Apocalypse Explained, volume 1 - Swedenborg Foundation

APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED 102I will break the staff of bread, and they shall eat bread by weightand with carefulness; and they shall drink water by measure and withastonishment; that they may want bread and water, and be desolated, aman and a brother, and pine away for their iniquities (Ezek. 4:16–17;12:18–19; Isa. 51:14).In Amos:Behold the days come, that I will send a famine in the land, not afamine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but for hearing the Word ofJehovah. They shall wander from sea to sea, they shall run to and fro, toseek the Word of Jehovah, and shall not find it; in that day shall the fairvirgins and young men faint for thirst (Amos 8:11–13).In Zechariah:In David:In that day living waters shall go out from Jerusalem (Zech. 14:8).Jehovah is my shepherd, I shall not want. He will lead me to thewaters of rest (Ps. 23:1–2).In Isaiah:They shall not thirst, he will cause waters to flow out of the rockfor them, and he will cleave the rock, that the waters may flow out (Isa.48:21).In David:O God, early will I seek thee; my soul thirsteth, I am wearywithout waters (Ps. 63:1).Jehovah sendeth his word, he maketh the wind to blow, that thewaters may flow (Ps. 147:18).Praise Jehovah, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be abovethe heavens (Ps. 148:4).In John: