Мысли при чтении Книги Плач Иеремии

Chapter 1, Article 4. The ways of Zion lament, because there are none who go to the festival; all its gates were empty; His priests sigh, his girls are sad, and he himself is sad. 5. His enemies have become leaders; his enemies are prospering, because the Lord has sent grief upon him for his many iniquities; his children went into captivity ahead of the enemy. 10. The enemy has stretched out his hand to all his most precious things; he sees the Gentiles entering his sanctuary, about which You commanded that they should not enter Your congregation. 11. All his people sigh, looking for bread, give away their treasures (the most beloved) for food in order to strengthen the soul (to take away the soul). “Look, Lord, and see how humiliated I am!” 18. Listen, all you nations, and look at my illness: my virgins and my youths have gone into captivity. 19. I called my friends, but they deceived me; My priests and my elders are dying in the city, looking for food for themselves to strengthen their souls. 20. My insides are agitated, my heart has turned upside down within me because I stubbornly resisted You; Outside the sword has made me sad, but at home it’s like death... 21. All my enemies heard about my misfortune and rejoiced. How could the prophet not cry with a great voice at such soul-shattering misfortunes? A pure heart deeply sympathizes with the misfortunes of the homeland, the misfortune of one’s compatriots. It seems to him that even all inanimate objects are crying with him. Chapter 2, [v.] 4. He (the Lord) drew His bow like an enemy, directed His right hand like an enemy, and killed everything that the eyes desired; He poured out His wrath like fire on the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. 5. The Lord became like an enemy, destroyed Israel, destroyed all its palaces, destroyed its fortifications and spread lamentation and lamentation among the daughter of Judah... 7[ – 8]. The Lord has cast down His altar... He has delivered the walls of His palace into the hands of the enemies; in the house of the Lord they made a noise as on a holy day. The Lord determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion... destroyed the outer fortifications, and the walls were destroyed together. 9 . Its gates protruded into the ground; He destroyed and crushed their locks; her king and her princes are among the pagans; there is no law, and its prophets are not granted visions from the Lord. 10. The elders of the daughter of Zion sit silently on the ground, sprinkle ashes on their heads, girdle with sackcloth; The virgins of Jerusalem lowered their heads to the ground. 11. My eyes are exhausted from tears, my insides are agitated within me, my liver is pouring out onto the earth from the death of the daughter of my people... Prophet of God! Who will not sympathize with you in your greatest sorrows? Who wouldn’t have tears in their eyes when they carefully and humbly read your cry? 15. All those passing by are clasping their hands for you... saying: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?” 16. All your enemies have opened their mouths on you... they say: “We have devoured him, this is the only day we have been waiting for, we have waited, we have seen!” 21. Children and elders lie on the ground along the streets [Church Slav.: Repose on those who departed (???? ??? ? ??????? - Greek: on the exodus) youth and elder]: my virgins and my youths have fallen by the sword; You killed them in the day of Your wrath, stabbed them without mercy.... When our enemies rejoice in our misfortune and we know about it, then our misfortune becomes even more sensitive. Chapter 3, 8 art. When I cried and cried, I delayed my prayer; I have blocked my roads with stones, I have perverted my paths. God forbid that I be tempted in this way. The prophet’s condition is difficult, but he was a prophet, and who am I before him? The most unworthy shepherd of the New Testament. 24 Art. The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will trust in Him. 25[ – 27]. The Lord is good to those who trust in Him, to the soul that seeks Him. It is good for him who patiently waits for salvation from the Lord. It is good for a man when he bears the yoke in his youth. Be patient with the Lord, as He is long-suffering towards your iniquities, and trust in Him: He is not completely angry and is always ready to have mercy and generosity on us. 40 tbsp. and further. Let us try and examine our ways, and turn to the Lord. Let us lift up our hearts and hands [Church Glorious: Let us lift up our hearts and hands] to God who is in heaven: we have fallen away and persisted; You showed no mercy. Our life has been examined, found out: it was full of wickedness. Now is the time to turn to the Lord: let us raise our hearts with our hands to God high in heaven and ask Him for mercy. 44 art. You covered yourself with a cloud so that our prayer would not reach. The Lord sometimes tests those who pray to Him and, as it were, hides from them in a cloud: at this time the soul feels that He is far from it and does not listen to it. 52 art. My enemies tried in every possible way to catch me like a bird, without any reason. Expressive. 66 art. Pursue them, O Lord, with wrath, and destroy them from under heaven. Be patient with your enemies: their time will come - God will consume them under heaven. Chapter 4, [Article 1]. How the gold has dimmed, the best gold has changed! 2 tbsp. The sons of Zion are precious, equal to the purest gold, as they are compared to pottery, the work of a potter's hands! So insignificant is man before God, so quickly does his glory pass away. 3[ – 5]. And the monsters give suck and feed their young, and the daughter of my people has become cruel like ostriches in the desert. The tongue of an infant sticks to his larynx from thirst; children ask for bread, and no one gives it to them. Those who eat sweets melt away in the streets; those brought up on the crimson grass huddle close to the dung. This is how unhappy a person is when he is abandoned by God. 8[ – 9]. Now their face is darkest of all; they are not recognized on the streets; their skin stuck to their bones and became as dry as wood. Those who are killed by the sword are happier than those who are killed by hunger, because they melt away for want of the fruits of the field. It’s scary to imagine hunger with all its horrors: a person is gradually smoldering alive, the skin sticks to the bones and the whole person suffers mortally. 10. The hands of soft-hearted women boiled their children so that they would be food for them. The prophet is transported in thought to the subsequent destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, when in fact one woman roasted her child for food. 12. The kings of the earth and all those living in the universe did not believe that the enemy and enemy would enter the gates of Jerusalem. So strong and glorious was the city - and so omnipotent and righteous was the Lord, who did not spare even the site of His holiness. 18. And they lay in wait for our steps, so that we could not walk in our streets; our end is near, our days are fulfilled; our end has come. Don't forget that your time may soon be approaching. 19. Those who pursued us were faster than the eagles of heaven; They chased us through the mountains, they set an ambush for us in the desert. What a sad picture! The sons of Israel, in all the sorrows of slavery, consoled themselves with one hope in their king and the Messiah, they said: in His shadow, under His wing, we will live among the nations, among the people among whom we will live in captivity - but this hope also abandoned them, because the Lord’s anointed, the spirit of their countenance, was caught in their pits [v. 20]. – Prayer of Jeremiah the Prophet. [Ch.5,] 10th century. and further. Our skin turned black like an oven from burning hunger. Wives are dishonored in Zion, maidens in the cities of Judah [Church glory: Women in Zion were humbled, maidens in the cities of Judah (they were plunged into darkness and sorrow)]. The princes were hanged by their hands, the faces of the elders were not respected (yes, the elders did not feel good either). The young men are taken to the millstones, and the youths fall under the loads of firewood (and this is very scary to see). The elders no longer sit at the gate; young men don't sing. The joy of our heart has ceased; our round dances turned into lamentation. The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us that we have sinned! This is why our heart languishes; because of this our eyes have grown dark. Because Mount Zion is desolate, foxes walk on it (due to its ruin). How touching! So fleeting are we and our dwellings are easily destroyed: You, Lord, remain forever; Your throne is for generations and generations. Why do you completely forget us, leave us for a long time? Turn us to You, Lord, and we will turn; renew our days as of old. Have You really rejected us completely, have You become immensely angry with us? Without God, man is completely miserable. You might be interested in: