Arcana Coelestia volume 7 - Swedenborg Foundation

ARCANA COELESTIA 3910signified by “the cities becoming a prey and derision to the remainsof the nations that are round about,” and by “the nations that areround about bearing their reproach”; and above in Isaiah by “thecup being put into the hand of them that make her sad”; and alsoin other passages in Isaiah by the “waster being laid waste” (Isa.33:1). Also in Jeremiah:I will visit upon the wasters, and will make them everlastingdesolations (Jer. 25:12).In Isaiah:Thy destroyers will hasten thy sons, and thy wasters shall go forthfrom thee. Lift up thine eyes round about and see; all gather together,they come to thee. For as to thy wastes and the land of thy destruction,thou shalt be too straitened for an inhabitant, they that swallow thee upshall be far away (Isa. 49:17–19);[6] here again, and in this whole chapter, the subject treated of isthe desolation of those who are being regenerated, and theirregeneration and fruitfulness after desolation, and lastly thepunishment of those who oppressed them (verse 26). In the same:Woe to thee that layeth waste when thou art not laid waste! Whenthou hast ceased to lay waste, thou shalt be laid waste (Isa. 33:1);meaning that they who vastate are punished, as above. In the same:Let mine outcasts tarry in thee; Moab, be thou a covert to thembefore the waster; for the oppressor hath ceased, the wasting is ended(Isa. 16:4).The day of Jehovah is near, it shall come as a wasting from Shaddai(Isa. 13:6);“a wasting from Shaddai” denotes vastation in temptations; thatGod as to temptations was by the ancients called Shaddai may beseen above (n. 1992, 3667, 4572).