
2.
3.
I will 4.
5.
put
my
trust in thee.
God (I will praise his word), God have I put my trust, I will What can flesh do unto me ?
In In
All the
day long they wrest
my
All their thoughts are against 6.
7.
8.
9.
not be afraid;
words:
me
for evil.
They gather themselves together, they hide They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.
themselves,
Shall they escape by iniquity ? In anger cast down the peoples, O God. Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book ? Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call:
10.
11.
12.
13.
This I know, that God is for me. In God (I will praise his word), In Jehovah (I will praise his word), In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid, What can man do unto me ? Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank-offerings unto thee. For thou hast delivered my soul from death: Hast thou not delivered my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living ?
!
PSALM
20I
LVI.
Psalm LVI.
The
i.
case with the Philistines was as with
in the land of
and
Canaan
truths of the church,
when
all
the nations
that they represented the goods
and
and falses, for was among them things which are of good, also evils
the ancient representative church
they represented the celestial spiritual things which are of truth, but
and the
when they
turned aside from genuine representative worship, they then began to represent the diabolical things which are of evil
and
the infernal things
which are of the
false.
A. 9340. 1-5, 11, 12.
Temptations of the Lord,
in
which
Malice of the infernals. O that the Father would help in
6, 7. 8, 9.
10.
He
13.
See Psalm
has
P. P. affliction
P. P. P. P.
will help. 1.
He
P. P.
confidence in the Father.
A. 3880.
14, 23.
P. P. Song of praise for protection. Here to walk before God is to walk in the truth of faith A. 519. which is the light of the living. To walk signifies to live, and to walk with God to live R. 167. with Him, because from Him.
13, 14. 14.
By walking in the Ways signify truths. Death stands
for
spiritual sense
is
signified to live.
E. 97.
damnation, and
life
for salvation.
E. 186.
The
soul signifies the
called his spiritual
life.
life
of the spirit of
man, which
is
E. 750.
PSALM
202
LVII.
PSALM For the Chief Musician; set Michtam; when he i.
Be merciful unto me,
my
For
LVII.
Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David. from Saul, in the cave.
to
fled
O
God, be merciful unto me;
soul taketh refuge in thee;
Yea, in the shadow of thy wings
will I take refuge,
Until these calamities be overpast. 2.
3.
unto God Most High, Unto God that performeth all things for me. He will send from heaven, and save me, When he that would swallow me up reproacheth; I will cry
[Selah
God 4.
My I lie
send forth his lovingkindness and his truth.
will
is among lions; among them that are
soul
Even
the sons of men,
set on fire, whose teeth are spears and
arrows,
And 5.
6.
tongue a sharp sword. O God, above the heavens; Let thy glory be above all the earth. They have prepared a net for my steps; their
Be thou
exalted,
My soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof
themselves. [Selah
7.
My
heart
O
is fixed,
God,
my
heart
is
fixed
I will sing, yea, I will sing praises. 8.
up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: myself will awake right early. I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the
Awake I
9.
peoples: I will sing praises 10.
And 11.
among the nations. great unto the heavens,
unto thee
For thy lovingkindness
is
thy truth unto the skies.
Be thou
exalted,
O
God, above the heavens;
Let thy glory be above all the earth.
PSALM
LVII.
203
Psalm LVII. Prayer to the Father when in the combats of tempta-
1-6.
tions with the hells 2.
which attack Him.
P. P.
See Psalm
xvii. 8.
A. 8764.
R. 245.
See Psalm
xvii. 8.
See Psalm
xvii. 8.
E. 283.
3.
See Psalm
vii. 18.
4. 11.
See Psalm xxv.
A. 8153. A. 6180.
10.
See Psalm xxxvi.
A. 10577.
6.
A sword in the opposite sense signifies falsity combating.
5.
A. 2799.
A
lion
and
stroys
The
the
is
power
of the evil of self-love,
lays waste.
teeth of lions stand for falsities
lions for falsities
Mention ing else falsities
from
often
is
when
evil in their potency.
made
in the
Word
of swords
A. 9052.
and noth-
is signified by them but truth combating against and destroying them. In the opposite sense also
R.
falsity fighting against truths.
See Psalm
By
ma tes
de-
it
A. 6367. that destroy truths,
the lion of the
is
life
signified power.
of
52.
R. 241.
xvii. 12.
man which
Teeth signify the
ulti-
are called sensual things,
which when they are separated from the interiors of the mind are in mere falsities, and offer violence to truths and destroy them.
That sword
R. 435. signifies the false destroying truth
See Psalm
xvii. 12.
who plunder By the sons those who are in
lions in this passage are signified those
the church of of
man-
E. 131. E. 278.
ifest.
By
is
men who
its
and thus destroy
truths
are set on
fire
are signified
it.
and abstractedly the
truths themwhich are said to be inflamed by the pride of selfderived intelligence, whence arise falsities. Whose teeth are spears and arrows signifies reasonings from external
the truths of the church, selves
PSALM
204 5
LVII.
sensuals and so from the fallacies and falsities of religion, by which truths are destroyed. The teeth signify the ultimates of the life of man, which are external sensual things, and in the present case reasonings grounded therein.
wherefore
The tongue signifies the falsities of religion, it is said "and their tongue a sharp sword" for
by a sword
is
signified the destruction of truth
by
falsities.
E. 455-
Here by ties
by means of falsitheir teeth which are the scientifics which
lions are signified those »who
destroy the truths of the chtfrch,
said to be spears
and arrowy
signify
and evils and so to destroy and goods of the church. Their tongue a sharp sword signifies crafty reasons from falsities. They are called a sharp sw ord because a sword signifies falsities they apply to confirm
falsities
the truths
7
E. 556.
destroying truth.
By is
the soul here
the
life
for the
is
also signified the spiritual
of faith, thus also the
understanding
of them, as also faith.
the soul
is
formed from truths and
and the subject here by
which
of the understanding, consists
Since these things are signified by
vastation of truth, therefore lions, for
life
life,
treated of
it is
is
concerning the
said, I lie in the
midst of
lions are here signified falses destroying the
truths of the church.
It
is
also said, the sons of
men
are
on fire, the sons of men signifying the truths of doctrine and of the church, which when they are possessed from a corporeal love and thereby perish are said to be set on set
E. 750.
fire.
The tongue
of the impious
which speaks
falses
from
and thereby penetrates and disperses truths compared to a sharp sword, and sharp arrcws.
interior evils is
also
E. 908.
Their malice against Him. Confidence from His Divine.
5, 7. 8, 9.
8-10.
See Psalm
xxxiii. 2, 3.
P. P. P. P.
R. 276.
Songs were for the sake of the exaltation of the life of R. 279. and hence of joy.
love,
.
PSALM
LVIII.
205
Confession and glorification from the good of truth or
from
spiritual good,
and from
the truth of
good or from
spiritual truth are expressed in the particulars of this pas-
The good of truth is expressed by singing, by being sage. awaked or excited by the psaltery, and by confessing unto The truth of good is exthe Lord among the people. pressed by singing, by being excited by the harp, and by singing
among
the nations, for by the people in the
who
are understood those
those
who
are in truths,
are in good, in this case those
who
are princi-
E. 323. E. 326.
pled in spiritual truth.
See Psalm
Word
and by nations
vii. 18.
In these passages also mention is made of people and whom are understood all who are in truths and The expressions also which are applied to people goods. nations by
are such as are predicated of truths,
and those
to nations
such as are predicated of goods. That no others are understood by nations is evident also from this circumstance, that those things were said by David, who was E. 331. the enemy of the nation of the Canaanites. 10, 11.
See Psalm
10-12.
A
vii.
A. 3880.
18.
song in praise of the Father for
this reason.
P. P. 11.
See Psalm
E. 541.
xxxvi.
PSALM For the Chief Musician;
set
to
LVIII.
Al-tashheth.
A Psalm
of David.
Michtam. 1
2.
3.
Do Do
ye indeed in silence speak righteousness ? ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
:
:
PSALM
206 Their poison
4.
is
like the
LVIII.
poison of a serpent:
They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear, Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah, Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they
5.
6.
7.
were cut off. Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen
8.
the sun.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green
9.
and the burning
alike.
righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked; So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the
The
10.
11.
righteous Verily there
is
a
God
that judgeth in the earth.
Psalm LVIII. 1- 10. evil
Against those who were of the church who cherished thoughts against the Lord: they are in mere falsities
of evil, of which they perish.
3-6. 3,
5.
See Psalm
xviii. 49.
Poison in the
Word
P. P.
A. 6353. signifies guile, and poisonous
serpents such as asps or adders, cockatrices signify those 4.
who
are
full of guile.
and
vipers
A. 9013. from the good
Being estranged from the womb means which is of the church, and going astray from the belly A. 4918. means going astray from truth. E. 622. See Psalm xxii. 11. It is not understood that the impious are estranged from the womb and that they go astray from the belly, that is from the first birth, for no one from that is estranged from God and goes astray, but to be estranged from the
PSALM
LVIII.
207
womb means
to recede from good to evil from the first day when they could be reformed. To go astray from the belly means to recede in like manner from truths to falses.
To
speak a
also signifies
lie
to
believe falses.
The reason why it is said that they recede from the first day when they could be reformed is, because the Lord is in the endeavour to reform all, whosoever they may be, beginning from childhood and continuing through adolescence to youth, but they who do not allow themselves to
4-6.
be reformed are said immediately to recede. E. 710. Reasonings which are such that they do not even hear
what
is
wise or the voice of the wise are here called the
Hence came
poison of a serpent.
among
the form of speech
the ancients that the serpent stoppeth her ear.
A. 195. 5.
Word
Serpents in the
signify the sensual
craftiness or subtlety,
and
sages the devil or hell
is
as to prudence.
called a serpent.
man
as to
In these pasE. 581.
Enchantment signifies the rejection of falsity by truths, which was also done by tacitly thinking and muttering charms from a zeal for truth against falsity. R. 462. Such enchantments the prophets were skilled in. They also used them to excite by them good affections, hearing, and obedience, and these enchantments are mentioned in a good sense in the Word. E. 590. By witchcraft is signified nearly the same as by incantation, and incantation signifies such persuasion that the
5, 6.
person persuaded
is
rendered incapable of perceiving any
otherwise. 7.
See Psalm
E. 1191. lvii. 5.
Teeth and jaw
— Joel
i.
6, 7
— stand
that destroy the truths of the church.
See Psalm
By
for the falsities
A. 9052.
R- 435-
lvii. 5.
their teeth in their
A. 6367.
mouth are
signified the scientifics
from which they produce falsities. The great teeth of the young lions signify the truths of the Word falsified, which
PSALM
208
in themselves are falsities
LVIII.
and by which they
especially
prevail in effecting the destruction of the truths of the
E. 556.
church. 7, 8.
See Psalm
xvii. 12.
See Psalm
xvii. 12.
R. 241. E. 278.
So that those who are
11, 12.
in
good may come
into the
P. P.
church.
PSALM
LIX.
For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. 1.
me from mine enemies, O my God: me on high from them that rise up against Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, And save me from the bloodthirsty men. Deliver Set
2.
they
in wait for
my
me.
soul;
3.
For,
4.
The mighty gather themselves together against me: Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah. They run and prepare themselves without my fault: Awake thou to help me, and behold. Even thou, O Jehovah God of hosts, the God of Israel,
5.
lo,
lie
Arise to visit 6.
all
the nations:
Be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. They return at evening, they howl like a dog,
[Selah
And
7.
8.
9.
go round about the city. Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, say they, doth hear? But thou, O Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; Thou wilt have all the nations in derision. Because of his strength I will give heed unto thee;
my high tower. with his lovingkindness will meet me:^ God will let me see my desire upon mine enemies. Slay them not, lest my people forget: Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down,
For God 10.
11.
is
My God
O
Lord our
shield.
PSALM
LIX.
209
For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak. Consume them in wrath, consume them, so that they shall be no more:
12.
13.
let them know that God ruleth in Jacob, [Selah Unto the ends of the earth. And at evening, let them return, let them howl like a
And
14.
dog,
And
go round about the
They
15.
shall
city.
wander up and down
for food,
And
tarry all night if they be not satisfied. But I will sing of thy strength; Yea, I will sing aloud of thy lovingkindness in the
16.
morning: For thou hast been
And
my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.
Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing praises: For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.
17.
Psalm LIX. Prayer
1-7.
to the
He 2-4.
is
See 6.
See See See
and
slay
P. P.
insurgents are signified the evils
which are from Psalm iii. 2, 3. Psalm xli. 14. Psalm xli. 14. Psalm xli. 14.
And Thou O
are then
Him, although
innocent.
By enemies and
falses
who
Father concerning those
of the church, they wish to destroy
Jehovah,
and
A. 10481.
hell.
E. 671.
A. 7091. L. 39.
T. 93.
God
of hosts, the
awake to visit all the nations. Dogs stand for those who within 7, 15.
God
D.
P.,
of Israel,
Page
72.
the church are in
who prate much about the things of the church and understand little, and in the opposite sense those who treat with contumely the things of faith. the lowest place,
A. 7784.
PSALM
2IO 7, 15, 16.
A sword
8.
By dogs
LIX.
are meant the vilest men.
R. 952-
in the opposite sense signifies falsity combating.
A. 2799.
By
a sword
is
meant the devastation
of truth in the
church.
R.
Sword signifies the false destroying truth. They fight from falsities against truths. 9-1 1. 12.
Confidence in the Father. prays for them.
He
13, 14. 14.
They
See Psalm
destroy themselves xiv. 7.
by malice. See Psalm v. 4.
15, 16. 17.
17, 18.
Confidence respecting help.
PSALM LX.
211
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre.
7.
Moab
8.
is
my
washpot;
Upon Edom
will I cast
my
shoe:
shout thou because of me. Who will bring me into the strong city ? Who hath led me unto Edom ? Hast not thou, O God, cast us off? And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts. Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man. Philistia,
9.
10.
n.
Through God we
12.
For he
it is
shall
do valiantly; down our adversaries.
that will tread
Psalm LX. 1-5.
Lamentation of the Lord, that
He
has been forsaken,
together with the church.
See Psalm
3. 3, 4.
ii.
P. P.
A. 8286.
12.
R. 285. See Psalm xxvii. 13. these things are said of the church and not of the
That earth
is
irruption of nified
E. 304. the
evident.
Here the
away falsities and
falling
of the church,
and thence
the perversion of truth are sig-
by the breaches which were
to
4.
Breach
signifies
E. 400.
damage done
to the
of faith, thus to the church, to heal
is
goods and truths to
amend and
"for a hundred pieces of money." in the original for a
from a word which 6, 7. 8.
hundred
kesitah.
signifies truth in
Genesis
Kesitah
Psalm
lx. 6.
xxxiii. is
signifies tents,
and
19,
derived
A. 4400. P. P.
Confidence respecting deliverance.
Succoth
to
A. 9163.
restore. 6.
The
be healed.
earth stands for the church.
tents the holy of truth.
A. 4392.
PSALM LX.
212
Ephraim stands for the intellectual of the church and A. 5354. Manasseh for its voluntary. 8-10. By Shechem is signified the first state of light. 8, 9.
A. 1441.
The washpot
stands for good defiled by
falsities.
A. 2468.
8-1 1.
A
church internal and external
being instituted.
is
In the highest sense respecting the Human of the Lord, P. P. that it will be made Divine. Because Gilead was a boundary it signifies in the spiritual sense the first good,
the body, for
which the
it is
which
is
that of the senses of
the good or the pleasure of these into
man who
is
being regenerated
is
first
of all
A. 41 17.
initiated.
Judah a lawgiver
is celestial
good and
its
truth.
A. 6372.
The understanding
of the
Word
both true and
false is
described in the prophets by Ephraim, especially in Hosea, in the Word signifies the understanding of Word in the church. Since the understanding of the Word makes the church, therefore Ephraim is called a for
Ephraim
the
dear son and a pleasant child in Jeremiah xxxi. 20 and S. 79. here "the strength of the head of Jehovah." Manasseh signifies the voluntary of the church, he also signifies act, for the will is the effort of every act, and
where there
is
effort there is action
when
it is
ppssible.
R- 355-
The statement under S. 79 repeated in By Manasseh is here signified the good
T. 247. of the church,
by Ephraim the truth thereof, and by Gilead the natural. Since truth from natural good has Divine power, therefore it is
said,
Ephraim is the strength
why Divine power
is
because the natural
of
my head.
by truth from good is
The reason
in the natural
is,
the ultimate into which things
interior, which are celestial and spiritual flow, and in which they exist and subsist together, and consequently
PSALM are in their fulness, in which
LXI.
213
and from which
is all
10.
The shoe
represented the ultimate natural and cor-
poreal which was to be put
and corporeal See Psalm lvi. 1.
natural
Edom
10-12.
Divine E. 440.
operation.
is
off.
That
it is
the unclean
A. 1748.
also plain here.
A. 9340.
stands for the good of the natural which
is
manifest from the signification of shoe, as the lowest
A. 3322.
natural.
from His own power, and from His Divine. 13. 14. See Psalm xliv. 6, add: which 14.
P. P.
12.
who
P. P. is
are corporeal sensual, for they
character tread under foot
all
effected
who
by those
are of such a
things of heaven
and the
church, for they are in the lowest principles, neither can their thoughts be elevated upward by the Lord, for they
themselves
them down
let
to the earth,
and
there they
E. 632.
lick the dust.
PSALM
LXI.
For the Chief Musician; on a stringed instrument.
A Psalm
of
David. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Hear
my
cry,
O
God;
Attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when heart is overwhelmed: Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For thou hast been a refuge for me, A strong tower from the enemy. I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever: I will take refuge in the covert of thy wings.
For thou,
Thou
O
God, hast heard
hast given
name.
me
my
my
[Selah
vows:
the heritage of those that fear thy
PSALM
214
LXI.
Thou wilt prolong the king's life; His years shall be as many generations.
6.
He
7.
shall abide before
God
for ever:
Oh
prepare lovingkindness and truth, that they preserve him. So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, That I may daily perform my vows.
8.
may
Psalm LXI.
The Lord's song
1-6.
in praise of the Father because of
help.
5.
P. P.
See Psalm
3.
The
A. 8581.
xl. 3.
tent stands for
what
is celestial,
the covert of the
wings for the spiritual therefrom. See Psalm
See Psalm xv.
A. 414.
A. 8764. A. 10545.
xvii. 8. 1, 2.
See Psalm xv. 1,2. R. 585. To abide in the tabernacle for ever signifies to be in the Divine good of love.
To
confide in the hiding place
of His wings signifies to be in Divine truths, for the wings
Jehovah
of 7.
This
is
signify spiritual truths.
said of the
Lord and His kingdom.
years here stand for the states of His kingdom.
E. 799.
Days and A. 488.
Years stand for what is eternal, for this treats of the Lord and of His kingdom. A. 2906. 7-9. And because of union. P. P. 8. The most ancient people, who were celestial, by mercy and truth from the Lord understood nothing else than the 7, 8.
and thence of But the ancients, who were spiritual, understood charity and faith by the mercy and truth of the Lord with themselves. A. 3122. See Psalm xxv. 10. A. 6180. reception of influx of love to the Lord,
charity toward the neighbor.
;
.
PSALM
For the Chief Musician;
LXII.
PSALM
LXII.
after the
manner
215
of Jeduthun.
A
Psalm
of David.
2.
My soul waiteth in silence for God only: From him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation:
3.
He is my high tower; I shall not be How long will ye set upon a man,
i.
That ye may
moved.
slay him, all of you,
Like a leaning wall, 4.
greatly
like
a tottering fence
?
They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. [Selah
5.
My soul, For
my
6.
He
only
He
is
7.
wait thou in silence for expectation is from him. is
my
With God
The rock 8.
10.
1 1
only;
my rock and my salvation: high tower; I shall not be moved. is
of
my salvation and my glory: my strength, and my refuge,
is
in
God.
Trust in him at all times, ye people; Pour out your heart before him:
God
9.
God
[Selah a refuge for us. of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity. Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart thereon. is
Surely
men
God hath spoken
once,
Twice have I heard this, That power belongeth unto God. 12.
Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth lovingkindness; For thou renderest to every man according to his work,
PSALM
2l6
LXII.
Psalm LXII. Confession that the Divine alone has
1-3, 6-9, 12, 13.
3,
P. P. power, and from it there is help. By rock throughout the Word the Divine truth is 7, 8. Inv. 35.
understood.
They
P. P. are of no avail against the Divine. midst also signifies the inmost, and thence the all
4, 5, 10. 5,
in
The many places in the Word, even where the evil are treated R. 44.
of.
See Psalm
E. 313.
v. 10.
PSALM A i.
LXIII.
Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, w here no water is. So have I looked upon thee in the sanctuary, T
2.
To 3.
My 4.
glory.
So
better than
is
life,
lips shall praise thee.
will I bless thee while I live:
I will 5.
power and thy
see thy
Because thy lovingkindness
lift
My soul
up
my
hands
in thy
name.
shall be satisfied as with
marrow and
6.
And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful When I remember thee upon my bed, And meditate on thee in the night-watches.
7.
For thou hast been
my
And
of thy wings will I rejoice.
8.
My Thy
9.
10.
in the
soul folio weth right
hard
help, after thee:
hand upholdeth me.
But those that seek
my
soul, to destroy
it,
Shall go into the lower parts of the earth. They shall be given over to the power of the sword:
They 11.
shadow
fatness;
lips;
shall
be a portion for foxes.
But the king shall rejoice in God: Every one that sweareth by him shall glory; For the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
PSALM
LXIII.
217
Psalm LXIII.
The
1-9.
desire
and
love of the
Lord
to
be united to His
Divine.
P. P.
Flesh in the respective sense
2.
in
man
vivified
Thirsting
is
signifies the will
proprium
by the Lord's Divine good. A. 3813. predicated of truth, weary without water
A. 8568. that there were no truths. Waters signify truths and in particular natural truths, R. 50. which are knowledges from the Word. Since by flesh is signified the good of the church, and
means
by blood the truth
of the church,
that by the Lord's flesh
it
and blood
is
plainly manifest
in the
Holy Supper
Divine good and Divine truth from the Lord are
signified.
R. 832. R. 956.
Flesh signifies good.
To
thirst signifies to desire truths.
Waters signify the truths of
faith, also the
knowledges E. 71.
of truth.
Morning signifies the coming of the Lord, also His kingdom and church, and the good of love which is from Him. ^
E. 179.
Flesh also signified good with man, as in Ezekiel 6.
Here
fat
stands for the
the spiritual.
That
it is
celestial,
celestial
is
and
Lip stands
lips of
A. 353.
Fatness manifestly stands for good, for
See Psalm xxxvi.
rived.
To
it is
said that
A. 5943. R. 782.
9.
soul being satisfied with
filled
songs for
A. 1286.
for doctrine.
their soul shall be satisfied.
The
19;
very evident, for the
soul shall be satisfied.
being
xi.
E. 1082.
xxxvi. 26.
marrow and
fatness
means
with the good of love and with joy thence depraise with lips of songs signifies to worship
by truths which gladden the mind. 8. See Psalm xvii. 8. See Psalm xvii. 8.
E. 11 59. A. 8764.
R. 245.
:
PSALM
2i8
Wing when See Psalm
9.
10,
predicated of the Lord signifies the Divine
See also Psalm
spiritual.
E. 283.
xvii. 8.
A. 10019.
xliv. 4.
Those who
11.
LXIII.
lie
in wait for
Him
12.
Here
P. P.
swear by
to
mouth
follows, the
by
will perish
falsities of evil.
of
God
signifies to
speak truth, for
them that speak lies
shall
it
be stopped. E. 608.
there will be salvation from the Lord,
Then
and
PSALM
LXIV.
A
For the Chief Musician.
my
Hear
Preserve
voice,
my
life
re-
P. P.
jection of the evil.
O
God, in from fear
Hide me from the
Psalm
my
of David.
complaint:
of the
enemy.
secret counsel of evil-doers,
the tumult of the workers of iniquity; have whet their tongue like a sword, have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
From
Who And
That they may shoot
in secret places at the perfect:
Suddenly do they shoot at him, .and fear not. They encourage themselves in an evil purpose;
They commune of laying snares They say, W ho will see them ? They search out iniquities;
privily;
T
6.
We
have accomplished, say they, a diligent search: the inward thought and the heart of every one
And
is
deep. 7.
8.
But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded. So they shall be made
to stumble, their
being against them All that see 9.
And And And
all
them
men
shall
wag
the head.
shall fear;
they shall declare the work of God, shall wisely consider of his doing.
own tongue
PSALM LXIV.
219
The
righteous shall be glad in Jehovah, refuge in him;
10.
And
all
and
shall take
the upright in heart shall glory.
Psalm LXIV.
The
1-6. 4.
lying in wait of the evil against the Lord.
See Psalm
lvii. 5.
See Psalm
lvii. 5.
P. P.
R-
52.
E. 131.
The wicked
are here said to sharpen their tongue like because a sword signifies falsity combating against truth, they are also said to bend their bows to shoot their arrows even bitter words, because an arrow
4, 5.
sword,
a
signifies the falsity of doctrine.
perfect signifies the
same as
To
shoot in secret at the
to shoot privily at the upright
in heart, namely, to deceive those
who
are principled in
from good. E. 357. 4-6. See Psalm xi. 2. A. 2709. Here the inward thought stands for the intellectual 7. where the truth ought to reside, and the heart for the will where the good ought to be, but in the present case both perverted, the latter into evil and the former into what is truths
E. 313.
false.
Here by the belly of a man are signified the thoughts of what is false, and by the deep heart the affections of evil,
the latter pertaining to the will, the former to the
understanding.
They will perish. 11. Thus the good
E. 622. P. P.
8, 9.
10,
will
be saved.
P. P.
:
:
PSALM LXV.
220
PSALM LXV. For the Chief Musician. i.
A
Psalm.
A
Song
of David.
O
God, in Zion; Praise waiteth for thee, unto thee shall the vow be performed. thou that hearest prayer,
And 2.
O
Unto thee 3.
4.
shall all flesh
come.
Iniquities prevail against
me:
As
thou wilt forgive them. thou choosest, and causest to
for our transgressions,
Blessed
is
the
man whom
approach unto
thee,
That he may dwell
We 5.
shall
in thy courts: be satisfied with the goodness of thy house,
Thy holy temple. By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation, Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, And of them that are afar off upon the sea
6.
Who
7.
Who
8.
The roaring of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples. They also that dwell in the uttermost
by his strength setteth fast the mountains, Being girded about with might; stilleth
the roaring of the seas,
at thy tokens Thou makest the outgoings of the
parts are afraid
morning and evening
to rejoice. 9.
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it, Thou greatly enrichest it; The river of God is full of water: Thou providest them grain, when thou hast so prepared the earth.
10.
11.
Thou waterest its furrows abundantly; Thou settlest the ridges thereof: Thou makest it soft with showers; Thou blessest the springing thereof. Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; And thy paths drop fatness.
PSALM LXV. 12.
They drop upon
13.
And The
221
the pastures of the wilderness; the hills are girded with joy.
pastures are clothed with flocks; also are covered over with grain;
The valleys They shout
for joy, they also sing.
Psalm LXV. 1.
See Psalm
From
1-14.
R. 279.
xviii. 1.
and
the
Human
be in
all
truth from
the uniting of the Divine
in
Lord
will
be a church that
the Lord,
and
from infestation from falsities. P. P. man. A. 574. approach stands for to be conjoined.
the
safe
3.
All flesh stands for every
5.
To make
to
will
A. 9378.
The courts.
ultimate heaven
To
is
inhabit courts
signified is
by a court and by
to inhabit heaven.
A. 9741.
by the court, therefore also the church on earth and also heaven in the ultimates are signified by it, because the church on earth is the entrance into heaven, and in like manner heaven
As the external
of the
church
is
signified
R. 487.
in ultimates.
By
virtue of truths
from the Lord the temple
called
is
R. 586. Here they are said to be satisfied with the goodness of the house of Jehovah, even of His holy temple, because the temple of holiness.
the house of
God
as to Divine good
in the
and
supreme sense
signifies the
Lord
the temple as to Divine truth.
E. 204.
By
these words
is
signified that they
who
are in charity
and be there and wisdom from Divine truth and Divine By the elect or him whom thou choosest are sig-
or in spiritual affection shall live in heaven, in intelligence
good. nified
those
who
are
neighbor or in charity.
principled
By
in
love
toward
causing to approach
nified spiritual love or affection, for so far as
their is
man
sigis
in
PSALM LXV.
22 2
5
that love or in that affection so far he is with the Lord, for By every one approaches Him according to that love.
inhabiting the courts habit meaning to
is
live,
signified to live in heaven, to in-
and
the courts heaven.
By
being
saturated with the good of the house is signified to be in wisdom from Divine good. By being saturated with the holiness of the temple
is
signified to
be in intelligence from
Divine truth, and from both to be in the fruition of heavThe house of God signifies heaven and the enly joy.
church as to Divine good, and the temple heaven and the church as to Divine truth. Holiness is predicated of E. 630. spiritual good which is truth. 6.
By extremities are signified all things and every where. The extremity is predicated of good, and afar off of truth. A. 9666.
The ends
of the earth,
and the
By
are afar
church.
R. 598. R. 336.
true.
See Psalm xxxvi.
7.
who
E. 1133. signs are signified testifications that a thing is
off signify the ultimates of the
6-8.
sea of those
By mountains these the
Lord
7.
here also are signified the goods of love,
establishes in
heaven and in the church by
By the power of God in the Word is signified Divine truth, and by power when predicated of the Lord, all power or omnipotence. His Divine truth which
is
omnipotent.
E. 405. 7-9.
Thus
is
described the Divine power of the Lord by
things testifying that they
may
believe,
but the things
which are signs are not that He strengthened the mountains, maketh the tumult of the seas and of the waves to cease, and the noise of the people, for these are not such signs as can persuade those who ascribe all things
testifying
but those things are the signs testifying the Divine power of the Lord which are understood in the The mountains the superior heavens, spiritual sense. to nature,
the tumult of the seas
and waves disputations and
ra-
PSALM LXV.
223
who are beneath the heavens and are natural and sensual, the noise of the people contradictions
tiocinations of those
by
falses.
.
.
signs
that
power
.
From
signify
it
may appear
concerning the Divine
of the Lord.
9.
See Psalm xxx.
10,
See Psalm xxix.
Rain
10, 11.
these considerations
testifications
E. 706. C. J. 13. A. 2702.
6. 3.
Divine truth from heaven.
signifies the
R. 496.
By
here signified the church, by the river of water doctrine full of truths. By watering the
full
the earth
is
furrows, laying
down
with drops
with the knowledges of good preparing the corn is signified all that
and
is
By
truth.
lishest the earth
— that
budding thereof
is
and
to
E. 644.
for
good and the truth
See Jeremiah xxxi. 11, 12.
gentiles,
who
of those
and
because there
who
are in desolation
is
are in ignor-
the enlightenment
The wilderness is predicated of these. By a wilderness is signified a church truths,
A. 3580. A. 5943.
8, 9.
Here the regeneration
instruction of those
no
—
by blessing the produce continually anew,
Corn and new wine stand
ance of truth, or the
is
treated
and of.
A. 2708. in
which there are
not the Word, as with the
upright gentiles at the time of the Lord.
Treating of the church with the gentiles. ings of the
liquid
added, so thou estab-
it is
the church
signified to
See Psalm xxxvi.
13, 14.
is
cause truths to spring forth.
therefrom. 12.
it
fill
nourishes the soul, wherefore
10, 14.
and making
the ridges,
signified to
wilderness dropping
is
R. 546.
By
signified
the dwellthat their
minds which before were in ignorance of truth, acknowledge and receive truths, to drop being predicated of influx, acknowledgment and reception of truth, dwellings of the interiors of man which are of his mind, and wilderness the state of ignorance of truth. The hills girding themselves with exultation signifies that goods with them re-
2
I
PSALM LXV.
24
The meadows being
4ceive truths with joy of heart. clothed with flocks, signifies that
and
the valleys covered with corn
both minds, the spiritual and the natural,
receive truths suitable to themselves. for those things
which are
Meadows stand
of the spiritual
mind, and
thence of the rational, valleys those which are of the nat-
and corn natural
ural mind, flocks spiritual truth
truth.
E. 73°-
PSALM
LXVI.
For the Chief Musician. i.
2.
a joyful noise unto God, all the earth: Sing forth the glory of his name: his praise glorious.
Say unto God,
Through
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
Song, a Psalm.
Make
Make 3.
A
How
terrible are thy
power
works!
enemies submit themselves unto thee. All the earth shall worship thee, And shall sing unto thee; [Selah They shall sing to thy name. Come, and see the works of God; He is terrible in his doing toward the children of men. He turned the sea into dry land; They went through the river on foot: There did we rejoice in him. He ruleth by his might for ever; His eyes observe the nations: [Selah Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Oh bless our God, ye peoples, And make the voice of his praise to be heard; Who holdeth our soul in life, And sufTereth not our feet to be moved. For thou, O God, hast proved us:
Thou Thou Thou
the greatness of thy
shall thine
hast tried us, as silver is tried. broughtest us into the net; layedst a sore burden upon our loins.
PSALM LXVI.
Thou
12.
We
didst cause
went through
men fire
to ride
225
over our heads;
and through water;
But thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. come into thy house with burnt-offerings; I will pay thee my vows, I will
13.
Which my
14.
lips uttered,
And my mouth
spake,
when
I
was
in distress.
unto thee burnt-offerings of fatlings, With the incense of rams; [Selah I will offer bullocks with goats. Come, and hear, all ye that fear God, And I will declare what he hath done for my soul. I cried unto him. with my mouth, And he was extolled with my tongue. If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear: But verily God hath heard; He hath attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, Who hath not turned away my prayer, Nor his lovingkindness from me. I will offer
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
Psalm LXVI. I.
See Psalm
xviii. 1.
See Psalm
xviii. 1.
R. 279. E. 326.
new church
1-5.
Joy that there
is
a
6, 7.
who
it
from
that trusts in the Lord. P. P.
8, 9.
will save
P. P.
evils.
That the Lord alone has life in himself, and that man has life from Him, the Lord teaches. See
every
John
E. 186.
v. 21, 26.
united to His Divine by means of P. Pgrievous temptations.
8-12.
The Lord was
They
9.
that are in faith in the
Lord are
called the living.
A. 290. II, 12. is
The church
signified.
as to the knowledges of truth falsified E. 298.
PSALM LXVI.
226 11
In it
this
passage spiritual captivity and deliverance from Spiritual captivity takes place
are described.
mind
the
is when the mind is upon our loins signifies
Deliverance from that state
truth.
opened.
Thou
that there
is
laidst affliction
no perception of the good of
and
thighs signify the good of love.
men
to ride over
our heads
love, for the loins
Thou
hast caused
signifies that there is
standing of truth.
Men and
signify intelligence
from the proprium, which
telligence.
said,
when
shut up so as not to perceive good and understand
is
no under-
likewise heads in this case is
no
Since these things are signified therefore
we went through
fire
and water,
fire
init is
the evils which
water falsities. Deliverance thence is understood by, but thou broughtest us out into a broad place, by which is meant truth, the breadth sigare from the love of
self,
E. 355.
nifying truth.
By
causing
men
to ride over
the church then there
See Psalm
12.
13-17.
was no
our heads
is
meant that
R. 861.
iv. 2.
Thus Divine
in
E. 577.
intelligence.
truth from the
Lord
is
with men. P. P.
Incense signifies worship from spiritual good. Whether you say worship or confession is the same, for 15.
13,
all
worship
To
offer
is
confession.
burnt offerings of fatlings
from the good signifies
signifies
R. 277. worship
of celestial love, to offer incense of
rams
worship from the good of spiritual love, incense
E. 324. also rams signifying that good. Burnt offerings of fatlings stand for the celestial things love, and the incense of rams for the spiritual things of
and 15. of
A. 2830.
faith.
Burnt offerings of
fatlings stand for
worship from love. A. 5943.
17-19.
Since the quality of prayers
state of
when
is
according to the
man's heart, and consequently prayers offered up
the heart
is
in evil are not true prayers of worship,
PSALM therefore
Lord
will
it is
said,
if
the love of
227
I regard iniquity in
not hear me, by which
The
not receive such worship.
and
LXVII.
man
is
heart of
his very
my
heart, the
signified that
is
life,
man
is
He
will
his love,
consequently his
prayers have a quality according to his love, or according to the quality of his
19, 20.
E. 325.
life.
This has been done through His perfection. P. P.
See Psalm
xxviii. 6.
A. 1096.
See Psalm
xxviii. 6.
A. 1422.
See Psalm
xxviii. 6.
R. 289.
PSALM
LXVII.
A
Psalm, a Song.
be merciful unto us, and bless us, cause his face to shine upon us; That thy ways may be known upon earth,
[Selah
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. 1.
2.
God And
Thy 3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
salvation
among
all nations.
Let the peoples praise thee, O God; Let all the peoples praise thee. Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy; For thou wilt judge the peoples with equity, And govern the nations upon earth. Let the peoples praise thee, O God; Let all the peoples praise thee. The earth hath yielded its increase: God, even our own God, will bless us.
God And
will bless us; all
the ends of the earth shall fear him.
[Selah
PSALM
228
LXVII.
Psalm LXVII. 1.
See Psalm
xviii. i.
See Psalm
xviii. 1.
1-6, 8.
R. 279. E. 326.
The whole church
will
acknowledge and worship
Lord from joy of heart. P. P. face of Jehovah or of the Lord is mercy, peace and every good, as is clearly evident from the blessing in
the 2.
The
Numbers
A. 222.
vi. 25, 26.
See Psalm xxxi. 16, 17. By the face of Jehovah the Divine love,
and
A. 5585. is
signified the
Divine good of
the Divine truth from that Divine
good.
A. 9306.
See Psalm
iv. 7.
See Psalm xxvii.
8, 9.
A. 10579. R. 939.
In these words by the light of the countenance of Jehovah is understood the Divine truth of the Divine love, thence also the expression implies intelligence
and
wisdom, for from the Divine truth, or the Divine light in the heavens are derived all the wisdom and intelligence both of angels and men. E. 412. S. 86. 3-5. See Psalm xviii. 44. R. 483. See Psalm xviii. 44. T. 251. See Psalm xviii. 44. E. 331. See Psalm xviii. 44. Here peoples manifestly stand for those who are in 4, 5. truths of faith, and nations for those who are in the good of charity.
A. 1259.
and tongues are understood all who are in E. 175. the goods of love, and thence in truths. 6-8. To sow land or a field is to teach and to learn the Prodtruths and goods of faith which are of the church.
4-6.
7.
By
nations
uce stands for the goods of truth thence derived. A. 9272. P. P. Everything of the church will be theirs.
:
PSALM LXVLU.
PSALM For the Chief Musician. 1.
2.
229
LXVIII.
A
Psalm
of David, a Song.
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; Let them also that hate him flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away:
As wax melteth before So 3.
4.
the fire, the wicked perish at the presence of God. let the righteous be glad; let them exult before
let
But God:
Yea, let them rejoice with gladness. Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: Cast up a highway for him that rideth through the deserts;
His 5.
A
name
is
Jehovah; and exult ye before him. and a judge of the widows,
father of the fatherless,
6.
God in his holy habitation. God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity;
7.
But the rebellious dwell in a parched land. O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, When thou didst march through the wilderness; [Selah
Is
8.
The earth trembled. The heavens also dropped
Yon
God God of
rain at the presence of
Sinai trembled at the presence of God, the
Israel. 9.
10.
Thou,
O
Thou
didst confirm thine inheritance,
God, didst send a
plentiful rain,
when
it
was
weary. Thy congregation dwelt therein: Thou, O God, didst prepare of thy goodness for the poor.
11.
The Lord giveth the word: The women that publish the
12.
Kings of armies
And 13.
And
they
tidings are a great host.
flee;
she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil. ye lie among the sheepfolds, as the wings of a dove covered with silver, her pinions with yellow gold.
When It is
flee,
PSALM
230 14.
When
the Almighty scattered kings therein,
// ivas as 15.
16.
LXVIII.
when
it
snoweth in Zalmon.
A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; A high mountain is the mountain of Bashan. Why
look ye askance, ye high mountains,
At the mountain which God hath desired Yea, Jehovah will dwell in it for ever. 17.
18.
for his
abode
?
chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands: The Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the sanctuary. Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led away
The
captives;
Thou
19.
20.
hast received gifts
among men,
Yea, among the rebellious also, that Jehovah God might dwell with them. Blessed be the Lord, who daily beareth our burden, [Selah Even the God who is our salvation. God is unto us a God of deliverances; And unto Jehovah the Lord belongeth escape from death.
21.
But God
will smite through the head of his enemies, hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his
The
guiltiness. 22.
again from Bashan, them again from the depths of the sea; That thou mayest crush them, dipping thy foot in
The Lord
said, I will bring
I will bring 23.
blood,
That
the tongue of thy dogs
may have
its
portion from
thine enemies. 24.
They have seen thy goings, O God, Even the goings of my God, my King,
into the sanc-
tuary. 25.
The
singers
went before, the minstrels followed
after,
In the midst of the damsels playing with timbrels. 26.
27.
God in the congregations, the Lord, ye that are of the fountain of Israel.
Bless ye
Even There
The The
is little
Benjamin their ruler, Judah and their council,
princes of
princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.
PSALM 28.
LXVIII.
Thy God hath commanded Strengthen,
O
231
thy strength:
God, that which thou hast wrought
for
us. 29.
Because of thy temple at Jerusalem Kings shall bring presents unto thee.
30.
Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds, The multitude of the bulls, with
the calves of the
peoples,
Trampling under
foot the pieces of silver:
He 31.
32.
^^.
34.
hath scattered the peoples that delight in war. Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands unto God. Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord; [Selah To him that rideth upon the heaven of heavens, which are of old; Lo, he uttereth his voice, a mighty voice. Ascribe ye strength unto God: His excellency is over Israel,
And 35.
O
his strength
God, thou
The God
is
in the skies.
art terrible out of thy holy places:
of Israel, he giveth strength
and power untc
his people.
Blessed be God.
Psalm LXVIII. 1.
See Psalm
xviii. I.
R. 279.
See Psalm
xviii. 1.
E. 326.
P. P. The hells will be subjugated. destruction the wicked is here compared to The of 3. smoke driven away by the wind, and to wax which melts before the fire, because smoke signifies falsities, and fire
1-3.
E. 539.
evils.
4.
See Psalm
li.
10.
See Psalm
xl. 17.
See Psalm
xl. 17.
T. 252. R. 507. E. 660.
4-6, 32. Those who are in good will acknowledge the P. P. Lord, who is Divine truth itself.
PSALM
232 5.
To
ride
upon
Word
of the
Genesis
its
the
is
may
internal sense
Luke
the clouds stands for the understanding
as to
That a cloud
LXVIII.
interiors, or in its internal sense.
Word
in the letter in
See Matthew xxiv. 30:
xviii.
which
an
is
be seen in the Arcana in the preface to
Mark
xiii.
26:
A. 2761.
xxi. 27.
This also
is
said of the Lord, the clouds being the
W ord. T
literal
To
sense of the praise
and
extol
A. 6534.
God by His name Jah means by
Divine truth.
A. 8267.
They who ride in chariots and on horses signify those who understand and are in the doctrine of truth derived
W. H.
from the Word.
To
ride
Word, Word.
the
upon
the clouds signifies to be in the
wisdom
of
for a horse signifies the understanding of the
R.
The understanding
of the
Word
meant by a
is
24.
horse.
R. 298.
By the sense,
cloud of heaven
and by
glory the
is
meant
Word
the
Word in the
natural
in the spiritual sense.
T. 776.
Now who
cannot see that these things are not to be understood according to the sense of the letter, namely
Jehovah sits on a cloud, that He rides upon the and that He makes the clouds His chariot. He who thinks spiritually may know that Jehovah is present in His Divine truth, for this proceeds from Him, consequently that this is here understood by clouds. Therefore also it is said that Jehovah makes the clouds His chariot, for by a chariot is signified the doctrine of truth. that
clouds,
E. 36. Since chariots
Word and
and horses
signify
and since all docand the understanding thereof are out of
the understanding thereof,
trine of truth
heaven from the Lord, therefore that
He
doctrine from the
rides
upon
upon a cherub,
the
it is
Word, upon
also that
He
said concerning clouds,
causes to ride.
Him
upon heaven, E. 355.
PSALM LXVIH.
By him
that rideth
233
upon the heavens or upon clouds is Lord as to the illustration of the
here also understood the
Word.
Clouds stand for truths in the ultimates which and this is effected by the influx of light, Divine truth from the spiritual world or heaven.
are illustrated,
which
is
E. 594.
The
6.
fatherless stand for those
who
like little children
are in the good of innocence, but not yet in truth, whose father
is
father, life
said to be the Lord, because
and
this
or wisdom.
He
by truth into good, that
Widows stand
is
leads
for those
who
are in truth, but not yet in good, whose judge the Lord, because
He
and
them
into the
is
as a
good of
as adults said to be
by good into by a judge is signified one who leads. Good without truth, which is the fatherless, becomes the good of wisdom by the doctrine of truth, and truth without good, which is the widow, becomes the truth of intelligence by a life of good. truth, that
is
leads them,
this
into the truth of intelligence, for
A. 4844.
That orphans are those who are instructed in the truths of the faith of the church from the Word, and by them are afterwards led to good is evident also from the Lord's words in John xiv. A. 9199. T By a widow in the W ord is meant one who is without protection, for by a widow in the spiritual sense is signified one who is in good and not in truth. For by a man is signified truth, and by his wife good, hence by a widow good without truth is signified. Good without truth is without protection, for truth protects good.
By widows
R. 764.
are also signified such of both sexes as are
good and not
in truth, thus such as are without defence
against the false
and evil, whom however the Lord defends.
in
E. 1121. 6, 7. 7.
He
will
be their protection.
P. P.
bound in these places those are not meant who are bound in the world, but they who are bound by hell, R. 99. and thus by evils and falsities.
By
the
PSALM
234
Here Sinai stands
8-10.
such
LXVIII.
for truth
which
is
from good,
for
the signification of the heavens dropping at the
is
presence of God, and of
His good
Mount
will.
God making
to
drop the rain of
Sinai has these significations be-
cause the law was promulgated by the Lord from thence,
and
the law
is
Divine truth from Divine good, and is also A. 8753.
truth of faith from good.
He
8-12. 8,
will regenerate
them.
P. P.
That Mount Sinai stands
law or Divine truth proceeding from the Divine good of the Lord, thus the Word, and in the supreme sense the Lord is manifest. Earth and the heavens stand for the external and internal 18.
for the
of the church, chariots doctrine.
The Lord
9.
That
the
is
called the
Lord
God
called the
is
A. 9420. L. 39.
of Israel.
God
of Israel
is
evident.
T. 93See Psalm
A. 7091. Rain signifies the Divine truth from heaven. R. 496.
9, 36.
10.
xli.
14.
In these passages also rain does not signify rain, but man from which he has
the influx of Divine truth with spiritual
for
E. 644.
life.
Here the wild animal stands
10, 11.
it is
to dwell in
for affection for good,
God's inheritance.
See Psalm
1.
Here
by wild beasts or animals are
who
also
A. 246.
R. 567.
10, 11.
are in the affections of truth
signified those
and good,
or, in the
ab-
by the showers of benevolence which God is said" to have sent is signified the Divine truth from the Divine good. By the weary inheritance which He is said to have confirmed is signified the church which is in Divine truth as to doctrine and stract, those affections themselves, for
as to
life.
The
inheritance signifies the church, called
weary or labouring from an earnest desire to do good. By the wild beasts which have dwelt in the inheritance of the church are signified the affections of truth and good. E. 38S.
PSALM Here beast
LXVIII.
235
manifestly put for the people
is
who
receive
the influx of Divine truth from the Lord, for the heritage
God, whereby
of
signified the church,
is
is
called thy beast,
thy congregation shall dwell therein. By rain of benevolences is signified the influx of Divine truth from the
Divine clemency. See Psalm
1.
E. 650.
Coro.
10, 11.
3.
Here by wild animal, because he shall dwell in the inheritance of God no other is meant than the regenerated A. 908. man. What is living in this man is meant. 13-15. It will not be so with the rest although they have P. P. the Word.
11.
14.
The wings
of a
dove are the truths of
is
are
truth from
A. 8764.
good.
To
14, 15.
They
faith.
said to be covered with silver, because silver
lie
among
the orders
— between the ranks —
according to the statutes. The wings dove covered with silver spiritual truths. Her feathers with yellow gold spiritual good from which those Shaddai a state of temptations. truths are derived.
signifies to live in or
of
a
Kings were in
it
— truths
in that state
and
after
it.
E. 283.
Here mountains stand
16, 17.
for celestial love
and
Mountains
heaven where the good of
signify
See Psalm xxxvi. will,
the
exists
R. 336.
7.
mountain
such as
celestial
A. 10438.
love prevails.
By
hills
A. 6435.
for spiritual love.
of
Bashan
with those
is
who
signified
good
in the
are in the externals of
the church, for Bashan was a region beyond Jordan which was given as an inheritance to half the tribe of Manasseh and by Manasseh is signified see Joshua xiii. 29-32 The the voluntary good of the external or natural man. joy arising from the good of love is understood by leaping and skipping. The Lord in man dwells in the good of his will, whence are derived goods in active exercise.
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—
PSALM
236 Therefore
it is
said "this
sireth to dwell in, yea,
LXVIII.
is
the mountain which
Jehovah
will dwell in
it
God
de-
for ever."
E. 405.
is
18.
whom
Respecting the church from the Lord from
16-18.
P. P.
everything of doctrine.
By
a thousand
is
not signified a thousand, but
much
It is similar with a hundred and with ten, for lesser numbers signify the like with greater which result from multiplications by them. A. 8715. Myriads and thousands stand for innumerable.
without any definite number.
A. 2575.
The of the
Word
God
stand for those things which are and of doctrine thence derived. Ten thou-
chariots of
sand of thousands stand for the
infinite things
which are A. 3186.
therein.
Horses and chariots are the intellectuals and doctrinals A. 5321. of good and truth. By a number in the spiritual sense is meant that which has relation to quality.
A
myriad
is
predicated of truths,
and a thousand of goods, because a myriad is the greater number, and a thousand less, and truths are manifold, but goods simple.
That a
By
chariot signifies doctrine
the chariots of
God
is
evident.
R. 287. R. 437.
are here signified truths of doc-
and by angels the goods thereof, wherefore myriads are predicated of the former, and thousands of the latter. Since the Lord is called Lord from good and Sinai signifies heaven where and whence is Divine truth, therefore it is said the Lord is among them, as in Sinai in the holy place. The holy place means heaven and the church E. 336. where is Divine truth. By captivity spiritual captivity is meant, which is to 19. be seduced and so led away from truths and goods, and The same is also to be led on into falsities and evils. R. 59 1 signified by the bound. trine,
-
PSALM
LXVIII.
Treating also of the Lord. tive is signified to liberate
237
By
from
leading captivity capfalses those
who were
thereby held captive.
19-24.
He
20, 27.
See Psalm
E. 811.
snatched them out of the hand of the infernals. P. P.
20, 36. 22.
By
R. 289. A. 1096.
xxviii. 6.
See Psalm
xxviii. 6.
See Psalm
xxviii. 6.
R. 289.
meant the whole man. In the opposite sense insanity and folly are the head
is
the head.
By
cutting off
A. 10011. signified
by
R. 538. the hair of the head, shaving the beard
and inducing baldness is signified and truth, since he who is deprived
to deprive of all
of the ultimates
good
is
also
deprived of things prior, for prior things exist and subsist E. 66.
in ultimates.
By
the head in the
Word
are signified intelligence
and
wisdom, and in the opposite sense science and thence infatuated thought.
E. 577.
24.
See Psalm
25.
See Psalm xx. 10.
R. 664.
The damsels
playing the timbrels also stand for
25, 26.
affections for truth, the
tion
from damsel
term virgin being used in
distinc-
A. 3081.
to express innocence.
A virgin signifies maiden the truth
The
A. 7784.
lix. 7, 15.
the good of the celestial church, but a
of good,
which
is
the spiritual church.
expressions in these verses are all used of the truths
which are of the spiritual church. A. 6742. Praising with the timbrel stands for glorifying from the
of good,
enjoyment of affection for the good of faith, praising with the harp for the pleasantness of affection for the truth of A. 8337. R. 620.
faith.
See Psalm
xlv.
10-16.
These things are said concerning the Lord, who is here meant by my God and my King. His advent is understood by His steps in the sanctuary.
By
the singers, the
PSALM
238 2S
players on instruments
who
LXVIII.
and on timbrels are signified all and celestial kingdom. By the
are of His spiritual
singing virgins those
who
are of the Lord's spiritual king-
dom, by players those who are of His celestial kingdom, who are called virgins from the affection of truth and good. Singing, playing on instruments, and on timbrels are predicated of their gladness and joy of heart, for by pulsatory and wind instruments is described the joy of those who are of the celestial kingdom, by singing the gladness of E. 863. those who are of the spiritual kingdom. E. 326. 25-27. See Psalm xlvii. 2, 6-9. Here to bless God in the congregations, even the Lord from the fountain of Israel signifies to glorify the Lord from spiritual truths, which are truths from good. By congregations in the Word are signified the same as by people, those who are in spiritual truths, and in the abstract those truths themselves.
good, since thereby
is
By
the fountain of Israel
E. 340.
salvation.
Lord on
this account.
P. P.
2 5~3°'
Song
in praise of the
25-32.
The
subjects treated of in these passages in the
spiritual sense are the
tion of His
Human,
advent of the Lord, the
glorifica-
the subjugation of the hells,
vation as the necessary consequence of these.
and
sal-
Verses
mean the celebration of the Lord on account of His The innocence of the Lord by virtue of which advent. 25-27
He
operated and performed all things is little Benjamin with their ruler.
there
Judah and
is
signified by,
The
princes of
their council signify the glorification of the
Lord, or the complete union of the Divine and Human. By His own proper power is signified by the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali. Verses 29 and 30 mean that hence Divine power belongs to the Lord's Human. The
temple
signifies the
Divine
Human of
the Lord,
and Jeru-
salem the church for which He did this. The company of spearmen and the multitude of bulls stand for the scientifics of the natural man perverting the goods and truths
PSALM
LXVIII.
239
of the church, calves of the peoples the goods of the
church, the pieces of silver the truths of the church, the
people
who
who pervert and reason By the subjugation of
delight in war, those
against the truths of the church. the hells
is
understood the subjugation of the natural
man. 2 5j 36.
E. 439.
The sanctuary
the truth of faith
is,
here stands for the heaven where
therefore
vah, as also King, because
Jehovah where good 27.
It is
is
it is
God
said
is
God and
not Jeho-
said where truth,
and
A. 8330.
the subject.
here plain that to bless the Lord
is
to sing to
Him,
proclaim the good tidings of His salvation, to preach His wisdom and power, and thus to confess and acknowlto
edge the Lord from the heart. See Psalm xxxvi.
By a
fountain
is
A. 1422.
R. 384. understood the Word, and by fountains 9, 10.
Divine truths thence.
E. 483.
Neither Benjamin, nor the princes of Judah, of Zebulun and of Naphtali are understood, but the things
27, 28.
belonging to the church signified by those tribes.
By
Benjamin is here signified the innocence of the natural man, which innocence is the conjunction of good and little
E. 449.
truth therein.
Let the causes be investigated whence it is that strength is in ultima tes, otherwise it has not power over Ath., Page 46. the natural man where all evil is. The subject here treated of is concerning the arro31. gance of those who from scientifics are willing to enter 29, 30.
into the mysteries of faith
and not
to
acknowledge any-
thing but what they themselves hatch thence. these see nothing from the light of heaven, which
Since
from lumen of nature, which is from the proprium, they seize upon shadows instead of light, upon fallacies instead of realities, and in general upon the is
the Lord, but from the
They think insanely, because from and are called the wild beasts of the
false instead of truth.
lowest principles
PSALM
240
LXVIII.
Because they reason sharply they are called the Because they dissipate the congregation of the strong. truths as yet remaining as scattered among the goods of
3 x reed.
who are in the truths of the church, it is said that they tread under foot the fragments of silver among the calves of the people, and further that they disperse the those
people, that
the church
is
with
itself,
and destroying those
of assaulting
its
The
truths.
truths
A. 9391.
desiring wars.
A
calf
lust
meant by
is
When
stands for external or natural good.
no good of innocence and charity, as with those who are in externals without an internal, then by a calf is signified natural and sensual delight, which is the delight there
is
of pleasures, of lusts,
and
of the loves of self
and
By ing
calves are here understood the affections for
Since the natural carried
comes
know-
R. 242.
falsities.
away
man
separated from the spiritual
into falsities of every kind
hurtful, therefore
Egypt
is
and thereby
is
be-
said to be a " wild beast
E. 388.
of reeds."
By
of the
A. 10407.
world.
the wild beast of the reed
is
signified the affection
or cupidity of the false originating from scientifics of the
sensual man, which are fallacies.
E. 654.
'
end is in falses and evils thence derived, and yet all power appertains to truths from good. Falses have power against those who are in falses from evil. It is from this circumstance also that they who are
The church
at
its
in falses are called in the
Word
powerful, mighty, robust,
strong, heroes, rulers, terrible, formidable,
The
natural
The
man
will
be subdued.
and
vastators.
E. 783P. P.
is concerning the kingshould be taken of the false heed dom scientific, that is of the scientific falsely applied from the natural man separate from the spiritual is understood by
31, 32.
subject here treated of
of the Lord, that
PSALM
LXVIII.
241
rebuke the wild beast of the reed, since those seientifics being derived from the fallacies of the senses, strongly persuade
is
meant by the congregation
of the strong.
The
calves of the people stand for the goods of the church in
the natural man, the plates of silver the truths of the church, to tread upon and disperse means to destroy and
which is done by those who are natural and and who think naturally and sensually and not at the same time spiritually, thus who think from the natuThis ral and sensual man separate from the spiritual. dissipate,
sensual,
man 32.
E. 627. is understood by the wild beast of the reed. Egypt here stands for external knowledges and Cush
A. 1164.
for internal.
See Psalm
xvii. 10.
R. 782.
See Psalm
xvii. 10.
E. 11 59.
Egypt signifies the natural man as to affection for R. 503. and thence knowledge and intelligence. By the fat ones out of Egypt are signified the gentiles or nations who are in the affection of knowing truths, and by Cush those who imbibe them from the delight of the E. 654. natural man.
32, 33.
truth,
33, 34. The heavens of heavens which are of old stand for the wisdom of the Most Ancient Church, a voice for revelation as well as for
See Psalm xxix.
an
A. 219.
internal dictate.
A. 9926.
3.
W. H.
See Psalm lxviii. 5. See Psalm xxix. 3-9.
The Divine
truth
is
R. 37. here signified by the voice of E. 261.
Jehovah. 33-36. Song in praise of the Divine power of the Lord with the Father. through union acquired by Him
—
—
—
P. P.
34,
A
and
voice stands for Divine truth, thus for the
for annunciation
See Psalm
A
xxxiii. 6.
from
it.
Word,
A. 6971. A. 9408.
horse signifies the understanding of the Word. R. 208.
PSALM
242 See Psalm 35.
The
LXVTII.
E. 355.
lxviii. §.
light of a cloud signifies the
Divine truth of the
R. 24. Word, and strength the Divine power therein. T. 776. See Psalm lxviii. 5. E. 36. See Psalm lxviii. 5. In this passage the same thing is signified by clouds, as Genesis i. 7 by the waters above the firmament Psalm cxlviii. 4, and by the waters above the heavens for clouds are composed of water, and water signifies
—
— —
E. 594. Divine truth. called Lord is from the proceeding truth Divine The 36. the spirit of truth, heaven is called the habitation of E. 204. holiness, and the church is called the sanctuary.
PSALM For the Chief Musician; 1.
2.
set to
LXIX.
Shoshannim.
A Psalm
of David.
Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow
me.
am
3.
I
4.
Mine They
5.
weary with
O
crying;
my
throat
is
dried:
fail
God, thou knowest
And my 6.
my
while I wait for my God. that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: That which I took not away I have to restore. eyes
my
sins are not hid
foolishness;
from
thee.
Let not them that wait for thee be put to shame through me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts: Let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
:
.
PSALM LXIX. 7.
Because for thy sake
I
have borne reproach;
Shame hath covered my 8.
9.
243
face.
a stranger unto my brethren. And an alien unto my mother's children. For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are I
am become
upon me. wept, and chastened That was to my reproach. fallen
10.
1 1
When
I
When
I
I 12.
14.
15.
They
17.
18.
19.
that
/
am
clothing,
sit in the gate talk of me; the song of the drunkards.
for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Jehovah, in an acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness, Answer me in the truth of thy salvation. Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up; let
its mouth upon me. Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness
not the pit shut
Answer me,
O
is
good:
According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me. And hide not thy face from thy servant; For I am in distress; answer me speedily. Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: Ransom me because of mine enemies. Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: adversaries are
Mine 20.
my
But as
And 16.
sackcloth
soul with fasting,
became a byword unto them.
And 13.
made
my
all
Reproach hath broken
before thee. heart; and I
my
am
full
of
heaviness
21.
And I looked for some to take pity, but there was And for comforters, but I found none. They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
none;
PSALM LXIX.
244 22.
Let their table before them become a snare; they are in peace, let it become a trap. Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see;
And when 23.
And make 24.
their loins continually to shake.
Pour out thine indignation upon them,
And 25.
26.
let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them. Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their tents. For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast
wounded. 27.
28.
29.
Add And
iniquity unto their iniquity;
them not come into thy righteousness. Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous. But I am poor and sorrowful: Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. let
name
God
with a song,
30.
I will praise the will
31.
And And
And
despiseth not his prisoners.
32.
33.
34.
Let heaven and earth praise him,
The 35.
36.
of
magnify him with thanksgiving. it will please Jehovah better than an ox, Or a bullock that hath horns and hoofs. The meek have seen it, and are glad: Ye that seek after God, let your heart live. For Jehovah heareth the needy,
and everything that moveth therein. and build the cities of Judah; And they shall abide there, and have it in possession. seas,
For God
The
And
will save Zion,
seed also of his servants shall inherit it; they that love his name shall dwell therein.
PSALM LXIX.
245
Psalm LXIX.
The temptation-combats
1-5.
of the
Lord even
to despair,
P. P. 2.
Waters stand for falsities and also for temptations A. 9050. which are caused by injected falsities. Soul is here used to denote the life of the spirit of man,
which
is
called his spiritual
By depths
2, 3, 15, 16.
E. 750.
life.
as well as
by deeps or abysses are
by depths hells in respect of evils, and by deeps or abysses hells in respect to the falsities from A. 8279. evils." See Jeremiah xlix. 8, 30. signified hells, but
See Psalm 3, 15, 16.
xlii.
E. 538.
8.
Clay stands for
evil in
which there
is falsity.
A. 6669.
even to the thought of withdrawal.
6. 7. 7,
See Psalm xli. 14. But He endured 8.
P. P.
salvation.
See Psalm
9.
9-13.
He
P. P.
A. 7091. for the sake of those who awaited
is
xxii. 23.
shamefully treated by those with
E. 746.
whom was P. P.
the church.
Speaking of the Lord. The zeal of the house of Jehovah stands for His love toward those who receive good A. 8875. and truth, for they are the house of Jehovah. Zeal in the Word when the Lord is spoken of signifies R. 216. Here love is meant. love and wrath. R. 49 2 See Psalm xxx. 12. 11. 12. 10.
-
See Psalm xxx. 12.
E. 637.
They that dwell in the gate here stand for evils and A. 2851. and also for the infernals. In Matthew xvi. 18 the gates of hell not prevailing means that the hells durst not go forth and destroy the
13.
falsities
truths of faith.
opening into
hell.
Gates in the opposite sense stand for an A. 10483.
PSALM LXIX.
246 14.
of
The
time, acceptable time, or time of the
Jehovah
Time
signifies
signifies the existing state
but perpetually existing
His love because of this verse
is
a principle of
good pleasure
acceptance from a principle of love.
when
when predicated
By
this is perpetual.
the latter clause
and help springing from love by the Divine providence, which is signified hearing
Divine truth. 14-21.
men,
of
predicated of Jehovah, thus
E. 295.
Prayer to the Father for help
lest these prevail.
P. P.
That
and whence are falsities is manifest. Let not the pit shut her mouth upon me means, let not the hell whence are falsities, or the falsities from hell wholly possess me, so that I may not escape. The mire stands for the evil of what is false, Let me be delivered from to sink to perish thereby. them that hate me and out of deep w aters signifies to be liberated from the evils and falsities which are from the hells, haters mean evils thence derived, and deep waters falsities thence derived. The. deep means the hell E. 537. where are the falsities of evil. A. 4728. 16. See Psalm xxx. 4. E. 412. 18. See Psalm xiii. 2. That God is said to be nigh at hand to those who desist from evils, and afar off from those who are in evils is 15. 16.
the pit here signifies the hells where
r
A. 9378.
evident.
These passages prove that Jehovah and the Lord are one. R. 281. See Psalm xix. 15. R. 613. R. 939. See Psalm xxvii. 8, 9. E. 328. See Psalm xliv. 27. To draw nigh to the soul signifies the Lord's conjoining it to himself, to redeem it signifies to vindicate it from E. 328.
evils.
D.
Verse quoted. 22.
Since the Jewish church falsified
all
P.,
Page
87.
the truths of the
PSALM LXIX.
Word
.
and
.
.
represented
it
the
Lord
in all the things of
by permitting the Jews
they did the Word, because they give
247
He was
Him vinegar mixed with gall, it He would not drink
which
it
owing
to
its
Him
as
Word, therefore which is like worm-
the
wood, but tasting
signifies infernal falsity
His passion
to treat
Wormwood
it.
strong bitterness, by
renders food and drink abominable.
R. 410.
When He desired the good and truth of the church, they gave Him falsity and evil as upon the cross gall and vinegar.
P. P.
Table
22, 23.
in the opposite sense signifies a receptacle
of such things as are in hell. A. 9527. 22-24. These things being said concerning the Lord, by gall is signified truth mixed with the falsity which is opposite to truth, which is the falsity of evil. The falsities which obtained among the upright gentiles were of another kind and are signified by vinegar. By the Lord's saying, "I thirst" was signified Divine spiritual thirst, which is of Divine truth and good in the church, by which mankind may be saved. By their table becoming a snare before them is signified the going astray of error in regard to every truth of doctrine from the Word. The
table stands for all spiritual food,
and
everything of doctrine from the Word.
darkened that they could not see
undershake con-
signifies their
standing as to truth, their loins being tinually signifies the will of
spiritual food is Their eyes being
made
to
good and the marriage union
thereof with the understanding of truth.
The
E. 519.
consummation of the Israelitish and Jewish church was accomplished when our Lord,
22, 26.
last of the
the Saviour, after receiving the sponge of vinegar cried
out upon the cross, "It
23-29. 24.
The
this
thighs
is
finished."
reason they are being destroyed.
and
Coro. 59. P. P.
the loins signify marriage love in the
place, and thence all genuine They are said to be pierced, or
first
27.
For
love.
A. 3021.
thrust through, because
PSALM LXIX.
24§
the sword by which this
done
is
signifies the false destroy-
Coro. 59. in a
ing truth.
Because remembrance
28, 29.
signified
is
by writing
book, therefore the faithful are said to be written in the
book
life, for by Divine remembrance is signified saland by non-remembrance, or forgetting, is signi-
of
vation, fied
29.
damnation.
They
A. 8620.
that are in faith are said to be in the
book
of
A. 290.
lives.
The Word
is
by the book, from which and
here. meant
according to which
all
are to be judged.
Therefore, to
be written in the book, to be judged from the book, to be blotted out of the book, frequently occur where the state R. 256. of the eternal life of any one is treated of.
The reason why heaven man who is in
by the book of life Lord is a heaven in- its least form, and this heaven corresponds to heaven in the greatest form, wherefore he who has heaven in himself also comes into heaven, for he is qualified for it. is
signified
is
because a
love
and
faith to the
E. 199.
To
write in the
into
life.
that
He
which
is
Word
and implant
Therefore
it is
said of Jehovah, or the Lord,
and
that
He
writes,
understood what
man, that is same in his love and See Psalm xl. 30, 31. spirit of
30-32.
signifies to inscribe
When He
is
has written in a book, by
inscribed by the
in his heart
and
Lord on the what is the
soul, or
faith. 3, 4.
E. 222.
A. 8261.
delivered the gospel will be preached.
is
P. P.
31.
See Psalm
xlii.
5.
A. 420.
Genuine confrom the heart, can only be from good. The confession which is from truth is called the voice of joy, the voice of them that make merry, and that sing Confession involves the celestial of love.
fession,
which
is
A. 3880.
praises.
See Psalm
vii.
18.
E. 326.
PSALM LXIX.
249
32.
See Psalm xxix.
33> 34-
See Psalm
ix. 19.
R. 209.
See Psalm
ix. 19.
E. 238.
A. 9391.
6.
because then those who are of the church will be saved, and will worship Him. P. P. 34. The prisoners stand for those who are in va stations
33-3 7-
and in temptations. A. 5037. Here the vastated man is described who is to be regenerated and will worship the Lord. A. 28. The seas and the things which move therein cannot
35.
praise Jehovah, but the things in
by them and are
man
that are signified
from what
living, thus
is
living within
them. 35, 36.
According
to the style of the
things, as well those of the
Word
A. 994. created
all
animal kingdom as those of
the vegetable kingdom, signify the Various things in in general those
which are of
his will or affection,
those which are of his understanding or thought. signify these
And
as the
man, and
They
things because they correspond to them.
Word
is
written entirely by correspondences,
similar things are therefore said in
heaven, and of the
men
it
of the angels of
R. 290. In these passages by everything that moveth are understood the sensual, by Zion which God shall save, and by the cities of Judah which He shall build, is understood the celestial church and its doctrine, by Zion that church, and by cities the doctrine thereof. E. 342. 36, 37. To possess by inheritance is predicated of those
who
of the church.
are in celestial love,
and
to inherit of those
Dwelling and at the same time possessing
is
possess hereditarily
in celestial good,
are
predicated
of celestial good, but dwelling of spiritual good.
To
who
A. 2658.
in spiritual love.
and
itual good, celestial
is
predicated of those
to inherit of those
good
is
who
A. 2712.
who
are
are in spir-
the good of love to the Lord,
and spiritual good the good of charity toward the neighbor. A. 9338.
PSALM LXX.
250
By Judah truths
are understood
all
they
who
are in good by
from the Word.
E. 119.
PSALM LXX. For the Chief Musician.
A
Psalm
of David; to bring to
remem-
brance. i.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Make Make
O
haste,
God,
to deliver
haste to help me,
O
me;
Jehovah.
Let them be put to shame and confounded That seek after my soul: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt. Let them be turned back by reason of their shame That say, Aha, aha. Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee;
And
let
Let
God
But
I
such as love thy salvation say continually, be magnified. am poor and needy; haste unto me, O God:
Make Thou art my
O
Jehovah,
help
and
make no
my
deliverer;
tarrying.
Psalm LXX. 1-4, 6.
Prayer to the Father for help against the
hells,
P. P. 5.
6.
that those
who worship Him may have
salvation. P. P.
See Psalm
xl.
17.
R. 507.
See Psalm
xl.
17.
E. 660.
These words were spoken by David who was not poor and needy in a literal sense, from which consideration it is evident that spiritual poverty and need are understood. A. 9209.
See Psalm
ix.
19.
See Psalm xxxvii. 14.
R. 209. E. 238.
PSALM LXXI.
251
PSALM LXXI. 1.
2.
3.
In thee, O Jehovah, do I take refuge: Let me never be put to shame. Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me: Bow down thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: hast given commandment to save me;
Thou 4.
5.
6.
For thou art my rock and my fortress. Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: Thou art my trust from my youth. By thee have I been holden up from the womb; Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: My praise shall be continually of thee. I am as a wonder unto many; But thou art my strong refuge.
My
mouth
shall be filled with thy praise, with thy honor all the day. Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength faileth. For mine enemies speak concerning me; And they that watch for my soul take counsel together, Saying, God hath forsaken him; Pursue and take him; for there is none to deliver. O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me. Let them be put to shame and consumed that are ad-
And
10.
11.
12.
13.
versaries to
my
soul;
Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek 14.
But
And 15.
My And For
my
I will
hurt.
hope continually,
will praise thee yet
mouth
more and more.
shall tell of thy righteousness,
of thy salvation all the day; I
know
not the numbers thereof.
PSALM LXXI.
252 1 6.
I will
I will
come with the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah: make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine
only. 17.
God, thou hast taught me from my youth; hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God,
O
And 18.
forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation,
19.
20.
Thy might to every one that is to come. Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high; Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto thee ? Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, wilt bring us up again from the depths of the
And
earth. 21.
22.
Increase thou my greatness, And turn again and comfort me. I will also praise thee with the psaltery,
Even thy truth, O my God: Unto thee will I sing praises with O thou Holy One of Israel. 23.
My
shout for joy
lips shall
when
the harp, I sing praises
unto
thee;
And my 24.
My
soul, which thou hast redeemed. tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness
day long; For they are put that seek
my
to
all
the
shame, for they are confounded,
hurt.
Psalm LXXI. Confidence that the Father will assist Him.
1-4, y, 12, 14.
P. P. 2.
5.
See Psalm
Whilst
xvii. 6.
man
is
in the
womb
he
is
A. 3869. in innocence, whence
a state of innocence, and the Lord never dwells with man except in his innocence,
his first state after birth
is
PSALM LXXI. wherefore
He
253
then especially dwells with him
in innocence, in like
manner man
is
when he
peace. 5,
ject
Wis.
In the
16. is
Word
is
Old Testament when
iii.
the sub-
the celestial things of love or good,
hovah, but when it
of the
is
then in a state of
it is
it is said Jethe spiritual things of faith or truth,
When
said God.
both together are treated of
it is
The name Lord Jehovih is used Jehovah God. when the aid of omnipotence is more especially sought
said
and implored,
as in Isaiah
xl.
9-1 1.
A. 2921.
which openeth the womb is that which is born immediately of that which is regenerFor he who is conceived ated, thus what is from charity. anew comes as it were again into the womb, and he who is born anew goes forth as it were again from the womb, but that what is conceived in the womb and born from the womb is not man as man, but the faith of charity, for this makes the spiritual of man, thus as it were the man A. 8043. himself anew, for then his life is thence derived. T. 583. See Psalm xxii. 10. These things are indeed said conJeremiah i. 5 cerning the prophet Jeremiah, but still by prophet in the spiritual sense is understood one that teaches truth, and in the abstract sense the doctrine of truth, hence by forming him in the womb, and knowing him before he came forth from the womb is signified foresight that he could be in truth from good by regeneration, thus that he could E. 710. receive and teach the Word. So in David. P. P. He was the Father's from birth. 6, 7. 6.
The
signification of that
—
8,
15-19, 22-24.
And
—
the
name
of
God
will
be preached. P. P.
9-1 1. Let not the hells say that God. Thus they withdraw. 13.
has been forsaken by
That the subjugation of the the heavens by the Lord, and the
15, 16, 18, 19, 24.
ordination of
He
P. P.
P. P. hells, the glorifica'
PSALM LXXI.
2 54
tion of His
man who
Human, and
the salvation thence derived to
Lord
receives the
in love
and merit which belong manifest from these passages. 20. See Psalm xlii. 8. See Psalm xlii. 8. justice
20, 24.
When He
See Psalm
and faith, are the Lord alone may be A. 9715.
A. 8278. E. 538.
has gained the victory.
The Holy One
22.
to the
of Israel
lxix.
is
P. P.
the Lord.
A. 3305.
31, add: Singing with the
harp and
other stringed instruments signifies spiritual things.
A. 3880.
Inasmuch as the Lord alone is holy He is called the Holy One of Israel. A. 9229. That the Lord is He from whom is every thing holy, and that He is the very holy of holies itself is manifest. See Daniel ix. 24. Therefore also the Lord is called the Holy One of Israel. A. 9680. See Psalm xxxiii. 2, 3. R. 276. Since by the psaltery
good of of good,
truth,
is
signified spiritual good, or the
and by the harp
and confession
is
spiritual truth, or the truth
made from each
therefore
it is
E. 323.
said (see verse 22).
A. 420. See Psalm xxxiii. 1-4. Here the redemption of the soul means liberation from falsities, for by soul in the Word is signified the life of faith, and by heart the life of love, wherefore to redeem the soul signifies to liberate from falsities, and to give the
22. 23.
life
23.
E. 328.
of faith.
See Psalm
lv.
R. 281.
18, 19.
See Psalm xix. 15. I sing to thee,
and
R. 613.
my
soul which thou hast redeemed.
D. 24.
By tongue
in the spiritual sense
is
and of any religion. Tongues signify confessions from ing to the dogmas of religion.
P.,
Page
87.
signified the doctrine
R. 282.
of the church,
religion,
and accordE. 455.
:
PSALM LXXII.
PSALM A
Psalm
255
LXXII.
of Solomon.
O
God.
i.
Give the king thy judgments,
2.
And thy righteousness unto the king's son. He will judge thy people with righteousness, And thy poor with justice.
3.
4.
The mountains shall bring peace to the And the hills, in righteousness. He will judge the poor of the people, He will save the children of the needy, And will break in pieces the oppressor. They
shall fear thee while the
people,
sun endureth,
And so long as the moon, throughout all generations. He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers In
10.
his
that water the earth. days shall the righteous flourish,
And abundance of peace, till the moon be no more. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, And from the River unto the ends of the earth. They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; And his enemies shall lick the dust. The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render tribute
The 11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. all kings shall fall down before him; All nations shall serve him. For he will deliver the needy when he crieth, And the poor, that hath no helper. He will have pity on the poor and needy,
Yea,
And the souls of the needy he will save. He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence; And precious will their blood be in his sight: And they shall live; and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba:
And men shall pray for him continually; They shall bless him all the day long. 16.
There
shall be
abundance
the top of the mountains;
of grain in the earth
upon
PSALM LXXII.
256
The And
fruit thereof shall
shake
like
Lebanon:
they of the city shall flourish like grass of the
earth. 17.
18.
19.
Kis name shall endure for ever; His name shall be continued as long as the sun: And men shall be blessed in him; All nations shall call him happy. Blessed be Jehovah God, the God of Israel, Who only doeth wondrous things: And blessed be his glorious name for ever; And let the whole earth be filled with his glory.
Amen, and Amen. Psalm LXXII.
Of
1-17.
the
judgment and
after
it
— the kingdom of the
D. P., Page Lord. 1- 1 9. Passages concerning the coming of the Lord.
72.
Coro. 60. 1. 2, 4,
J > 3> 5>
The kingdom of By the sun is 7-
the Lord.
P. P.
signified love,
by the moon
faith,
by the mountains and the hills the Most Ancient Church, by a generation of generations the churches after the flood. It is said "till the moon be no more" because faith will be love.
See also what
is
said in Isaiah xxx. 26.
A- 3372.
2-4.
See Psalm xxxvi.
7.
S. 85.
See Psalm xxxvi.
7.
See Psalm xxxvi.
7.
R. 668. T. 51.
The
itual
need}' in this passage are they
need and thereby in hunger, that
instructed in truth. 3.
is
who
are in spir-
in a desire to be
A. 9209.
Mountains stand here for love to the Lord, hills for love toward the neighbour, such as was with the Most Ancient Church, which because of this character is also A. 795. signified by mountains and hills in the Word. Here mountains stand for celestial love and hills for spiritual love.
A. 6435.
PSALM LXXII. Mountains
b/
where the good of
signify heaven,
celestial
A. 10438.
love prevails.
The happy
3, 6, 7, 15, 16.
state of those
who
are of His P. P.
kingdom. See Psalm
3, 7.
The
iv.
R. 306.
7-9.
which
tains
and by
the
love toward the neighbour. is
By
shall bring peace to the people
love to the Lord,
peace
Lord moun-
subjects here treated of are the advent of the
the establishment of His kingdom.
and
the is
signified
by righteousness is evident that by
little hills
Hence
it
understood heavenly joy originating in conjunc-
By
tion with the
Lord by
flourish in his
days are signified those
love.
the righteous
who
who
shall
are in the good
it is also said an abundance of peace, for from no other source than from the Lord, and from His conjunction with those who are in the good of love. As long as the moon endureth means that truth will not be separated from good, but that they will be conE. 365. joined to become a one. R. 209. See Psalm ix. 19. 4, 12, 13. E. 238. See Psalm ix. 19. A. 9789. See Psalm xxxiii. 11. 5, Worship of Him from love and faith from eternity, and
of love, hence
peace
is
P. P.
thereafter. 5,
This also is concerning the Lord. The Lord R. 53. appears as a sun in heaven before the angels. These things also relate to the Lord, for this Psalm The Lord appears in heaven to treats concerning Him. 7,
17.
who are in His celestial kingdom as a sun, and to who are in His spiritual kingdom as a moon. They
those
those
who
are principled in love to the Lord shall continue in from that good. Since truths with those who are
truths
in the celestial
kingdom, or who are in love
are implanted in them, they are called just the good of love,
and peace
is
Lord and are in
to the
predicated of that good.
E. 401.
PSALM LXXII.
258
Rain signifies the Divine truth from heaven. R. 496. Rain in these passages does not signify rain, but the influx of Divine truth with man, from which he has spir-
6, 7.
E. 644.
itual life.
The mediate enlightenment
7.
men through
of
the angelic
heaven, which existed before the coming of the Lord,
be compared to the light of the moon which is the mediate light of the sun. Because this light after His coming was made immediate it is said in Isaiah that the light
may
moon
of the
Psalm, verse 7, 8.
By "in
shall be like the light of the sun,
This
7.
that
is
also
and
spoken of the Lord.
day" and "in
that time"
is
in this
W.
233.
meant the
L. 4. coming of the Lord. There are many places in which the Lord's coming and a new church from Him at that time are meant by " that
R. 704.
day." 7, 10.
That heavenly things
of faith are here signified
may
be seen from the particulars that precede and that follow.
queen of Sheba, A. 117. Kings x. 1-3. These things are said concerning the Lord, and concern8. ing His dominion over heaven and earth, from sea to sea the extension of things natural, from the river even to the ends of the earth the extension of things rational and Similar things were signified by the 1
E. 569.
spiritual.
8j
These things are said concerning the Lord. By verse 8 is understood His dominion over all things of heaven and the church, for in the spiritual world the 9.
boundaries are seas, and the intermediates are earths,
where there are habitations
From
things of heaven
and
of the
church as
sea to sea all things of heaven
goods.
and
for angels
for spirits.
the river unto the ends of the earth signifies all
By enemies
and
are signified
that they shall lick the dust, that
to truths.
evils, of is
By from
of the church as to
shall
whom
it is
said
be accursed. E. 406.
PSALM LXXII. The
8-12.
greatness
and extension
259
of His dominion. P. P.
D. P., Page 59. and enemies stand for those that only regard earthly and worldly things. Dust signifies those that did not regard spiritual and celestial things, but those of the body and the earth. A. 249. 10. These words relate to the Lord, and by bringing pres8. 11, 17.
Verses quoted.
Strangers
9.
understood to worship.
By
the kings of Tarshish
ents
is
and
of the isles are understood the interior
truths of the natural
man, by the kings the
the islands the exterior truths thereof.
and
exterior
interior
The
and by
kings of
Sheba and Seba, Sheba the interior goods of the natural man, Seba the exterior goods thereof. By the truths of the natural man are meant the knowledges of truths and by his goods the knowledges of goods. E. 406. External
gifts signified internal
or spiritual
gifts,
as proceed from the heart.
such
E. 661.
11. This is said concerning the Lord, His kingdom and the celestial church. Any one may see that by tribute and gifts worships are signified. By Tarshish and the isles are meant external worship corresponding with internal. By Sheba and Seba internal worships are meant, Sheba celestial and Seba spiritual. A. 11 71. These things were said of the Lord. By bringing a present and a gift is signified the good- of love and of faith. Tarshish signifies the doctrinals of love and of faith, Sheba and Seba the knowledges of good and truth.
10,
11.
By
nations
nations of love,
and kings
A. 9293. similar things are signified as by
and peoples. Nations those who are in the good and peoples those who are in the truth of wisdom. R. 921.
11, 13, 15.
By
Here
the kings
nations
who
in truths
Lord is treated of. down before Him, and by the
also the advent of the
who
shall fall
shall serve
from good.
Him
By
are understood
the poor
all
whom He
who
are
shall pre-
PSALM LXXII.
260
serve are understood those
who
are not in the knowledges
13, 14.
and good, but yet desire them. Protection and redemption. See Psalm lxix. 2.
13-16.
The blood
E. 242.
of truth
12-14.
P. P.
precious in the eyes of
E. 750. stands for
God
the Divine truth with them, the gold of Sheba
is
The The
foregoing statement repeated in subject treated of in these passages
state of those
who
who
desire truths
these
is
the blessed
are of the Lord's kingdom,
are here called the needy, by
from
whom
wisdom R. 379. T. 706.
therefrom.
and who
are signified those
spiritual affection.
Concerning
here said that the Lord shall redeem their soul
it is
from deceit and violence, by which is signified their liberation from evils and falsities which destroy the goods of love
and
the truths of faith.
Divine truth signified
by
is
its
That
their reception of
acceptable and grateful to the Lord is being said, and precious shall their blood
blood denoting the Divine truth received. reformation of the characters here spoken of is deE. 329. cribed by the words in Verse 15. be in His
sight,
The
Gold
13, 15. like
signifies the
love,
because the metals
That blood
is
R. 9 T 3the holy proceeding from the Lord's
Human
is
plain here, precious blood standing for
correspond. 14.
good of
everything else that appears in the natural world
Divine
.
the holy which they
See Psalm
v. 7.
See Psalm
lv. 24.
14, 15.
By
would
receive.
the needy here are signified those
A. 4735.
R. 624. E. 866.
who
desire
Concerning them it is said that He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence, by which is signified liberation from evils and faltruth from a spiritual affection.
which destroy the goods of love and the truths of The reception of Divine truth by them is described by, precious shall their blood be in His sight.
sities
faith.
PSALM LXXII.
26l
Gold of Sheba Prayer continually describes that they shall continually be detained from falsities and preserved in truths, for this is the Divine benediction, and E. 328. this is to pray continually for him. Their reformation
is
the
good
is
described in verse 15.
of charity.
Nothing is more common in the Word than for the good of wisdom or of love to be signified and represented A. 113. by gold. By Sheba those things are meant which abounded in
15.
the land of spices
Cush or Ethiopia
which
which are
gold, precious stones,
signify good, truth,
and
and
things therefrom
A. 117.
grateful.
good is the good of love to the Lord, and spirAll itual good the good of love towards the neighbour. Gold from those goods in the Word are called gold. A. 9881, Sheba is the good of knowledges. A. 1420, See Psalm xxi. 7. 17. They have acknowledged the Divine Human from P. P. eternity, in which is all of salvation. A. 7091 18. See Psalm xli. 14. A. 1096 See Psalm xxviii. 6. 18, 19. A. 1422 See Psalm lxviii. 27. Celestial
That
the
Lord
See Psalm
A
is
called the
God
of Israel
is
manifest.
L- 39 R. 289
xxviii. 6.
song of praise to Him.
Verses quoted. 19.
is
Amen
stands for verity and truth.
P.
D. Holy
P.,
P
Page 59
W ord T
in the
predicated of Divine truth, and to be sanctified of those
who
receive
it.
E. 228.
PSALM
262
LXXIII.
PSALM LXXm. A 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
Surely
13.
14.
is
good
of Asaph.
to Israel,
Even to such as are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For there are no pangs in But their strength is firm.
their death;
They
are not in trouble as other men; Neither are they plagued like other men. Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment. Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish. They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily. They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth. Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a full cup are drained by them. And they say, How doth God know?
And 12.
God
Psalm
is
there
knowledge
in the
Most High ?
Behold, these are the wicked; And, being alway at ease, they increase in riches. Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency; For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning.
had
said, I will
speak thus;
15.
If I
16.
Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children. When I thought how I might know this,
was too painful for me; Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end. It
17.
PSALM 18.
LXXIII.
263
Surely thou settest them in slippery places: castest thern down to destruction. How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image. For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart; So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee: Nevertheless I am continually with thee: Thou hast holden my right hand. Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel,
Thou
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
And 25.
And 26.
afterward receive
me
to glory.
Whom
My
have I in heaven but thee? there is none upon earth that I desire besides
flesh
But God
and is
thee.
my
heart faileth; the strength of my heart
and
my portion for
ever. 27.
they that are far from thee shall perish: hast destroyed all them that play the harlot, departing from thee.
For,
lo,
Thou 28.
it is good for me to draw near unto God: have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge,
But I
That
I
may
tell
of all thy works.
Psalm LXXIII. 1-9.
A matter of wonder to some,
selves
10-14.
and prosper. Whereby the good are
that the evil vaunt them'
good is of no use, neither affliction. Here an age signifies the world and the
12.
P. P.
led astray, imagining that P. P. life
therein.
A. 10248. 13.
See Psalm xxvi.
To
6.
A. 9262.
render the heart pure is to be purified interiorly, and to wash the hands in innocence is exteriorly. A. 10296.
PSALM
264
LXXIII.
in innocency means to testify and pure from evils and falsities, for the washing of the hands was also a proof of innocence, as may further appear from what is recorded of Pilate in E. 475. Matthew xxvii. 24. 15-20, 27. But afterward it is granted them to know that the evil are nevertheless devastated and consumed. P. P. 17-19. Vastation, desolation, and consummation of the Israelitish and Jewish church are here still further menT
Here
3
to
wash
his
hands
himself to be innocent
Coro. 59.
tioned.
them in slippery places, they become a waste in a moment, they are at D. P., Page 32. an end. All spiritual things may be exhibited by images in the 20. spiritual world, also by idols, and all the particulars of I discern their latter end, thou setteth
doctrine 21. 22.
The
may
be thereby portrayed.
See Psalm
vii.
infestation of
E. 827.
R. 140.
10.
good by
evil,
and
truth by falsity
described by these words.
They do not know 22.
is
E. 167. P. P.
this.
Beasts signify affections in man,
evil
with the
evil,
good
A. 46.
with good.
A. 9140. See Psalm xlix. 11. 22-24. By the right hand when predicated of man is sigTo lead with counsel nified wisdom from Divine truth. is to lead by Divine truth, to receive to glory is to bless with intelligence, for glory
when
predicated of the Lord
Divine truth and Divine wisdom, but when predicated of man it signifies intelligence thence derived. signifies
E. 298.
23-26. But the good are always upheld and Lord.
live
with the P. P.
;
.
PSALM LXXIV.
265
PSALM LXXIV. Maschil of Asaph.
God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy
i.
Why
pasture 2.
?
Remember
thy congregation, which thou hast gotten
of old,
Which thou
hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine in-
heritance;
And mount 3.
up thy
Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
unto the perpetual ruins, enemy hath done in the sanctuary. Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly They have set up their ensigns for signs. Lift
feet
All the evil that the
4.
5.
6.
7.
They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees. And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers. They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name by casting
8.
They
it
to the
ground.
said in their heart, Let us
make havoc
of
them
altogether:
They have burned up
all
the synagogues of
God
in the
land. 9.
We
see not our signs:
no more any prophet; there among us any that knoweth how long. How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand ? Pluck it out of thy bosom and consume them. Yet God is my King of old,
There
is
Neither
10.
1 1
12.
is
Working 13.
Thou Thou
salvation in the midst of the earth.
by thy strength: brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the
didst divide the sea
waters.
PSALM LXXIV.
266 14.
Thou Thou
brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting
the wilderness. 15.
16.
17.
18.
Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers. The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter. Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached,
O
Jehovah,
And
that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
19.
Oh
20.
Forget not the life of thy poor for ever. Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habita-
21.
Oh
deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild
beast:
tions of violence.
22.
let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name. Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee
all
the day. 23.
Forget not the voice of thine adversaries:
The tumult
of those that rise
up against thee ascendeth
continually.
Psalm LXXIV. 1-9.
The church with
utterly
destroyed,
all
and
things appertaining to its
saying in their heart that religion 2.
The mountain
is
it
not anything.
is
signified the
and
E. 405.
church which
derived from good, therefore Israel in the
is
Word
in truths is
called
E. 431.
the tribes of Jehovah's inheritance.
Thou
P. P.
of Zion signified the Divine good,
the church as to that good.
Since by Israel
has been they
profaned,
holy things
hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance.
D.
P.,
Page
87.
PSALM LXXIV. Prayer to the Lord to bring help.
2, 10, 11.
The
3.
267
desolation,
vastation,
and Jewish church are
Israelitish
P. P.
and consummation still
of the
further mentioned.
Coro. 59.
The enemy
3, 4.
here mentioned signifies evil from
and
the sanctuary the church, it is
evident what these words
signifies grievous
mean
signs.
The enemy has means
in a series.
Roaring
lamentation from grief of heart. E. 601.
Testifications that a thing
3, 4, 9.
hell,
the feast worship, hence
destroyed
all
true are signified
is
by
R. 598. things in the sanctuary
that evil has destroyed the holy things of the
The enemies have
church.
roared in the midst of thy
have destroyed
all things of worhave set signs for signs signifies that they have We see not our testified and persuaded by every means. signs signifies that no testifications of truth were received in the church, there is no more a prophet signifies no doc-
feast signifies that falses ship, they
E. 706.
trine of truth. 5, 6, 7.
one's
By own
the axe in these places
is
intelligence, the reason
signified falsity is
from
because by iron
is
which is called sensual truth, separated from rational and spiritual
signified truth in ultimates,
which when truth
is
it
The Divine
7.
of
the
and
That
is
called
habitations.
xliii.
3.
lusts arising
from is
evil loves
signified
Human Hence A. 9594. E. 799.
called a habitation.
truths of the church
fire into
R. 847.
falsity.
things proceeding from the Divine
Lord are properly
heaven itself See Psalm 7-9.
is
turned into
destroyed the goods
by the enemies casting
and defiling the dwelling place of That they altogether destroyed pertaining to Divine worship is signified by
the sanctuary,
the
name
all
things
of Jehovah.
their
burning
That
there
all
the synagogues of
God
in the earth.
was no longer any doctrine of truth or underE. 504. standing of truth is signified by verse 9.
PSALM LXXIV.
268 12.
See Psalm
Working
R. 44. R. 664.
v. to.
See Psalm xx.
10.
means
salvation in the midst of the earth
in
E. 313. P. P.
all parts.
He has overthrown the hells. water serpent which is here signified, for in the original serpent is expressed by the same term as whale, which is the largest fish of the sea. A whale sigAs whales signify knowlnifies knowledges in general. edges perverting the truths of faith, by them are also
12-15. 13.
Before this
It is a
signified reasonings
from
whence come
fallacies,
fallacies.
A. 7293. Jeremiah xiv. 6 the same
In Isaiah xliii. 20 and used for dragons as for serpents in general, and whales in the sea are also meant by the same word, by which also the same is signified, namely, the natural principle of man in common, which is the sensual. E. 714.
13, 14.
word
is
13-15. The subject here treated of in the internal sense is concerning sciences destroying the truths of faith, the
whales whose head shall be broken are scientifics in general, so also Leviathan. The people of Ziim are they
who
are in falses, or falses themselves.
dent that the sea
is
and destroy truths. Here also by fountains and sities of
Hence
the scientific misapplied to
evi-
weaken A. 9755.
-
-
it is
rivers are signified the fal-
doctrine which are from self-derived intelligence,
what is and by leviathan are signified the scientifics belonging to the sensual and natural man, from which all that is false is derived, when the mighty rivers are confirmed principles of
false thence derived.
the spiritual
man
is
By
the dragons
shut over them.
habiting the wilderness, to
whom
given for meat, signify those
who
See Psalm lxxiv. 13. Diabolical love is the love of
is
people insaid to be
are immersed in infernal E. 483.
falsities.
14.
The
leviathan
self.
A. 7293. This love causes its
PSALM LXXIV. lust to
appear in the distance in
269
hell
where
it
reigns like
some like foxes and leopards, some like wolves and tigers, and some like crocodiles and venomous serpents. The ochim, tziim, and ijim, which are mentioned in the prophetical portions of the Word, various species of wild beasts,
where the love of ruling from the love of are nothing
self is
else.
The whale signifies the
also
which
is
man
natural
spoken of T. 45.
understood by the leviathan E. 455.
as to scientifics.
To
dry up mighty rivers means to dissipate the more powerful falsities. A. 8185.
14,
15.
See Psalm 16.
By
E. 518.
xviii. 5.
light in general
Divine truth
is
signified,
which
is
from the Word. By the light of the sun spiritual Divine truth, and by the light of the moon and stars natThe Divine ural Divine truth, both from the Word. truth
truth in the spiritual sense of the
the sun in the day,
and
like the light of the
moon and
Word
is
like the light of
in the natural sense of the
Word
R. 414.
stars in the night.
By light from the sun, which is called the light of the day and also day, spiritual light is understood, such as the angels enjoy who see the Lord as a sun, and by light from the moon and stars, which is called the light of the night and also night, is understood natural light, such as the angels enjoy who behold the Lord as a moon. E. 527. 16, 17.
Alternations with those
are likened to cold
those
who
and
who
are to be regenerated
heat, but the alternations with
are regenerated to
summer and
alternations are given with the regenerate
winter.
man
Such
not only
when he comes into summer and and as of day and night as
while he lives in the body, but also the other
life,
for without alternations as of
winter as to what
is
of his will,
what is of his understanding, he cannot be perfected and rendered happier. But these alternations in the other life are like those of summer and winter in the temperate zones, and as the changes of day and night in to
springtime.
A. 935.
PSALM LXXIV.
270 1 7
Time
signifies those things which appertain to time as summer, autumn, and winter, by which are signified states of a person about to be regenerated, and of a Similar things are also signified by regenerate person. the times of the day, morning, noon, evening, and night.
spring,
E. 610.
And
before this, being protected,
He
has established a P. P.
church.
See Psalm
18, 19.
By and
the
evil
R. 567.
10, 11.
1.
enemy who reproachest Jehovah
is
signified hell
thence derived, by the foolish people
who
despise
His name falses which are opposed to the truth of doctrine. People stand for those who are in truth, and in the oppo-
who are in falses, who are The name Jehovah means all truths
sense those
site
people.
the foolish of doctrine
and of the church. Verse 19 signifies not to give spiritual good to those who are in the lusts of evil. The life of thine afflicted means the spiritual life oppressed by evils E. 650. and falses.
The
states of the
church are described by beasts. Coro.
18-21.
P. P.
perish not, 19.
Wild animals stand
for those
the soul of the turtle-dove for the
who life
Wild animal in the opposite sense for what is not living.
are of no charity,
of faith.
is
A. 870.
taken in the
The turtle-dove signifies spiritual good, thus who are in that good. The wild beast signifies
21.
are in that
also those
the falsity
See Psalm
ix.
19.
ix.
19.
22, 23.
through the uprising of
meant
E. 388.
falsity.
See Psalm
Word
A. 908.
of evil desiring to destroy, consequently those are
who
3.
Let there therefore be compassion, that the church
R. 209. E. 238. evil.
P. P.
PSALM LXXV.
271
PSALM LXXV. For the Chief Musician;
set to
A
Al-tashheth.
Psalm
of Asaph, a
Song. 1.
We We
give thanks unto thee,
give thanks, for thy
O
God;
name
is
near:
Men tell of thy wondrous works. When I shall find the set time, I will
The I
judge uprightly.
earth
have
set
and all up the
the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: pillars of
[Selah
it.
unto the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly; And to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not with a stiff neck. For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, cometh lifting up. I said
But God
is
He
putteth For in the
the judge:
down
one,
hand
of
and
lifteth
up another.
Jehovah there
is
a cup, and the
wine foameth;
and he poureth out of the same: Surely the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and drink them. But I will declare for ever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; But the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
It is full of mixture,
9.
10.
Psalm LXXV. 1.
1-4.
See Psalm
xviii.
1.
See Psalm
xviii.
1.
When
the
R. 279. E. 326.
Lord comes He
will raise
2.
up
the fallen P. P.
church.
mean
acknowledge Jehovah, or the Lord, and the things which are His. That this acknowledgment is doctrine and the Word is manifest. Confessing and confession
to
A. 1880.
PSALM LXXV.
272 3, 4.
R. 285. See Psalm xxvii. 13. the inhabitants of the earth being dissolved are sig-
By
church who are not in truths, but who know them. To bear up the pillars of the earth signifies to support the church by those truths E. 219. upon which it is founded. The earth stands for the church which is said to be dissolved when truths fail by which good is attained. Because truths support the church they are called its nified those of the
nevertheless desire to
pillars
which God bears up.
church
is
here described
it
As the restoration of the is
therefore said
"When
I
shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly."
E. 304.
By
a pillar
is
signified a stay
which supports, and
predicated of the natural, because the natural
is
it is
like
a
support or basis to the spiritual, for the spiritual terminA. 8106. ates in the natural and there rests.
The
pillars of the earth
stand for the goods and truths
which support the church,
for earth in the
Word
is
the
A. 9674. Let not the evil exalt themselves above the good, P. P.
church. 5-7.
The horns of the wicked stand for the power of from evil, the horns of the. just for the power of A. 2832. truth from goo'd. R. 270. See Psalm xviii. 2, 3. By lifting up the horn on high is signified to defend strongly what is false against the truth, wherefore it is By cutting off their also said, speak not with a stiff neck. horns is signified to destroy their falsities, and by exalting
5, 6, 11.
falsity
the horns of the righteous
is
signified to render the truth
E. 316. good powerful and strong. for the judgment comes in which the evil perish, and 8. P. Pthe good are saved. A cup in these passages also stands for insanity from 9. It is called the cup of the fury falsities and their evils. of
PSALM LXXV.
273
hand
of Jehovah, for
the reason that the Jewish nation, like the
common people,
and
of Jehovah,
also of the right
believed evils and the punishment of evils to come from no other source than from Jehovah, when yet they are from the man himself, and from the infernal crew with
him.
A. 5120.
As most expressions
sense, so also has wane, in
from
Word have
in the
w hich r
sense
also a contrary
it
signifies falsity
A. 6377.
evil.
That wine from
opposite sense in which
its
may
holy truth
signifies
also
be evident
signifies truth falsified
it
and profaned.
By
Word
truth of the
The same poured
is
that
adulterated
in Revelation xiv. the
and
falsified is signified.
and by
its
xi. 6.
made drunk
signifies to
be insane in
spiritual,
R. 721.
in theological things.
W ine r
in the opposite sense signifies truth falsified, also
E. 376.
falsity itself.
See Psalm
By
being
R. 635. R. 672.
out.
be
is,
God
here signified by mixing wine
See Psalm
To
R. 316.
the wine of the anger of
E. 960.
xi. 6.
the cup in the
signified
hand
Divine truth.
of
Jehovah and by the wine
By mixing and by mixture
is is
mixing together of the false By pouring out thence, and
signified profanation, for the
with truth
is
understood.
the impious of the earth draining the dregs
them 9, 10.
11.
9.
is
signified the
See Psalm
The
and drinking
punishment of profanation. E.
xlvi. 7, 8.
evil will
then perish through direful
11 16.
A. 3305. falsities.
P. P. 10.
but the good will worship the Lord.
P. P.
In these passages by horns is signified power, and indeed power in each sense, namely, the power of truth
11.
against the false,
and
of the false against truth, for the
W ord T
subject treated of in the internal sense of the
throughout
is
concerning the state of the church. A. 10182.
PSALM LXXVI.
2 74
PSALM LXXVI. For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. a Song. i.
2.
In Judah is God known: His name is great in Israel. In Salem also is his tabernacle,
And 3.
4.
5.
A Psalm of Asaph,
his dwelling-place in Zion.
There he brake the arrows of the bow; The shield, and the sword, and the battle. Glorious art thou and excellent, From the mountains of prey.
The stouthearted are made a They have slept their sleep;
[Selah
spoil,
of the men of might have found their hands. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. Thou, even thou, art to be feared;
And none 6.
7.
And who may angry 8.
9.
10.
stand in thy sight when once thou art
?
Thou didst cause sentence to be heard from heaven; The earth feared, and was still, When God arose to judgment, [Selah To save all the meek of the earth. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee.
The 11.
Vow, and pay unto Jehovah your God: all that are round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
Let 12.
He He
will cut off the spirit of princes: is
terrible to the kings of the earth.
PSALM LXXVI.
275
Psalm LXXVI. 1.
See Psalm
xviii.
1.
See Psalm
xviii.
1.
The Lord
1-5.
falsities
and
Salem
2. 3.
E. 326.
His church, protection there against
in
is
R. 279.
P. P.
evils.
language means peace, and also signifies a state of peace and a state of
in the original
perfection, thus
it
A. 1726.
perfection.
The bow and arrows
2-4.
plainly stand for the doctrine
A. 2686.
of falsity.
manifest that Shalem
It is
for
it is
is
the tranquillity of peace,
said that he brake there the fiery shafts of the bow,
the shield,
and
the sword,
and
the war,
and also from its Shalem means
signification in the original language, for
and
tranquillity
3.
3, 4.
A. 4393.
perfection.
See Psalm
xi.
See Psalm
ii.
R. 299. R. 612.
2.
6-8, 12.
See Psalm
xlviii. 3, 4.
E. 850.
See Psalm
xlvi. 9, 10.
A. 1664.
By wars
in the
Word
spiritual
are fightings against the truth.
reasonings from
The
the
They
signified
kingdom
which
are carried on by
R. 500.
falsities.
subject treated of
all strife in
wars are
is
combat and By Salem in which
the cessation of all
of the Lord.
the tabernacle of Jehovah
is signified His spiritual kingdom, where there is genuine truth, and by Zion where His dwelling place is, the celestial kingdom where there is genuine good. By His breaking the arrows of the bow, is
the shield, the sword,
combat
pation of
all
good and
truth, the
and the
battle
is
signified the dissi-
of the falsities of doctrine against
arrows of the
bow
standing for the E. 357.
principal things of doctrine.
Jerusalem
is
signified peace,
here called Salem because by Salem
from which also Jerusalem
is
is
named.
PSALM LXXVI.
276 3
The reason all
of
its
being so
named
things belonging to heaven
tabernacle of
God
is
because peace
signifies
By
and the church.
the
church which exists from those things, by His dwelling place in Zion the good of love, since the Lord dwells in that good and thence gives truths
is
signified the
and causes them
and be
to multiply
fruitful.
E. 365.
For the explanation see the two previous statements under E. 357 and E. 365. E. 734. See Psalm xlvi. 7, 8. A. 3305. 6, 7. 4.
A
horse signifies the understanding of the Word.
R. 298.
The
and the horse here signify the church and the same understanding, chariot
men
the doctrine of
which
of
it
is
a deep sleep when they are without truths. Hence the same is predicated of the member of the church who is without spiritual life from predicated that
fall into
those truths.
By
E. 187.
the stout hearted are signified those
who
are in
from good. By their having slept their sleep is signified their having lapsed from evils into falsities. By the rebuke of the God of Jacob is signified the inversion of their state by their own acts. By both the chariot and the horse being cast into a deep sleep is signified that their intellectual faculty was laid asleep because it had become truths
merely natural.
There
is
E. 355.
no longer any truth
in the
Jewish church. P. P.
7.
A
horse signifies the understanding of truth,
opposite sense reasonings which appear as
if
and
in the
they were the
result of understanding, in confirmation of the false.
W. H.
He who that
is
itself,
is
not in truths but only in worship
sleeping
and dreaming.
or without spiritual
life is
Natural
life
is
like
him
viewed in
nothing but a sleep.
R. 158.
PSALM LXXVII. See Psalm
E. 1006.
xiii. 4.
The Lord
8-1 1, 13.
277
will effect a
judgment
in
which the
and the good will be saved. Let the Lord be worshipped.
P. P.
evil will perish
12.
PSALM For the Chief Musician;
P. P.
LXXVII. manner
after the
of Jeduthun.
"A Psalm
of Asaph. 1.
I will cry
unto
God
with
my
Even unto God with my 2.
unto me. In the day of
My
hand was
voice,
voice;
and he
will give ear
my
trouble I sought the Lord: stretched out in the night, and slacked
not;
My 3.
4.
soul refused to be comforted.
remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I
I
[Selah
am
so troubled that I cannot speak. have considered the days of old,
5.
I
6.
I call to
The
years of ancient times.
remembrance
my
song in the night:
commune with mine own heart; And my spirit maketh diligent search. I
7.
And
8.
9.
10.
11.
Lord
cast off for ever? he be favorable no more ? Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore ? Hath God forgotten to be gracious ? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? [Selah And I said, This is my infirmity; But I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. I will make mention of the deeds of Jehovah; For I will remember thy wonders of old.
Will the
will
PSALM LXXVII.
278
meditate also upon
12.
I will
13.
And muse on thy doings. Thy way, O God, is in the
all
thy work,
sanctuary: a great god like unto God ? Thou art the God that doest wonders: Thou hast made known thy strength among the peoples Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. [Selah God; The waters saw thee, The waters saw thee, they were afraid: The depths also trembled.
Who
14.
15.
is
O
16.
The The
17.
clouds poured out water; skies sent out a sound:
18.
Thine arrows also went abroad. The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind;
19.
The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook. Thy way was in the sea,
20.
And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known. Thou leddest thy people like a flock, By the hand of Moses and Aaron. Psalm LXXVII.
State of temptation of the -Lord even to despair, P. P. whether the Father would give help. 6. Here the days of old are the states of the Most Ancient
1-10.
church, and the years of ancient times the states of the A. 488. Ancient church.
The days for the
of old and the years of ancient times stand Most Ancient church and for the Ancient church.
A. 2906.
an age denote the time of the Most Ancient church, which was a celestial church. The years of generation and generation stand for the time of the Ancient A. 10248. church, which was a spiritual church. 11-16. Strengthening Himself from His Divine from
The days
of
PSALM LXXVII. things past, that those
279
who had prayed
for
it
had been
saved.
P. P.
That there is one God, and none besides Him the Jews and Israelites said indeed with the mouth, but did
14, 15.
This is why it is said in the Jehovah is greater than other gods, and there is none like Him. A. 7401. 16. Here by the sons of Jacob and Joseph are understood those who are in the good of life according to their religious principle, for by Jacob in the Word is understood the external church which is with those who are in the good of life. By Joseph are here understood Manasseh and Ephraim for it is said, " Thou hast redeemed the sons of Joseph" by whom are understood those who are in good and truth as to the external man, consequently as to life. To redeem them with His arm means to save them by His omnipotence, for such were saved by the Lord by His coming into the world, and could not have been saved not believe with the heart.
Word
that
otherwise.
Thou
hast with thy
E. 448.
arm redeemed
What
thy people.
here follows treats about the judgment upon the
D.
P.,
evil.
Page
87.
Lightnings from the flame which affects the eyes signifies enlightenment, and thunder from the crash
16, 18, 19.
which
affects the ears signifies perception,
signify enlightenment
and
these
R. 236.
instruction.
The
and when
perception, then voices signify
subject treated of in this Psalm
establishment of the church anew.
By
is
concerning the
the clouds pour-
ing out waters are signified truths from the literal sense of the Word, by the skies or superior clouds sending a sound truths from the spiritual sense of the Word. By the arrows which went abroad are understood fulminations, from which there appear as it were arrows from a bow. They are present when there are thunders and lightnings, and by them are signified Divine truths. By
PSALM LXXVII.
280
the voice of thunder in the heaven truth as to perception
and by the
By
signified Divine
in the church,
lightning lightening the world illumination
The world
thence. 17.
is
and understanding
the deep,
signifies the
and by the
sea
church.
E. 273.
and the depths thereof
are here signified the hells.
A voice here
17-19.
who
is
E. 538.
truth Divine which enlightens those
are of the church.
And
17-20.
that
A. 7573.
power was His through Divine
truth.
P. P.
See Psalm xxix.
17, 18, 20. 18.
A. 2702.
3.
Here by the clouds pouring out water
genuine truths are derived from the
By
Word. influx
signified that
is
literal
sense of the
the skies sending out a sound
is
signified
from the heavens, by thine arrows also went abroad
Divine truths thence derived. 18.
E. 594. voice of thunder stands for truth Divine,
The
19.
lightnings for
its
and the world
flashing,
for the church,
therefore the lightnings lightening the world
enlightening of the church by truth Divine.
is
Word
it is
the earth trembles
signified
Divine, for the Divine unless he
is
him 19.
if it
in a
were
such that no one can bear
it is
like the fire
to fall bare
it,
accommodated
which
is
in the sun,
A. 8816.
R. 551.
ix. 9.
these words
is
is
upon any one would consume
is
described the state of the impious
from the presence of the Lord state
and thus
moment.
See Psalm
By
is
in a kind of cloud,
to its reception, for
which
the
A. 8813.
said that when Jehovah comes and the mountains melt, whereby the commotion of all at the presence of the
Often in the
down
mean
in
His Divine truth, which
similar to that of the sons of Israel
when
the
Lord
appeared to them upon mount Sinai. That they were exceedingly afraid is known from the Word, and the reason of this was because they were evil in heart. E. 741. R. 238. See Psalm xxiv. 2. 20.
PSALM LXXVIII. That by the waters
and
is
sea
is
28l
not understood the sea, nor by waters, it is said that therein are the way
evident since
the path of Jehovah, wherefore by the sea
and by
waters are understood such things as Jehovah or the Lord is in, which are the knowledges of truth in general from
Word, and truths therein, the sea signifying such knowledges, and the waters truths. Knowledges and truths differ in this, that the former are of the natural the
man, and the
And
man. was preserved.
latter of the spiritual
that the church
PSALM
E. 275. P. P.
LXXVIII.
Maschil of Asaph. 1.
Give
ear,
O my
people, to
my
law:
Incline your ears to the words of 2.
I will
open
I will utter 3.
my
mouth.
in a parable;
dark sayings of
old,
Which we have heard and known,
And 4.
my mouth
We
our fathers have told us.
will not hide
Telling to
the
them from
their children,
generation to
come
the
praises
of
Jehovah,
And
his strength,
and
his
wondrous works that he hath
done. 5.
For he established a testimony appointed a law in Israel,
in Jacob,
And
6.
Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children; That the generation to come might know them, even the children that should be born;
Who
7.
should arise and
them to their children, hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,
That they might
tell
set their
PSALM LXXVIII.
282 8.
And might
A A
not be as their fathers, stubborn and rebellious generation,
generation that set not their heart aright, spirit was not stedfast with God. The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
And whose 9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
Turned back in the day of battle. They kept not the covenant of God,
And And And
refused to walk in his law; they forgat his doings, his wondrous works that he had showed them. Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through;
And he made the waters to stand as a heap. In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.
He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers. him,
17.
Yet went they on
18.
To rebel against the Most High in the desert. And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.
19.
20.
21.
22.
24.
to sin against
Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness ? Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also ? Will he provide flesh for his people ? Therefore Jehovah heard, and w as wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel; Because they believed not in God, r
And 23.
still
depths.
trusted not in his salvation.
Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven; And he rained down manna upon them And gave them food from heaven.
to eat,
PSALM LXXVIII. 25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
Man
283
did eat the bread of the mighty:
He sent them food to the full. He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind. He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas: And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations. So they did eat, and were well filled; he gave them their own desire. They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths, \Mien the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel. For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works. Therefore their days did he consume in vanity,
And
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35. 36.
And their years in terror. When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly. And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer. flattered him with their mouth, unto him with their tongue. For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant. But he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath. And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness,
But they
And
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
lied
And grieve him in the desert! And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel. They remembered not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from sary;
the adver-
:
PSALM LXXVIII.
2 84
43.
44.
45.
How
he
set his signs in
Egypt,
And his wonders in the field of Zoan, And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink. He sent among them swarms of Hies, which devoured them;
46.
47. 48.
49.
And frogs, which destroyed them. He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust. He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost. He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble,
A 50.
band
of angels of evil.
He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave
51.
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
first-born in Egypt,
strength in the tents of Ham. But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock. And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten. He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,
And 57.
their life over to the pestilence,
And smote all the The chief of their
kept not his testimonies;
But turned back, and dealt treacherously
like their
fathers
They were turned
aside like a deceitful bow.
58.
For they provoked him
59.
And moved him to jealousy with their When God heard this, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;
to
anger with their high places, graven images.
PSALM LXXVIII. 60.
61.
62.
63.
64.
65. 66.
67. 68.
69.
285
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, tent which he placed among men;
The And And
delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's
He gave his people over And was wroth with his
hand.
also unto the sword,
inheritance.
young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song. Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation. Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach. Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim, But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved. Fire devoured their
And
he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.
71.
He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds: From following the ewes that have
72.
So he was their shepherd according
70.
of wine.
their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his
inheritance. to the integrity of
his heart,
And
guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Psalm LXXVIII. 1-7.
The Word was
given to the children of Jacob,
and
P. P. they were confirmed in it by means of miracles; " 2-4, The mode of expression of the Most Ancient Church was such that when they mentioned earthly and worldly things, they thought of the spiritual and celestial things which they represented. They therefore expressed themselves not only by representatives, but also formed these
PSALM LXXVIII.
286
This
in a certain historical series.
Hannah prophesied tives are called in
See Psalm xiv.
5.
The second
—
Samuel
i.
David
Dark
"
The
the style of which
— such representa-
sayings of old."
A. 66.
A. 4281.
essential of the
cepts of the Decalogue, is
is
3
7.
conjunction with the Lord by a logue
ii.
is
New life
Church, which
is
according to the pre-
a testimony.
Here the deca-
R. 490. Divine truth, and in particular it is
called the testimony.
testimony
is
—
that the Lord is God of heaven and and that the precepts of the Decalogue are precepts life, on which account the Decalogue is also called the
these two things earth,
of
R. 555.
testimony.
Here by Jacob and Israel is signified the church, by Jacob the internal church. By the law and testimony is signified the Word. By the testimony is signified that in the Word which teaches the good of life, and by the E. 392. law that which teaches the truth of doctrine. xix. Psalm 8. A. 6. See 4197. 5, 8.
A
heart not right stands for a will not right.
not constant with faith of
God
Divine truth not constant.
See Psalm xxxii.
and wicked mind.
and
such things as are of a perverted T. 156.
Heart in the opposite sense
what
spirit
A. 9818. L. 48.
2.
Spirit here signifies
A
stands for the understanding
signifies
evil,
and
spirit
E. 183.
is false.
But their fathers and the children had gone back, P. P. and had not lived according to it. That the spiritual man was in old times called a shooter 9. and an archer, and that doctrine was called a bow and a quiver, and that the truths of doctrine, or rather doctrinal tenets, were called darts, javelins, and arrows is further evident in David. Ephraim stands for the intellectual 8-10.
A. 2709.
of the church.
By Ephraim
is
meant the
intellectual of the church.
PSALM LXXVIII. Hence
also the sons of
Ephraim are
287 called shooters with
A. 5354.
the bow.
add: and the sons of Ephraim are By the called "armed" and "shooters" with the bow. See Psalm
bow
lx.
9,
signified doctrine
is
from the Word
The foregoing By Ephraim is by
righting against S. 79.
falsities.
statement repeated in signified the
T. 247.
understanding of truth, and
his children the truths themselves, wherefore they are
and carrying bows, that is comThat in this case they falsities. did not resist those evils and falsities, because they were not conjoined to the Lord is signified by their turning back in the day of battle, and their not keeping the cov-
also said to be armed,
bating against evils and
E. 357.
enant of God. 10.
D. P., Page 72. By is called the law of God. an extended sense the whole Word,
The day of battle. The covenant of God
the law
is
meant
in
extended sense the historical Word, in a limited A. 9396. sense the Word written by Moses. 11-13. The miracles in the desert even having no effect, in a less
all
of
those
which involved how the Lord teaches and leads All these things calls to His church.
whom He
P. P.
recited.
why
was a cloud upon the tabernacle by day, and a fire by night, was because the tabernacle represented heaven and the church, the cloud the presence of the Lord by Divine truth, and the fire His presence by Divine good, which is called the good of faith, each ultimate in order, whence they were as coverings for the
14.
The
reason
there
tabernacle. 15.
See Psalm xxxvi.
15, 16.
7.
E. 594. E. 538.
stands for the Lord, waters, rivers, and A. 2702. for truths from Him.
The rock
depths from
it,
for waters in store, and waters in store or deeps for the truths of faith in abundance. To make
Deeps stand
PSALM LXXVIII.
288
them
deeps out of the rock means the
to drink great
truths of faith without scarcity, for the rock
the Lord, thus the
Lord
faith
is
from
A. 8278.
as to faith.
Rivers signify truths in abundance. R. 409. Divine truth from the Lord, from the reception of
15, 16, 20.
which
intelligence flows
is
signified
by the waters from
the rock in Horeb, concerning which
it is
thus written in
David.
E. 518.
The rock
15, 16, 20, 35. truth, or
Lord.
what
This
is
is
the
signifies the
same
Lord
as to Divine
from the
thing, Divine truth
evident from the subjects here treated
of,
which are the redemption and the regeneration of the men of the church, which are effected by Divine truth from the Lord. E. 411. 16, 20, 35. is
By rock throughout
the
Word the
Divine truth
understood.
16.
Waters signify the truths of
18.
Soul stands for the
life
Inv. 35. E. 71.
faith.
of the spirit of
man, which
is
E. 750. the doors of the heavens stands for giving
called his spiritual
life.
Opening communication with the truths and goods w hich are from the Lord in the heavens. A. 8989. It is called the bread of heaven See Psalm cv. 23, 24. because it rained down from heaven with the dew, 40 but in the spiritual sense it is called the bread of heaven because it flows down from the Lord through the angelic heaven. In this sense no other heaven is understood and no other bread, than what nourishes the soul of man. 23.
T
—
—
E. 146.
See Psalm xxxvi. 24. is
Manna
E. 541.
6.
in the spiritual sense
is
the good of truth, that
the good of the spiritual church.
called the corn of heaven.
—
Therefore
it is
also
A. 8464.
—
By provision meat is also signified support from truth and good. A. 5490. By the east wind is signified what is of lusts and 26, 27. 24, 25.
.
PSALM LXXVIII. their fantasies.
By
signified lusts,
and by
289
the flesh which that
wind brought are
the winged fowl their fantasies.
A. 5215.
See Psalm
R. 782. 32-37. On account of the miracles they returned, indeed, but only with the mouth, not with the heart. P. P. 35. It may be seen that the Divine of the Lord, which is called the Father, and Jehovah, and God; and the Divine Human, which is here called Redeemer are not two but 31.
xvii. 8.
L. 34.
one.
The Lord
is
God
called the
of Israel,
Redeemer, and L. 39.
Saviour.
Lord
That
the
They
did not
called
is
Lord and God
is
manifest.
L. 41. the high
God
remember
their
37.
See Psalm
is
and
D. P., Page 87. called a rock appears from these
is
16.
5,
is
made
2.
E. 701. of propitiation or expiation it
manifest that cleansing from
of sins
their rock,
Coro.
1.
Where mention is
God was
Redeemer.
Lord
That the 35, 42. passages.
that
evils,
thus the remission A. 9506.
signified.
P. P. 38-40. The Lord forgave them. This is said of the people desiring flesh in the wilder39. That they desired flesh ness, that they were corporeal.
represented that they lusted only for things of the body. A. 574Since by flesh
proprium, which
when is
predicated of
man
is
signified the
the evil of the love of self
and
the
by flesh when predicated of the Lord, namely, His proprium, which is the A. 10283. Divine good of the Divine love. wind By spirit is meant the life of man, a spirit L. 47. that passeth away. By flesh are signified the things proper to any one which have relation to goods and truths, and in the opR. 748. posite sense to evils and falsities. world,
it is
evident what
is
signified
—
—
PSALM LXXVIII.
290
The is
41.
man's
evil of
will,
which
is
his
here signified by flesh, just as in
See Psalm
xlvi. 7, 8.
See Psalm
lxxi. 22.
See Psalm
lxxi. 22.
The Lord The Lord
is
proprium from birth
Numbers
xi.
4-33. E. 1082.
A. 3305. A. 9229. A. 9680.
L. 40. Holy One of Israel. Holy because He is the Divine truth
called the
alone
is
R. 173.
itself.
The Lord
as to the
Human
is
called the
Holy One of T. 93.
Israel.
They tempted God and aggrieved
Holy One of D. P., Page 63.
the
Israel.
Again they were seemingly converted when they which involve the removal and dispersion from them of the hells. A recital
41-51.
recalled the miracles in Egypt, all of
P. P.
of these things.
That
42, 43. fest.
signs
were
See also John
vi.
testifications of the truth is
30-33: Isaiah
vii.
mani-
11, 14; xxxviii.
R. 598.
22, etc. It is evident that the miracles
performed
in Egypt,
and
afterwards with the sons of Israel are called signs and
and persuaded, and and induced astonishment.
miracles, signs because they testified
miracles because they excited
E. 706. 45.
The
fly
stands for the
falsities in
the extremes of the
These compared to such an insect because things in that part of the mind are like insects flying in the air, obscuring interior things, and also bringing harm to them, for they are mostly imaginary and are fallacies, the reasonings from which are like things built upon air. Swarms of flies of this kind are here meant. A. 7441. natural mind, thus in the sensual, nearest the body. falsities
By
are
frogs are signified ratiocinations
and are lascivious. See Psalm xviii. 5.
they croak
from
lusts,
because
R. 702. E. 518.
PSALM LXXVIII. These things are said
45, 46. is
mentioned, though there
291
of Egypt, is
and the
caterpillar
no mention made of
it
in
That the caterpillar also is Moses, but only the locust. mentioned, is because by it is signified evil, and by the locust falsity, each in the outmosts of the natural. A. 7643. Since by locusts
is
signified the sensual as to falsity
what is the same thing, the falsity and evil sensual man, therefore the same is signified by the evil,
or
and
of the cater-
E. 543. Falsities in the outermost things, because they con-
pillar.
46.
sume the truths and goods of the church springing up in man, are signified by the locusts which consume the grass in the plains and the herbs in the fields. R. 424. 47-49. Hail and rain stand for the vastation of truth and good by falsities from evil, the vine for the truth and good of the internal church, the sycamore and fig-tree for the truths and goods of the external church. A. 7553. See Psalm xviii. 12-15. A. 7575. See Psalm xviii. 13-15. R. 399.
By green or growing green is The same that is described in pass
signified living or alive.
Revelation
viii.
Egypt, namely, that* from hail and
in-
every tree and every herb of the
field
came
fire
to
mingled
was burnt up. R. 401.
Since hail
church, hail,
it is
and
means
falsity
destroying the truths of the
therefore said, " he destroyed their vines with
their
sycamore
trees with frost."
signified the spiritual truth of the church,
more
its
By
natural truth.
signified the love of evil
goods of the church.
and
It is
their cattle also to the hail,
bolts."
Cattle
and
By
vine
and by
hot thunderbolts or
is
sycafire
is
ardor for destroying the therefore said, "he gave up its
and
their flocks to hot thunder-
flocks signify the evil affections or
from evil love, and hot thunderbolts or fire and ardor of destroying. By sending evil angels among them is signified the falsity of evil from hell. lusts arising
the lust
E. 503.
PSALM LXXVIII.
292 49.
All these things are predicated of
entirely contrary to
Him that
His nature.
They
for the reason explained before,
men may
first
Jehovah although are predicated of
and
also in order
lay hold of the very general idea that
the Lord governs and disposes each and every event; and afterward learn that nothing of evil is from the Lord,
much
less
does
He
kill,
but that
it is
man who
brings evil
—
although upon himself and ruins and destroys himself it is not man, but evil spirits who excite and lead him. A. 592.
By
anger, wrath, fury,
fire
are meant punishments and
condemnations, into which man casts himself when into evils, for it is of the Divine order that goods carry with
them recompenses, and hence it is that evils carry with them punishments, because they are conjoined. A. 6997. 49. 50. Not that Jehovah ever puts anger against any one, but they against their own selves, nor does He as is said A. 357. send evil angels, but man draws them. Heat, anger, indignation, fury here stand for a turning away, opposition, and consequent punishment. A. 5798. In many places in the Word anger and fury are mentioned together, and anger there is predicted of evil and UR. 635. fury of falsity. 50.
Speaking of the Egyptians, the pestilence stands for A. 7102. its damnation.
every kind of evil and 51.
By
the firstborn in
out charity.
The
Egypt was represented
tents of
faith with-
Ham are the worship therefrom.
A. 1063. In the opposite sense tents signify worship not holy. A. 1566.
from principles of what is false, arising from truth separate from good, or what is the same, from faith separate from charity, is called the
The worship
tents of
By
of the Egyptians
Ham.
the firstborn
good of
A. 3325. is
signified in the genuine sense the
charity, but in the sense of
appearance the truth
PSALM LXXVIII. of faith.
293
Because those two are the foundations of the
church, therefore by the ancients the firstborn was called the might of the father
and
the beginning of his strength.
A. 6344. Since by tents are signified the goods of the church and of worship, therefore by tents in the opposite sense are
worship and of the church. A. 10545. thus led them unto the land which was
signified the evils of
The Lord
52-55.
P. P.
the seat of the church.
55.
See Psalm
A. 9854. Yet they backslid and worshipped another God.
56-58.
xvi. 6.
P. P.
57.
By
in the
father in the genuine sense
supreme sense
expressions in the
it
is
Lord.
signifies the
Word have an
has father and in this sense
it
and But since most
signified good,
opposite sense, so also signifies
mother which in the genuine sense
evil.
So also
signifies truth, in the
A. 3703. a customary form of speaking in the Word, signifying in the internal sense to act contrary to the truth and good in heaven, or what is the same, opposite sense
To
falsity.
deal treacherously
is
A. 8999.
contrary to Divine order.
They are compared to a deceitful bow, because by a bow is signified doctrine combating in both senses, that is the doctrine of false combating against truth, and of truth against false, for arrows or darts signify falses or truths
59-64.
E. 866. by which combat is maintained. Therefore they were forsaken by the Lord, and
delivered over to their falsities
and evils,
this of themselves.
P. P.
60.
Tent here
signifies the
same as the temple
in
which
God is said to dwell when He is present with man in love. Hence man when he lived in holy worship was called by A. 1102. the ancients a tent, and afterwards a temple. R. 585. See Psalm xv. 1, 2. By
tabernacle
is
signified the
good of the church.
church as
to good, or the
E. 799.
PSALM LXXVIII.
294 60, 61.
By
See Psalm
lxviii.
R. 591.
19.
the habitation of Shiloh
signified
is
the church
which is in the good of love, and by the tent the church which is in the truths of doctrine. /Hence it is evident what is signified by God forsaking the habitation of Shiloh, the tent which He placed among men, namely, that the goods of love and the truths of doctrine were destroyed. By the strength which He delivered into captivity is signified spiritual truth derived from celestial good, by captivity seclusion from the understanding thereof, and so By the gracefulness which He dedestruction by falses.
hand of the enemy is signified natural truth E. 811. and the destruction thereof. Young men signify truths and virgins the affections
livered in the
from 62-64.
spiritual,
R. 620.
for them.
Treating of the devastation of the church by falses and evils. God has given up His people to the sword, and
w as inflamed with His
inheritance,
church perishes by
and
T
falses
by
the destruction of truth
flamed destruction by those
who
His young ceit
are in falses
men
falses,
signifies
that
the
the sword denoting
evils,
and God's being
in-
The people in this case and evils. The fire has devoured evils.
signifies that the love of self,
of self-derived intelligence therein
destroyed the understanding of truth.
and
the con-
originating has
Virgins not given
in marriage signifies that the affection for truth perished
through
its
not being understood.
His priests fallen by
which were de-
the sword signifies that the goods of the church,
are the goods of works, of charity,
stroyed by
65-67. 67. 68.
and
of
life
E. 863.
falses.
Thus they were
rejected.
P. P.
See Psalm
lxxviii. 60.
E. 799.
See Psalm
ii.
6-8, 12.
R. 612. Divine good and the church
Mount Zion
signifies the
as to that good.
See Psalm
xlviii. 3, 4.
E. 405. E. 850.
;
PSALM LXXIX. Judah
68, 69.
295
In the internal sense signifies the Lord's
church, and in the universal sense the Lord
celestial
Himself.
A. 3881.
Therefore a new church was instituted which would worship the Lord, and which the Lord could lead,
68-72.
P.
The Lord
70-72.
is
meant by David
P
in these places.
R-3 See Psalm
xxiii. 1, 2.
The Lord
as to Divine truth
understood by David
is
Word.
in the
To
R. 383
feed stands for to instruct in truths.
E. 409 E. 482
PSALM LXXIX. A 1.
Psalm
of
Asaph.
O
God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be
Thy 2.
food unto the birds of the heavens. flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem And there was none to bury them. We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about
The
3.
4.
us. 5.
How
O
Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? burn like fire ? Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee long,
Shall thy jealousy 6.
not,
And upon 7.
the kingdoms that call not upon thy name. For they have devoured Jacob,
8
And laid waste his habitation. Remember not against us the fathers:
iniquities of
our fore-
;
PSALM LXXIX.
296
9.
'
Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us; For we are brought very low. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy
name
And
deliver us,
and
forgive our sins, for thy
name's
sake. 10.
11.
12.
Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed Be known among the nations in our sight. Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee: According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to death; And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their
bosom
13.
Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture Will give thee thanks for ever:
We
will
show
forth thy praise to all generations.
Psalm LXXIX. I, 2.
Birds signify such things as are of the understanding
and thought, and thence of design, in both senses, as well R. 757. the bad as the good. By the heathen or nations here mentioned are understood evils of life and falsities of doctrine, for by the in-
heritance of
God
is
understood the church, in which the
Lord is all good and all truth, since both are all from Him. Polluting the holy temple and laying Jerusalem on heaps signifies to profane worship and pervert the doctrine of the church. ship because worship
is
The
holy temple signifies wor-
therein performed,
and Jerusalem
the church as to doctrine, thus the doctrine of the church.
By verse 2 is signified to destroy all truths by falsities and goods by evil, the fowls of the heaven here standing for the thoughts of what is false, and the beasts of the earth for the affections for evil thence derived.
E. 388.
PSALM LXXIX.
297
Birds in the opposite sense signify fallacies arising
from the sensual man, also reasonings from falses against In many passages in truths, and also falses themselves. the Word mention is made of being given for food to the Thereby is signified to perish birds and wild beasts. entirely by fallacies, falses, and reasonings thence derived, also by evil lusts and in general by falses and evils E. 1100. from hell. 1-4. Falsifications of the Word and direful evils have destroyed the church.
Many
2.
a time
it
P. P.
said in the prophets that carcasses
is
should be given for meat to the fowl of the air and the
—
Jeremiah vii. 33 xix. 7 Ezekiel xxix. was signified that they should be destroyed By 5, etc. by falsities, which are the fowls of the air, and by evils or A. 988. lusts, which are the beasts of the earth. By wild beasts and birds are signified falses arising E. 650. from the lust of evil and from reasoning. beast of the field
:
;
this
By blowing with
5.
to
the nostrils or breathing
See Psalm xxxvii.
5, 6.
Zeal with the Lord ternals as
if it
The
5-12.
is
signified
A. 8286.
be angry. 1. is
not wrath,
were, interiorly
it is
it
A. 8875. only appears in ex-
love.
R. 216.
cry of the church for help, that she be not de-
same time*, and her prayer that those who P. P. have ruined the church be removed. stroyed at the '
8.
See Psalm
viii.
9.
See Psalm
xlix. 8.
See Psalm
x. 15.
11.
The
prisoners stand for those
and temptations. See Psalm lxviii. See Psalm lxviii.
Many who Lord, beasts
who
A. 4933. are in vastations A. 5037.
7.
19.
R. 99. R. 591.
were interiorly good were guarded by the
they should be infested by the dragon and his The same are also meant by Revelation xxi.
lest
—
A. 9849. A. 9506.
5.
PSALM LXXIX.
298 the captives
and those bound
in the pit,
and
liberated by
R. 884.
the Lord.
See Psalm 12.
The
19.
E. 811.
and
increase of punishments were ex-
lxviii.
severities
A. 395. pressed by seven. See Psalm xxxv. 13, add: to render into their bosom A. 6960. meaning to themselves. Seven-fold here stands for to the Seven-fold means fully. Seven times here signifies 13.
See Psalm
Thus
A. 9228.
full.
R.
10.
E. 257. A. 3880.
fully.
lxix. 31.
there will be worship of the Lord.
P. P.
PSALM LXXX. For the Chief Musician;
set
to
Shoshannim Eduth.
A
Psalm
of
Asaph. i.
Give
Thou Thou 2.
3.
4.
6.
7.
8.
O
Shepherd of
Israel,
that leadest Joseph like a flock; that sittest above the cherubim, shine forth.
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us. Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
O
Jehovah God of hosts, long wilt thou be angry against the prayer
How 5.
ear,
of thy people ? Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure. Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves. Turn us again, O God of hosts; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.
PSALM LXXX, 9.
10.
299
Thou preparedst room before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land. The mountains were covered with the shadow of And the boughs thereof were like cedars of God.
it,
out its branches unto the sea, shoots unto the River. Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it ? The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it. Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this
n.
It sent
And 12.
13.
14.
its
vine, 15.
16.
And And
the stock which thy right hand planted, the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
It is
burned with
fire, it is
cut down:
They 17.
perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
18.
19.
So shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name. Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
Psalm LXXX. 1-4, 8.
Prayer of the new church
to the
Lord
2.
That
to
come and P. P.
lead,
the shepherd of the flock
of charity every one
may know,
is
one who does the good
for
it is
a familiar figure
Old Testament and the New. He who leads and teaches is called a shepherd, and they that are led A. 343. and taught are called the flock. Lord to the as a state is Dwelling within the cherubim of providence, lest any one should enter into the holy things of love and faith unless prepared by the Lord.
of both the
A. 3384.
PSALM LXXX.
3
See Psalm
xviii.
n.
See Psalm
xviii.
10, 11.
2
A. 9509.
Add: By cherubs
is
signified
the ultimate of Divine truth as a guard.
By
S.
97.
the cherubs the Divine truth in the ultimates as a
guard
R. 239. T. 260.
signified.
is
See Psalm See Psalm
10, 11.
xviii.
Add: Since the subject treated
xviii. 10, 11.
of in this chapter
is
the arrangement of
all
things for
judgment, therefore also the cherubim is treated of, that is the guard and providence of the Lord that the superior heavens may not be approached unless by the good of love and of charity, for unless this had been done before the judgment, the very heavens themselves, where the true angels were,
See Psalm
would have been endangered.
E. 277. E. 662.
xxiii. 6.
Here also Joseph is the spiritual man. Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, are the three constituents of
2, 3.
that church.
A. 3969.
Benjamin
By
the right hand. is
from
language the son of signified spiritual truth which
signifies in the original
celestial
this is
good, and the power therefrom.
Benjamin is the spiritual See Psalm lx. 8, 9.
also
From
the spiritual sense of the words
it is
Here
A. 4592. A. 5354.
of the celestial.
evident that
Lord to instruct those lead them by truths to good,
they contain a supplication to the
who
are of the church,
thus to heaven. Israel because
and
to
The Lord
is
instructs
and
He
understood those of the church
Thou
from good.
leads.
who
that dwellest
Lord above
signifies the
called the shepherd of
men, hence truths
church
it
may
is
between the cherubim,
is
whence He sends minds of angels and
added, "shine forth."
penetrate even to those
and good, thus
are
the heavens,
forth the light which enlightens the
of truth
By Joseph
are in truths derived
who
That
the light
are in natural
to the ultimates or lowest in the
signified by, "before
Ephraim and Benjamin
PSALM LXXX. and Manasseh
stir
up thy
who Word in
understood those truth of the
who
those
301
strength.''
By Ephraim
are
are in natural truth, such as the the literal sense.
are in natural good, which
is
By Manasseh the delight of
doing good and learning truth, by Benjamin the conand truth, or the conjoining
necting principle of good
medium
By
up strength
is
under-
stood to penetrate with light even to the natural.
That
in the natural.
they should be saved
is
stirring
signified by,
"come and
save us." E. 440.
By Joseph is signified the spiritual church, which exists with those who are in truths derived from good, that is in truths of doctrine as to
E. 448.
life.
By Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh are understood those who are in natural truth and good, and in the E. 449
conjunction thereof.
R-355
3.
A. 5585 A. 9306 A. 10579
R. 939 E. 412 because they are in
5-7.
P.
affliction.
P
spoken of, who is called a vine out of Egypt" in relation to the knowledges in which He
Here
8, 9.
was
also the
Lord
is
A. 1462.
instructed.
In the supreme sense the Lord is meant, the vine out of Egypt is truth from outward knowledges, driving out the nations is purging of evils, sweeping before it is
9, 10.
A. 3142. that goods may fill. born natural, becomes rational and afterwards and thus the vine out of Egypt is planted and
making ready
Man
is
spiritual;
R- 5°3-
takes root.
9-12.
He
has instituted a church and reformed
Word. Mizraim or Egypt
9 et seq.
it
by
P. P.
truths from the
in the
Word
signifies external
PSALM LXXX.
302
knowledges or various matters of knowledge wherewith
men would
explore the mysteries of faith, and thereby
confirm received principles of
It also
falsity.
simply knowledges, and so such as are useful.
The
9-12, 14.
vine out of Egypt in the supreme sense
stands for the Lord, the glorification of His
described by the vine
is
signifies
A. 1165.
it
and
its
human
being
In the internal sense
branches.
here the spiritual church, and the
man
of that
when made new or regenerated by the Lord as to the intellectual and voluntary. The boar in the wood is the falsity, and the wild beasts of the field church, such as he
is
are the evil which destroy the church as to faith in the
Lord.
A. 51 13.
By
9, 10, 12.
the vine out of Egypt
is
signified the church,
By
which the sons of Israel represented. nations
is
which are expelled by it
driving out the
signified to expel the evils of the natural
and causing
its
truths.
Planting
it,
man,
purging before
roots to take root signifies instruction
according to order, namely, the imbibing
scientifics
and
knowledges, then the being as in a wilderness and tempted,
and afterwards introduced into the land of Canaan, which is the church. Sending out the shoots thereof under the sea signifies the increase of intelligence, and the extension thereof to the ultimates of good and truth appertaining
to
the
church.
Sending .out the unto the rational.
branches unto the river
signifies
the river
is
9, 11.
By
— Euphrates —
See Psalm xxxvi.
signified the rational.
little
By
E. 654.
R. 336.
7.
the vine brought out of Egypt
is
signified the spir-
which commences with man by scientifics The vine signifies in the natural man. the spiritual church, and Egypt the scientifics, which are in the natural man. After evils were thence ejected the establishment of the church took place, the heathen stand itual church,
and knowledges
for evils, to plant the vine the establishment of the church.
The whole church was from
spiritual
good and
truths,
PSALM LXXX. the mountains spiritual goods,
303
and the goodly cedars
It is evident that
spiritual truths.
by these words are
understood the bringing forth of the children of Israel out of Egypt and their introduction into Canaan. E. 405. The river Euphrates stands for the faculties of sense 9, 12. and knowledge. The Euphrates was the boundary of Asshur, to which the dominion of Israel extended
knowledge
in the
memory
gence and wisdom of
— as
boundary of the intellithe spiritual and celestial man. is
the
A. 120.
A
vine out of Egypt stands for the spiritual church,
represented by the sons of Israel, to the sea
By
and
and goods.
river for interior truths
to the
A. 9341.
the vine are understood the children of Israel
who
are called a vine because they represented the spiritual
church, which
is
signified
by a vine
Word.
in the
Their
tarrying in Egypt represented their initiation into the tilings of the
church, for Egypt represents the scientifics
subservient to the things of the church.
The
extension
of the intelligence of the church even to things scientific
and
rational
is
signified
by sending out her boughs and Euphrates
branches, the sea the scientific, the river the rational, sending out multiplication
—
—
and
extension.
E. 518. 12.
13. 14.
The foregoing statement partly repeated in E. 569. By rivers is signified truths in abundance. R. 409. And yet falsities begin to destroy it. P. P. 14. By wild beasts are signified the affections of the false
arising
world. beasts,
from the delights of the loves of self and of the These affections are also represented by wild as by panthers, tigers, wild boars, wolves, bears in
the other
By
A. 9335. R. 567.
life.
See Psalm
viii.
a vine here
7-9. is
signified the
same as by a vineyard,
namely, the church as to truth, which church.
Its vastation
by the
lusts
is
called the spiritual
and
falsities
of the
PSALM LXXX.
304 J4
man
natural
separated from the spiritual,
is
understood
by the boar out of the wood wasting it, and the wild beast devouring it. The boar signifies the evil lusts of the natural man, and the wild beast of the
field falsities.
E. 3 SS.
By
wild beasts in the opposite spiritual sense are sig-
nified lusts of the false
and reasonings
from
evil,
and by
Since the
thence.
birds the thoughts
man
of the church
thereby spiritually perishes, therefore everywhere in the
Word where
the vastation of the church
treated of,
is
said that they shall be given to the wild beasts
birds to be devoured. 15, 16.
See Psalm xx.
15-20.
May
the
and
it is
the
E. 650.
A. 8281.
7.
Lord come and
restore
it,
and may
thus be vivified.
it
P. P.
David spake these words concerning himself and concerning the church, which is the sense of the letter, for he understood himself by the shoot and by the son, but in the spiritual sense by the vine and by the shoot which Jehovah planted is signified the spiritual church,
15, 16, 18.
By
represented by the sons of Israel.
made
strong for himself
from the Word.
Word and
By
verse 18
in the natural sense,
the
same
the son
signified the truth of the
is
which
is
in the spiritual sense,
the sense of the
which
is
letter,
the internal
E. 724.
sense.
16, 18.
whom He
signified the truth of doctrine
is
By
the right
17.
See Psalm
18.
The man
xiii.
hand
is
meant omnipotence. T.
See Psalm xxxiv. 17. of the right
136.
R. 939.
2.
E. 412.
hand
of Jehovah,
and the son
A. 8281. man stand for the Lord as to Divine truth. Here the hand of Jehovah stands for guard from omnipotence and omniscience, the man of the right hand for whom there is such a guard stands for the wise, and the son of 'man for the intelligent, both by Divine truth.
of
E. 298.
PSALM LXXXI. 18, 19.
See Psalm
18-20.
The man
to the
Word,
305 A. 10019.
xliv. 4.
hand here the Son of Man.
of the right
so too
is
also
is
the
Lord as L. 27.
PSALM LXXXI. For the Chief Musician;
set to Gittith.
A
Psalm
of Asaph.
3.
God our strength: a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery. Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
4.
At the full moon, on our feast-day. For it is a statute for Israel,
1.
Sing aloud unto
Make
2.
5.
An ordinance of the God of Jacob. He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt,
6.
I
7.
Where I heard a language that I knew not. removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket. Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I I
8.
answered thee in the secret place of thunder; proved thee at the waters of Meribah. [Selah
O
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
O my
people, and I will testify unto thee: thou wouldest hearken unto me! There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god. I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me. So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels. Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways!
Hear,
Israel,
if
:
PSALM LXXXI.
306
would soon subdue their enemies, turn my hand against their adversaries. haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him But their time should endure for ever. He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.
14.
I
15.
And The
16.
Psalm LXXXI. Song
1-5.
1, 2, 4, 5.
in praise of the
The God
See Psalm
2, 3.
Lord by His church.
of Jacob
lxviii.
is
the Lord.
25, 26.
P. P.
A. 3305. A. 8337.
Songs were for the sake of the exaltation of the R. 279. life of love, and hence of joy. On account of musical instruments and also dances signifying joy and gladness which result from affections, and also the affections of the mind themselves, which their several sounds produce both in what is simple and in what is complex, therefore David and the whole house of Israel played before Jehovah on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps and psalteries and see ii. Samuel on timbrels, on cornets and on cymbals
2, 3, 4.
—
E. 323. E. 326.
vi. 5.
See Psalm
xlvii.
2, 6, 9.
That Joseph is here the spiritual church, or the spirman, is manifest from every word and expression, for in the Word there are words which express spiritual things, and others which express celestial things, and this
3-6.
itual
with uniformity throughout.
In
this
passage are words
which express spiritual things, as the psalm, the timbrel, the harp with the psaltery, blowing the trumpet in the new moon, in the festival on the day of our feast. A. 3969. Here by taking a psalm, and bringing the timbrel are meant confessions from spiritual and celestial truths, and the delights of the affection of truth
means worship from
the
delight
and good. of
those
Verse 6 affections.
PSALM LXXXI.
307
new church which was in truth of doctrine. By a language which I understood not, signifies when the old church was destroyed, which was at that time in falsities of doctrine, for Egypt when Joseph was Lord there, represented a church which is in the knowledges of truth and good and in confirming sciences, but when the children of Israel began to be hated and illtreated Egypt then represented the church destroyed, and in mere falsities. See Exodus i. 8. E. 448. States of life as to truths are signified by months, be4. cause the times determined by the moon are meant by months, and truth of the understanding and of faith is signified by the moon. R. 935. Verse
7 signifies that
those things were for the
instituted with the children of Israel,
6-8.
When called upon and when He has proved man, He Him from the hells. P. P. To carry on the shoulder when subjection is treated of
delivers 7.
service.
signifies
See
Matthew
4: Isaiah
xxiii.
The
natural
man
the iron furnace
natural
man and
tific falsities,
of
as to
what
iron
because
what it is
is scientific is
signified
the furnace stands
(basket),
4;
is scientific,
by
for the
in this case.scien-
said that they were brought out
E. 540.
it.
The
8.
ix.
A. 9836.
x. 27.
quality of the complaint in the temptation
is sig-
by Meribah, namely, that the nation were not willing to entreat Jehovah by
nified in the internal sense Israelitic
supplication, but that they expostulated.
See Psalm
That a
voice out of heaven
as thunder
is
manifest.
when from
See John
xii.
Lord is heard 28-30: Job xxxvii. the
R. 472.
4, 5-
See Psalm
9-12.
xviii. 14, 15.
The church among
E. 273. the children of Israel has gone
back, and worships another God, 13.
A. 8588.
R. 236.
lxxvii. 16, 18, 19.
therefore they have been
left to
P. P.
themselves.
P. P.
PSALM LXXXI,
308 1
4- 17.
If they
had obeyed the
hells
would have been
re-
moved from them, and they would have enjoyed every P. P.
good.
The
14, 17.
fat of the
kidneys of wheat
is
the celestial of
love and charity, and as fat or fatness signifies the celestial, and wheat love, they are therefore frequently joined together in the Word. A. 3941. Wheat and barley signify the good and truth of the
R. 315.
church.
By
and honey out every kind and
the finest of the wheat,
are here signified good of
of the rock
the delight
thereof originating in celestial good from the Lord, the finest
means
general,
celestial good, wheat good of every kind in honey the delight of good, and rock the Lord.
That these things by
Israel,
Lord,
is
if
will
be given to those
understood by verse
fying truths
who
and
14,
also precepts,
ways in the Word signiand to walk signifies to E. 374.
live.
By
are signified
they live according to the precepts of the
the rock here also
is
understood the Lord as to E. 411.
Divine truth.
honey out of the rock stands for filling A. 5620. with enjoyment from the truths of faith. Because fat signified good it is also adjoined to such
17.
Satisfying with
things as are not fat in themselves, but
still
signify goods.
Thus fat and good were as if the same thing. Rock signified the Lord as to faith. By the fat of wheat is signified the delight
A. 5943. A. 8581. of spiritual
good, and by honey out of the rock the delight of natural
good by truths from the Lord.
E. 619.
PSALM LXXXII.
309
PSALM LXXXII. A
Psalm
of
Asaph.
God standeth in the congregation He judgeth among the gods.
of
God;
How
long will ye judge unjustly,
And
respect the persons of the wicked?
Judge the poor and
Do
[Selah
fatherless:
justice to the afflicted
and
destitute.
Rescue the poor and needy: Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken. 6.
7.
8.
Ye
I said,
are gods,
And
all
And
fall like
Most High. Nevertheless ye shall die like men, Arise,
of you sons of the
one of the princes. God, judge the earth;
O
For thou
shalt inherit all the nations.
Psalm LXXXII. 1.
Add: For this reason spake with men, and whom they A. 300. believed to have any power, they called god. Those are called gods who are in Divine truths from See Psalm
xviii.
every angel or
the Lord,
and
29, 30, 32.
3,
spirit that
R. 44.
abstractly the truths themselves.
The assembly
of
gods signifies with
God
all
signifies
Among
heaven.
the
the angels there, thus in the whole
heaven, for the angels are called gods from the Divine truth which they receive from the Lord, for
Word
God
in the
Lord as to the Divine truth proceeding from Him, and which constitutes heaven. E. 313. signifies the
Since to stand also signifies to be,
it
is
Jehovah.
By
the assembly of God,
also said of
E. 414.
and by the gods
in the midst
PSALM LXXXII.
310 1
of whom whom in
and
Jehovah stood are understood the angels, by the spiritual sense are signified Divine truths,
since the
stand
is
in
heaven
is
Divine truth, therefore to E. 639.
church in which is the Word, from P. P. which it is possible to be in Divine truths. It is manifestly plain that the congregation of God, 6.
The Lord
1,
Lord
predicated concerning Him.
and
the gods
to the
mean
A. 4295.
the angelic heaven.
which proceed from the Lord are what are here meant by gods. This is evident from its first being said in the singular number, the congregation of God, and
The
truths
A. 8301.
afterwards in the midst of the gods. Let them not do evils but goods.
P. P.
2-4. 5.
The
earth in the
Word
stands for the church,
and
its
foundations are the truths of faith, for these truths of the A. 9643. church are for foundations.
See Psalm
xviii. 8, 16.
See Psalm
xi.
See Psalm
xviii. 8, 16.
R. 589. R. 902.
2, 3.
E. 1057.
Because they do not do goods, the church
is
tottering.
P. P. 6.
Men
also
on account
of their
power were
called gods.
A. 300.
They who are in doctrinals and not so much in life do not know otherwise than that the heavenly kingdom is similar to kingdoms on earth, in that men become great by ruling over others, this enjoyment being the only one with which they are acquainted, and which they prefer to every other enjoyment, wherefore the Lord spake also in the
Word
They
A. 3417. according to this appearance. are called gods from truths, for sons are truths. A. 4402.
See Psalm xxix.
See Psalm " Jesus
vii.
1.
18.
A. 7268. A. 8153.
answered them, Is it not written in your law, I gods?" See John x. 34. This is written
said, ye are
here.
L. 10.
PSALM LXXXIII.
3II
The foregoing statement repeated in By the law in the broadest sense is meant Word.
This
is
manifest from
T. 262. the whole
— the foregoing statement T. 288.
of L. 10 repeated. 6, 7.
Word
Thus, although they possess the
P. P.
perish. 8.
they will
Prayer that the Lord
may come and effect the judgment. P. P.
PSALM A
LXXXIII.
Song, a Psalm of Asaph.
O God, keep not thou silence: Hold not thy peace, and be not For,
lo,
And
thine enemies
make
still,
O
God.
a tumult;
they that hate thee have lifted up the head. take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent; Against thee do they make a covenant: The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagarenes; Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre: Assyria also is joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. [Selah Do thou unto them as unto Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; Who perished at En-dor, Who became as dung for the earth. Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yea, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;
They
PSALM LXXXIII.
312 12.
Who The
13.
14.
to ourselves in possession
O my God, make them like the whirling As stubble before the wind. As the fire that burneth the forest, And
15.
Let us take
said,
habitations of God. dust;
as the flame that setteth the mountains
on
fire,
So pursue them with thy tempest,
And
terrify
them with thy storm. with confusion,
16.
Fill their faces
17.
That they may seek thy name, O Jehovah. Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; Yea, let them be confounded and perish; That they may know that thou alone, whose name
18.
Jehovah, Art the Most High over
all
is
the earth.
Psalm LXXXIII. General Subject.
Combats
of the
Lord with the
hells.
P. P.
See Psalm
I.
1-6.
The
3-9.
To
xviii.
hells
R. 279.
1.
wish to destroy
all
things of the church. P. P.
consult together against the hidden ones, to cut
off from being a nation, that the name of Israel should be no more in remembrance, is altogether to cast
them
Edom, the Ishmaelites, and Ammon are they who worship and doctrine. Philistia
out interior things, the tents of
Moab,
the Hagarenes, Gebal,
are in the externals of
with Tyre are things which they speak concerning internals,
but they are not in them.
Asshur who
is
an arm
to
reasoning by which they fight for exA. 2468. ternals and against internals. 5-7. The evil of self-love, which is such that it does not the sons of Lot,
is
admit the truths of
faith,
thus neither the doctrinals of
truth, is described in various passages of the
Esau and Edom, and at the same time the church when it becomes of this quality.
Word by
state of the
A. 3322.
!
PSALM LXXXIV. The
7-9.
up against
hells that rise
3*3
Lord are enum-
the
erated.
P.
See Psalm
8.
Falsities
lvi.
by which truths are attacked are
the Amalekites.
Where Asshur true or false
is
mentioned what
is
is
signified
signified.
A. 1186.
They will be cast down and subjugated. From the places where they have made
heavens for themselves. 14-18.
Prayer
to the
by
A. 1679. of reason, either
10-12. 13.
p
A. 9340.
1.
P. P.
spurious P. P.
Lord
16.
See Psalm
19.
See Psalm xi. 6. That it may be known
to
overthrow them.
P. P.
R. 343.
xi. 6.
E. 419. that
power belongs to the Lord
alone.
P. P.
PSALM LXXXIV. For the Chief Musician;
set to the Gittith.
A
Psalm
of the sons of
Korah. i.
2.
How amiable are thy O Jehovah of hosts
My
tabernacles,
soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of
Jehovah; 3.
My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God. Yea, the sparrow hath found her a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even
thine altars,
O
Jehovah
of hosts,
My
4.
5.
6.
King, and my God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: They will be still praising thee. [Selah Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; In whose heart are the highways to Zion. Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs;
Yea, the early rain covereth
it
with blessings.
PSALM LXXXIV.
314
They go from
7.
strength to strength:
Every one of them appeareth before God in Zion. O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob. [Selah Behold, O God our shield,
8.
9.
And
look upon the face of thine anointed. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God,
10.
Than
to dwell in the tents of
wickedness.
For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk
11.
uprightly.
O
12.
Jehovah of
Blessed
is
the
hosts,
man
that trusteth in thee.
Psalm LXXXIV. General Subject.
Combats
of the
Lord with the
hells.
P. P.
Love and the desire for the church and heaven. P. P. That the Divine things proceeding from the Divine Human of the Lord are properly called habitations, and
1-5. 2.
that hence heaven
itself is
2, 3.
See Psalm lxv.
2-5.
By
See Psalm for
it
is
called a habitation
manifest.
A. 9594. R. 487.
5.
E. 630.
lxv. 5.
altars here are evidently
said
is
— see
verses 2
understood the heavens,
and
3.
By
tabernacles or
dwellings are understood the superior heavens, courts the inferior heavens where there
is
and by
entrance, which
heavens are also called altars from worship. Since all worship is from the good of love by truths, it is therefore
O Jehovah of hosts, my King and Lord is called Jehovah from Divine Because good, and King and God from Divine truth.
said "even thine altars,
my
God,"
for the
the heavens are understood
it is
also said, "blessed are
PSALM LXXXIV.
315
they that dwell in thy house," the house of Jehovah
God
compass. Sparrow here signifies spiritual truth, and swallow natural truth, by which worship is performed. Since all truth by which worship is performed is from the good of love, it is therestanding for heaven in
all its
my heart and my flesh crieth out for the God," heart and flesh signifying the good of love, and to cry out worship from the delight of good. E. 391. See Psalm lxiii. 2. A. 3813. 3. R. 832. See Psalm lxiii. 2. By the flesh which desireth Jehovah, and which jubilates towards the living God, is signified man as to the good of the will, for the flesh of man corresponds to the good or evil of his will, and the blood to the truth or false fore first said, "
living
of his understanding, in the present case flesh stands for
the good of the will.
E. 1082.
3-5.
See Psalm xxvi.
6-8.
Because of trust in the Lord the church
in-truths
P. P.
A. 3305.
xlvi. 7, 8.
D.
Verse quoted.
Her happiness
9-13. 10.
11.
will increase
and goods.
See Psalm
8, 9.
R. 392.
6, 7.
arises
from
P.,
Page
trust in the Lord.
63.
P. P.
See Psalm
ii.
2, 6.
A. 9954.
See Psalm
ii.
2, 6.
R. 779.
See Psalm
ii.
2, 6.
The
arating
E. 375.
tents here are the worship of that itself
from the
which was sep-
internal, tents therefore signifies
worship not holy. A. 1566. Standing at the door means communicating from without with good, which is the house of God. A. 8989. See Psalm lxv. 5. A. 9741. See Psalm lxv. See Psalm
By
R. 487.
5.
E. 220.
xviii. 7.
the courts
heaven, by which
is is
here signified the
first
or ultimate
entrance to the superior heavens. E. 630.
:
PSALM LXXXIV,
316 12.
See Psalm xxv. 21.
A. 612.
Signifying protection.
A. 1788.
See Psalm xxv. 21.
The sun
signifies the
A. 9905.
good of love
to the
Lord
in
man.
E. 401.
PSALM LXXXV. For the Chief Musician. 1.
2.
3.
A Psalm of
the sons of Korah.
Jehovah, thou hast been favorable unto thy land, Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; [Selah Thou hast covered all their sin. Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
4.
us, O God of our salvation, cause thine indignation toward us to cease. Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations ? Wilt thou not quicken us again, That thy people may rejoice in thee ? Show us thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, And grant us thy salvation. I will hear what God Jehovah will speak; For he will speak peace unto his people, and to his
Turn
And
5.
6.
7.
8.
saints let them not turn again to folly. Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him, That glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
But
9.
10.
n.
Truth springeth out
of the earth; righteousness hath looked down from heaven. Yea, Jehovah will give that which is good;
And
12.
And 13.
our land shall yield its increase. Righteousness shall go before him, And shall make his footsteps a way to walk
in.
PSALM LXXXV.
317
Psalm LXXXV. Prayer of the Lord to the Father, to institute a new church after judgment has been executed upon the evil.
1-8.
P. P.
See Psalm
6.
They
7.
A. 8286.
vi. 2.
that receive faith in the
Lord
are said to be
Perception from His Divine, that a church will arise
9-14.
and
made
A. 290.
alive.
flourish,
which
will
acknowledge the Lord, walking R. 306. T. 303.
P. P.
in truths. 9, 11.
See Psalm
iv.
7-9.
See Psalm
lv.
19.
By Jehovah
speaking peace unto His people and to
His saints is signified that He will teach them, and give them conjunction with Himself by the conjunction of good and truth in them, both these conjunctions are sig-
by peace. By people are signified those who are from good, and by saints those who are in good from truth, that such shall not afterwards be in evil from Both falsities is signified by their not returning to folly. the above conjunctions, namely, the conjunction of good and truth, and thence conjunction with the Lord are further described by these words, "Mercy and truth are met together, righteousness and peace have kissed each Mercy here signifying removal from falsities, other." and consequent reception of truths, and justice signifying the removal of evils, and consequent reception of goods. nified
in truth
11.
See Psalm
lxi.
E. 365A. 3122.
8.
Let justice and peace kiss each other means See Psalm xxv. 10. See Psalm xxxvi. 12.
See Psalm
them
A. 10577.
6.
xxxvi.
let
A. 3574. A. 6180.
conjoin themselves.
7.
Add:
Because
judgment
is
PSALM LXXXV.
318 spoken of truth,
in certain passages
we read "truth and
justice."
S. 85.
Since judgment relates to truth, and justice to good,
we read
therefore
12-13.
and
some
in
Here truth which
justice for love or
See Psalm xv.
is
places of "truth
of faith
is
mercy.
and
justice."
R. 668. used for judgment, A. 2235. A. 9263.
2.
PSALM LXXXVI. A i.
Prayer of David.
Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and I am poor and needy. Preserve my soul; for I am godly: O thou my God, save thy servant that
answer me;
For
2.
3.
Be merciful unto me, For unto thee do
4.
5.
Lord; cry all the day long.
Rejoice the soul of thy servant; For unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in lovingkindness unto all them that call
upon 6.
I
trusteth in thee.
O
Give
thee.
ear,
O
Jehovah, unto my prayer; unto the voice of my supplications.
And hearken 7.
8.
9.
10.
In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee; For thou wilt answer me. There is none like unto thee among the gods, O Lord; Neither are there any works like unto thy works. All nations w hom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; And they shall glorify thy name. For thou art great, and doest w ondrous things: T
r
Thou 11.
God alone. Teach me thy way, O Jehovah; art
truth:
Unite
my
heart to fear thy name.
I will
walk in thy
PSALM LXXXVI. 12.
O
Lord
I will glorify thy
name
I will praise thee,
my
319 God, with
my
whole
heart;
And 13.
14.
for evermore.
For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol. O God, the proud are risen up against me, And a company of violent men have sought after my soul,
And have 15.
not set thee before them.
But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.
16.
17.
Oh
turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; Give thy strength unto thy servant, And save the son of thy handmaid. Show me a token for good, That they who hate me may see it, and be put to shame, Because thou, Jehovah, hast helped me, and comforted me.
Psalm LXXXVI. I.
18.
See Psalm
ix.
19.
R. 209.
See Psalm
xl.
18.
E. 238.
Prayer of the Lord to the Father for help in temptaP. P.
tions.
2 4, 16. T
8.
See Psalm xxvii.
E. 409. above all gods,
9.
That it is so often said that Jehovah is and that He is God of gods, is because at that time many gods were worshipped, and the nations were distinguished by the gods whom they worshipped. Each nation beBecause lieved that its own god was the supreme of all. therefore the idea of a plurality of gods was seated in all minds, it was a matter of dispute which of them was the A. 8301.
greater.
II.
To fear God signifies to love the things which are
by doing them, and not being willing are contrary to
Him.
to
God's,
do the things that R. 527.
PSALM LXXXVI.
320
By
11
the
teaching the
good
faith
of love
way is signified to teacli truth. That must be conjoined with the truths of
signified by, unite
is
my
heart to the fear of thy
name, the heart signifying the love, and fear the holy principle of faith, which must be united or to be together E. 696.
in worship.
because thus there will be worship of the Lord,
II, 12.
and confession
The
13, 14. 15.
of
Him.
P. P. P. P.
hells are in insurrection.
See Psalm
A. 3122.
lxi. 8.
See Psalm xxv. 10.
A. 6180.
See Psalm
A. 8286.
2.
vi.
P. P. By His help they will be overthrown. By mark was represented that they should distinguish the commandment respecting love above all the
15-17. 16.
17.
other 1 7.
commandments.
Testifications that a thing
A. 396. is
true are signified
by
signs.
R. 598.
To make Jehovah
a sign for good signifies testification that
will help
and console him.
E. 706.
PSALM LXXXVII. A
Psalm
of the sons of
Korah; a Song.
4.
His foundation is in the holy mountains. Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion More than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of thee, [Selah O city of God. I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among
5.
Behold, Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia: This one was born there. Yea, of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was
1. 2.
3.
them
that
know me:
born in her;
And
the
Most High himself
will establish her.
PSALM LXXXVII. 6.
7.
321
Jehovah will count, when he writeth up the peoples, [Selah This one was born there. They that sing as well as they that dance shall say, All
my
fountains are in thee.
Psalm LXXXVII. 1.
See Psalm
xviii.
1.
R. 279.
See Psalm
xviii.
1.
E. 326.
In the supreme sense by Jacob and Israel the Lord A. 3305. is meant. 1-8. Song in praise of the Lord by a new church that will 1-3.
be gathered together from 1,
2.
2,
See Psalm
5-7.
By Zion and by celestial
A man
3,
E. 850.
4.
the daughter of Zion
is
understood the E. 208.
church.
Knowledges
2, 3.
P. P.
all parts.
xlviii.
is
of truth
and good are
signified
R. 899.
Heaven and
the church where the
Lord alone
worshipped are signified by mount Zion.
The
and
faith,
memory of the who place which they make
and salvation
in
in particular those
knowledges alone,
matters of memory.
The
is
R. 612.
Philistines signify in general a
knowledges of faith
gates.
introduced into the church, by them as into a
city.
2 > 3> 6, 7.
3, 4.
by
city of
God
A. 1197. is
the doctrine of the truth of faith
derived from the Word, Tyre stands for the knowledges of truth
and good,
in like
manner
Ethiopia, hence
it is
evident that Philistia stands for the science of the truths of faith. 4,
A. 9340.
Cush stands for internal knowledges from the Word, and therefore it is said he was born in the city of God. A.
1
164.
Babel in the beginning is the church which is in the zeal for the Lord for the good of love and for the truths of faith, although inwardly in the zeal of her pastors there
.
PSALM LXXXVII.
322 lies
concealed a
fire
of the love of ruling
of the church over all
whom
E. 1029.
selves. 7.
by the holy things
they can subdue to them-
See Psalm xxxvi.
9, 10.
R. 384.
See Psalm
27.
E. 483.
lxviii.
PSALM LXXXVIIL A
Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Chief Musician; set to
Mahalath Leannoth.
Maschil of
Heman
the Ezrahite.
Jehovah, the God of my salvation, have cried day and night before thee. Let my prayer enter into thy presence; Incline thine ear unto my cry. For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol. I am reckoned with them that go down into the I am as a man that hath no help, Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand. 1
6.
Thou
hast laid
me
pit;
in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the deeps. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. [Selah Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee. Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are deceased arise and praise thee ? -
7.
8.
9.
10.
[Selah 1 1
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave
Or
thy faithfulness in Destruction ?
?
PSALM LXXXVIII. Shall thy
12.
323
wonders be known in the dark?
And
thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness ? But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee. Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me ? I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off. They came round about me like water all the day long;
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
They compassed me about together. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness.
18.
Psalm LXXXVIII. 1.
See Psalm
xviii.
1.
R. 279.
See Psalm
xviii.
1.
E. 326.
In temptations that continue even to despair the Lord addresses the Father, that He is seemingly
1-10, 14-19.
overcome by the 5, 6.
They
P. P.
infernals.
that are pierced in hell, in the
grave, stand for those
who have
pit,
and
in the
destroyed truths and
goods in themselves by falsities and evils. That they are not in hell because they were pierced with the sword may be known by every one. Ezekiel xxxii. 19-21
—
—
5-7.
See Psalm
The
xlii.
8.
A. 4503. E. 538.
is concerning tempsupreme sense concerning the temptations of the Lord, the quality of which is here described, which was such that He seemed to Himself to be as it were in hell amongst the damned, so exceedingly direful and enormous were the temptations which the Lord sustained,
5-7, 12.
subject here treated of
tations, in the
wherefore
" I
am
reputed with those that go down into He seemed to Himself as it were in
the pit" signifies, that
PSALM LXXXVIII.
3 24 5
the pit standing for hell.
hell,
am become
" I
as a
man
He
then seemed to Himself as without power, for temptations immerse man Among into evils and falses, in which there is no power. that has no strength," signifies that
the dead, neglected signifies
among
nothing of truth and good, and
is
whom
there
are therefore re-
"As the slain who lie in the sepulchre" signifies who are in falses from evil, sepulchre denoting slain those who perish by falses, because they who
jected.
as those
the
hell,
those in
who
"Whom
are in hell are spiritually dead. berest no more,"
who
signifies
hast laid
me
and "who
are deprived of
thou remem-
from thy hand," " Thou truth and good.
are cut off all
in the pit of the lower parts" signifies in the
"In darkness" signifies were in falses, in "the depths" as it were in evils. Prayer arising from grief then follows, that He may be E. 659. delivered from the temptations. In the opposite sense a sepulchre signifies 6, 11, 12.
places of hell where such are. as
5,
it
death or 5, 7.
The
A. 2916.
hell.
subject
See also Psalm xxx.
ance from them. 11.
" Shall the
Rephaim
This likewise nifies that
world of
the Lord's temptations,
is
is
— dead —
said of the hell of
4.
and
deliver-
A. 4728.
and praise thee ? " the Rephaim, and sig-
arise
they cannot rise and infest the sphere of the
spirits
with the
persuasions, but that
it
venom
of their
most dreadful
has been provided by the Lord
human race should no longer be infected with A. 581. such dreadful fantasies and persuasions. By the dead are not meant the dead but the damned. A. 1673 P. P 11-13. God has no glory from the hells. that the
12.
Hell and the devil are called destruction and destroyer,
15.
See Psalm
R. 440 xiii.
See Psalm xxvii. See Psalm
xiii.
A. 5585
2.
2.
8, 9.
R. 939 E. 412
:
:
PSALM LXXXIX.
325
PSALM LXXXIX. Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the
With
my mouth
all
generations.
For
I
have
said,
lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever; make known thy faithfulness to
will I
Mercy
shall
be built up for ever;
Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens. I have made a covenant with my chosen, have sworn unto David
I
my
servant:
Thy And And Thy
seed will I establish for ever, [Selah build up thy throne to all generations. the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah; faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah ? Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah, A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, And to be feared above all them that are round about
him? 8.
O
Jehovah God of hosts, is a mighty one, like unto thee, O Jehovah ? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.
Who
9.
Thou
rulest the pride of the sea
When
the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy
10.
Thou Thou
11.
The heavens are thine, the The world and the fulness
strength.
12.
13.
14.
15.
earth also
is
thine:
thereof, thou hast
founded
them. The north and the south, thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name. Thou hast a mighty arm; Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne Lovingkindness and truth go before thy face. Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.
PSALM LXXXIX.
326 16.
In thy name do they rejoice
And 17.
For thou
And 18.
19.
Then thou
spakest in vision to thy saints, have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. saidst, I
have found David my servant; my holy oil have I anointed him: whom my hand shall be established;
I
21.
With With
24.
art the glory of their strength;
horn shall be exalted. For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah; And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
20.
23.
the day;
in thy favor our
And
22.
all
in thy righteousness are they exalted.
Aline arm also shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him. And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite them that hate him.
But
my
faithfulness
my
and
lovingkindness shall be
with him;
And
in
my name
shall his
hand also on right hand on the
horn be exalted.
25.
I will set his
the sea, rivers.
26.
And his He shall
27.
I also will
My The 28.
My
cry unto me, Thou art my Father, God, and the rock of my salvation.
make him my
firstborn,
highest of the kings of the earth. lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore;
And my covenant
29.
30.
shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure for ever, And his throne as the days of heaven.
break
31.
If they
32.
And keep Then will And their
33.
forsake my law, not in mine ordinances;
If his children
And walk
But
my
not
my statutes, my commandments;
I visit their transgression
lovingkindness will I not utterly take from
him,
Nor
with the rod,
iniquity with stripes.
suffer
my
faithfulness to
fail.
PSALM LXXXIX. 34.
My
covenant
36.
37.
will I not break,
is gone out of my lips. sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: His seed shall endure for ever, And his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon,
Nor
35.
32 7
alter the thing that
Once have
And
I
as the faithful witness in the sky.
38.
But thou hast
39.
Thou Thou Thou
cast off
and
[Selah
rejected,
hast been wroth with thine anointed. hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: hast profaned his crown by casting it to the
ground. 40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45. 46.
hast broken down all his hedges; hast brought his strongholds to ruin. All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors. Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
Thou Thou
Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle.
Thou hast made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down to the ground. The days of his youth hast thou shortened: Thou hast covered him with shame.
How 47.
Jehovah ? wilt thou hide thyself forever ? long shall thy wrath burn like fire ?
Oh remember how
short
my
time
is:
For what vanity hast thou created 48.
[Selah
How long, O
men What man That
is
he that shall
shall deliver his soul
live
all
and not
the children of see death,
from the power of Sheol ? [Selah
49.
50.
Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness ? Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the
mighty peoples,
PSALM LXXXIX.
328 51.
52.
Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. Blessed be Jehovah for evermore.
Amen, and Amen.
Psalm LXXXIX. 1-3.
2 j 3>
All Divine truth
from the Lord.
is
See Psalm xxv.
J 5»
P. P.
A. 6180.
10.
See Psalm xxxvi. 6. A. 10577. These things also are spoken concerning the Lord, and not concerning David, for it is said " I have sworn to David my servant, thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations" which is not applicable to David, whose seed and throne are not established to all generations, and yet Jehovah sware, and an oath of Jehovah is irrevocable confirmation from the
3-6.
Divine Being. 4.
E. 205.
m
That the compact of a covenant on the part is mercy and election is evident.
of the
Lord
A. 6804.
This also is concerning the Lord. To make a covenant with the chosen, and to swear unto David mean irrevocable confirmation or eternal. truth. David stands
4, 5.
for the Lord.
To make
a covenant regards the Divine
good, to swear the Divine truth.
By the
seed of David
as a father, for this
much importance
is
was not
that
it
A. 2842.
not meant the posterity of David so
much
multiplied, nor of so
should be multiplied as the army
and as the sand of the sea, but by David meant the Lord as to Divine truth, thus by his seed those who are regenerated or born of the Lord, and in the abstract sense those things which appertain to them from the Lord, which are the truths of faith and the goods of of the heavens, is
charity. 4, 5, 6.
A. 10249. Passages concerning the coming of the Lord col-
PSALM LXXXIX. lected
329
from the prophecies of the Old Word. Coro. 60. truth is from Him because there is oneness
The Divine
with the Divine Verses 4 and
Human. 5
P. P.
D.
quoted.
He who knows meant by David may know why David
4-6, 20-22, 25-30, 36-38. is
wrote so often concerning the Lord
P.,
Page
in his
Psalms
when concerning L. 44.
himself. 4> 5> J 5» 3°«
By
the throne of
David
is
understood heaven
as to Divine truth. 4, 5,
4, 5,
E. 253.
The Divine Human
20.
Luke
59.
Lord
that the
in
i.
Psalm
is
the
Holy spoken
lxxxix. also Daniel ix.
20-22, 24, 26-30, 36-38.
By David
of in
Ath. 41. in this
Psalm
is
not understood David, but the Lord as to His royalty,
which
is
Verse 4
the Divine spiritual,
and
signifies the unition of the
Human.
To make Verse
called Divine truth.
a covenant means unition, to swear
confirmation thereof, elect of truth.
is
Lord's Divine with His
5 signifies
is
predicated of good, servant
Divine truth, heaven and the
church from Him, seed Divine truth and those who receive it, throne heaven and the church. Verse 20 signifies a prophetic arcanum concerning the Lord. The Divine truth whereby Divine good operates all things is The exaltation of called a help upon one that is mighty. one chosen out of the people means Divine majesty and power thence derived. Verse 21 signifies the Lord as to the Divine Human, and union with the essential Divine, which union in the New Testament is called glorification, and is understood by the anointing. The oil of holiness signifies the Divine good of the Divine love, anointed to be united to Divine truth, which appertained to the Lord's human in the world. Verse 22 signifies omnipotence thence derived, hand omnipotence of truth from good, Verse 24 signifies the arm omnipotence of good by truth.
combat attended with thus the
hells.
victory against evils
Verse 26
and
falsities,
signifies the extension of
His
PSALM LXXXIX.
330 26
dominion and kingdom over
all
things of heaven
and the
Verse 27 signifies the Divine Human which is the Son of God conceived of the essential Divine, and Divine truth and Divine power was afterwards born.
church.
thence derived to the Lord's human,
He
also called
is
God, and the rock of salvation. Verse 28 signifies that He is above all the good and truth of heaven and the church, because they are from Him. Verses 29 and 30, the days of heaven denote the states of the whole heaven, which are from His Divine. Verse 36 signifies eternal confirmation, because from the Divine, concerning the Lord, and the union of His Human with the Essential Divine. Verse 37 and 38 signify similar things as above where treating of His seed and throne. Of the sun is predicated eternity as to Divine good, of the
Divine truth.
A
moon
faithful witness in the clouds
as to
means
acknowledgment and confession from the Word concerning the Divine in the
The Lord
4, 5, 12.
is
See Psalm xxvii.
of the Lord.
E. 684.
R.
is
here understood the
Lord
as to His
E. 701.
royalty or kingly office.
See Psalm
4> 5> 30.
That
4> 5> 3°> 37«
3.
E. 409.
9.
By David
4, 5, 29.
Human
meant by David.
xxi. 11.
faith in the
Lord
is
R. 565. meant by the seed
woman
appears from the signification of woman, which is the church. By David is meant the Lord, by the throne His kingdom, by the sun love, by seed faith. of the
A- 255.
By David
which kingdom. royalty,
4, 36.
is
Word
understood the Lord as to His the Divine truth in the Lord's spiritual
in the
is
E. 768.
That Jehovah, that
signifies that the
vine truth,
4> 36, 50.
and
is
the Lord, sware
Divine truth
this testifies
Since to swear
is
testifies, for
from
itself
only what
by Himself
He
and by is
is
the Di-
itself.
R. 474. external corre-
PSALM LXXXIX.
7.
331
sponding to the confirmation of the mind of the internal man, and hence is significative thereof, therefore in the Word of the Old Testament it is said to be lawful to swear by God, and even God himself is said to swear. This signifies confirmation, asseveration, and simply the verity of a thing. E. 608. See Psalm xviii. 3, 29, 30, 32. Add: For this reason, every angel or spirit that spake with men, and whom they believed to have any power, they called God. A. 300. See Psalm
7-9.
1.
See Psalm xxix.
1.
7-10, 14.
By
10.
sea
natural
By
Thus is
A. 4295. A. 4402. A. 7268.
lxxxii. 1, 6.
See Psalm xxix.. the
Lord has
all
power.
P. P.
here signified the natural man, because in the
man
are the
common
or general things of truth.
waves is signified its exalting itself against the Divine, denying the things which are of the the rising of
its
E. 275.
church.
11-15. 12.
All of
heaven and the church
See Psalm xxiv.
See Psalm
1,
is
from Him.
ix. 9.
By founding
and the earth
the globe
is
signified to es-
tablish the church.
By
the heavens
P. P.
A. 6297. R. 551.
2.
and the earth
is
signified the
R. 589. church in
and in the earths each as to truths. By the world and the fulness thereof is signified the church in the heavens and in the earths each as to goods, fulness standE. 741. ing for goods and truths in their complex. By the heaven and the earth is signified the church, by the world the church as to good, and by the fulness the heavens
thereof, all the
12, 13.
By
goods and truths of the church.
See Psalm
xlviii.
the heavens, the earth, and the world
the church, by fulness stitute the
an obscure
E. 1057.
A. 3708.
2, 3.
all
the truth
church, by the north those therein state as to truth,
by the
is
signified
and good which conright
who
are in
hand those who
PSALM LXXXIX.
332
12 are in the light of truth
from good, thus the same as by A. 10061.
the south.
By
the heavens
and
perior
and the earths
are understood the su-
inferior heavens, also the internal
and external
church, by the world and the fulness thereof the heavens
and the church
Since these principles, or those
truth.
are in the north
hand
right
good and as to truth, by and by the fulness thereof as to
in general as to
the world as to good,
and
of the Lord, therefore
the right hand.
and
in the south,
Since such
is
it is
who
are in them,
the south
is
at the
said the north
and
the quality of Divine truth
united to Divine good in those quarters from the foundation of the world,
it is
therefore said thou hast founded,
and thou hast created them. 13-15. That by the right hand south
is
By
evident.
E. 600. is
the south
is
here understood the signified
the Divine
truth in light, thus in the supreme sense, in which the
Lord
is
spoken
of,
it
omnipotence and omni-
signifies
w hich Divine good has by Divine truth. See Luke xxii. 69, at the right hand of power
science,
14.
the
T
E. 298. signifies
omnipotence of the Lord, the right hand means
power.
A. 7518.
Divine power or omnipotence right hand.
That the
right
hand
signifies
is
also signified
by the
A. 8281.
.
Divine power
is
manifest.
A. 10019. Justice stands for the good which is of mercy, and judgment for the truth winch is of faith, hence it is also said mercy and truth. A. 9857. See Psalm xxxvi. 7. S. 85. See Psalm xxxvii. 6. W. 38. The Lord is the Divine good and the Divine truth. The former is signified by justice, and the latter by judg-
15.
ment. See Psalm xxxvi.
7.
I spoke with clergymen
and laymen, who
R. 668. T. 51. had gathered
psalm lxxxix.
333
They
together concerning the Divine omnipotence. that omnipotence
potence that
is
there
a contradiction.
no contradiction
is
said
and that limited omniTo which it was answered
unlimited,
is
acting omnipotently
in
according to laws of justice with judgment, and that there is
no contradiction in acting omnipotently according to from wisdom. Ind. viii.
the laws of love 1 6.
See Psalm
iv.
Numbers
See
among
A. 10579.
7.
x.
From the uses Israel, it may also be
1-10.
the children of
of trumpets
seen what
is
by trumpets and by sounding them in Joel ii. (Swedenborg translates: Blessed 1, 2: Zechariah ix. 14. is the people that know the trumpet sound, instead of joyful sound, or joyful shout.) R. 397. R. 939. See Psalm iv. 7. signified
See Psalm
By
iv.
E. 412.
7.
the sound of the trumpet
is
signified
Divine truth E. 502.
gladdening the heart.
16-19. 18.
Happy
See Psalm
is
he
who
trusts in the Lord.
P. P.
R. 270. here signified to be rilled
xviii. 2, 3.
By the horn being exalted is with Divine truth, and thereby to give power against E. 316.
falsities.
A. 3305. The Holy One of Israel is the Lord. Our horn and His horn manifestly stand 18, 19, 25, 26. The Lord's spiritual kingdom for the power of truth. Our king belongs to the Holy One of is here treated of. To Israel, means that Divine truth belongs to the Lord.
18, 19.
put His hand on the sea, and His right hand on the
means
that strength
is
in the external
and
A. 2832.
edges of truth. 19.
Since the Lord alone
is
holy, therefore
Holy One of Israel. See Psalm lxxi. 22. Jehovah and the Holy One 20-26.
The Father
rivers,
internal knowl-
to the
He
is
called the
A. 9229. A. 9680. of Israel.
D.
P.,
Page
63.
Lord, or His Divine to His
PSALM LXXXIX.
334
Human:
that by oneness with
over the
hells.
20-38.
Him He
has omnipotence P. P.
Verses 20, 22, 26, 27, 28, 30, 37, 38 partly quoted.
D. 20, 26-30.
See Psalm
Here by David
is
P.,
Page
59.
A. 9954. understood the Lord, by the holy oil ii.
2, 6.
with which Jehovah anointed good of the Divine love.
Him
is
signified the
Divine
E. 375. A. 9954.
By David is meant the Lord. That they afterwards anointed kings, and that they were called the anointed of Jehovah see i. Samuel x. 1; xv. 1. E. 375. ii. Samuel i. 16, etc. R. 270. See Psalm xviii. 2, 3. 21, 22, 25. By David is understood the Lord as to Divine truth. 21.
By his horn being exalted is understood His Divine power, which He has from Divine good by Divine truth. Mercy in the
Word when
signifies the
predicated of Jehovah, or the Lord, Divine good of the Divine love. By servant
is not understood a servant in the ordinary sense, but whatsoever serves. It is therefore predicated of truth, because this serves good for use, and in this case for
E. 316.
power.
By David, by
and by king, as in other passages of the Psalms, the Lord is understood, which may be clearly seen by those who understand the Word spiritually, but obscurely by those who understand
21, 26, 28-30.
it
2I
anointed,
E. 205.
only naturally.
The reason why they anointed kings was that 39) 5 2 « they might represent the Lord as to judgment from Divine >
truth, wherefore
in
the
Word by
kings are represented
A. 9954
Divine truths.
R. 779 A. 3122 A. 6180
This
is
said of
David bv
whom
the
Lord
is
R. 409 understood
PSALM LXXXIX.
335
The power
of the Lord even to the ultimates of heaven and the church, thus over the whole heaven, and over everything of the church is signified by setting his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. That the ultimates of heaven are seas and riv ers has been frequently shown. These were represented by the two seas and by the two rivers which formed the boundaries of the land of Canaan. E. 518. Speaking of power from truths. A. 4402. 26, 27. 26-28. In the whole of this Psalm the Lord who was to come is treated of, wherefore it is He who should call Jehovah His Father, and who should be the First-born, thus who is the Son of God. L. 19. Passages which speak more openly of the com26, 28-30. r
ing of the Lord.
See Psalm
27.
L.
lxxviii.
6.
Inv. 35. whit of love is of
16, 20, 35.
All love is of the Lord, and no man, wherefore the Lord alone is the First-born. In respect to the Lord being the First-born of all as to His
27, 28.
Human
essence,
By
is
the
rock
it is
Lord himself. That the Lord
27-30. born
is
thus written.
A. 352.
understood Divine truth from the Lord, or E. 411. as to the Divine
Human is
evident from David.
27-30, 36-38.
There
will
the First-
A. 3325.
be eternal oneness with Him. P. P.
The
what truth from good, and thus what the understanding from the will first produces, because truth is of the understanding, and good is of the will. This first thing, because it is as the seed from which the
28.
first-born
is
rest proceed, is the primary. is
In regard
the First-born from the dead, because
to the
He
is
Lord,
He
also, as to
His Human, the truth itself united to the Divine good, from which all men, who are in themselves dead, live. R. Since the
Lord
as to His Divine
Humanity
is
17.
called the
PSALM LXXXIX.
336
First-born, by reason that
all
good proceeds from Him,
therefore all the first-born in the Israelitish church were
E. 28.
holy to Jehovah.
Speaking of the Lord. My covenant shall be stable to Him means the union of the Divine itself and the Divine Human, thus it also stands for the Word, for the Lord as to the Divine Human was the Word which
28, 29, 35.
was made flesh. That all things
30.
Word
of the
See John
widest sense.
xii.
are
34.
A. 9396. in the
meant by the law This
here written.
is
L. 10.
The The
foregoing statement repeated in
T. 262.
foregoing statement also repeated in
T. 288.
That
3 1~33-
the laws enacted by the
Lord and commanded
the sons of Israel were distinguished into
which
civil state,
commandments
judgments which relate to the and into statutes which relate to worship is
relate to
life,
into
A. 8972.
plain.
By commandments pecially those
are understood the laws of
which are
in the decalogue,
fore called the ten precepts.
By
life,
es-
which are there-
statutes are understood
the laws of worship, which principally relate to sacrifices, and the ministry of holy things. By judgments are under-
stood
civil
laws,
w hich T
being representative of spiritual
laws, were therefore significative of Divine truths, such
as are in the spiritual
kingdom
of the
Lord
in the heavens.
E. 946.
Even
31-38.
if
those of the church should
be eternal oneness with Him. David stands for the Lord. 35, 36.
fail
there will P. P.
The Divine good
here
has regard to the covenant. The thing that has gone out of my lips, has regard to the Divine truth, this on account of the marriage of good and truth which is in everything A. 2842. Word. These things are spoken concerning the Lord. is evident from the whole of the Psalm, for His com-
of the
35-38. This
PSALM LXXXIX.
337
ing is here treated of, and afterwards the rejection of Him by the Jewish nation. E. 205. This is said of David, but by David the Lord is 37, 38.
here meant.
R. 53. Concerning the Lord, and concerning heaven and His By His seed which shall continue for ever are church. signified the Divine truth, and also all those who shall By His throne which shall endure as the sun receive it. are signified heaven and His church which are in celestial good, which is the good of love. By His throne which shall be established as the
moon
for ever,
is
signified
heaven and the church which are in spiritual good, which is the Divine truth. By a faithful witness in the heavens is signified the Word in the literal sense, which is called a witness because it testifies, and because the heavens, or the clouds signify the literal sense of the
By
Word.
the seed which shall endure for ever
Divine truth which
is
is
E. 401.
signified the
from Him, by the throne heaven and and as to the truth of
the church, as to the good of love
A
faith. is
Lord
signifies that
being of 38.
faithful witness in the clouds signifies that
the Divine truth, for witness
Him
See Psalm
when
He
predicated of the
which proceeds from Him, and this Him. E. 594.
witnesses concerning lxviii.
E. 36.
5.
Anointed stands for the Lord, anger for a state of temptation in which He was when in combats with the hells, lamentation is described by anger and damnation,
39, 40.
as the last lamentation of the
Lord that He was forsaken. A. 9930.
The wisdom which
from the knowledges of truth and good from the Word, and from a life according to them is signified by a crown. E. 126. By thine anointed is understood the Lord, and by being wroth a state of temptation in which He was when in combats
w ith T
the hells.
is
The lamentation
of that state
is
de-
scribed by anger and damnation, as was the case in the
PSALM LXXXIX.
338 39 last temptation
He was tions or
He
tion
on the
cross,
when
forsaken, for the cross
the
was the
Lord lamented last of
that
His tempta-
combats with the hells. After that last temptaput on the Divine good of the Divine love, and
thus united the Divine Divinity which
was
Humanity
to the very or essential
in Himself.
E. 272.
Of the Jewish nation. It has destroyed conjuncwith Him, because it has destroyed the church. P. P.
39-43. tion
40. 43.
By a crown is signified wisdom. The right hand, in the opposite
from
R. 189. sense, signifies falsity
and reasoning and combat thereof against truth
evil,
derived from good.
E. 298.
has utterly repudiated Him.
44-46.
It
47-49.
Prayer to the Father that unless
will
have eternal
48, 50.
To
P. P.
He
make
a
man
signifies to
Divine truth. 50.
Unless oneness
reform him by E. 294. P. P.
effected.
is
no one P. P.
life.
create or
assist,
P. P. 50-52. The hells will otherwise prevail. In my bosom, meaning with himself, as his own.
51.
A. 6960. 53.
See Psalm xxvih.
See Psalm
xxviii. 6.
See Psalm
xli.
He
A. 1096.
6.
14.
R. 289. E. 228.
.
P. P.
assists.
PSALM A
XC.
Prayer of Moses the
man
of
God.
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place In all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.
:
PSALM XC.
339
For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.
Thou
carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
For we are consumed
in thine anger,
And in thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before Our
thee,
secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
For
all our days are passed away in thy wrath bring our years to an end as a sigh. The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away. Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee? So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom. Return, O Jehovah; how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants. Oh satisfy us in the morning with thy lovingkindness, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast
We
10.
ii.
12.
13.
14.
15.
afflicted us,
And 16.
17.
the years wherein we have seen evil. Let thy w ork appear unto thy servants, T
And And And
thy glory upon their children. let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us;
establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
PSALM XC.
34-0
Psalm XC. See Psalm xxvi.
i.
1-6.
Man
8. A. 9481. nothing of himself, but the Lord alone (is of
is
Himself).
By
2.
P. P.
and by the earth formed, and
the mountains born,
by the orb
is
not meant the creation of the world, but the
establishment of the church, hence from age to age signifies
from the establishment
of churches to their end, for
churches succeed one another, since when one is finished or vastated, another is established. A mountain stands for celestial love, consequently the church
The reason why is
"from
said
eternity
not mentioned, but that
is
everlasting to everlasting"
sense of the
literal
ternal sense spiritual,
it
Word
and the
is
is
natural,
latter is
and the
in-
contained in the E. 468.
former.
By
in
is
because the a natural expression, and the former spiritual,
latter is
and the
which
A. 10248.
that love.
the mountains are signified those
who
dwell upon
mountains in the heavens, who are those that are in celestial good, but by the earth and the world is signified the church from those who are in truths and in goods. E. 741. A thousand years stands for what is without time, thus 4. A. 2575. for eternity, which is infinity of time.
By
yesterday
is
A. 6983.
signified eternity.
See Psalm lxviii. 18. In the Divine idea there
is
not time, but
all
A. 8715. things past
R. 4. everywhere present in the whole world, and yet not anything proper to the world is in Him, that is not T. 30. anything that is of space or time. D. P., Page 32. Verse partly quoted.
and future
God
6.
is
Evening dense
are present.
cause there
the last state of the church,
is
falsity
because there
is
no
charity.
is
no
faith,
when
there
and dense
is
evil be-
A. 7844.
PSALM XC. See Psalm xxx.
6.
The church
7-1 1.
34T C. J. 13. P. P.
perishes.
See Psalm xxvii.
8.
In
this
R. 939. 8, 9. passage the light of Jehovah's countenance sig-
heaven issuing from the Lord as a sun. Divine truth from which are all intelligence and wisdom, therefore whatever comes into nifies the light of
This
it,
light is essential
the quality thereof that
when
is
the evil
manifested as in clear day.
come
Hence
appear altogether according to their real quality, deformed and monstrous according to the evils concealed in them. From these considerations it is evident what is understood by, "Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance." E. 412. To number days means to ordain and arrange 11, 12. states of life. Days are said to be numbered when they are ordained and arranged, thus when they are finished. it is
into tins light they
A. 10217. 12.
To number
to the greatest,
pose, that 12, 13. 14.
is
signifies to
know
the quality from the least
and according thereto
to provide.
Unless restored by the Lord.
See Psalm
By means
lxiii.
and
dis-
E. 453. P. P.
E. 179.
2.
of His coming.
14, 15.
See Psalm
14-17.
See Psalm xl. 17. Thence is salvation.
li.
to arrange
10.
P. P. S. 87.
E. 660. P. P.
PSALM
342
PSALM i
.
2.
3.
4.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
XCI.
He
that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of Jehovah, He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in whom I trust. For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the deadly pestilence. He will cover thee with his pinions, And under his wings shait thou take
refuge: a shield and a buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, Nor for the arrow that flieth by day; For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at thy right hand; But it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, And see the reward of the wicked. For thou, Jehovah, art my refuge! Thou hast made the Most High thy habitation;
His truth
5.
XCI.
is
O
There
shall
no
evil befall thee,
Neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent. For he will give his angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample -
12.
13.
14.
under foot. Because he hath I deliver him: I will set
set his love
him on
upon me,
therefore will
high, because he hath
known my
name. 15.
He
upon me, and I will answer him; be with him in trouble: I will deliver him, and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him, shall call
I will
16.
And show him my
salvation.
PSALM
xci.
343
Psalm XCI. 1.
Song
in praise of the Father
made one with Him. 2-6. Thus there will be
by the Lord, who
is
to
be
P. P.
protection from every attack. P. P.
2, 4.
A
shield
and a buckler stands
for protection
See Psalm
4.
4, 5.
xvii. 8.
See Psalm
v.
See Psalm
xvii. 8.
See Psalm
xi.
The evil
.xvii. 8.
See Psalm
from
A. 1788. A. 8764.
falsities.
R. 245. R. 436.
13.
E. 283.
A. 2709. pestilence that walketh in darkness stands for the 2.
which lays waste
in secret.
wasteth at noonday, for the
evil
The
destruction that
which lays waste openly. A. 7505.
Not to fear for the destruction that wasteth in the south, means not to be afraid because of the damnation which comes upon those who are in knowledges and per-
5, 6.
V
vert them.
The
A. 1458.
by night stands for falsities of evil which are from hell, the arrow that flieth by day for falsity that is openly taught, whereby good is destroyed; the destruction that wasteth at noonday for evil that is lived in openly, whereby truth is destroyed. A. 6000. The terror by night stands for falsity which is in secret, the arrow that flieth by day for falsity which is seen, the pestilence that walketh in darkness for evil which is in secret, the destruction that wasteth at noon-day for evil which is seen. A. 7102. The terror of night stands for the falses of evil which are from hell, the weapon which flies by day for the falses which are openly taught. The death which vastates in the south stands for the evil which is openly lived in, terror
PSALM
344
XCI.
whereby truth is destroyed where it is capable of being A. 9642. in its light from the Word. E. 186. See Psalm ix. 14. R. 287. See Psalm lxviii. 18. 5-7. These things are said against the falsities and evils which are not known to be such, and concerning those which are known to be such and yet creep into the thought and will and destroy man. The destruction of those evils is signified by, "a thousand shall fall at thy side," and the destruction of the falsities by, "and myriads at thy The reason why a thousand is predicated right hand." of evils, and myriads of falsities is because falsities are E. 336. opposed to truths, and evils to goods. A thousand and a myriad stand for what is innumer7. able, and as it is concerning the Lord, who is meant by David in the Psalms, it stands for all who are His enemies '
See Psalm
Thus
7-9.
lxviii.
there will be no uprising of the hells.
See Psalm xxvi.
9.
See Psalm xv.
9, 10.
By
18.
1,
8. 2.
A. 2575 A. 8715 P.
P
A. 9481 R. 585
and by His tabernacle is heaven and the church, by habitation both as to The retruths and by tabernacle both as to goods. moval of evils and protection from them is signified by making the Most High his dwelling, and by no evil beE. 799. falling him, nor plague coming nigh him. R. 657. 10, See Psalm xxxix. 11. P. P. not even against the church. P. P. Thus heaven will serve Him. 11, 12. the habitation of Jehovah
signified
13.
See Psalm
lvii.
See Psalm
xvii. 12.
R. 241.
See Psalm
xvii. 12.
E. 278.
By pions
5.
A. 6367.
treading upon the lion, the asp, serpents, and scoris
understood not only to destroy them, but also not
to be hurt
by them.
E. 632.
:
psalm xcn. See Psalm
13, 14.
To
345 R. 537.
19, 20.
xliv.
destroy falses interior and exterior which vastate
the truths of the church the lion
and dragon.
lead to interior truths
is
by treading under foot falses and to
signified
To withdraw from and goods him who
is
in doctrine
from the Word is signified by, I will deliver him. To deliver is to withdraw from falses, to exalt is to lead to interior truths.
To know my name
is
to be in doctrine
from the Word. E. 714. 13-16. There will be no fear from the hells, when the Divine has been made one with the Human. P. P. See Psalm iv. 2. 15. R. 376. See Psalm iv. 2. E. 471.
PSALM XCIL A
Psalm, a Song for the sabbath day.
a good thing to give thanks unto Jehovah,
i.
It is
2.
And to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High; To show forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, And thy faithfulness every night,
3.
4.
With an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery, With a solemn sound upon the harp. For thou, Jehovah, hast made me glad through thy
5.
work: triumph in the works of thy hands. How great are thy works, O Jehovah!
6.
A
I will
Thy
thoughts are very deep.
brutish
man knoweth
not;
Neither doth a fool understand 7.
When the wicked And when all the
8.
workers of iniquity do flourish;
they shall be destroyed for ever. But thou, O Jehovah, art on high for evermore. For, lo, thine enemies, O Jehovah, For, lo, thine enemies shall perish; All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. It is that
9.
this
spring as the grass,
PSALM
346
my
But
10.
XCII.
horn hast thou exalted
like the
horn of the
wild-ox: I
am
anointed with fresh
oil.
Mine eye also hath seen my desire on mine enemies, Mine ears have heard my desire of the evil-doers that rise up against me. The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree:
11.
12.
He
shall
They They They They
13.
14.
To He
15.
grow
like
a cedar in Lebanon.
are planted in the house of Jehovah; shall flourish in the courts of
our God.
bring forth fruit in old age; shall be full of sap and green: show that Jehovah is upright; is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. shall
still
Psalm XCII. 1.
See Psalm
xviii.
1.
R. 279.
See Psalm
xviii.
1.
E. 326.
The
oneness of the Divine of the Lord with His Divine
Human
which
See Psalm
is
the "sabbath."
P. P.
R. 276. On account of musical instruments and also dances signifying joy and gladness which result from affections,
2-4.
xxxiii. 2, 3.
mind themselves, which sounds produce, both in what is simple and in what is complex, therefore David and the whole house of Israel played before Jehovah on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals. Since the harp signifies confessions from spiritual truths, and spiritual truths are those which affect the angels who are in the Lord's spiritual kingdom, they and the angels who and
also the affections of the
their several
are in
them
also dissipate falsities.
See
i.
Samuel
xvi. 23.
E. 3 2 3-
Song Him.
2-6.
in praise of the cooperation of the
Father with P. P.
PSALM 3.
See Psalm xxv.
7.
The
347
10.
A. 6180.
do not understand this. Although the evil flourish, yet they perish.
8-10. 11.
XCII.
evil
P. p. P. P.
See Psalm
xxii. 22.
A. 2832.
See Psalm
xxiii. 5.
A. 9954.
was a received custom to anoint themselves and others and benevolence of mind, but with common or some other precious oil, not with the oil of It
to testify gladness
holiness.
R. 779.
Here the expression like the horn of an unicorn signifies truth, as to abundance and power. E. 316. See Psalm xlv. 8. E. 375. See Psalm xxxvii. 35. E. 507. 11,
12.
Thus He has Divine omnipotence up against Him.
against those
that rise
See Psalm
Palm tree stands palm signifies good,
13.
is
p. p.
10.
Hi.
R. 401. for it
good and cedar for truth. Since wisdom, for wisdom
also signifies
of good.
13, 14.
A. 8369.
By palms
the Divine truths of the
Word
See Psalm lxv. See Psalm
The
are sig-
R. 367.
nified.
R. 487.
5.
xviii. 7.
E. 220.
righteous signify those
righteous in the
Word
who
are in good, for
are signified those
who
by the
are in the
good of love, and by the holy those who are in truths deIt is said concerning them that rived from that good. they shall flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon, for by these are understood the fructification of good, and the multiplication of truth. Palm signifies spiritual
good, cedar the truth of that good, and
By the house of Jehovah which they are planted, and the courts in which they shall germinate is signified heaven and the church, the house of Jehovah the internal church, and the courts Lebanon
the spiritual church.
in
the external church.
Plantation
is
effected in the in-
PSALM
348 I3
XCII.
teriors of man where the good of love and charity resides, and germinations in the exteriors of man where the good
of
life resides.
By
the courts
is
E. 458. here understood heaven, and specifi-
cally the ultimate heaven,
13-15.
From which
14, 15.
When
15, 16.
See Psalm xxxvi.
and the church.
E. 630.
the church will nourish.
P. P.
they are grey haired means in the last stage.
A. 555o.
To
R. 782.
9.
be fat and green signifies to be in goods and truths E.
of doctrine.
By
16,
rock
is
Lord himself. and will sing praises to the Lord. See Psalm lxxviii. 16, 20, 35.
the
PSALM 1.
3.
4.
P. P. Inv. 35.
XCIII.
therewith:
The world also is established, that it cannot be moved. Thy throne is established of old: Thou art from everlasting. The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves. Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, Jehovah on high
5.
E. 411.
Jehovah reigneth; he is clothed with majesty; Jehovah is clothed with strength; he hath girded himself
2.
n 59.
understood Divine truth from the Lord, or
is
mighty.
Thy
testimonies are very sure: Holiness becometh thy house,
O
Jehovah, for evermore.
PSALM
XCIII.
349
Psalm XCIII. Since in the church
I.
God
ary to say,
among
Psalms are inscribed with the
By
this
was
was customDavid some words "Jehovah reigneth." was well with the church,
the ancients
shall reign,
signified that
it
it
therefore in
because then good and truth from the Divine were therein. A. 8331.
These things are said concerning the Lord about to come into the world. Since He has glory and power from the Human which He united to His Divine, it is said that He put on majesty and strength, and that He girded himself, for the Lord assumed the Human that He might be in the potency of subjugating the hells. The church which He was about to establish and to defend for ever is signified by the world which shall be established and shall not be moved, and by the throne, for by the world is signified heaven and the church as to the reception of Divine good, and by the throne the same as to the recep-
I, 2.
tion of Divine truth.
Through
E. 741.
the oneness of the Divine
the Lord, heaven
and the church
will
and the endure
Human
in
to eternity.
P. P.
2-4.
Rivers signify truths in abundance.
R. 409. dominion over
Spoken concerning the Lord. His heaven and earth from eternity to eternity is signified by The glorification of the Lord for His advent, and verse 2. the salvation of mankind thence derived is signified by what is said about the floods, for by the floods here mentioned three times are signified all things which are of man's intelligence, both in the internal and in the external man. The Divine truth from the Lord whence are power
and salvation is signified by verse 4, waters standing for and the noise of many waters for Divine truths.
truths,
E. 518.
.
PSALM
35°
XCIII.
A voice signifies what is announced from the Word. A voice is often spoken of and also applied to such things
3, 4.
as have
The
no relation
A. 6971.
to a voice.
joy of those
who
are in Divine truths
See Psalm xix.
The Word
A. 4197.
8.
established in the church.
PSALM 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
1 1
12.
13.
this
P. P.
source. 5.
from
P. P.
XCIV.
to whom vengeance belongeth, vengeance belongeth, shine forth. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: Render to the proud their desert. Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph ? They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves. They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah,
O
Jehovah, thou
God
whom
Thou God
to
And
thy heritage.
afflict
They slay the widow and the And murder the fatherless.
sojourner,
And
they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider. Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise ? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see ? He that chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct, Even he that teacheth man knowledge ? Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, That they are vanity. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah, And teachest out of thy law; That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity,
Until the pit be digged for the wicked.
PSALM XCIV.
351
For Jehovah
will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance. For judgment shall return unto righteousness; And all the upright in heart shall follow it.
14.
15.
Who Who
16.
will rise
will
iquity
up
for
me against the evil-doers? me against the workers
stand up for
of in-
?
Unless Jehovah had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence.
17.
When
18.
I said,
My
foot slippeth;
O
20.
lovingkindness, Jehovah, held me up. In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul. Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with
21.
Which f rameth mischief by statute ? They gather themselves together against
Thy
19.
thee,
the soul of
the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.
But Jehovah hath been
22.
23.
my
high tower,
And my God the rock of my refuge. And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will cut them off. Psalm XCIV. General Subject.
Of
the Jewish nation.
It
destroyed
the church. 1, 2.
P. P.
O that judgment may be executed upon them!
P. P.
3-1 1.
Because that nation has destroyed the church, it fear God, although He sees all things. P. P. By father in the genuine sense is signified good, and in 6. A. 3703. the supreme sense the Lord. A. 3305. The God of Jacob is the Lord. 7. 12-15. For the sake of the church the Lord will come to neither does
P. P.
judge.
16-19.
and
The Divine in temptation.
of the
Lord
gives help against the evil,
P. P.
PSALM XCIV.
352
The evil rise up and wish to kill. The good which is without blame and
20, 21. 2i.
ternal
man, that
is
exterior good,
is
P. P. evil in the ex-
called just (righteous).
A. 9262. 22.
By
rock throughout the
Word
the Divine truth
understood.
But through help from His Divine they
22, 23.
is
Inv. 35. will perish.
P. P.
PSALM XCV. Oh come, let us sing unto Jehovah; Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; Let us make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. is a great God, a great King above all gods.
For Jehovah
And
In his hand are the deep places of the earth;
The The
heights of the mountains are his also.
And
his
is his, and he made it; hands formed the dry land. Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker: For he is our God, And we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep
sea
of his hand. To-day, oh that ye would hear his voice! Harden not your heart, as at Meribah,
day of Massah in the wilderness; your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work. Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways: Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.
As
in the
When
psalm xcv.
353
Psalm XCV. in praise of the Lord.
Song
i.
P. P.
See Psalm xciv. 22. See Psalm xxvii.
I, 2.
3.
R. 939.
8, 9.
See Psalm
lxxviii. 15, 16, 20, 35.
E. 411.
See Psalm
xlii. 3, 6.
E. 412.
Omnipotence belongs See Psalm lxxvii. 14, See Psalm lxxxvi. 8.
2-5.
Inv. 35.
to
Him.
P. P.
A. 7401. A. 8301.
15.
It is here said God or El because the subject is the Divine truth and hence power, and also gods because the subject is also the truths therefrom, for a king in the in-
3, 4.
A. 4402.
ternal sense signifies truth.
He
is
to be
religion
is
described by the
P. P. worshipped in humility. 8-10. Let them not be like the nation sprung from Jacob, P. P. who estranged themselves from the Lord. 8-1 1. That the quality of the Israelitish nation and of its 6, 7.
and Meribah
By
9, 1 o.
is
strife
with Moses at Massah
evident in David.
forty years
is
A. 8588.
not only meant the vastation of the
church with the sons of Israel but also a full state of temptation, also by the end of those years the beginning of a
new II.
E. 633.
church.
See Psalm lxxxix.
4. 36,
See Psalm lxxxix.
4, 36, 50.
And
with
whatever.
whom,
for this reason, there
R. 474E. 608. is
no conjunction P. P.
PSALM XCVI.
354
PSALM i.
2.
Oh sing unto Jehovah a new song: Sing unto Jehovah, all the earth. Sing unto Jehovah, bless his name; Show
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
12.
13.
forth his salvation
from day
to day.
Declare his glory among the nations, His marvellous works among all the peoples. For great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised: He is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are idols; But Jehovah made the heavens. Honor and majesty are before him: Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. Ascribe unto Jehovah, ye kindreds of the peoples, Ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength. Ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due unto his name Bring an offering, and come into his courts. Oh worship Jehovah in holy array: Tremble before him, all the earth.
Say among the The world also
nations,
Jehovah reigneth:
it cannot be moved: judge the peoples with equity. Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; Let the field exult, and all that is therein; Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy Before Jehovah; for he cometh, For he cometh to judge the earth: He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with his truth.
He 11.
XCVI.
will
is
established that
PSALM XCVI.
355
Psalm XCVI. i.
See Psalm
xviii. i.
R. 279.
See Psalm
xviii.
E. 326. R. 289.
See Psalm xvi.
1-3.
To
bless the
1.
7.
name
Jehovah here means
of
Him, and to give thanks to Him. It is name, show forth his salvation from day glorification of
all
Jehovah
is
from
said,
to
to glorify
"Bless his
day" because and
spiritual truth
from spiritual good. Name also is predicated of truths, and salvation of good. To sing a song signifies to glorify from those truths and from that good. E. 340. 1-9. Song in praise of the Lord by His church, that to Him alone belong power and glory. P. P. 1-13. See Psalm xl. 3, 4. A. 8261. See Psalm vii. 18. Add: Where the subject 1, 2, 11, 12. treated of is
made
is
of a
concerning the advent of the Lord, mention
new
song,
and that the
earth, the sea, the
fields,
the forest, the trees, Lebanon, the wilderness,
many
other things should rejoice
See Psalm
2.
2, 13.
To
Ixviii.
27.
bring good tidings
and
— evangelise —
A. 1422. signifies the
Lord's coming, and His kingdom at that time.
The acknowledgment and
celebration of the
joy of heart on account of His advent
The advent
2.
itself
and
since His advent
it is
therefore said,
is
is
is
R. 478.
Lord with
signified
by verse
described by Jehovah cometh,
when
the last judgment takes place
— see verse
13.
By
the earth
is
under-
stood the church, by the world those in the church are in the
good of
charity,
truths thence derived.
The whole
and
E. 326.
exult.
and by the people those
who
in the
E. 612.
creed of Athanasius can be reconciled,
when
one Divine, that is one only Divine is acknowledged, and if the one only Divine is recognised which the Lord calls His Father, and which is His own Divine. That the
PSALM XCVI.
356
Lord
"the Lord Jehovih"
called
is
xl. 10, etc.,
He
that
is
called "
may
Jehovah"
be seen Isaiah
in
Psalm xcvi. Page 14.
Ath., 4.
See Psalm
lxxvii. 14, 15.
5, 6.
See Psalm
viii. 6.
A. 7401. R. 249.
By the heavens is understood the Divine which proceed from the Lord, since the heavens are therefrom. Since the Divine which proceeds, and constitutes the heavens is Divine truth and Divine good, it is therefore said, honour and majesty are before Him. By sanctuary is underThe Divine good and Divine truth stood the church. E. 288. therein are understood by strength and beauty. As the nations
7.
signify goods, so also did the families
(kindreds) for each nation consisted of families.
8.
See Psalm lxv.
5.
See Psalm lxv.
5.
A. 1261. A. 9741. R. 487.
See Psalm lxxxiv. 11.
E. 630.
Treating also concerning the Lord's advent, and
10, 11.
concerning the church to be established by Him, and defended to eternity, which is signified by the world which shall
10-12.
E. 741. be established and shall not be removed. He will come to judgment that heaven and the
church 10. 13.
He
may
worship
Him
Jehovah comes.
shall
from joy
to
judge the
earth.
judge the people in righteousness and the world
D.
in justice.
11.
P. P.
of heart.
He comes
See Psalm
li.
See Psalm
xl.
See Psalm
li.
P.,
Page
72.
S. 87.
10.
R. 507. T. 252.
17. 10.
See Psalm xl. 17. 11-13. See Psalm lxix. 35, 36.
E. 660.
Add: It is said every created thing, and by this is meant every thing that is reformed, or all the reformed, for by creating is signified R. 290. to reform and regenerate.
12.
A
field
cannot
things that are in
exult,
nor trees of the wood sing, but
man, which are knowledges
of faith.
A. 368.
psalm xcvn. The church nified
by a
357
as to knowledges, or as to externals
forest in
David
is sig-
— speaking of the Lord.
A. 901 1. Since a last judgment was effected by the Lord
13.
He was
when
world by combats with the hells and by their subjugation, the judgment which He was to effect is therein the
L. 14.
fore here treated.
Treating concerning the coming of the Lord and the last judgment then to take place, since by the world are signified those in the
people those
He
who
shall judge the
verity, justice
church who are in good, and by
are in truths, therefore
world in
it is
said, that
and the people in good, in like manner
justice,
being predicated of
E. 741. P. P.
as the world.
He
come
will
judgment.
to
PSALM
XCVII.
Jehovah reigneth; let the earth rejoice; Let the multitude of isles be glad. Clouds and darkness are round about him: Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
A
fire
And
goeth before him,
burnetii
up
his adversaries
round about.
His lightnings lightened the world: The earth saw, and trembled. The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
The heavens
And Let
declare his righteousness, the peoples have seen his glory. them be put to shame that serve graven images,
all
all
That boast themselves of idols: Worship him, all ye gods.
PSALM. XCVII.
358
Zion heard and was glad, the daughters of Judah rejoiced, Because of thy judgments, O Jehovah. For thou, Jehovah, art most high above Thou art exalted far above all gods. O ye that love Jehovah, hate evil:
8.
And 9.
10.
all
the earth:
He He
preserveth the souls of his saints; delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart. Be glad in Jehovah, ye righteous; And give thanks to his holy memorial name.
11.
12.
Psalm XCVII. 1.
See Psalm
xciii.
A. 8331.
1.
By these words is signified that the church where the Word is, and the church where the Word is not, and consequently they who are in spiritual truths, and they who are not, shall rejoice on account of the
By
kingdom
of the
church where ihe Word is, and by the islands the church where there is not the Word, consequently they who are remote from Lord.
the earth
is
signified the
spiritual truths, for the truths of the
They who
itual.
Word
are alone spir-
are without the pale of the church, as
they have not truths from the Word, are only in natural truths,
whence
islands in the
it
is
Word
that they are
called islands.
By
are not understood any islands of
the sea, but places in the spiritual world inhabited by
those
who
are in natural science of
and good which are 1, 2.
The
isles
knowledges of
in the
Word.
knowledges of truth E. 406.
stand for nations more remote from the faith.
A. 11 58.
Joy of the church over the coming of the Lord, with P. P. whom is Divine truth.
1-6.
2.
See Psalm
ix.
5, 8.
A. 5313.
psalm 3, 4.
359
R. 236. See Psalm lxxvii. 16, 18, 19. Lightnings signify Divine truths as to illumination, for said,
it is
In
3-6.
xcviii.
His lightning enlightens the world.
this
Psalm the same things See that Psalm.
are treated of. 4, 5.
E. 273.
Psalm
as in
xlv.
4-8
L. 14.
See Psalm
lxxvii. 18, 19.
A. 8813.
See Psalm
lxxvii. 18, 19.
A. 8816.
By these words is described the state of the impious from the presence of the Lord in His Divine truth, which state
similar to that of the sons of Israel
is
when
the
Lord
appeared to them upon mount Sinai, that they there heard thunderings, saw lightnings, and that the mountain appeared in a consuming fire as of a furnace is known from the Word, and the reason of this was, because they were evil in heart. The Lord appears to every one according to his quality, to the good as a recreating fire, and to the evil as a consuming
who
All
7.
Hebrews
i.
2-9, 13
is
referred to
Lord
Joy that the
8. 9.
E. 741. P. P.
fire.
are in falsities will be removed.
is
the
God
D.
P.,
of heaven
P. P.
church. 9.
See Psalm lxxxvi.
10-12.
He
Page 43. and the A. 8301.
8.
will protect those
who
are in truths
from Him. P. P.
12.
See Psalm xxx.
5.
Add: Holy
is
spoken of
truth.
A. 6888.
PSALM A i.
XCVIII.
Psalm.
Oh sing unto Jehovah a new song; For he hath done marvellous things: His right hand, and his holy arm, hath wrought salvation for him.
2.
Jehovah hath made known his salvation: His righteousness hath he openly showed of the nations.
in the sight
PSALM
360 3.
XCVIII.
He
hath remembered his lovingkindness and his faithtoward the house of Israel: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. Make a joyful noise unto Jehovah, all the earth: fulness
Break forth and sing
for joy, yea, sing praises.
Sing praises unto Jehovah with the harp; With the harp and the voice of melody. With trumpets and sound of cornet Make a joyful noise before the King, Jehovah. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein; Let the floods clap their hands; Let the hills sing for joy together Before Jehovah; for he cometh to judge the earth: He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with equity.
Psalm XCVIII. General Subject. His
glorification of I.
See Psalm
xviii.
1.
See Psalm
xviii.
1.
He
P. P.
E. 326. P. P.
,
D.
P.,
Page
59.
That songs were for the sake of the exaltation of R. 279. the life of love, and hence of joy, is manifest. The subject is the advent of the Lord, and salvation by Him, and because these things were about to take place mention is made of a new song. The joy thence arising is described not only by singing, playing, etc., but also by 4-8.
musical instruments. 2.
Lord and the R. 279.
then have power.
will
of the
Verses partly quoted.
1-9. 1,
The coming Human.
Hence
is
E. 326.
salvation.
2, 3.
See Psalm
viii.
3.
See Psalm
lxi. 8.
The
5.
predictions are to be fulfilled.
P. P.
A. 9849. A. 3122. P. P.
PSALM See Psalm
4-6.
The
XCVIII.
361 R. 276.
xxxiii. 2, 3.
various kinds of affections from which arise con-
and glorification of the Lord, are here expressed by various kinds of sound and instruments. To sing unto Jehovah with the harp, and the voice of a Psalm signifies confession from the affection of spiritual good and truth, fession
for all affection since
it
appertains to the love,
into sound, sounds agreeably to
falls
when
Him and joy on that account.
4-8.
Song of praise
5, 6.
Since the Divine truth descending from the
to
it
E. 323.
itself.
P. P.
Lord
through the heavens gladdens the heart and infuses the holy of worship, therefore they sounded the trumpets on the days of gladness and in the feasts. See also Zephaniah iii. 14. E. 502. Rivers signify truths in abundance. R. 409. 7, 8. These words signify the glorification of the Lord by Glorification from the ultimates by the sea and the fulness thereof roaring, the glorification from the whole heaven by the world and they that dwell therein. The world signifies the universal heaven as to its truths and they that dwell therein
the universal heaven. thereof
as to
who
is
its
signified
goods.
Inhabitants in the
Word
signify those
and of the church, and The glorification of the Lord thus the goods themselves. by the truths of intelligence and by the goods of love is signified, the former by the floods clapping their hands, E. 518. and the latter by the hills being joyful together. R. 551. See Psalm ix. 9. 9. E. 741. See Psalm xcvi. 10, 11. P. P. He comes to judgment. This Psalm treats of the advent of the Lord. D. P., Page 72. are in the goods of heaven
;
PSALM XCLX.
362
PSALM 1.
Jehovah reigneth;
let the peoples tremble: above the cherubim; let the earth be moved. Jehovah is great in Zion; And he is high above all the peoples. Let them praise thy great and terrible name:
He
2.
3.
sitteth
Holy 4.
5.
is
he.
The king's strength also loveth justice; Thou dost establish equity; Thou executest justice and righteousness
7.
9.
at his footstool:
Holy is he. Moses and Aaron among his priests, And Samuel among them that call upon his name They called upon Jehovah, and he answered them. He spake unto them in the pillar of cloud:
They kept 8.
in Jacob.
Exalt ye Jehovah our God,
And worship 6.
XCIX.
his testimonies,
And the statute that he gave them. Thou answeredst them, O Jehovah our God: Thou wast a God that forgavest them, Though thou tookest vengeance of their doings. Exalt ye Jehovah our God, at his holy hill;
And worship
For Jehovah our God
is
holy.
Psalm XCIX. 1.
See Psalm
xciii.
1.
See Psalm
xviii.
11.
A. 8331. A. 9509.
See Psalm
xviii. 10, 11.
S. 97.
See Psalm
xviii.
10, 11.
See Psalm
xviii. 10, 11.
R. 239. T. 260.
See Psalm
xviii. 10, 11.
1,2.
God
Song
in praise of the
of the church.
E. 277.
Lord who
is
the
Word and the P. P.
PSALM XCIX. Zion
2, 4.
is
He
3, 5, 9.
called the king's strength
which belongs
truth, to
The
E. 850.
justice belong to
earth stands for
to the heavens,
P. P.
A. 4281.
7.
Because power and 5,
by reason of Divine
essential power.
should be worshipped,
See Psalm xiv.
4,
363
all
Him.
P. P.
the lower things corresponding
such as the lower rational and natural which are in the lower heavens,
things, such are the things
and in external worship, and in Word, in a word all such things as proceed from internal things and are presented in exalso those in the church,
the literal sense of the
ternals
— such because they are rational things are called
the earth,
and the
Footstool is
the
Word
in the literal sense, for
truth in heaven,
leans
and
as
stool for the Lord's feet.
A. 2162.
the Divine truth beneath heaven, such as
is
it
w hich T
is
the
Word
were stands.
Since the Lord's church
is
upon
this the
Divine
in the internal sense,
A. 9166.
under the heavens, and thus
under the Lord's feet, it is therefore called the footstool of His feet. R. 49. To receive and acknowledge truths is signified by coming and worshipping at the Lord's feet, from whom they have the truths from good. The same is signified by this R. 183.
verse.
Since the feet of Jehovah, or the Lord, signify the
mate of is
5-7.
ulti-
which is specifically the external the church, of worship, and of the Word, therefore this of Divine order,
called in the
The
Word
His footstool.
stool of the feet of
should adore
is
E. 69.
Jehovah towards which they
the Divine truth in ultimates, thus the
Word. Moses and Aaron in the representative sense are the Word. A. 9406. The Word is from Him. P. P. 6, 7. 8.
He
is
the Redeemer.
P. P.
PSALM
364
C.
PSALM A
Psalm
C.
of thanksgiving.
Make
a joyful noise unto Jehovah, all ye lands. Serve Jehovah with gladness: Come before his presence with singing. Know ye that Jehovah, he is God:
1. 2.
3.
he that hath made us, and we are his; and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, And into his courts with praise: Give thanks unto him, and bless his name. For Jehovah is good; his lovingkindness endureth for It is
We 4.
5.
are his people,
ever,
And
his faithfulness
unto
all
Psalm
generations.
C.
Song in praise of the Lord, that He is to be worshipped He is the Former of the church.
1-3.
with the heart, because
P. P.
1-5.
See Psalm lxxv.
3.
See Psalm
4.
A. 3880. A. 5201.
2.
xxiii. 1, 2.
See Psalm
xxiii.
1-3.
See Psalm
xxiii.
1,2.
A. 6078. E. 482.
.
Confession and confessing proceed from the love of good, but praise and blessing from the love of truth. A. 3880. See Psalm lxv. 5. Knowledges of truth and good are
They
also signify introductory truths,
edges from the Word.
By
R. 487. by gates. which are knowl-
signified
R. 899.
courts are signified the ultimates of heaven, like-
wise the externals of the church, of the Word, and of E. 630.
worship. 4, 5.
the
Let them draw near
Word and
confess
to
Him.
Him
through the truths of P. P.
PSALM
CI.
PSALM A 1.
3.
CI.
of David.
and
I will sing of lovingkindness
Unto
2.
Psalm
365
justice:
O
Jehovah, will I sing praises. I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way: Oh when wilt thou come unto me ? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. I will set no base thing before mine eyes: thee,
work of them that turn aside; not cleave unto me. perverse heart shall depart from me:
I hate the It shall 4.
A
know no Whoso privily I will
5.
evil thing.
slandereth
his
neighbor,
him
will
I
destroy:
Him
that hath a high look
and a proud heart
will I not
suffer. 6*
eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall minister unto
Mine
me. 7.
8.
He He
that worketh deceit shall not dwell within
my
house:
that speaketh falsehood shall not be established
before mine eyes. Morning by morning
will I destroy all the
wicked of
the land;
To
cut off
all
the workers of iniquity from the city of
Jehovah.
Psalm General Subject.
CI.
Something concerning judgment by P. P.
the Lord. 1.
2.
He
P. P-
is to be celebrated. See Psalm xxv. 21.
A. 612. A. 9905.
See Psalm xxv. 21. 2, 3, 6, 7.
perfect.
His perfection, and
He
loves those that are
P- P-
PSALM
366 4, 5.
He
rejects the evil
CI.
and the haughty.
P. P.
A. 612.
See Psalm xxv. 21.
6.
meant also integrity, justice, faithand uprightness. A man cannot be in these from himself so as to love them from themselves and for But he is in them who shuns the various their own sake. forms of fraud, cunning, and deceit as sins, and he is thus in them not from himself but from the Lord. This Life 84. the Lord teaches in many passages. Dwelling in the house of Jehovah means being and living 7. in the good of love, for this is the house of Jehovah. 6-8.
By
sincerity are
fulness,
To 8.
dwell signifies to
live,
consequently
A. 3384. E. 662.
morning as well when the and then morning is taken for the judgment both concerning the good and A. 2405. upon the evil. Here upon the evil. P. P. The evil will perish when the Lord comes. D. P., Page 72. Verse quoted. In a general sense
dawn appears
as
it is
when
called
the sun rises,
PSALM A
life.
Prayer of the
afflicted,
when he
is
CII. overwhelmed, and poureth out
his complaint before Jehovah. i.
Hear
And 2.
3.
4.
5.
my prayer, O Jehovah, my cry come unto thee.
let
Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress: Incline thine ear unto me; In the day when I call answer me speedily. For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand. My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.
By
My
reason of the voice of my groaning bones cleave to my flesh.
PSALM I I
I
CII.
367
am like a pelican of the wilderness; am become as an owl of the waste places. watch, and am become like a sparrow
That is alone upon the housetop. Mine enemies reproach me all the day;
mad against me do curse by me. have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping, Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away. My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass. But thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide for ever; And thy memorial name unto all generations. Thou wilt arise, and have mercy upon Zion; For it is time to have pity upon her, Yea, the set time is come. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity upon her dust. So the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, They For
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
And 16.
17.
that are
I
all
the kings of the earth thy glory.
For Jehovah hath He hath appeared
built
up Zion;
in his glory;
He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute, And hath not despised their prayer.
19.
This shall be written for the generation to come; a people which shall be created shall praise Jehovah. For he hath looked down from the height of his sanc-
20.
From heaven did Jehovah behold the To hear the sighing of the prisoner;
18.
And
tuary;
To 21.
22.
23.
earth;
loose those that are appointed to death;
That men may declare
the name of Jehovah And his praise in Jerusalem; When the peoples are gathered together, And the kingdoms, to serve Jehovah. He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.
in Zion,
PSALM
368 I said,
24.
O my
CII.
God, take me not away
in the midst of
my
days: Thy years are throughout all generations. Of "old didst thou lay the foundation of the earth; And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall
25.
•
26.
be changed: 27.
But thou
And 28.
The
And
art the same, thy years shall have no end. children of thy servants shall continue, their seed shall be established before thee.
Psalm
CII.
Prayer of the Lord when He was in temptations P. P, even to despair, which state is described. A. xvii. 6. Psalm 3869 See 3. A. 10579 See Psalm iv. 7. R. 939 See Psalm xxvii. 8, 9. 1- 1 2.
See Psalm
xiii.
E. 412
2.
10, 11.
The
13, 19.
Nevertheless those that are out of the church exmay become a church. P. P.
signification of ashes is falsities.
A. 7520
pect compassion, that they 14, 15.
By the stones
which the servants of Jehovah by Zion upon have mercy is understood the church
of Zion
desire are understood Divine truths, for
which Jehovah shall which is in celestial love. 14-17, 22, 23. See Psalm
E. 717.
R. 612. Treating of the Lord's advent and the redemption of His advent is signified by the time the faithful by Him. Truths which are to be to pity Zion, and by the set time. ii.
6-8, 12.
and are restored, are signified by the stones which His servants desire. The establishment of the church and worship of the Lord from Divine truths is E. 850. also described by the words following.
restored
PSALM See Psalm
16, i^.
CII.
A. 9429. R. 629.
xix. 2.
See Psalm xix.
2.
name
nations which shall fear the
stood those
who
Zion
By
This passage treats of reformation.
16, 17, 19.
those
369
who
of
and by the kings
are in good,
are in truths derived from good.
of the earth
By
The people which
standing for the church.
Lord
shall
be
who
signify all those
are reformed.
To
building
understood the establishment of the church, Zion
is
created and shall praise the
19.
the
Jehovah are under-
E. 294.
create, to form,
hi the prophets signify
and
to
— with
make almost everywhere a difference
—
to regen-
A.
erate.
Mention is made and in other places
16.
and making, of a creator, a former, and a maker. By creating is signified what is new which was not before, by forming is signified quality and by making effect. of creating, of forming
A. 10373.
By
creating in the spiritual sense of the
fied forming, establishing,
See Psalm
To
li.
li.
is
signi-
and regenerating.
J. 4.
be regenerated.
R. 254. T. 573. T. 773.
12.
be created
See Psalm
Word
signifies to 12.
Coro. 23. See Psalm li. 12. 19-21. Sanctuary stands for heaven as to the truth of A. 8330. faith. 20. 21.
The
prisoners stand for those
who
are in vastations
and temptations. 20-23.
He
A. 5037. hears and has compassion, and a church is
formed of such. See Psalm lxviii.
P. P.
R. 99. Spiritual life is solely with those who go to the Lord, and at the same time shun evils as sins. Those who have no spiritual life are here meant by the dead, because spirR. 525. itual death is meant.
21.
They
7.
are called the dead, because spiritual death
is
PSALM
37°
CII.
damnation, and damnation is the lot of those who believe life is from nature, and thus that the light of nature
that is
the light of
life,
and thereby
and ex-
hide, suffocate,
tinguish every idea of God, of heaven,
and
of eternal
life.
10.
I.
Let
24, 25.
Him
not
fail in
temptations before that comes
to pass.
P. P.
25, 28, 29. 26,
A
26, 27.
See Psalm
lxi.
See Psalm
xi. 2, 3.
A. 2906. R. 902.
7, 8.
new heaven and a new
heaven and the
first
and that the
earth,
D.
By
26-29.
first
earth were passed away.
the earth which
God
Page
P.,
7.
hath formed, and by the
heavens the work of His hands which shall perish are same as in Rev. xxi. 1. Since the face of
signified the
the earth
and heavens
world
in the spiritual
be
will
alto-
gether changed at the day of the last judgment, and there will
be a new earth and
former, therefore see verse 27.
They
new heavens
in the place of the
said, that they shall all
it is
compared
are
wax
to garments,
old
—
because
garments signify external truths, such as appertain to those who are in the former heaven and former earth,
which heaven and earth do not continue or endure, because they are not in internal truths. truth which shall endure from the nified
by verse
Divine truth.
who life,
28.
The
Verse 29
years of
The
Lord
state of
Divine
to eternity is sig-
God
signify states of
signifies that angels
and the men
are receptacles of Divine truth shall have eternal
and that the
truths of doctrine with
them
shall
That heaven and
endure E. 768.
to eternity.
the church perish not, but
may
D.
Verses quoted.
Years stand for times, and there is no time.
28.
be
P. P.
established.
it is
shown
P.,
Page
that with
33.
God
A. 893.
PSALM
PSALM A i.
2.
3.
4.
Psalm
of
CIII.
371
CIII. David.
O
Bless Jehovah, my soul; And all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless Jehovah, my soul, And forget not all his benefits:
O
Who Who Who
W ho T
forgiveth all thine iniquities; healeth all thy diseases;
redeemeth thy life from destruction; crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender
mercies; 5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
Who
satisfieth thy desire with good things, So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle. Jehovah executeth righteous acts, And judgments for all that are oppressed. He made known his ways unto Moses, His doings unto the children of Israel. Jehovah is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.
He
will not always chide; Neither will he keep his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins, Nor rewarded us after our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is his lovingkindness toward them that fear him.
As
far as the east is from the west, So far hath he removed our transgressions from Like as a father pitieth his children, So Jehovah pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame;
He remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And
17.
us.
the place thereof shall know it no more. But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him,
And
his righteousness
unto children's children;
PSALM
372
CIII.
18.
To such as keep his covenant, And to those that remember his
19.
Jehovah hath established
And
his
kingdom
precepts to do them.
his throne in the heavens;
ruleth over
all.
Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, That are mighty in strength, that fulfil his word, Hearkening unto the voice of his word.
20.
Bless Jehovah, all ye his hosts. ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
21.
Ye
Bless Jehovah, all ye his works, all places of his dominion:
22.
In
Bless Jehovah,
By
1.
the bowels
O my
soul.
Psalm
CIII.
— inward
parts
— are
signified the in-
teriors of the thought.
Song
1-7.
1,
E. 622.
in praise of the
Lord on account
of redemption
P. P. and reformation. These passages prove that Jehovah and the Lord 4.
R. 281.
are one.
To redeem from erate I,
22.
which 4.
It
is
destruction or from the
from damnation. Soul is used to indicate the is
called his spiritual
plain that
by Jehovah
pit, is to lib-
E. 328. life
of the spirit of
in the
Word no
other
See Psalm xix. 15. Verse partly quoted.
5.
By a boy
To
or child
satisfy the
is
P.,
signified innocence.
mouth with good
is
Page
87.
A. 5236.
to give understandis
made with R. 244.
the eagle.
8.
meant
R. 613.
D.
ing by knowledges, hence the comparison
To have
is
A. 6281.
than the Lord.
4, 5.
man,
E. 750.
life.
the youth renewed as the eagle
means
as to
intelligence.
E. 281.
They who
are in humiliation of heart implore the Lord's
mercy, but they
who
are in humiliation of thought beseech
psalm cm. His grace, and
if
373
mercy it is either in a state done with the mouth only and not
these implore
of temptation, or
is
from the heart. That there is a distinction in the Word between mercy and grace is evident from many passages A. 598. where Jehovah is called merciful and gracious. A. 8286. See Psalm vi. 2. They who are in the Lord's spiritual kingdom speak of favour or grace, and they who are in the Lord's celestial A. 10577. kingdom speak of mercy. 8-18. These are from mercy, because He knows the infirmities of man. P. P. In general, imagination is what a man conceives out 14. of the heart or will, and also from thought or persuasion. (The word frame has also been rendered "formation" "imagination" and "fashioning.") A. 586 R. 401 See Psalm xxxvii. 2. 15. See Psalm xxxvii. 2. E. 507 See Psalm xc. 2. E. 468 17. Psalm lxxviii. 10. See 18. A. 17, 9396 E. 701 See Psalm 1. 5, 16. In Matthew xxiii. 22 it is expressly said that heaven 19. A. 5313. is God's throne. Heaven is not heaven from the things belonging to the The Lord's angels, but from the Divine of the Lord. throne signifies heaven.
R.
14.
That by throne is here signified heaven is evident. Throne is predicated of the Lord's Divine in the heavens, which also occasionally, appears as a throne to those to
whom 19-22.
it is
given to look into heaven.
The heavens and
E. 253.
the earth are His, therefore
He
P. P. should be celebrated. 20. In the spiritual world the power of angels is so great, that if I (Swedenborg) should bring forward all that I
have seen in regard to it, it would exceed belief. Angels because they have such power are called powers. H. 229. 20, 21. Angels are called hosts from the truths and goods A. 7988. in which they are.
PSALM
374 21.
See Psalm
CIII.
A. 3448.
xxxiii. 6.
The goods and
truths of heaven
and the church are sig-
by the hosts or armies of the heavens.
nified
See Psalm
The
R. 447. E. 295.
xl. 9.
reason
why
the angels gathered together or con-
sociated are called armies
because by angels as by
is,
armies are signified Divine truths and goods, since they are recipients thereof from the Lord.
They
21, 22.
miah Lord
are called ministers
xxxiii. 21
— because
the
They
are in the
of love.
Word
3.
4.
5.
in truths,
it is
said that
Lord is to act the good of love
They who
are in
E. 155.
CIV.
soul.
my
God, thou art very great; clothed with honor and majesty:
Jehovah art
O my
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; Who maketh the clouds his chariot; Wrio walketh upon the wings of the wind; Who maketh winds his messengers; Flames of fire his ministers;
Who
laid the foundations of the earth,
it should not be moved for ever. Thou coveredst it with the deep as with The waters stood above the mountains.
That 6.
7.
the
the will of the
PSALM
Thou
Jehovah who are
called priests.
Bless Jehovah,
Jere-
represented
in goods, wherefore
To do
will.
from the good
2.
6,
R. 128.
are called the host of
they do His
O
priests
E. 573. lxi.
as to Divine good.
and ministers who are
1.
— Isaiah
a vesture;
At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away
PSALM 8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
CIV.
375
(The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
He
sendeth forth springs into the valleys;
They run among the mountains; They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild asses quench their thirst. By them the birds of the heavens have their habitation; They sing among the branches.
He
watereth the mountains from his chambers: earth is filled with the fruit of thy works. He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth, And wine that maketh glad the heart of man,
The
14.
15.
And And 16.
oil to
make
his face to shine,
bread that strengthened man's heart. The trees of Jehovah are filled with moisture, The cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;
17.
Where the birds make their nests: As for the stork, the fir-trees are her house.
18.
The high mountains are for the wild goats; The rocks are a refuge for the conies. He appointed the moon for seasons: The sun knoweth his going down. Thou makest darkness, and it is night,
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
Wherein all the beasts of the forest creep The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God. The sun ariseth, they get them away, And lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work
And 24.
O
how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The
25.
to his labor until the evening.
Jehovah, earth
is full
of thy riches.
Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.
forth.
:
PSALM
376
There go the ships; There is leviathan,
26.
CIV.
whom
thou hast formed
to play
therein. 27.
These wait all for thee, That thou mayest give them
28.
Thou givest unto them, they gather; Thou openest thy hand, they are satisfied with good. Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; And thou renewest the face of the ground.
29.
30
their food in
due season.
Let the glory of Jehovah endure for everLet Jehovah rejoice in his works:
31
Who
looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; toucheth the mountains, and they smoke. I will sing unto Jehovah as long as I live I will sing praise to my God while I have any being. Let my meditation be sweet unto him: I will rejoice in Jehovah. Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, And let the wicked be no more. Bless Jehovah, O my soul. Praise ye Jehovah.
32
He 33
34 35
Psalm CIV. General Subject. See Psalm
By
viii.
Song
in praise of the Lord.
P. P.
R. 249.'
6.
being clothed with honour and majesty, when preis signified His girding himself with
dicated of Jehovah,
Divine truth and Divine good, for these proceed from
and thence gird Him, and thus therefore in the
Word
His covering. 2.
To
Him
constitute the heavens,
they are called His garments and E. 288.
cover himself with light as with a garment stands
for Divine truths.
To
stretch out the heavens as a cur-
means to enlarge the heavens by the influx of Divine A. 9595. truth, whence comes intelligence and wisdom.
tain
PSALM
CIV.
377
1-4. From Him are Divine truths, or the Word. P. P. 1-6, 9. The glory and honour with which Jehovah clothed himself, that is the Lord, is Divine truth. The light with
which
He
such as
covered as with a garment
is
the Divine truth,
heaven and in the church. Verse 3 the chambers are the heavenly societies, and the waters are truths. The clouds are truths from which doctrine is it is
in
derived, chariot stands for doctrine.
The
the church.
is
basis
Verse
on which
it
truths in ultimates, such as are those of the literal sense,
hence
to eternity.
Verse 6 the abyss
natural man.
Word
said that they shall not be
it is
Hence
5 the earth
founded are
is
the
is scientific
meaning
in
its
moved
truth for the
of verse 9
is evident. the ultimate of Divine truth into which the interior things terminate, and on which, as on a prop and
The
limit
is
foundation, they subsist and
The moon
19, 20.
1, 2,
for
wisdom from
rest. A. 9433. stands for intelligence and the sun
down of the sun for Making darkness and its becom-
the Lord, the going
the obscurity of each.
ing night signifies the moderating of a state of obscurity. 2.
Garments are
By stretching He enlarges the with
A. 3693. A. 5954.
truths.
out
is
signified omnipotence, that
limits of heaven,
and
fills
is
that
the inhabitants
and wisdom.
A. 7673. understood to regenerate man, and thereby to create or form a new intellect in which is a new will, which is the heaven itself of the spiritual man, wherein the Lord dwells with that man. life
By
stretching out the heavens
is
A. 9596.
Garments
in the
Word
also signify truths.
H.
129.
Since light signifies the Divine truth, and a garment the
same
it is
therefore said
See Psalm xlv. t,
3.
— see verse
9.
2.
R. 166. E. 195.
Horses and chariots intellectuals and doctrinals of A. 5321.
truth.
A chariot
signifies doctrine.
R. 437
PSALM
378
By
2-4.
himself
CIV.
the light with which Jehovah
called His garment, because
is
is
said to cover
signified the Divine truth in the heavens,
is
it
proceeds from
and so is without and about Him. Wings stand for the Divine truth and
E. 283.
sun, 3.
which
Him as the
its
power. A. 8764.
chambers doctrinal tenets and a chariot doctrine, all of which are called clouds, because they are from the literal sense of the Word. R. 24. The wings of the wind are the Divine truths which flow Waters
signify truths,
R. 343.
in.
See Psalm
E. 36.
lxviii. 5.
These few words are descriptive of heaven and the church, and at the same time, of doctrine from the Word. E. 594.
By
and wings of the wind is signified Divine truth in ultimates, which is as the truth of the literal sense of the Word. Chariots stand for truth of doctrine. By verse 4 is understood making them receptacles of Divine truth and Divine good, angels those who are in the Lord's spiritual kingdom, they being recipients of Divine truth. It is said, He makest them spirits. Ministers those in the Lord's celestial kingdom, and recipients of Divine good, hence He makest them a flaming fire. Fire the good of love and truth thence derived. E. 419.
3, 4.
4.
A
waters, clouds,
flaming
To make
fire
A. 934. receptacles of Divine
stands for the celestial-spiritual.
angels spirits
means
truth, flaming fires receptacles of Divine
good or Divine A. 9818.
love. t
Angel-spirits are they
ministers they
who
who
are in truths,
are in goods.
A
flaming
the good of love.
The wind
of
Jehovah
in the
Word signifies
and His fire Divine good. By Jehovah making His angels
and angelfire signifies
R. 128. Divine truth, E. 130.
spirits is signified that
they were recipients of Divine truth.
By making His
PSALM ministers a flaming
fire
civ.
379
that they are recipients of Divine
good.
E. 155.
Because the Divine truth mediately by angels,
it is
is
communicated
therefore said,
to
men
E. 183.
angels spirits.
By making His made
also
who maketh His
angels spirits
is
signified their being
recipients of Divine truths,
consequently Divine His ministers a flame of fire recipients of Divine good, consequently Divine good itself.
—
truths themselves.
E. 504.
See Psalm xxiv.
R. 238. R. 902. See Psalm xi. 2, 3. By the earth is here signified the church, the foundations are the knowledges of truth and good, the deep sig-
5, 6.
nifies
2.
sensual scientifics, which are the ultimate of the
natural man, and because
have covered 5-9.
Of
church 5-10, 13.
By
it
it
is
such, Jehovah
as with a garment.
the sense of the letter of the is
Word,
is
said to
E. 275. on which the
founded.
P. P.
See Psalm xxxvi.
R. 336.
7.
these words, understood in the spiritual sense,
is
described the progress of regeneration, or the formation of the church in in
man
tions.
with
By
its
man.
By
verse 5
is
signified the
boundaries or borders, and
verse 6
is
signified that they are
its
church
termina-
encompassed
or surrounded with scientifics in the natural
man
as to
where the spiritual things of the church The deep signifies scientifics in general, and reside. garments scientific truths which are surrounding and inBy the waters stand above the mountains are vesting. signified falsities from the delights of the natural loves, which delights in themselves are evils. The mountains stand for the evils of those loves, and waters for falsities its
interiors,
Verse 7 means that falsities are dissipated by truths, and evils by goods from heaven. By verse 8 is signified that in the place of natural loves and
thence derived.
PSALM
380
CIV.
8 of evils thence derived, are inserted celestial loves
goods thence derived, and instead of truths are admitted.
By
verse 9
is
falsities
and the general
signified that falsities
and evils shall be kept without, separated from truths and goods, and limited that they may not flow in again and destroy. By verse 10 is signified that the Lord from the truths of the
Word
gives intelligence every thing of
good of celestial love. Springs Word. By verse 13 is signified that all goods are nourished by truths from heaven, to water being predicated of truths. Mountains stand for the goods of love, and chambers for the heavens whence By the earth is satisfied is signified that from they flow. the Divine operation the church continually increases in
which originates
in the
signify the truths of the
works, when predicated of the Lord, Divine operation, and the earth the church To be in man, the formation of which is here treated of. E. 405. satisfied means continual increase.
The
man.
fruit of
signifies the
6.
10,
E. 538. See Psalm xxxvi. 7. Springs stand for knowledges, the beasts of the 11.
fields for
goods, and wild-asses for the truths of reason.
A. 1949.
Sending springs into the valleys signifies the giving of intelligence by truths derived from the Word, going up by the mountains their being grounded in the good of The instruction of those of the church who are in love.
10-12.
by the springs giving drink to every beast same who are in truths, by the wild-asses quenching their thirst. That thence the understanding is perfected is signified by verse 12.
good
is
signified
of the field, the instruction of the
By
the beasts of the field, in the spiritual sense, are under-
stood the gentiles
who
are in the
good of
life,
by wild asses
natural truth, by thirst a desire for truths, by the birds of E. 483. heaven thoughts from the understanding.
10-23.
From
this all are taught, every
the state of his intelligence.
one according to P. P.
PSALM
CIV.
381
10-12, 14, 20-25. Treating of the Lord. The establishment of the church with the gentiles is described. By wild beasts, beasts and birds such things are signified as
man
appertain to the
of the church.
E. 650.
10-12, 16, 17. Such things as these would never have been said in the Divine Word, unless each of them were corre-
spondences of things spiritual and celestial, and thence By fountains are understood the truths of the
holy.
Word, by
rivers intelligence thence derived,
by mountains
the goods of love, by the wild beasts of the fields the
by wild
affections of truth,
asses the rational,
and by the
birds of heaven thoughts from Divine truths.
E. 1100.
Fountains stand for truths, mountains for the love of good and truth, to give drink for instructing,
10, 11, 13.
who
from
truths, wild
are only in rational truth.
beasts of the field for those
who
live
10, 11, 14, 20, 25.
See Psalm
viii.
7-9.
A. 2702. R. 567.
11, 12.
See Psalm
viii.
7-9.
R. 757.
asses for those
To water the mountains in bless those who are in love to the
13.
the spiritual sense
the neighbour, hence from His chambers
from the
is
The
at the
in the internal sense
is
14-16.
Holy truth
16.
is
signified
xcii. 11.
See Psalm
xlv. 8.
See Psalm
i.
That a tree See Psalm
3.
R. 316. E. 376. A. 9954. R. 779. E. 375.
3.
signifies i.
A. 7571. E. 507.
xxiii. 5.
See Psalm
and by
by new wine and by wine.
signifies the truth of the church.
See Psalm
field,
here signified truth.
See Psalm xxxvii. 35.
Wine
A. 58.
for the fowl of the heavens.
stands for the produce of the
14. 15.
15.
in-
beast stands for the wild animal of the earth, and
same time
The herb it
to
A. 5694.
terior parts of heaven.
14.
is
Lord, and in love toward
man
is
evident.
R. 400. T. 468. E. 109.
PSALM
382 16
CIV.
The
all of love and of faith proceeds from the Lord, so do all knowledges of good and truth which constitute and form love and faith proceed from Him. All these knowledges look to the Lord and proceed from Him. This is what is signified by the tree of life in the midst of the paradise of God, therefore all the trees in paradise are called trees of life, and in David trees of Jehovah. Every man in the midst of whom, that is, in whom is the Lord is understood. E. no. The trees of Jehovah, and the cedars of Lebanon 16, 17. stand for the spiritual man, the birds for his rational or natural truths, which are as nests. A. 776. 20. See Psalm lxxx. 14. A. 9335. See Psalm xxxiv. 10, n. A. 6367. 21, 22. R. 241. See Psalm xvii. 12. By these words is described the state of the angels of heaven, w hen they are not in intense love and in wisdom thence derived, and when they return into that state, the former state is described by lions roaring after their prey, and seeking their meat from God. By lions are understood the angels of heaven, by their roaring desire, by prey and food the good which is of love, and the truth which is of wisdom. By the sun arising is understood the Lord as to love and thence wisdom, by their gather-
also
r
ing themselves together their return into a celestial state,
and by lying down in
their dens a state of tranquillity
24-26.
and
E. 278.
peace.
Here ships stand
for inner
knowledges and doc-
trines, that leviathan for the generals of
outer knowledges.
Because ships are inner knowledges and doctrines, it is said in Psalm cvii. 22-24 that they w ho go down to the sea in ships see the works of Jehovah, and His wonders in the deep, for they see these things who are in knowledges and doctrines from the Word. A. 6385. 24-27. Such things are meant as are with the men of the church, for these are they w ho wait for Jehovah. By r
T
PSALM the great wide sea
who
383
signified the external or natural
is
receives goods
CIV.
and
man
truths scientifically, great being
predicated of the good, and wide or broad of the truth
By things creeping scientifics which are alive, by animals great and small the knowledges of good and truth of every kind, superior and inferior, in general and By ships are understood doctrines, by in particular. leviathan or whale all things of the natural man in the It is said to play in the sea from the delight aggregate. of knowing, and thereby becoming wise. As man by therein.
virtue of these things
is
ing and understanding
To
affected with the desire of
it is
therefore said
know-
— see verse
27.
wait or to expect means to desire, meat or food science
and
intelligence.
Man
himself does not desire these,
but by virtue of such things as are with him from the Lord, consequently these are what desire in man, although it E. 514. appears as if man desires from himself. 24-30. From this are the knowledges of truth and good, from which is spiritual nourishment. P. P. Here in the internal sense by sea are meant 24, 25, 27, 28. spiritual things, by things creeping all things which live Their enjoyment is signified by giving them therefrom. food in due season, and by their being filled with good.
A. 994.
Sea in the internal sense stands for the aggregation of scientific truths, thus for what is external with man and in the church, ships for knowledges and doctrinals
25, 26.
from the Word, leviathan
for scientifics in general,
26,
The knowledges
of truth
and good are
See Psalm lxxiv. 14.
Here
Celestial
spiritual
and
and
by
E. 455. celestial
spiritual food
is
food
is
meant
meant. A. 680. in the internal
A. 5147-
sense.
28, 30.
signified
R. 406.
ships.
27, 28.
and
A. 10416.
playing for the delight thence derived.
See Psalm
li.
12.
R. 254.
PSALM
384 28
See Psalm
li.
CIV.
verse 28
is
evident.
signified that they receive the
is
By verse 30
from the Lord.
flows
T. 573. T. 773.
12.
See Psalm li. 12. That to create here stands for to reform
By
good which
that they are reformed
according to Divine truth and the establishment E. 294 of the church. Coro. 23 See Psalm li. 12. as to
29.
life
See Psalm See Psalm
By
the spirit
is
7.
meant the
See Psalm xxvii.
To
expire
is
life
of
man.
R. 939
8, 9.
frequently expressed in the
ing or giving out the
29, 30.
A. 278 A. 10579 L. 47
xxii. 30. iv.
Word by
yield
E. 183
spirit.
See Psalm
xiii.
See Psalm
xxxiii. 6.
See Psalm
xxxiii. 6.
A. 97 A. 8286
See Psalm
xxxiii. 6.
A. 9229
E. 412
2.
Spirit in the general sense stands for the life of respira-
A. 9818
man.
tion of
See Psalm
30.
cii.
A. 16
19.
A. 10373 The spirit of Jehovah is the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord, to be created means to be created anew,
See Psalm
that is
is
cii.
19.
renew the faces of the ground
to be regenerated, to
to reform
ground
and
establish the church, the faces of the
signify wheresoever anything of the
See Psalm
cii.
32.
35.
May
J. 4 L. 49
19.
See Psalm xxxi.
31-35.
6.
the good be saved
See Psalm
lxxvii. 18, 19.
See Psalm
xviii. 9, 10.
By
church can A. 10570
be received.
Hallelujah in the
and the
evil perish!
P.
P
A. 8816 E. 539
Hebrew language
is
signified
it was an expression of thanksgiving, and confession, and celebration of the Lord from joy of
"Praise God," thus
heart.
R. 803.
PSALM
By
CV.
385
Hallelujah in the original language
is
signified,
praise ye God, consequently also, glorify ye the Lord.
was an expression of joy
in confessions
It
and worship. E. 1197.
PSALM 1.
Oh
CV.
give thanks unto Jehovah, call
upon
his
name;
Make known among
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
the peoples his doings. Sing unto him, sing praises unto him; Talk ye of all his marvellous works.
Glory ye in his holy name: Let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah. Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore. Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
O Ye
7.
8.
ye seed of Abraham his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
He
is Jehovah our God: His judgments are in all the earth. He hath remembered his covenant for ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand genera-
tions, 9.
10.
11.
The covenant which he made with Abraham,
And his oath unto Isaac, And confirmed the same unto Jacob for To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
12.
13.
14.
15.
Unto thee
will I give the land of Canaan, your inheritance; they were but a few men in number,
Saying,
The
a statute,
lot of
When
Yea, very few, and sojourners in it. And they went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people. He suffered no man to do them wrong; Ye?, he reproved kings for their sakes, Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.
PSALM
386
cv.
17.
And he called for a famine upon the He brake the whole staff of bread. He sent a man before them;
18.
Joseph was sold for a servant: His feet they hurt with fetters:
1 6.
He was
laid in chains oj iron,
word came
19.
Until the time that his
20.
The word of Jehovah tried him. The king sent and loosed him; Even
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
land;
the ruler of peoples,
and
let
to pass,
him go
free.
He made him lord of his house, And ruler of all his substance; To bind his princes at his pleasure, And teach his elders wisdom. Israel also
came
into Egypt;
And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. And he increased his people greatly, And made them stronger than their adversaries. He turned their heart to hate his people, To deal subtly with his servants. He sent Moses his servant, And Aaron whom he had chosen. They set among them his signs, And wonders in the land of Ham. He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they rebelled not against his words. He turned their waters into blood, And slew their fish. Their land swarmed with frogs In the chambers of their kings.
He spake, and there came swarms of flies, And lice in all their borders. He gave them hail for rain, And flaming fire in their land. He smote their vines also and their fig-trees, And brake the trees of their borders. He spake, and the locust came, And the grasshopper, and that without numbej, And did eat up every herb in their land, And did eat up the fruit of their ground.
PSALM
He smote
36.
CV.
387
also all the first-born in their land,
The
chief of all their strength.
And And
there
And
fire to
he brought them forth with silver and gold; was not one feeble person among his tribes. Egypt was glad when they departed; For the fear of them had fallen upon them. He spread a cloud for a covering,
37.
38.
39.
give light in the night. asked, and he brought quails, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven. He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; They ran in the dry places like a river. For he remembered his holy word,
They
40.
41.
42.
And Abraham his servant. And he brought forth his people with joy, And his chosen with singing. And he gave them the lands of the nations; And they took the labor of the peoples in possession:
43.
44.
That they might keep
45.
his statutes,
And
observe his laws. Praise ye Jehovah.
Psalm CV. General Subject.
The
establishment of the church by
the Lord, and the reformation of the natural man. I, 2.
See Psalm
vii.
P. P.
E. 326.
18.
in the spiritual sense consists in shunning and from one's self the infernal crew, which is effected solely by means of truths. Thus it is that by doing wonders is signified that from the Lord are all the means A. 8304. by which is power. Song in praise of the Lord and of His works for the 1-7.
1-5.
Power
rejecting
P. P.
establishment of the church. 4.
To
seek the face of Jehovah means to seek His mercy. A. 5585.
5, 6, 26, 42.
By Abraham His Human.
as to the Divine
servant
is
meant the Lord A. 344 1
-
PSALM cv.
388 See Psalm
8.
18. A. 8715. with a covenant as with an oath, that
lxviii.
It is similar
8. 9.
Jehovah or the Lord does not make a covenant with man, when conjunction by love and charity is treated of,
but
this is set forth in act also as
See Psalm
The
8-15.
1.
5,
A. 2842. E. 701.
establishment of the church in the beginning,
and her protection from
The reason
9.
a covenant.
16.
that
it is
P. P.
falsities of evils.
said that
Jehovah sware
is
because
was a and hence the conjunction of the Lord with the church was represented by a covenant, such as is made between two who swear to their compact; on which account because an oath was part of a covenant, it is said that Jehovah sware, by which however is not meant that He swear, but that the Divine truth attests it. the church instituted with the children of Israel
representative church,
R. 474.
To swear when
predicated of Jehovah signifies attesta-
tion before the angels concerning the state of the church
that
what follows
By
10.
meant
is
Divine truth.
confirmation here, which the conjunction of the
is
E. 608. signified
by oath,
Lord with those who
is
are in
His kingdom, for an oath is the confirmation of a covenant, A. 3375. and by a covenant is signified conjunction. A. 9854. 11. See Psalm xvi. 6. To break the staff of bread signifies to be deprived of 16. heavenly nourishment, for the life of good spirits and angels is sustained by no other food than the knowledge
good and truth, and by good and truth themselves, deprivation from this is the signification of famine, and of bread in the internal sense. of knowledge of good of
—
—
A. 1460.
The
celestial things of love are signified
The
staff of
by bread. A. 2165.
the
good
bread stands for support and power from
of love.
See also Ezekiel
iv.
16; v. 16, etc.
A. 4876.
PSALM See Psalm
389 R. 485.
xxiii. 4, 5.
By breaking truth shall
CV.
the staff of bread
is
signified that
good and
the church, for bread here signifies both.
fail in
E. 727.
When
was no longer any truth, P. P. the Lord came, and they afflicted Him. P. P. 17, 18. I 7 _2 3« Joseph signified the Lord's spiritual kingdom, he was therefore made ruler in Egypt, and each thing signifies
there
such things as are of the Lord's spiritual kingdom. R. 360.
By Joseph is here described the Lord, how He was rewhen He came into the world, how He was tempted and afterwards made Lord of heaven and earth, how He
ceived
subjugated the
hells,
reduced the heavens to order, and That all things of the church
established the church.
then perished
.
.
.
by verse
signified
is
23.
Ham
signifying
the church destroyed. 17, 19-21.
from the several
The
18.
19-22.
is
here meant the Lord
soul signifies the
life
of the spirit of
plain
man, which E. 750.
life.
But He afterwards became the God
of
heaven and
earth.
P. P.
Egypt
23.
is
A. 4973.
particulars.
called his spiritual
is
E. 448.
That by Joseph
is
called the land of
Ham.
the church destroyed.
Ham
signifying
R. 503.
Egypt is called the land of Ham. E. 654. Hence those who were in the church were natural 23, 24. and in knowledges. P. P. See Psalm lxxviii. 51. Add: Such men who in 23, 27. the Ancient Church were called Ham, because they lived a
life
by
of all lusts,' only prating that they could be saved
faith
howsoever they
lived,
appeared to the ancient lusts, and from this
people black from the heat of their
Ham.
were called 23, 28, 29. 23, 36.
See Psalm
The
A. 1063. v. 7.
first-born of
Egypt
is
R. 379. the doctrinal of faith
PSALM
390 and
of charity
which
is
CV.
perverted by outward knowledges.
A. 33 2 5therefore their natural has been purged from fal-
25-36.
and
sities
treated
Moses
26.
every kind which infested; these here
evils of
P. P.
of.
called a servant because a servant
is
cated of truths, and chosen from good. Testifications that a thing
27.
is
is
predi-
A. 9806.
true are signified by signs.
R. 598. See Psalm
E. 706.
lxxviii. 42, 43.
Blood in the genuine sense and with those who receive
28. 29. truth,
Hence
in the opposite sense
to the
Divine truth, and with those
is
from
false
by
its
rivers,
it
it
truth from good.
signifies violence offered
who
offer
This opposite signification
evil.
Divine
signifies the
it
what
is
may appear
being predicated of the waters of the sea, of the and of the fountains that they were turned into
blood, for waters signify truths, wherefore by blood are
which destroy truths. By the living and by the fish are signified scientific thus by their dying and being slain is signified the
here signified
falsities
souls of the sea truths,
E. 329.
destruction of those truths.
By the fishes of the rivers of Egypt are signified those who are in doctrinals, and from -them in faith separate,
29.
which
faith
tion
was
it
is
only knowledge, on account of which separaamong the miracles there that their waters
also
were turned into blood, and that from
Exodus
The reason why it
is
R. 4°5this
was done
signified the natural
rivers of
Egypt
By
falsities.
the scientifics perished
but perish by
falsities.
truth
and
is alive,
man
in
Egypt
all
falsities, for
The
the
because by
by the by blood that the intelligence was from
the fish dying
by
is
as to scientifics,
intelligence procured
the river being turned into
from mere
this the fishes died.
17-25.
vii.
life
reason
is
is
scientifics,
signified that
they live by truths
because
all spiritual
or soul in scientifics
is
thence
PSALM
CV.
391
derived, wherefore without spiritual truth the scientifics are dead. E. 513
29, 30.
Frogs are reasonings from
The chambers
falsities against truths.
of kings are interior truths,
and
posite sense interior falsities.
in the op-
A. 7351.
Treating concerning the plagues in Egypt. By the waters turned into blood are signified truths falsified, by the fishes that were slain the scientific truths
and knowl-
edges of the natural man, that they perished,. by the frogs the reasonings of the natural man from falses. The
chambers of the king
signify interior truths,
perverted by such reasonings.
See Psalm
30.
which they E. 1000.
lxxviii. 45.
R. j 02 30, 3 1. In the Word throughout mention is made of insects of various kinds, and they everywhere signify falses or evils in the
By
frogs of
.
extremes or in the external sensual of man. Egypt are signified reasonings grounded in
falses.
A. 9331. Lice are especially the evils which are in the sensual, or in the wholly external man. The correspondence is such because lice are in the outer skin, and under filth
31,
and a
scab.
See Psalm
A. 7419 lxxviii. 45.
Rain here
A. 7441
hence also damnation A. 2445 See Psalm lxxviii. 47-49. A. 7553 See Psalm xviii. 13, 15. R. 399 See Psalm lxxviii. 47-49. R. 401 These things are said concerning Egypt by which is
32, 33.
signifies cursing,
signified the natural
man who
is
in falsities
and
evils.
By
the vine are signified the internal or spiritual things of the church, by the fig tree the external or natural things,
by the trees of their coasts everything pertaining to knowledge and perception, the border or boundary the ultimate ground into which interior things fall and terminate and which they are contained together. Trees signifying
in
PSALM
392 32
knowledges and perceptions.
CV. Since
all
these things were
perverted and therefore damned, it is said of them that they w ere smitten and broken, by which is signified r
destruction
and damnation.
That
this
was from the
or evils originating in the love of the world
falsities
is
by hail given for rain, and flaming fire in their land, rain and hail signifying the falses of evil, and flamsignified
ing
fire
E. 403.
the love of the world.
These things are said by the is
hail of Egypt,
by which
signified the infernal falsity destroying the truths of
the church.
See also Psalm
lxxviii.
E. 503.
47~49-
Because in the genuine sense a vine signifies the good of the intellectual, and a fig tree the good of the natural or what is the same a vine the good of the interior man and a fig tree the good of the exterior, therefore a fig tree A. 51 13 is often named at the same time with a vine.
33.
34.
See Psalm
A. 7643
lxxviii. 45, 46.
By this miracle in Egypt vastation by falsities in 34, 35. the outermost things are described, which when the in teriors on which they depend are closed up are infernal R. 424 36.
See Psalm
lxxviii. 45, 46.
See Psalm
lxxviii. 51.
37, 39. love is
That
there
is
known from
E. 543 A. 6344
a correspondence between this,
that a
man
grows
fire
and
warm from
and grows cold from the privation of it. There nothing else that makes vital heat but love in both R. 468. senses.
love, is
37-41.
Afterwards truth and good, and protection from P. P. granted them.
falsities are
38, 39.
See Psalm
E. 594.
lxxviii. 14.
By a cloud is meant the Word in the sense of the letter, 39. which sense because it encloses and covers the spiritual See Isaiah iv. 5. sense is called a covering upon the glory. R. 24. The cloud appearing
in the
day and the
fire in
the night
PSALM
CVI.
393
represented the guard of heaven and the church by the Lord, for by the tabernacle were represented heaven and
The
the church.
day,
when
the cloud was, signified the
and the night the same in the shade. Lest they should be hurt by too much light they were guarded by a cloud, and by a sliining fire lest they should be hurt by too much shade. E. 504. 40. See Psalm lxxviii. 23, 24. E. 146. Divine truth in the
41.
light,
Rivers signify truths in abundance.
R. 409.
See Psalm
E. 411.
By
lxxviii. 15, 16, 20, 35.
the rock
is
here understood the Lord, and by the
waters which flowed out of
By
the rivers are
meant
it,
Him. and wisdom thence
the Divine truth from
intelligence
derived.
By
E. 518.
rock throughout the
Word
the Divine truth
stood.
is
under-
Inv. 35. P. P.
And He
causes them to be a church. Psalm Jah is the Lord as to Divine truth, in like manner Jah in Hallelu-Jah. A. 8267. See Psalm civ. 35. R. 803. See Psalm civ. 35. E. 1197.
42-45. In
45.
this
PSALM
CVI.
Praise ye Jehovah. Oh give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever. Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah,
Or show
forth all his praise
?
Blessed are they that keep justice, And he that doeth righteousness at all times. Remember me, O Jehovah, with the favor that thou bearest unto thy people; Oh visit me with thy salvation,
PSALM
394 5.
6.
7.
That That That
I I I
may may may
CVI.
see the prosperity of thy chosen, rejoice in the gladness of thy nation,
glory with thine inheritance.
We We
have sinned with our fathers, have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; They remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses, rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea. Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, That he might make his might}' power to be known. He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up: So he led them through the depths, as through a wil-
But were
8.
9.
derness. 10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. And the waters covered their adversaries; There was not one of them left. Then believed they his words; They sang his praise. They soon forgat his works; They waited not for his counsel, But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert. And he gave them their request,
And
17.
But sent leanness into their soul. They envied Moses also in the camp, And Aaron the saint of Jehovah. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
18.
And And
16.
19.
20.
21.
covered the company of Abiram. a fire was kindled in their company; The flame burned up the wicked. They made a calf in Horeb, And worshipped a molten image. Thus they changed their glory For the likeness of an ox that eateth grass.
They
Who
forgat
God
their Saviour,
had done great things
in Egypt,
PSALM 22.
Wondrous works
And
23.
24.
25.
CVI.
in the land of
395
Ham,
by the Red Sea. Therefore he said that he would destroy them, Had not Moses his chosen stood before him terrible things
in the breach, To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them. Yea, they despised the pleasant land, They believed not his word,
But murmured
in their tents,
And hearkened 26.
27.
not unto the voice of Jehovah. Therefore he sware unto them, That he would overthrow them in the wilderness, And that he would overthrow their seed among the nations,
And 28.
29.
30.
31.
them in the lands. joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead. Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings; And the plague brake in upon them. Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment; And so the plague was stayed. scatter
They
And
was reckoned unto him for righteousness, generations for evermore. They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, So that it went ill with Moses for their sakes; Because they were rebellious against his spirit, that
Unto 32.
33.
And 34.
all
he spake unadvisedly with his
lips.
They did not destroy the peoples, As Jehovah commanded them,
35.
But mingled themselves with the
36.
And And
nations,
37.
learned their works, served their idols, Which became a snare unto them. Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto
38.
And shed
demons,
Even
innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; the land was polluted with blood.
Whom And
PSALM
396
CVI.
Thus were they denied with
their works, played the harlot in their doings. Therefore was the wrath of Jehovah kindled against
39.
And 40.
his people,
And And And
he abhorred his inheritance. he gave them into the hand of the nations; they that hated them ruled over them. Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were brought into subjection under their hand. Many times did he deliver them; But they were rebellious in their counsel, And were brought low in their iniquity. Nevertheless he regarded their distress, When he heard their cry: And he remembered for them his covenant, And repented according to the multitude of his loving-
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
kindnesses.
He made them
46.
also to be pitied
them captive. Jehovah our God, And gather us from among the nations, To give thanks unto thy holy name, And to triumph in thy praise.
Of
all
Save
47.
those that carried
us,
O
God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, Amen. Blessed be Jehovah, the
48.
Praise ye Jehovah.
Psalm CVI.
I.
General Subject. Of the church instituted among the P. P. Jewish nation, it became perverted and revolted. R. 803. See Psalm civ. 35.
1-5.
He 1,
48.
E. 1197. See Psalm civ. 35. Prayer of the Lord to the Father to give help, that P. P. might see the church established.
See Psalm cv. 45.
A. 8267.
PSALM
398 23.
To stand
falsities
in the breach
break
Moses
in.
CVI.
means is
the
to be on one's guard lest A. 4926. Word.
By making their seed to fall among the nations, and by scattering them in the lands is signified that Divine the Jews by evils and truth would perish with them
26, 27.
—
—
E. 768. R. 525.
falses.
28.
See Psalm
cii.
See Psalm
vi. 6.
See Psalm
cii.
They
35~39«
21.
E. 186.
21.
totally
I. 10.
destroyed and profaned the truths
and goods of the church. By demons the lusts of 37. world are
signified.
The
P. P. evil arising
reason
is
from the love of the
that in hell they are
demons who are in such lusts, and men also who are R. 458. in the same become demons after death. This was altogether infernal, but in the spiritual sense by sacrificing their sons and daughters was signified their evil lusts to pervert and destroy the truths and goods of the church, for sons signify the truth of the church, and called
daughters the goods thereof.
In
hell those are called
E. 586.
demons who
are in the lust of
which is chiefly effected by reasonings, hence by demons and demoniacs in the abstract are sigfalsifying truths,
nified lusts
38, 39.
and
To shed
falses.
E. 1001.
.
the blood of sons
and daughters here
signifies in the internal sense that they extinguished all
and goods of charity. To sacrifice sons and daughters to the idols of Canaan signifies to profane the things which are of faith and charity by external worship separate from internal, which is nothing else than
truths of faith
A. 1167.
idolatrous.
40-43. Therefore the church with them was forsaken by P. P. the Lord, and destroyed. 44-46. Then those who were out of the church w ere heard, r
P. P.
45.
See Psalm
viii.
5.
A. 9849.
!
PSALM See Psalm 47, 48. will
48.
I.
5,
CVII.
399 E. 701.
16.
and a church constituted
of
them
will arise
worship the Lord.
See Psalm
Amen
See Psalm
R. 803.
civ. 35.
signifies
and
P. P.
Divine confirmation.
E. 228.
E. 1197.
civ. 35.
PSALM
CVII.
1.
Oh
2.
For his lovingkindness endureth for ever. Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, Whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the ad-
give thanks unto Jehovah; for he
is
good;
versary, 3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
And gathered out of the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south. They wandered in the They found no city of Hungry and thirsty,
wilderness in a desert way; habitation.
Their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he delivered them out of their distresses, He led them also by a straight way, That they might go to a city of habitation. Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness,
And 9.
10.
11.
12.
for his
For he
wonderful works to the children of
men
longing soul, And the hungry soul he filleth with good. Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, satisfieth the
Being bound in affliction and iron, Because they rebelled against the words of God, And contemned the counsel of the Most High: Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and there was none to help.
PSALM
400 13.
14.
CVII.
Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he saved them out of their distresses.
He
brought them out of darkness and the shadow of
death,
And 15.
Oh
brake their bonds in sunder. that
men would
praise
Jehovah
for his loving-
kindness, 16.
And for his wonderful works to the children For he hath broken the gates of brass,
of
men!
And 17.
18.
19.
20.
cut the bars of iron in sunder. Fools because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Their soul abhorreth all manner of food; And they draw near unto the gates of death. Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he saveth them out of their distresses. He sendeth his word, and healethr them,
And 21.
Oh
delivereth them
that
from
men would
their destructions.
praise
Jehovah
for his loving-
kindness, 22.
23.
24.
And And And
for his wonderful let
them
works
to the children of
men!
offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,
declare his works with singing. sea in ships, waters;
They that go down to the That do business in great
These see the works of Jehovah, his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof.
And 25.
26.
They mount up
to the heavens, they go
the depths: Their soul melteth 27.
28.
29.
They
reel to
and
away because
fro,
like
a drunken man,
And are at their wits' end. Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, Then
again to
of trouble.
and stagger
So that the waves thereof are 30.
down
still.
are they glad because they are quiet; So he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
!
PSALM 31.
Oh
that
men would
praise
CVII.
Jehovah
401 for his lovingkind-
ness.
And 32.
for his wonderful works to the children of men Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people,
33.
And praise him in the He turneth rivers into And watersprings into
34.
A
fruitful
land into a
seat of the elders.
a wilderness, a thirsty ground;
salt desert,
For the wickedness of them that dwell 35.
36.
37. 38.
therein.
He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water, And a dry land into watersprings. And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, That they may prepare a city of habitation, And sow fields, and plant vineyards, And get them fruits of increase. He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly;
And
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
he sufTereth not their cattle to decrease. Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow. He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way. Yet setteth he the needy on high from affliction, And maketh him families like a flock. The upright shall see it, and be glad; And all iniquity shall stop her mouth. Whoso is wise will give heed to these things; And they will consider the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah.
Psalm CVII. 1-3. 2.
A new
church which the Lord has redeemed. P. P. R. 281. R. 613. See Psalm xix. 15. See Psalm xix. 15.
See Psalm
xliv. 27.
E. 328.
Jehovah here signify those who are defended from evils, from the hand of the enemy those E. 328. whom He has liberated from falsities.
The redeemed
of
PSALM
402
The redeemed the
hand
of the
Said of those
2-4.
From
CVII.
who
are in
whom He
redeemed from D. P., Page 87. ignorance of good and truth.
Jehovah enemy.
of
and from the west stands for those in ignorance of good, from the north and from the south for those Of those in ignorance of good it in ignorance of truth. is said that they wandered in the wilderness, and of those in ignorance of truth, that they wandered in a desert they found no way. Concerning the ignorance of both the east
—
city of habitation.
City signifies a doctrinal of truth.
A. 3708. 2 > 4> 5> 7«
By
cities in
the spiritual sense are
meant docR. 194.
trines.
Verse 4 signifies that they were in want of the knowledges of truth and good, and that there was no doctrine By the of truth according to which they might live. hungry and thirsty are meant they who were in the desire of
knowing good and truth. Verse 7 means to lead them E. 223. and into the doctrine of life. E. 422. See Psalm 1. 1. Those who have been in desolation of truth and are
into genuine truth 3. 4.
being reformed are treated
of.
A. 2708.
By
a wilderness a state of temptation is signified, in which a man is as if it were without truths, because he is surrounded by evil spirits who bring temptation, and
4-7.
R. 546. if it were take away truths from him. These words are spoken in general concerning those
then as
who
are redeemed,
specifically
concerning the sons of
The
temptations of such as
Israel in the wilderness.
by the Lord are thereby described. By is signified the doctrine of life which constitutes the church in man, and since the church is formed in man by a life according to doctrine through the means of temptations, it is said that Jehovah led them in the way of right, that they might go to a city of habitaThe defect or want of truth even to despair, and tion. are regenerating
the city in verse 4
PSALM yet a desire for
and
thirsty,
They
4-8.
it,
is
CVII.
by
403
hungry and way. E. 730. of ignorance, but in a desire for
signified
their being
their soul fainting in the
are in falsities
and good. P. P. Here the longing soul signifies those who desire truths, 8, 9. and the hungry soul those who desire goods. E. 386. See Psalm xxxiii. 18, 19. R. 323. 8, 9, 35-37. Meaning those who desire knowledge. A. 1460. 9. 9-15. They are in ignorance and in lack of truth. P. P. 16. Gates signify firmness and protection, and staves or bars the power which is of truth derived from good. truth
They have no
16-21. will
20.
have
From
Psalm is
the
Word 21,22. 22-24. 22-31.
pits
P. P.
meaning from
falsities.
Lord
See also A. 4728.
2.
sent His word."
is
A. 9496. nourishment, although they
through the Word.
their
xl.
"He
it
spiritual
The Word
as to Divine truth, or
in the
what
is
supreme sense the same, the
the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord.
See Psalm
xl.
See Psalm
lxix. 31.
See Psalm
civ.
When
7, 8.
24-26.
A. 9987. A. 2180. A. 3880. A. 6385.
they were in knowledges they were admitted
into temptations,
See Psalm
and preserved.
P. P.
R. 406. In verse 23 those are signified who intensely study the doctrine of truth from the Word. Verse 24 signifies that
23, 24.
xlviii.
5, 7, 8.
they understand the truths and goods of heaven and the
The works of Jehovah stand for all things of the Word which perfect man, and all of which have reference to good and truth. The wonders in the deep meaning the hidden things of E. 514. intelligence and wisdom. These things are said concerning temptations 23, 25, 29. and liberations from them. By verse 25 are signified church, and the hidden things thereof.
PSALM
404
CVII.
temptations, since spiritual temptations are caused by the irruption of falsities into the thoughts,
whence
remorse of conscience and grief of mind.
from them 25, 29.
is
signified
See Psalm
Those who
27.
to reason
by verse
arise
Liberation E. 419.
29.
R. 343. are not in the faith of charity wish only xi.
6.
whether a thing be
and
so,
to
know how
it is,
saying that unless they can know how it is, they cannot They not only doubt about all things, believe it to be so.
but also deny in their hearts. When they are instructed how it is they still cling to their disbelief, and arouse all their objections and never acquiesce, were it to eternity.
Word drunken
They are such as are called in the wine or strong drink. See Psalm lxxv. 32.
The
R. 721.
9.
congregation of the elders stands for those
are in intelligence life,
which
is
of
wisdom, for wisdom
thus of good, but intelligence
is
and the knowledge
of
A. 6524. R. 409.
Rivers signify truths in abundance. Intelligence
who is
of knowledges, thus
of truth.
33.
with
A. 1072.
of truth shall perish.
E. 518.
Because lusts and falsities are what lay a man 33, 34. waste, that is deprive him of all the life of the love of good
and
of affection for truth, vastation
passages by saltness. The fruitful land turned into a
is
described in
many
A. 1666. salt desert
the vastation of good in truth.
stands for
A. 2455.
Salt in the opposite sense signifies the destruction
and
A. 9207. R. 546.
vastation of truth.
See Psalm lxv. 13, 14.
The illustration of the gentiles is treated of. Lake 35, 36. of waters signifies truths in abundance appertaining to the natural
man, by the hungry
stood those
who
nifies that
desire truths.
in the
A
-Word are under-
city of habitation sig-
from those truths they may make for themselves
doctrine of
life.
E. 730.
PSALM
CVII.
405
who
Song in praise of the Lord, that those 33> 34> 39> 40* were of the devastated church have been rejected.
P. P.
Waters, rivers and depths from the rock
33> 35«
Lord, see Psalm
lxxviii. 15,
16
— stand
for truths
Him.
from
A. 2702.
The
regeneration of those
or the gentiles,
who
those ness
— the
is
who
are in ignorance of truth,
and the enlightenment and
are in desolation
is
instruction of
The
treated of.
predicated of these.
wilder-
A. 2708.
Pools signify knowledges serving truths which are of
and
in the opposite sense serving falsities of doc-
Pools,
where they are named in the Word, in the
doctrine, trine.
sense signify intelligence from knowledges of
spiritual
good and
truth, for pools there stand for waters gathered
and lakes are in the complex knowledges by which comes intelligence. A. 7324. By a lake is signified where there is truth in abun35, 36. together,
dance.
By in
a wilderness
which
33, 34.
all
By
is
R. 835. one R. 546.
signified a vastated church, or
the truths of the
Word
are falsified.
the rivers laid into a wilderness
is
signified in-
and also of the Word as to its interior sense devastated by falses from Rivers such things as are from intelligence, a wilevil. The going forth of derness where such things are not. waters into drought means that the ultimates of understanding, called the knowledges of truth and good, are without all light and spiritual affection for truth. Waters stand for truths, drought the deprivation thereof by reason of there being no light and affection, the going telligence
forth
from the understanding of
— the
ultimates thereof, such as are the truths of
the literal sense of the
Word.
Saltness stands for the
devastation of truth by falses, and as
by
falses
from the
evil of the life,
it is
edness of them that dwell therein.
35-37'
truth,
See Psalm
lxvii.
6-8.
all
devastation
is
added, for the wickE. 730.
A. 9272.
PSALM
406
They who
35
and yet
CVTI.
are in ignorance of the knowledges of truth,
know them, shall be greatly enriched By Jehovah turning the wilderness into a
desire to
therewith.
where ignorance of truth abundance of it. By dry ground into water springs is signified the same effect produced in the natural man. By making the hungry to dwell standing water
is
signified that
existed, there shall be
there
form
who
signified that they
is
thereby.
To
desire truth shall live
prepare a city of habitation signifies to life. Verse 37 means understand them, and to do them.
for themselves a doctrine of
to receive truths, to
(This paragraph is given in extract only.) E. 386. 35-38, 41-43. And that those who are of the new church have been accepted, with whom truths and goods will be P. P.
multiplied.
E. 919. Vineyard signifies the spiritual church. 37-39. The whole of this Psalm treats about the advent of the Lord and redemption from Him. That they shall then possess truths whereby the church shall be implanted with them, and that thence they shall possess the goods of the church whence truths shall grow and increase is sigThe nified by verse 37, and by the first clause of verse 38. remainder of verse 38 signifies that in this case every good affection of the natural man shall remain with them. That otherwise those affections would have perished by E. 650. evils is signified by verse 39. 37.
PSALM A i.
My heart
CVIII.
Song, a Psalm of David.
is fixed,
O
Gcd;
I will sing, yea, I will sing praises, even with 2.
Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake right earl}-.
3.
I will give
thanks unto thee,
O
Jehovah,
my
glory.
among
the
peoples;
And
I will sing praises
unto thee
among
the nations.
psalm cvnr. 4.
407
For thy lovingkindness
is great above the heavens; thy truth reacheth unto the skies. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, And thy glory above all the earth. That thy beloved may be delivered, Save with thy right hand, and answer us.
And 5.
6.
7.
God hath spoken I will divide
8.
Succoth. Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head;
my sceptre. my washpot; Upon Edom will I cast my Judah
9.
10.
11.
12.
Moab
is
is
Over
Philistia will I shout.
Who Who
will bring
me
shoe;
into the fortified city?
hath led me unto Edom ? Hast not thou cast us off, O God? And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts. Give us help against the adversary;
For vain 13.
in his holiness: I will exult;
Shechem, and mete out the valley of
is
the help of
Through God we For he
it is
shall
man. do valiantly:
that will tread
down our
adversaries.
Psalm CVIIL 1.
See Psalm
xviii.
See Psalm
xviii. 1.
Prayer of the Lord show His power.
1-6.
2-4.
R. 279.
1.
E. 326. to the
See Psalm
xxxiii. 2, 3.
See Psalm
lvii.
8-10.
See Psalm
lvii.
8-10.
7.
See Psalm xxxvi. 6. That those who are to be
8.
A
5.
Father to give help, and P. P.
R. 276. E. ^2^. E. 331. E. 541. of the church
may be
delivered.
P. P. tent signifies the holy of truth,
and dwelling
in tents
worship therefrom, therefore the feast of tents was
in-
PSALM
408 8
stituted in the feast
Jewish and
CVIII.
church where that
Israelitic
also called Succoth.
is
Succoth inyolves the quality
of the state of the holy in truth
from good
Answer, that the former church
will
at that time.
A. 4391-92. be destroyed. P. P.
Shechem
8-10.
signifies the first state of light.
A. 1441.
who are called Moab and the sons of become when their good has been altogether The washpot defiled by falsities is described in David. A. 2468. stands for good defiled by falsities. Judah a lawgiver is celestial good and its truth. A. 6372. 9. S. 79. See Psalm lx. 9. R. 355. See Psalm lx. 9. T. 247. See Psalm lx. 9. E. 440. See Psalm lx. 9. external church will be internal and an And an 10. 9,
What
those
Ammon
P. P.
instituted.
10.
See Psalm
lvi.
The Human
11-14.
A. 9340.
1.
will
become Divine when the
have been subjugated. See Psalms xliv. 6 and 14.
lx.
PSALM For the Chief Musician. 1.
2.
3.
E. 632.
14.
CIX.
A
Psalm
of David.
Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth have they opened against me:
They have spoken unto me with a They have compassed me about
And For But
fought against me without a cause. love they are my adversaries: I give myself unto prayer.
my
of deceit
lying tongue. also with
hatred,
4.
hells
P. P.
words of
PSALM 5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
CIX.
409
they have rewarded me evil for good, hatred for my love. Set thou a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand. When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into sin. Let his days be few; And let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow. Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate
And And
places. 11.
Let the extortioner catch
And
let
strangers
make
all
that he hath;
spoil of his labor.
12.
Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless
13.
Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following
children.
name be
let their
blotted
out. 14.
Let the iniquity of Jehovah;
his fathers
be remembered with
And 15.
let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the
earth; 16.
17.
18.
Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay them. Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him. clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment,
He
And And 19.
Let
it
came
into his
inward parts
like water,
like oil into his bones. it
be unto him as the raiment
w herewith he T
cov-
ereth himself,
And
for the girdle
wherewith he
is
girded continually.
PSALM
410 20.
This
is
And
of
CIX.
the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, that speak evil against my soul.
them
22.
But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name's sake: Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me; For I am poor and needy,
23.
I
21.
And my I 24.
wounded within me. shadow when it declineth: tossed up and down as the locust. knees are w eak through fasting;
am am
My
26.
27.
28.
is
like the
T
And my 25.
heart
gone
flesh faileth of fatness.
am become also a reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head. Help me, O Jehovah my God; Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness: That they may know that this is thy hand; I
That thou, Jehovah, hast done it. Let them curse, but bless thou: When they arise, they shall be put to shame,
But thy servant 29.
shall rejoice.
Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves w ith their own shame as with a robe. I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth; Yea, I will praise him among the multitude. For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from them that judge his soul. T
30.
31.
Psalm CIX. General Subject.
Of
the perverted Jewish church.
P. P. 1-6.
It
repudiated the Lord, and considered
and hated Him. 2. See Psalm v. 7. See Psalm v. 7. See Psalm v. 7. This, like most other things 5, 6.
Him
vile,
P. P.
A. 9013. R. 624. E. 866. in the Psalms,
is
a proph-
PSALM
CIX.
411
ecy concerning the Lord and His temptations, and con-
cerning the most cruel of the
Lord
said
— see
all
which
He
sustained. Since
His temptations fought from Divine love against the hells, which were most hostile to Him, it is in
verse
5.
—
Since the most infernal evil and it is said see verse 6. To
—
false prevail in those hells,
—
stand at the right side signifies to be altogether possessed, and Satan the infernal false with which he was to be
—
possessed.
E. 740.
They
7-12.
judgment, and there will be will be received, and a church
will perish in the
others in their place,
who
established with them.
Their posterity
13-20.
are in falsities of
evil,
P. p. will likewise perish
and because they
because they
reject the Lord.
P. P. 14. 16.
See Psalm
lxxviii. 57.
See Psalm
ix.
A. 3703.
R. 209.
19.
See Psalm xxxvii. 14.
E. 238.
In the spiritual sense concerning the Lord, for David as a king represented the Lord, and thence signified Him as to the Divine spiritual, which is the royalty The reward of them who are hostile to the of the Lord.
18,
20.
Lord, and
who speak
evil against
His
soul, is described
as hell originating in the love of the false 18.
It is said as
waters and
oil
and
evil
by verse
because waters signify the
falses of faith, and oil evils of love, whence by both is understood the love or affection for the false and evil, which is hell. This may appear also from this consideration, that love imbibes all things that agree with it, like a
sponge does water and oil, for the love of evil nourishes from falses, and the love of the false from evils. As
itself
love
is
of such a nature
entered into the midst of
it is
him
therefore said, that cursing
and
as waters,
the bones.
21-25. vile,
To and
as oil
the Father for help, because
as nothing.
He
between E. 695.
.
is
considered P. P.
PSALM
412 See Psalm
ix.
19.
See Psalm
ix.
19.
CIX.
R. 209. E. 238. See Deuteronomy xxviii. 38. This was one of 22, 23. the curses with which the Israelites were threatened if they did not observe and do the commandments of Jehovah. By the seed of the field is understood the Word, and by the locust the dense falsity from the sensual man 22.
consuming and destroying
The same
it.
is
signified
locust in David.
Let them be put to shame.
26-29. 30.
See Psalm xxxv. 17, 18.
Song
30, 31.
P. P.
A. 3880.
in praise of the Father, because
He
PSALM A thou at
Until I 2.
Psalm
Jehovah saith unto Sit
gives
P. P.
help.
i.
my
make
Jehovah
will
my
CX.
of David.
lord,
right hand,
thine enemies thy footstool. send forth the rod of thy strength out of
Zion:
Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 3.
Thy people offer themselves willingly In the day of thy power, in holy array:
womb of the morning hast the deiv of thy youth. Jehovah hath swjrn, and will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek. The Lord at thy right hand Will strike through kings in the day of his wrath. Out
of the
Thou
4.
5.
6.
7.
He He He He
by
E. 543.
will
judge
among
the nations,
dead bodies; through the head in many countries. will drink of the brook in the way: Therefore will he lift up the head. will
fill
the places with
will strike
PSALM CX.
413
Psalm CX. 1.
That
Lord cannot be apparent in the Matthew xxii. 44, but still that no other than the Lord is meant He here teaches in Matthew. A. 2135. this treats of the
sense of the passage cited in
literal
By
a footstool natural things are signified, as well
They
sensual as scientific, and man's rational therefrom. are called enemies
from the
literal
when
they pervert worship, and this
sense of the
Word, so that there
is
worship
only in externals, and either no internal worship, or what is
of
A. 2162.
defiled.
By
sitting at the right
hand
power from truth which
predicated of the Lord
is
of
is
God
signified a state
is
from good, which when
omnipotence, also the Divine
truth which proceeds from the Lord's Divine good.
A. 4592. It is plain that
in
Lord stands here
Matthew. Divine
Jehovah
Human, omnipotence
David
for the Divine is
signified
by
right hand.
See also it is
Matthew
xxii.
41-46.
Lord in good of the
called
is
From
sitting at the
A. 4973. these passages
evident that the Lord as to the glorified
Human, was
not the son of Mary, nor of David.
L. 35.
Jehovah God calls both himself and the Son of God Lord. By the Son is also meant the Humanity of theLord. T. 101.
The Lord of
David
xxii.
for
42-45:
did not acknowledge himself to be the son it is
"The Lord
xii.
said to
—
see
Matthew
Luke xx. 41-44. my Lord" signifies the
Essential
read in the Evangelists
Mark
35-37:
T. 102.
Divine, which is called the Father, to the Divine Human, which is the Son. Sit thou at my right hand signifies power or omnipotence by Divine truth, until I make thine enemies thy footstool signifies until the hells are
PSALM CX.
414 1
conquered and subjugated, and the evil cast thither. Enemies stand for the hells, and footstool for the lowest region under the heavens, under which are the hells. E. 687.
D. P., Page 8. D. P., Page 38.
Verse quoted. Verse quoted.
This whole Psalm treats concerning the battle of Lord with the hells and their subjugation. The right T. 136. hand of God signifies omnipotence. By sitting at the right hand is signified the Lord's Divine omnipotence, by making His enemies His footstool the entire subjugation and prostration of the hells, by the sceptre of strength out of Zion Divine truth to which belongs omnipotence, Zion denoting heaven, where the E. 850. Lord by His Divine truth reigns. 1-3. Victory of the Lord over the hells, owing to which P. P. He has dominion over heaven and earth. 1-5. The Lord's combats of temptations with the hells. 1,
2.
the
His interior
man
as to the celestial
is
called Melchizedek.
A. 1725.
what the Lord is as a priest, consequently what the priesthood of the Lord represented, namely, all the work of the salvation of the human race, for the subject here treated of is concerning His combats with the hells when He was in the world, by which He acquired to himself Divine omnipotence over the hells, by which He saved the human race, and also at this day This salvation itself since saves all who receive Him. it is from the Divine good of the Divine love is that of Melchizedek see verse 4. which it is said of the Lord is the king of justice, thus the Lord was called from His A. 9809. being made justice, and thereby salvation. That these things were said concerning the Lord is evident from His own words in Matthew xxii. 44, etc. By right hand is signified omnipotence, by enemies the hells, by kings those there who are in falsities of evil. By ma-
1-7.
It is evident
—
PSALM CX king them a footstool, and by verses
415 5
and 6
is
signified to
destroy their power, by smiting through the head over many countries to destroy all. L. 14. Verses 1, 2, part of 3, 5 and 6 quoted.
D. P., Page 72. These things were said of the Lord as He teaches in Matthew xxii. 42. His dominion over the hells is By the right hand is signified the power described. which Divine truth has from Divine good. The hells and the evils and falses thence derived are the foes to be placed for His footstool, and in the midst of whom He was to have dominion. A. 10019. See Psalm ii. 6-8, 12. 1, 2, 4. L. 6. Verses quoted. D. P.. Page 60. The head of the serpent means in general the I, 2, 6, 7. dominion of evil, and in particular that of the love of self. This is the head which the Lord treads down. A. 257. The right hand when said of Jehovah means Di1, 4, 5. 1
et seq.
vine omnipotence. 1. 5,
A. 8281. See Psalm lxxxix. 12, 13. A. 10061. Here is described the combat of the Lord in the world
and the subjugation of them, which was from Divine good by Divine truth. The right
against the hells, effected
hand 2.
3.
signifies
Divine truth.
See Psalm
xxiii. 4, 5.
The Lord
is
E. 298.
R. 485. See Psalm ii. 6-8, 12. R. 612. By the staff of strength is here signified Divine truth in its power, and by Zion the church which is in love to the Lord and is thence called the celestial church. E. 727. treated of in this whole Psalm,
victories in temptations,
and His which are the day of His power
and the ornaments of His holiness. From the womb of dawn morning means the Lord himself, thus the Divine love from which He fought. A. 2405.
—
the
This
is
—
said of the Lord, the
the celestial of love.
.
dew
of birth standing for
A. 3579.
6
PSALM CX.
41 3
Concerning the Lord. Because He He arose from the sepulchre early in He was about to begin a new church.
is
the
morning
the morning, for
T. 764. spoken of the Lord as about to come into the " From the womb of the morning thou hast the world. dew of thy youth," means that Divine good and Divine
This
is
truth proceed from
Him,
for the
Lord
as a priest
good, and as a king of holiness, which
is
is
Said concerning the Lord. for irrevocable confirmation it is
is
E. 179.
Divine truth. 4.
Divine
Melchizedek,
Jehovah has sworn stands from the Divine, that is, that A. 2842.
eterna truth.
"After the order of Melchizedek"
Said of the Lord.
that He was both king and priest, that is in the supreme sense, that from Him proceed the Divine good A. 6148. and the Divine truth together. By the law here is meant the prophetic Word. A. 6752. L. 10. See Psalm lxxxix. 30. Hence it is that Melchizedek brought out bread and
means
.
wine as holy things of the church, even as they are the holy things in the sacrament of the Supper, and that
Melchizedek was able to bless Abram, and that gave him tithes of all. See Psalm See Psalm
The This
is
lxxxix. 30.
written.
By
101.
R. 474T. 262.
cv. 9.
statement under
Abram S.
S.
101 partly repeated in T. 264.
the law in the broadest sense
is
meant the whole Word, in a restricted sense the statutes given by Moses, and in a confined sense the decalogue. T. 288. Since Divine good and Divine truth are the most universal of all the things of heaven and the church, therefore
Melchizedek,
who
represented the Lord, brought
Abram, and blessed him. T. 715. From peace also Jerusalem was called Schelomim, and on that account Melchizedek, who was priest of God
forth bread
and wine
to
PSALM CX. Most High, was king
of
he represented the Lord
Salem is
417
— Genesis
xiv.
18
— That
evident from the Psalms. E. 365.
Jehovah God, or the Lord, never swears, but when God or the Divine verity wills to have anything confirmed before men, then that confirmation in its descent into the natural sphere falls into an oath, or into the form of an oath as used in the world. E. 608. See Psalm ii. 7, 12. Add: He is called a Priest for 4, 5. ever and the Lord. L. 19. 4-7.
From
5.
See Psalm
this
He ii.
has authority over the 10.
hells.
P. P.
E. 31.
See Psalm lxxii. 11. R. 921. Concerning the Lord and His combats against the falsities and evils which are from hell. Their entire sub-
5, 6.
5-7.
By kings are understood falsities from is indicated. and by the heathen the evils thence derived. His Divine power is understood by the Lord as his right hand. The subjugation and destruction of falsities and evils from the hells is signified by verses 5 and 6. By His wounding the head over many nations is meant the love of self, from which come all evils and falsities, and its total destruction and damnation. By verse 7 is signified the Word in the letter, to drink of it means to learn some things from it, to exalt or lift up the head the continuation thereby of repugnance, for they who are in falsities from evil cannot be cast down into hell before the things which they know from the Word are taken away from them, since all things of the Word communicate with heaven, by which communication they lift up the head, E. 518. jection hell,
6, 7.
This passage is explained in E. 518. In the opposite sense insanity and
by head. 7,
Rivers signify truths in abundance.
E. 577. folly are signified
R. 538. R. 409.
8
PSALM
41
CXI.
PSALM i.
CXI.
Praise ye Jehovah.
thanks unto Jehovah with my whole heart, In the council of the upright, and in the congregation. The works of Jehovah are great, Sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. His work is honor and majesty; And his righteousness endureth for ever. He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: I will give
2.
3.
4.
Jehovah
is
gracious and merciful.
6.
He He He
7.
In giving them the heritage of the nations. The works of his hands are truth and justice;
5.
hath given food unto them that fear him: will ever be mindful of his covenant. hath showed his people the power of his works,
All his precepts are sure. 8.
9.
10.
They They
He He
are established for ever and ever; are done in truth and uprightness. hath sent redemption unto his people;
hath
commanded
his
covenant for ever:
Holy and reverend is his name. The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all they that do his commandments: His praise endureth for ever.
-
Psalm CXI. See Psalm cv. 45. See Psalm civ. 35.
1.
See Psalm 1-4. 2, 3.
civ. 35.
Celebration and confession of the Lord,
See Psalm
By
A. 8267.
R. 803. E. 1197. P. P. R. 249.
viii. 6.
the works of Jehovah are understood
all
things
which proceed from Him and are effected by Him. Because they have reference to Divine truth and good, it E. 288. is said, " His work is honorable and glorious."
PSALM
CXII.
419
4.
See Psalm
ciii.
8.
A. 598.
4, 5.
See Psalm
viii.
5.
A. 9849.
5-9.
He redeemed men, and
5, 9.
See Psalm
7.
1.
saves to eternity.
P. P.
E. 701.
16.
5,
All things which are done by the Lord are called the works of His hands which are His own, and in themselves R. 457. goods and truths. Where works of the hands in the Word are attributed to Jehovah, that is to the Lord, they signify the reformed or regenerated man, likewise the church, and specifically the doctrine of truth and good pertaining to the church.
E. 585-
Meaning
9.
regeneration.
The Word
is
with man, and as the
A. 666.
which the Lord made with the Lord, for the Lord descended
the covenant
man
Word, that
is
itself
as Divine truth, therefore the
called the covenant of the people.
By redemption from
10
a covenant because
given and received.
it is
was
It is called
evils,
and
also the angels
liberation
from
Lord
T. 730.
understand vindication
falsities.
PSALM
420 Well
5.
is
it
with the
man
CXII.
that
dealeth graciously and
lendeth;
He
shall
For
6.
The
lie
maintain his cause in judgment.
shall never be
righteous shall
moved; be had
in
remem-
everlasting
brance.
He
shall not be afraid of evil tidings: His heart is fixed, trusting in Jehovah. His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, Until he see his desire upon his adversaries. He hath dispersed, he hath given to the needy; His righteousness endureth for ever: His horn shall be exalted with honor. The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: The desire of the wicked shall perish.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Psalm CXII. 1.
See Psalm cv. 45.
A. 8267.
See Psalm
xxii. 24.
R. 527.
See Psalm
civ. 35.
R. 803.
See Psalm lxxxvi. precepts of Jehovah
n.
Add:
is to
love them, consequently to will
to delight greatly in the
and do them. See Psalm civ. 1-7, 9.
He
E. 696.
E. 1197. 35. that trusts in the Lord and lives well will be P. P.
saved.
Wealth and riches stand for the wealth and riches of wisdom and intelligence, thus for knowledges, which A. 1488. are in His house, that is, are in Him. By the rich are here meant those who possessed the knowledges of truth and good, because they had the Word, R. 206. who were the Jews. See Psalm xxxvii. 21. Add: By being merciful and 5, 6. 1,
3.
lending charity.
is
described the state of those
who
are in genuine
A. 9174.
PSALM That horn
5, 9.
is
signifies
—
here said
it is
421
CXIII.
Divine truth
see verse 9
is
predicated of good, wherefore horn
truth, for in every particular of the
riage of
good and of
manifest because
— Righteousness
truth.
is
Word
Honour
in the
there
they 10.
a mar-
is
also signifies Divine
E. 316.
truth. 8, 10.
Word
predicated of
He may
will rise
have no fear of the
up
against
hells,
however much
Him.
P. P.
R. 435.
See Psalm xxxv. 15, 16. See Psalm xxxv. 15, 16.
PSALM
E. 556.
CXIII.
Praise ye Jehovah. Praise, ye servants of Jehovah, Praise the name of Jehovah. Blessed be the name of Jehovah
O
From From
this
the
same
time forth and for evermore. the rising of the sun unto the going
down
name
is to be praised. high above all nations, And his glory above the heavens. Who is like unto Jehovah our God, That hath his seat on high, That humbleth himself to behold
Jehovah's
Jehovah
is
The things
that are in
heaven and in the earth ?
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, And lifteth up the needy from the dunghill; That he may set him with princes, Even with
the princes of his people. the barren woman to keep house, joyful mother of children.
He maketh And to be a
Praise ye Jehovah.
of the
PSALM
422
CXIII.
Psalm CXIII. Song
1-5.
in praise of the
Lord, because
He
is
omnipotent. P. P.
1, 3.
To
praise of 1, 9.
3.
God
praise
Him
is
worship Him, hence the the worship of Him. R. 809. signifies to
See Psalm cv. 45. See Psalm civ. 35.
A. 8267.
See Psalm
civ. 35.
E. 1197.
See Psalm
1.
From
R. 803. E. 401.
1.
the rising of the sun until the going
down
— east
and west. See Psalm 1. 1. E. 422. See Psalm lxxvii. 14, 15. A. 7401. 5. 6. Because He came into the world. P. P. By barren are meant the nations who are called to 7-9. the church and to whom the church is transferred when is when they who were before no longer in faith because there is no charity, this latter church is meant by the barren and A. 9325. desolate who should have many sons. That they who are in falses from ignorance, and thence not in goods are to be instructed in truths from the Lord The bruised and needy are those is signified by verse 7. who are in falses from ignorance, and thence not in goods. The primary truths of the church in which they are to be That the life derived instructed are signified by verse 8. from the marriage of truth and good shall be with those with w hom it was not before is signified by verse 9. To dwell means to live, the barren house where there was no marriage of truth and good, the glad mother of sons the E. 721. church wherein truths are born from good. Because He will save those who will be of His church.
the old church ceases, that of the church are
r
P. P.
PSALM CXIV.
PSALM When
423
CXIV.
went forth out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of strange language: Judah became his sanctuary, Israel
The house
of
Israel his dominion.
The sea saw it, and fled; The Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs. What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou Thou Jordan, that thou turnest back ? Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; Ye little hills, like lambs ?
fleest ?
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob,
Who The
turned the rock into a pool of water, into a fountain of waters.
flint
Psalm CXIV. 1, 2.
Judah stands for celestial good, which is the good of and Israel for celestial truth, or spiritual
love to the Lord,
good.
A. 3654.
The church
established by the
Lord from the
nations.
P. P.
1-8.
Here
in the internal sense the spiritual
good
after
and is described as to its quality, its celestial spiritual by the mountains leaping like rams, and its celestial natural by the hills like the sons of the
regeneration
is
treated of
A. 2830.
flock. 2.
The heavenly kingdom and the Lord,
is
signified
See Ezekiel
xlviii.
its
by Judah and 8-22.
By
love,
which
is
love to
R. 350. understood the
his tribe.
the land
is
church, consequently by the tribes such things as pertain to the church,
which
is
by Judah the
church, or the church which therefore the sane-
celestial
in love to the Lord, in
PSALM CXIV.
424 2
tuary
The same is understood by Judah and Israel The sanctuary signifies in the supreme sense the
is.
here.
Lord himself and in a derivative sense the worship of from the good of love, Israel the truth of the church Since all power belongs to that derived from that good. truth, or to good by truths, therefore it is said that Israel E. 433. was his dominion. 2-7. The departure of the Israelites out of Egypt is de-
Him
The
scribed in these words. is
establishment of a church
here understood, or the regeneration of the
church, for the church
is
signified
by
Israel,
men
of the
and the estab-
lishment thereof by their departure from Egypt. The shaking off of evils is signified by their passing through the red sea,
and the introduction
passing over Jordan. 2 > 3>
Judah stands
5«
into the
(Details
left
good of
for the
church by their E. 405.
out.)
celestial love, Israel
good of spiritual love, the sea for knowledges of Jordan for knowledges of good, which are said to be turned back when the good of love obtains the dominion; for then knowledges are viewed from that good, but A. 4255. not good from them. 3-6. Its falsities have been removed, and the goods of love for the
truth,
and charity take their place. See Psalm xxxvi. 7. See Psalm lxviii. 16, 17. 4, 6. The God of Jacob is the Lord. 7. The Lord is called the God of
P. P.
R. 336.
4-7.
A. 6435. A. 3305. Israel
and the God
By being with
child, travailing
and bringing
signified conceiving
are of spiritual of doctrine
The
life.
and bringing
That the natural is
bring forth
births
is
described by
mentioned in the
many
earth
is
things
R. 535.
Word
involve
T. 583. signified the establishment
clearly manifest.
O
is
which
difficulty of receiving the truths
from the Word
spiritual births
forth
forth the tilings
that relate to pain in travailing.
By
of
L. 39.
Jacob.
PSALM CXV.
425
of the church, or the reformation of those
To
the church.
be reformed.
to
who
will
be of
bring forth means to receive truths and The earth stands for the church. It is
said from before the
Lord and from before the God of is understood as to good the Lord is called Lord from good, and
Jacob, because reformation
and
as to truth, for
God from
truth.
See Psalm
7, 8.
By
a lake
is
See Psalm
By
E. 721.
A. 7324.
cvii. 33, 35.
signified
where there is truth
in
abundance. R. 835. E. 411.
lxxviii. 15, 16, 20, 35.
and the fountains of water here mentioned are understood truths in abundance by which the church is formed, for by the earth trembling is signified the commencement of the church, which is said to tremble the standing water
when
or to bring forth
truths are therein produced, the
earth standing for the church.
Because the church those
who
is
E. 483.
from the Lord, who
will instruct
are in ignorance.
P. P.
PSALM CXV. 1.
Not unto
us,
O
Jehovah, not unto
us,
But unto thy name give glory, For thy lovingkindness, and for thy 2.
Wherefore should the nations
Where 3.
4.
is
now
their
truth's sake.
say,
God ?
But our God is in the heavens: He hath done whatsoever he pleased. Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
5.
They have mouths, but they speak
6.
Eyes have they, but they see not; They have ears, but they hear not; Noses have they, but they smell not;
not;
PSALM CXV.
426 7.
They have hands, but they handle
not;
12.
Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat. They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them. O Israel, trust thou in Jehovah: He is their help and their shield. O house of Aaron, trust ye in Jehovah: He is their help and their shield, Ye that fear Jehovah, trust in Jehovah: He is their help and their shield. Jehovah hath been mindful of us; he will bless us:
13.
He He He
8.
9.
10.
n.
house of Israel; house of Aaron. bless them that fear Jehovah,
will bless the will bless the will
14.
Both small and great. Jehovah increase you more and more, You and your children.
15.
Blessed are ye of Jehovah,
Who made
16.
17.
18.
heaven and earth. are the heavens of Jehovah; But the earth hath he given to the children of men. The dead praise not Jehovah, Neither any that go down into silence; But we will bless Jehovah From this time forth and for evermore.
The heavens
Praise ye Jehovah.
Psalm See Psalm
1.
lxi.
8.
CXV A. 3122.
Omnipotence belongs to the Lord. P. P. The work of the hands stands for what is from the 4. proprium of man, thus what is from his own proper understanding and from his own proper will. Those things are from the proprium of each which are of self-love, hence the origin of all falses in the church. Falses and evils of doctrines are signified by graven and molten 1-3.
things.
A. 10406.
PSALM CXV. 4, 5.
and
427
The
silver
idols stand for falsities
evils,
the
for their being of self-
and gold which are work of man's hand
A. 8932.
intelligence.
By
idols are properly signified the falsities of
from one's own
intelligence.
worship R. 459.
Verse 4 signifies external worship without internal, confirmed from the literal sense of the Word not under-
and also from the fallacies of the senses, the work man's hands signifies from self-derived intelligence. Verse 5 signifies that thus they have neither thought, stood,
of
nor understanding of truth.
The
4-6.
case herein
man
as with
is
E. 587.
an
effigy after the
resem-
which inwardly there is nothing but clay, as compared to the form of the man himself, in which inwardly there is life and heavenly beauty; if truths derived from good are therein. A. 9424. 4-8. From what is his own, man is nothing but falsity of blance of a
in
P. P.
evil.
There
5.
is
nothing of spiritual and truly rational
such falsities 9-1 1. See Psalm
The
vii.
trust of all
A. 1788.
10, 11.
who
are in truths
and goods should be
in the Lord.
truth which
Aaron
P. P.
On
9, 10, 12.
account of the brotherhood which
office
of is
of judgment,
A
signified good.
See Psalm
9806.
R. 527.
xxii. 24.
Aaron are signified all who are in the and by them that fear Jehovah all who are
the house of love,
in truth
from that good.
See Psalm
12, 13.
between
and good which is of worship, Moses was chosen to perform the the priesthood. Therefore by Aaron and his is
good of 12.
is
the brother of
house
By
in
worship are signified by idols, and in there is nothing of life, which is life. R. 460.
Falsities of
idols.
10, 11.
life
They
viii.
E. 696.
A. 9849.
5.
that fear Jehovah stand for those
ship from the good of faith, which
is
who wor-
the house of Israel,
PSALM CXV.
428 and from the good
They
are both
which
of love,
is
the house of Aaron.
named on account of the heavenly
marriage. A. 2826.
12-15,
The Lord
J 8.
will save
15.
See Psalm xxxvii. 22.
16.
Heaven and the church Those who do not trust
17.
them.
P. P.
E. 340. P. P.
are His. in the
Lord
will
not be saved. P. P.
17, 18.
See Psalm cv. 45. See Psalm civ. 35.
A. 8267.
See Psalm
E. 1197.
R. 803.
civ. 35.
PSALM
CXVI.
I love Jehovah, because he heareth
My
voice
and
my
supplications.
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, Therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of Jehovah: Jehovah, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Gracious is Jehovah, and righteous; Yea, our God is merciful. Jehovah preserve th the simple: 1 was brought low, and he saved me. Return unto thy rest, O my soul; For Jehovah hath dealt bountifully with thee. For thou hast delivered my soul from death,
Mine
eyes from tears,
And my I will
feet from falling. walk before Jehovah
In the land of the
living.
I believe, for I will speak* I
was
greatly afflicted:
PSALM CXVI. I said in
11.
my
429
haste,
men are liars. What shall I render All
12.
For 13.
all his benefits
cup of salvation, upon the name of Jehovah. pay my vows unto Jehovah,
I will take the
And 14.
unto Jehovah toward me ?
call
I will
Yea, in the presence of
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
all his people. Precious in the sight of Jehovah Is the death of his saints. O Jehovah, truly I am thy servant: I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid; Thou hast loosed my bonds. I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And I will call upon the name of Jehovah.
pay my vows unto Jehovah, Yea, in the presence of all his people, In the courts of Jehovah's house, In the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye Jehovah. I will
Psalm CXVI. 1-11.
Song
in praise of the
Father by the Lord, that
gave help in grievous temptations. 3.
12, 13.
He
P. P.
See Psalm
xviii. 5, 6.
R. 321.
See Psalm
xviii. 5, 6.
R. 870. signified the ap-
By
taking the cup of salvation
propriation of the goods of faith.
See Psalm
12-19.
Thus
13,
See Psalm
xi. 6.
is
A. 5120.
R. 672.
the Divine will be worshipped in the Lord. P. P. xxiii. 5.
E. 960.
By the courts here mentioned is undertsood heaven, specifically the ultimate heaven and the church. E. 630.
14, 18, 19.
14, 19.
See Psalm lxv.
5.
R. 487.
PSALM
430
CXVII.
That they who have afflicted their soul, crucified their and suffered temptations are signified by the dead, is because by these means they have mortified their former life, and thence have become as dead before the
15.
flesh,
R. 639.
world.
The death
of the saints does not signify damnation, but
the separation spirit,
and removal
of the unclean things of their
thus regeneration and resurrection.
E. 899.
16.
See Psalm xxvii.
17.
See Psalm
xl.
17, 18.
See Psalm
1.
19.
See Psalm cv. 45. See Psalm civ. 35.
A. 8267.
See Psalm
E. 1197.
7, 8.
A. 3880.
14, 23.
R. 803.
civ. 35.
PSALM Oh
E. 409. A. 2180.
9.
CXVII.
all ye nations; ye peoples. For his lovingkindness is great toward us; And the truth of Jehovah endureth for ever. Praise ye Jehovah.
1.
praise Jehovah,
Laud him,
2.
all
Psalm CXVII. 1.
Psalm Song of
See
1, 2.
cxiii.
1, 3.
gave help in temptations. 2.
R. 809.
praise to the Father by the Lord, that
He
P. P.
See Psalm
civ. 35.
R. 803.
See Psalm
civ. 35.
E. 1197.
PSALM
CXVIII.
PSALM
431
CXVIII.
1.
Oh
give thanks unto Jehovah; for he
his lovingkindness endureth for ever.
2.
For Let
Israel
That 3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
good;
say,
his lovingkindness endureth for ever.
Let the house of Aaron now say, That his lovingkindness endureth for ever. Let them now that fear Jehovah say, That his lovingkindness endureth for ever. Out of my distress I called upon Jehovah: Jehovah answered me and set me in a large place. Jehovah is on my side; I will not fear: What can man do unto me ? Jehovah is on my side among them that help me: Therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me. It is better to take refuge in Jehovah Than to put confidence in man. It is better to take refuge in Jehovah
Than 10.
now
is
to
put confidence in princes.
All nations
compassed me about:
In the name of Jehovah
I will cut
them
off.
11.
They compassed me about;
12.
about: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off. They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the
13.
14.
15.
fire
yea, they compassed
of thorns:
In the name of Jehovah I
will cut
Thou
me
didst thrust sore at
them
off.
that I might
But Jehovah helped me. Jehovah is my strength and song; And he is become my salvation. The voice of rejoicing and salvation
is
fall;
in the tents of
the righteous: 16.
17.
The right hand The right hand The right hand I shall
And
me
Jehovah doeth valiantly. Jehovah is exalted: of Jehovah doeth valiantly. of
of
not die, but
live,
declare the works of Jehovah.
PSALM
432 1
CXVIII.
Jehovah hath chastened me sore; But he hath not given me over unto death.
8.
Open
19.
me
to
the gates of righteousness: them, I will give thanks unto Jehovah.
I will enter into
This
21.
is the gate of Jehovah; righteous shall enter into it. I will give thanks unto thee; for thou hast answered me,
22.
And The
20.
The
art
become
my
salvation.
stone which the builders rejected Is become the head of the corner. This is Jehovah's doing;
23.
marvellous in our eyes.
It is
This
24.
We
is
the day which Jehovah hath
will rejoice
and be glad
in
made;
it.
Save now, we beseech thee, O Jehovah: O Jehovah, we beseech thee, send now prosperity. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of Jehovah We have blessed you out of the house of Jehovah. Jehovah is God, and he hath given us light: Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the
25.
26.
27.
altar.
Thou Thou
28.
29.
art art
my God, and I will give thanks my God, I will exalt thee.
Oh
give thanks unto Jehovah; for he
For
his lovingkindness endureth for ever.
is
unto thee.
good;
Psalm CXVIII.
Song of praise
1-4.
to the
Father by the Lord, for the P. P.
church. 2, 3. 5.
See Psalm cxv.
To answer in
A. 9806.
9, 10, 12.
a broad place means in the truth. A. 161 3. A. 4482. 9.
See Psalm xxxi.
A. 9487. See Psalm xxxi. 9. In the Word by places and spaces, and by all things that derive anything from space are signified such things By breadth is signified truth. H. 197. as relate to state.
By breadth Isaiah
is
viii. 8, etc.
signified
truth.
See
Habakkuk
i.
6:
R. 861.
psalm
He
5-9.
Him
helped
song
is
signified faith
433 P. P.
distresses.
which
is
my
song," because by By Jah of Divine truth.
Jah
is
Divine truth.
signified
The
10-14.
His
It is said, "
5, 13, 14, 17, 19.
is
in
cxviii.
evil
A. 8267.
fought against Him, but
by the Divine.
He was
helped P. P.
'
The fire of thorns stands for the lusts of evil. Thorns A. 9144. mean falses. 14-16. The right hand of Jehovah stands for omnipotence, 12.
and
supreme sense
in the
for the
Lord
as to Divine truth.
A. 8281.
See Psalm
15, 16.
E. 298.
xvi. 8.
Joy because there
is
Divine power through His
Human. P. P.
17.
The Divine
He
18-22.
it is
truth
is
through
from Him.
whom
is all
P. P. P. P.
salvation.
Because in ancient times truths were signified by stones, and afterwards when worship began upon pillars,
22.
and
altars,
and
in temples, therefore the
Lord was
also
A. 1298.
called a stone.
Corners stand for strength and firmness, firmness of doctrine grounded in truth which
is
from good
meant.
A
here
corner signifies the ultimate which sustains things
higher, as the foundation does a house,
the corner stone
and
so also all
R. 342.
things.
By
is
A. 9494.
is
signified all Divine truth
upon
which heaven and the church are founded, thus every foundation, and since the foundation is the ultimate upon which a house or temple rests, therefore it signifies all things.
E. 418.
That the Lord the Saviour Jesus Christ is called in the Word of both Testaments a Stone and a Rock is plain. See Isaiah xxviii. 16, 17: Matthew xxi. 42, etc. Coro. 2. Stone in the supreme sense is the Lord as to Divine 22, 23. truth of His spiritual kingdom.
A. 6426.
PSALM
434 Divine truth
signified by a stone, and the Lord as to understood by a rock. E. 411. the Divine Human from His Divine in himself
Divine truth
22-25. which
It is is
the source.
Happy
26-29.
is
is
See Psalm
24.
CXVIII.
xl. is
P. P.
E. 660.
17.
he
who
confesses and worships the
Lord P. P.
See Psalm xxvi.
27.
By "He truths,
R. 392.
6, 7.
enlighteneth us"
by binding the
horns of the
altar,
is
is
sacrifice
signified illumination in
with cords even unto the
signified to conjoin all things of
worship, to bind with cords means to conjoin, the sacrifice at the
horns of the altar
—
being ultimates stand for worship.
All
things
all
all
of
things of worship.
Horns
and
altar for
things, sacrifice
worship
are
externals are conjoined with internals,
conjoined
when
and when goods
are conjoined with truths.
E. 391.
PSALM
CXIX. ALEPH.
Blessed are they that are perfect in the w ay, Who walk in the law of Jehovah. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, That seek him with the whole heart. Yea, they do no unrighteousness; They walk in his ways. Thou hast commanded us thy precepts, That we should observe them diligently. r
Oh To
that
my ways
were established
observe thy statutes! Then shall I not be put to shame, When I have respect unto all thy commandments. I will give thanks unto thee with uprightness of heart, hen I learn thy righteous judgments. I will observe thy statutes: Oh forsake me not utterly.
W
7
PSALM CXIX.
435
BETH. 9.
shall a young man cleanse his way ? taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: Oh let me not wander from thy commandments.
Wherewith
By 10.
11.
Thy word have That
I
I laid
might not
up
in
my
heart,
sin against thee.
14.
Blessed art thou, O Jehovah: Teach me thy statutes. With my lips have I declared All the ordinances of thy mouth. I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies,
15.
I will meditate
12.
13.
As much
as in all riches.
And have 16.
on thy precepts,
respect unto thy ways.
I will delight myself in thy statutes:
word.
I will not forget thy
GIMEL. 17.
18.
Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I So will I observe thy word. Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold
Wondrous 19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
live:
things out of thy law. a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me. My soul breaketh for the longing That it hath unto thine ordinances at all times. Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, That do wander from thy commandments. Take away from me reproach and contempt; For I have kept thy testimonies. Princes also sat and talked against me; But thy servant did meditate on thy statutes. Thy testimonies also are my delight I
am
And my
counsellors.
DALETH. 25.
may
My
soul cleaveth unto the dust:
Quicken thou me according
to thy
word.
;
.
PSALM CXIX.
436 26.
I
declared
my
Teach me thy 27.
'Make me So
28.
29.
30.
shall I
ways, and thou answeredst me: statutes.
understand the way of thy precepts: meditate on thy wondrous works.
to
My
soul melteth for heaviness: Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
Remove from me the way of falsehood; And grant me thy law graciously. I have chosen the way of faithfulness: Thine ordinances have
31.
32.
I set bej ore me.
unto thy testimonies: O Jehovah, put me not to shame. I will run the way of thy commandments, When thou shalt enlarge my heart. I cleave
HE. 33.
34.
35.
O
Jehovah, the way of thy statutes; And I shall keep it unto the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments;
Teach me,
For therein do
I delight.
my
38.
heart unto thy testimonies, And not to covetousness. Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways. Confirm unto thy servant thy word,
39.
Which is in order unto the fear of thee. Turn away my reproach whereof I am afraid;
36.
37.
40.
Incline
For thine ordinances are good. Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: Quicken me in thy righteousness. VAV.
41.
Let thy lovingkindnesses also come unto me, O Jehovah, salvation, according to thy word. So shall I have an answer for him that reproacheth me; For I trust in thy word.
Even thy 42.
43
And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth For
I
have hoped in thy ordinances.
psalm cxix. 44.
45. 46.
47. 48.
437
So shall I observe thy law continually For ever and ever. And I shall walk at liberty; For I have sought thy precepts. speak of thy testimonies before kings, shame. I will delight myself in thy commandments, Which I have loved. I will lift up my hands also unto thy commandments, which I have loved; And I will meditate on thy statutes. I will also
And And
shall not be put to
ZAYIN. 49.
50.
51.
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
Remember
the word unto thy servant, Because thou hast made me to hope. This is my comfort in my affliction; For thy word hath quickened me. The proud have had me greatly in derision: Yet have I not swerved from my law. I have remembered thine ordinances of old, O Jehovah, And have comforted myself. Hot indignation hath taken hold upon me, Because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Thy statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage. I have remembered thy name, O Jehovah, in the night, And have observed thy law. This I have had, Because I have kept thy precepts.
HHETH.
58.
Jehovah is my portion: have said that I would observe thy words. I entreated thy favor with my whole heart:
59.
I
57.
I
Be merciful unto me according
60.
to thy word. thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto thy testimonies. I made haste, and delayed not, To observe thy commandments.
PSALM CXIX.
438
63.
cords of the wicked have wrapped me round; But I have not forgotten thy law. At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee Because of thy righteous ordinances. I am a companion of all them that fear thee,
64.
And The
61.
62.
The
of
them
that observe thy precepts.
O
earth,
Teach me thy
Jehovah,
is full
of thy lovingkindness*
statutes.
TETH. 65.
Thou
hast dealt well with thy servant, Jehovah, according unto thy word. Teach me good judgment and knowledge; For I have believed in thy commandments. Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I observe thy word. Thou art good, and doest good;
O
66.
67. 68.
Teach me thy 69.
my
With 70.
is
against
lie
will I
me:
keep thy precepts.
as fat as grease;
I delight in thy law.
It is
good
That 72.
forged a
whole heart
Their heart
But 71.
statutes.
The proud have
for
me
that I have been afflicted;
may
learn thy statutes. The law of thy mouth is better unto Than thousands of gold and silver. I
me
YODH. 73.
Thy hands have made me and Give me understanding, that
fashioned me: may learn thy com-
I
mandments. 74.
75.
76.
77.
that fear thee shall see me and be glad, Because I have hoped in thy word. I know, O Jehovah, that thy judgments are righteous, And that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me. Let, I pray thee, thy lovingkindness be for my comfort, According to thy word unto thy servant. Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; For thy law is my delight.
They
PSALM CXIX. 78.
79.
439
Let the proud be put to shame; for they have overthrown me wrongfully: But I will meditate on thy precepts. Let those that fear thee turn unto me;
And 80.
they shall know thy testimonies. heart be perfect in thy statutes, That I be not put to shame.
Let
my
KAPH. 81.
My soul fainteth for thy But
82.
83.
84.
I
hope
Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me ? For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes. How many are the days of thy servant ? When wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute
85.
87.
me?
The proud have digged
Who 86.
salvation;
in thy word.
pits for
me,
are not according to thy law.
All thy commandments are faithful: They persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. They had almost consumed me upon earth;
88.
But I forsook not thy precepts. Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; So shall I observe the testimony of thy mouth.
89.
For
90.
Thy word is settled in heaven. Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
91.
They abide
LAMEDH.
For 92.
ever,
all
O
Jehovah,
this
94.
to thine ordinances;
Unless thy law had been my delight, have perished in mine affliction. I will never forget thy precepts; For with them thou hast quickened me. I am thine, save me; For I have sought thy precepts.
I should then 93.
day according
things are thy servants.
!
PSALM CXIX.
440 95.
96.
97. 98.
99.
100.
1
01.
102.
103. 104.
'
The wicked have waited
for me, to destroy me; But I will consider thy testimonies. I have seen an end of all perfection; But thy commandment is exceeding broad.
MEM. Oh how love I thy law It is my meditation all the
day.
Thy commandments make me
wiser than mine enemies; For they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers; For thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept thy precepts. I have refrained my feet from every evil way, That I might observe thy word. I have not turned aside from thine ordinances; For thou hast taught me. How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through thy precepts I get understanding: Therefore I hate every false way.
NUN. 105.
Thy word is a lamp unto my And light unto my path.
106.
I
have sworn, and have confirmed
That 107.
am
109.
no. in.
it,
I will observe thy righteous ordinances.
very much: Jehovah, according unto thy word. Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill-offerings of my mouth, O Jehovah, And teach me thine ordinances.
I
afflicted
Quicken me,
108.
feet,
O
My soul is continually in my hand; Yet do I not forget thy law. The wicked have laid a snare for me; Yet have I not gone astray from thy precepts, Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage for ever; For they are the rejoicing of my heart.
PSALM CXIX. 112.
I have inclined
For
ever,
my
44I
heart to perform thy statutes
even unto the end.
SAMEKH.
117.
I hate them that are of a double mind; But thy law do I love. Thou art my hiding-place and my shield: I hope in thy word. Depart from me, ye evil-doers, That I may keep the commandments of my God. Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live; And let me not be ashamed of my hope. Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe,
118.
And shall have respect unto thy statutes continually. Thou hast set at nought all them that err from thy
113. 114.
115. 116.
statutes;
For 119.
their deceit
Thou
puttest
is
falsehood.
away
all
the wicked of the earth like
dross: 120.
Therefore I love thy testimonies. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; And I am afraid of thy judgments.
121.
I
AYIN.
122.
123.
have done justice and righteousness: Leave me not to mine oppressors. Be surety for thy servant for good: Let not the proud oppress me.
Mine
And 124.
eyes
fail for
thy salvation,
for thy righteous word.
Deal with thy servant according unto thy lovingkindness,
teach me thy statutes. thy servant; give me understanding, That I may know thy testimonies. It is time for Jehovah to work; For they have made void thy law. Therefore I love thy commandments
And 125. 126.
127.
I
am
Above
gold, yea, above fine gold.
PSALM CXIX.
442 128.
Therefore I esteem things to be right;
And
all
I hate every false
thy precepts
concerning
all
way.
PE.
Thy
129
testimonies are wonderful; Therefore doth my soul keep them.
130
of thy words giveth light; understanding unto the simple. I opened wide my mouth, and panted; For I longed for thy commandments. Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me, As thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. Establish my footsteps in thy word; And let not any iniquity have dominion over me. Redeem me from the oppression of man: So will I observe thy precepts. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; And teach me thy statutes. Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law.
The opening
It giveth
1
31
132 *33
134 135
136
TSADHE. 137.
Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, And upright are thy judgments.
138.
Thou
hast
commanded
thy testimonies in righteous-
ness And very faithfulness. 139.
My
140.
Thy word
141. 142.
zeal hath consumed me, Because mine adversaries have forgotten thy words. is very pure; Therefore thy servant loveth it. I am small and despised; Yet do I not forget thy precepts.
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And thy law is truth.
143.
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me;
144.
Thy
Yet thy commandments are my delight. testimonies are righteous for ever: Give me understanding and I shall live.
:
PSALM CXIX.
443
QOPH. 145.
146.
my whole heart; answer me, Jehovah: I will keep thy statutes. I have called unto thee; save me, I have called with
And 147. 148.
149. 150.
151. 152.
I shall observe thy testimonies.
I anticipated the I
O
hoped
dawning
of the morning,
and
cried:
in thy words.
Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy word. Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness Quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thine ordinances. They draw nigh that follow after wickedness; They are far from thy law.
Thou art nigh, O Jehovah; And all thy commandments
are truth.
Of old have I known from thy testimonies, That thou hast founded them for ever. RESH.
153.
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me; I do not forget thy law. Plead thou my cause, and redeem me: Quicken me according to thy word. Salvation is far from the wicked; For they seek not thy statutes. Great are thy tender mercies, O Jehovah: Quicken me according to thine ordinances.
For
154. 155. 156.
157.
158.
159.
160.
are my persecutors and mine adversaries; Yet have I not swerved from thy testimonies. I beheld the treacherous and was grieved, Because they observe not thy word. Consider how I love thy precepts: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thy lovingkindness. The sum of thy word is truth; And every one of thy righteous ordinances endureth
Many
for ever.
PSALM CXIX.
444
SHIN. 161.
162. 163. 164.
165. 166.
167. 168.
Princes have persecuted me without a cause; But my heart standeth in awe of thy words. I rejoice at thy word, As one that findeth great spoil. I hate and abhor falsehood; But thy law do I love. Seven times a day do I praise thee, Because of thy righteous ordinances. Great peace have they that love thy law; And they have no occasion of stumbling. I have hoped for thy salvation, O Jehovah, And have done thy commandments. soul hath observed thy testimonies; And I love them exceedingly. I have observed thy precepts and thy testimonies; For all my ways are before thee.
My
TAV. 169. 170. 171.
172.
173. 174.
175.
176.
Let my cry come near before thee, O Jehovah: Give me understanding according to thy word. Let my supplication come before thee: Deliver me according to thy word. Let my lips utter praise; For thou teachest me thy statutes. Let my tongue sing of thy word; For all thy commandments are righteousness. Let thy hand be ready to help me; For I have chosen thy precepts. I have longed for thy salvation, O Jehovah; And thy law is my delight. Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; And let thine ordinances help me. I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; For I do not forget thy commandments.
psalm cxix.
445
Psalm CXIX.
An
I.
or
upright (perfect)
who speaks and
man
is
one
who
is
true
See Psalm xxv. 21. 1-7.
See Psalm xix. 8-10.
1-27.
See Psalm xix. 8-10.
The Lord
1-176.
firsts to its lasts,
from good,
does truth from charity.
A. 612.
A. 9905. E. 392. A. 3382.
Word, from its He was hated and suffered
fulfilled the law, or the
and
therefore
temptations, and thus
made
the
Human
one with His P. P.
Divine. 1,
2-23, 24, 59, 79, 88, 138, 167. 31, 46, 59, 88, 91, See Psalm xix. 8-10.
2, 14,
Word
6-17.
in,
See Psalm xix.
8.
A. 4197. 119, 129, 138, 144, 168. A. 9503.
here stands for doctrine in general.
It is
commandments, judgments, testimonies, precepts, statutes, way, and lips here are distinct, and that they all are things of the Word, or of doctrine, and everyclear that
where
else in the
Word
they signify things which are dis-
A. 1288.
tinct.
7,
164.
See Psalm xxxvi.
See Psalm xxxvii.
7.
6.
S. 85.
W.
38.
See Psalm xxxvi.
7.
R. 668.
See Psalm xxxvi.
7.
T. 51.
There
is
cording to
no contradiction in acting omnipotently, acthe laws of love from wisdom, but there is a
contradiction in God's being able to act contrary to the
laws of justice and love, this would be to act from what is
12.
not judgment and wisdom.
Ind.
viii.
See Psalm
xxviii. 6.
A. 1096.
See Psalm
lxviii. 27.
A. 1422.
See Psalm
xxviii. 6.
R. 289.
E. 392. 12-15, 88, 89, 151-156. See Psalm xix. 8-10. See Psalm xxvii. 9. !6, 23, 65, 124, 125, 135, 176. E. 409.
PSALM CXIX.
446 25.
See Psalm
Add: dust what is
26.
xliv.
signifies the grave, likewise
in
Word
the
lowly,
also
and what
numerous.
is
A. 7418.
Here the way of the commandments 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 35. and precepts is called the way of truth opposite to
—
which 36.
is
By
the
way
of falsehood.
A. 627.
unjust gain (covetousness) in general
w hich
every falsity from evil
T
signified
is
perverts the judgments of
who have the world as their end, therefore by those who hate unjust gain are also signified they who are without a worldly end. the mind.
Since this
is
the case with those
A. 8711.
See Psalm
xii.
See Psalm
xvii. 10.
R. 782.
See Psalm
xvii. 10.
E. 11 59.
37, 38. 70.
A. 9248.
3.
89, 90, 91. To-day manifestly stands for eternity. A. 2838. A. 6524. 100. The elders stand for him that is wise.
102, 103.
See Psalm
xix.
9,
10.
Add: Here the mouth
stands for the external, the same as where
Revelation that the
little
it
is
mouth. See Psalm
xix. 9, 10.
104, 105.
See Psalm
xviii. 29.
The Word
is
A. 5620.
said to be a lamp, because
134.
To
liberate
See Psalm
v.
See Psalm
xvii. 1.
deliver
A. 9548. the Di-
it is
E. 274.
vine truth.
118.
in the
E. 619.
103.
105.
said in
book was sweet as honey
R. 624.
7.
E. 866.
man signifies to man signifies the
from the oppression of
from the
falsities of evil,
for
and thence wisdom, and in the lust of what is false, and
spiritual affection for truth,
an opposite sense, as here,
thence insanity, the oppression thereof signifies the destruction of truth
134, 135149.
by
falsities.
See Psalm xxxi. 16, 17.
See Psalm lxvii. 2. Judgment and judgments stand
E. 328.
A. 5585. A. 9306. for Divine truth.
A. 9857.
PSALM CXX.
my
154.
Pleading
158.
See Psalm
447
cause means liberating from
lxxviii.
falsities.
A. 9024. A. 8999.
57.
The number seven was
held to be holy, on account and the seventh day, which is the celestial man, in whom is peace and rest the sabThe number seven is held to be holy and sacred. bath.
164.
of the six days of creation,
Seven
signifies
thus what
is
—
an entire period from beginning
Seven times a day stands for always, at
times, always
all
with numbering.
E. 257.
It is especially said of the
164, 172.
judgment and
to end,
A. 9228.
full.
when He
justice,
Lord
creates
that
man
He
does
anew. A. 2235.
Since justice
is
and judgment and truth.
of good,
by justice See Psalm iv. 7-9.
also expressed
165, 166.
is
of truth
it is
A. 9263. R. 306.
Peace stands for blessedness, heavenly felicity and dewhich can only exist with those who love to do the Lord's commandments. E. 365. light,
PSALM CXX. A
Song
of Ascents.
my
4.
distress I cried unto Jehovah, he answered me. Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, And from a deceitful tongue. What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, Thou deceitful tongue? Sharp arrows of the mighty,
5.
Woe
1.
In
And 2.
3.
With
That
coals of juniper. is
me, that
I dwell
I sojourn in
among
Meshech,
the tents of Kedar!
PSALM CXX.
448 6.
My
7.
I
soul hath long had her dwelling With him that hateth peace.
am
for peace:
But when
I speak, they are for war.
Psalm CXX. 1.
See Psalm
xviii.
See Psalm
xviii. 1.
We
who
To
who 2.
and
E. 326.
•
Word
often read in the
that the
Lord answers those
R. 376. E. 471. the Father, against those in the perverted church, call
See Psalm 1-7.
R. 279.
1.
cry.
iv. 2.
secretly try to destroy
Guile in the word
means
Him.
P. P.
A. 9013.
hypocrisy.
R. 624. T. 322.
2,3.
E. 866.
Add: the lip of a lie and tongue of guile stand for falses of evil, and the dispersion of truth thereby is signified by a sharp sword, and sharp arrows. See also Ezekiel 3.
To add
5.
They who
is
E. 908.
v. 1.
also a prophetic
word
signifying to destroy.
R- 957are not in truth because not in good are those
represented by Arabians and Kedars in the desert.
A. 3268.
By Arabia
signified the
is
originating in good
—
see
the vastation of Arabia. the tents of Arabia here. 6, 7.
See Psalm
iv.
Jeremiah
xlix.
29
is
in truths
— treating
of
Similar things are signified by
E. 799.
R. 306.
7-9.
See Psalm xxxviii.
church which
4.
F. 365.
psalm cxxi.
449
PSALM CXXI. A i.
I will
lift
Song
of Ascents.
up mine eyes unto the mountains: shall my help come ?
From whence 2.
My
help cometh from Jehovah,
Who made 3.
4.
5.
6.
He He
heaven and earth.
will not suffer thy foot to
be moved:
that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep. Jehovah is thy keeper: Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, the moon by night. Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; He will keep thy soul. Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming From this time forth and for evermore.
Nor 7.
8.
in
CXXI. I.
See Psalm xviii. 1. See Psalm xxxvi. 7.
R. 279. R, 336.
See Psalm
E. 326.
xviii. 1.
By mountains
are here understood the heavens.
Since
heavens they who are in the goods of love and charity dwell upon mountains and hills, and the Lord is in the
therefore by lifting up the eyes to the mountains is also understood lifting them to the Lord, E. 405. from whom is all help. P. P. 1-8. (Prayer) to the Father to keep (Him). in these goods,
3.
The
spiritual sense
wander away from
strays, the interiors
will stray also.
is,
He
will
not suffer the natural to
truths, for in proportion as the natural
which are of the understanding and E. 666.
PSALM CXXI.
450
The watchers used to be upon the walls observing whether an enemy approached, and by a cry announcing
3-6.
what they saw. By them in the internal representative sense is meant the Lord, and by watch His continual A. 821 1. presence and protection. To be a shade on the right hand is to be a defence 5, 6. Shade stands here for a shady against evil and falsity. place to preserve from hurt, and the right hand for power and wisdom from Divine truth, which would be hurt by By the sun evil and falsity unless the Lord defended. is signified the love of self and thence all evil, and by the 6,
moon the falsity of evil. By the sun is here understood the love Since the moon the false thence derived. that love,
and from
— see verse 7, 8.
To
of the
evil
what
is false,
E. 298. of
self,
and by from
all evil is
therefore
it
is
said
E. 401.
7.
keep the exit and the entrance means everything according to a state of good and of truth.
life
A. 9927.
PSALM A 1.
2.
4.
5.
6.
of Ascents; of David.
was glad when they said unto me, Let us go unto the house of Jehovah.
I
Our
feet are standing
gates, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art builded As a city that is compact together; Whither the tribes go up, even the tribes of Jehovah, For an ordinance for Israel, To give thanks unto the name of Jehovah. For there are set thrones for judgment, The thrones of the house of David. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: They shall prosper that love thee.
Within thy
3.
Song
CXXII.
PSALM CXXII.
45I
Peace be within thy walls,
7.
And
prosperity within thy palaces.
my
brethren and companions' sakes, say, Peace be within thee. For the sake of the house of Jehovah our I will seek thy good.
For
8.
now
I will
9.
God
Psalm CXXII. See Psalm xvm.
1,
See Psalm 1-7.
R. 279.
1.
E. 326.
xviii. 1.
By Jerusalem
is
here meant the church which was to
be established, and which also was established by the Lord, and not the Jerusalem inhabited by the Jews in the land of Canaan. L. 64.
The The The 1-9.
foregoing statement repeated in:
R. 880.
foregoing statement repeated in:
B. 100.
foregoing statement repeated in:
T. 782.
Joy of the Lord over the new church where he
reigns.
P. P.
Verses partly quoted.
D.
P.,
2, 3.
See Psalm
3, 4.
Tribes signify goods of love and truths of See Psalm
ix.
15.
xix. 8.
Page
33.
R. 899. faith.
A. 3858. A. 4197.
By Jerusalem which
is
gether, "
is signified the church as to doctrine, said to be " builded as a city that is compact to-
when
all
the doctrines thereof are in agreement
and unanimous, and when they mutually relate to the Lord and love to Him derived from Him as their beginning and end. It is said to be built as a city because a city signifies doctrine. The truths of doctrine which relate to the Lord are signified by the tribes of Jah, truths derived from good, which are from the Lord. Worship thence derived is signified by confessing or giving thanks to the
name
of Jehovah.
E. 431.
PSALM CXXII.
452
A
3-5.
R. 229.
throne here signifies judgment.
The Lord will not judge any one to hell, but He will cause the Word to judge every one, the Lord directing in order that all things may be done according to justice. R-
The
twelve tribes of Israel represented, and
and good and love.
signified, all truth
things of faith
all
By Jerusalem which
is
A
which
all
city
E. 39.
when
church as it
compact together
things are
whole compass, thus
in their
signified the
said to be built
is
Lord.
2 33-
thence
in order.
is
to
doctrine,
established by the
signifies
The
doctrines in
tribes go up, the
and Unto the testimony of Israel. that therein the Lord is confessed and acknowledged.
tribes of the
Lord
signifies that therein are all truths
goods in the aggregate.
.
.
.
E. 392. See also E. 253, under verses 3, 5. is called Jerusalem is signified heaven. throne By 5. 3, the throne of Jehovah, for by Jerusalem is signified the church as to doctrine, and doctrine is Divine truth. E. 253. 4, 5.
See Psalm
L. 44.
xlv. 2-18.
Lord
where Divine truth in which is good is the principal, and the celestial kingdom is where the principal is Divine good from which Hence it is plain why Jerusalem is called is Divine truth. the throne of Jehovah, Jerusalem standing for the Lord's A. 5313. spiritual kingdom. R. 306. iv. Psalm 7-9. See 6-9. By Jerusalem is understood the church as to doctrine
5,
The
spiritual
kingdom
of the
is
and worship, by peace everything pertaining
When
these are of celestial origin, that
is
to
both.
out of heaven
from the Lord, then they are from peace and in peace, whence it appears what is understood by, "pray for the peace of Jerusalem." They who are in that peace are " they shall called the people of rest, therefore it is said, prosper that love thee," namely, that love the doctrine
and worship of the church.
Verse
7 signifies in the ex-
PSALM terior
and
man,
interior
cxxiii.
453
for the exterior
man
with the
things which are in him, which are natural scientifics
and delights, is like a wall or fortification to the interior man, being without or before the interior man and protects him. The interior man with the things in him, which are truths and spiritual goods, is a palace or house, since it
is
who
are in goods
abstract goods 8.
Verse 8
within the exterior.
those
signifies for the
and thence
in truths,
sake of
and
in the
and truths themselves.
E. 365. All the sons of Israel because they represented the
Lord's heavenly kingdom, that
is
the
kingdom
of love
were called among themselves brethren and also companions, companions not from the good of love, A. 2360. but from the truth of faith. By a brother in the spiritual sense is meant one who is in the good of charity, and by a companion one who R. 32. is thence in the truths of faith.
and
charity,
See Psalm
E. 746.
xxii. 23.
PSALM A 1.
Unto thee do
