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Psalms 122

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1 A Song of Ascents; of David. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go unto the house of Jehovah.

2 Our feet are standing Within thy gates, O Jerusalem,

3 Jerusalem, that art builded As a city that is compact together;

4 Whither the tribes go up, even the tribes of Jehovah, [For] an ordinance for Israel, To give thanks unto the name of Jehovah.

5 For there are set thrones for judgment, The thrones of the house of David.

6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: They shall prosper that love thee.

7 Peace be within thy walls, And prosperity within thy palaces.

8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

9 For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek thy good.

   

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Exploring the Meaning of Psalms 122

Napsal(a) Julian Duckworth

Psalm 122 depicts the joy of a person on the way to the house of the Lord. The verses are filled with gladness and expectation. It's one of the fifteen Songs of Ascents — which are thought to have been recited by people walking up the steps to the temple in Jerusalem.

Spiritually, looking forward is very powerful, as we anticipate knowing more of the Lord, living according to His Word, and experiencing the joys of eternal life.

Much of this psalm is devoted to the city of Jerusalem. The city is celebrated, and the psalmist prays for its peace and prosperity. Here, 'Jerusalem' stands for the church and its doctrine about God and how to live. (See New Jerusalem 6.) It also stands for the Lord's spiritual kingdom. (See Arcana Caelestia 7573[3])

To 'go into the house of the Lord' represents our desire and intention to belong to the Lord and to serve Him. To 'go into' signifies the journey we need to make for this to come about. (See Arcana Caelestia 8722)

The next verse portrays our arrival: 'Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!' Here, 'Feet' stand for several things: our actions that stem from our spiritual intentions, a firm resolve, and a sense of spiritual place. (See Apocalypse Explained 606)

The middle verses deal with Jerusalem as a compact city, which stands for doctrine and true teaching. The tribes of Israel go up to the city to give thanks, which represents a concentrated devotion to the Lord. The 'thrones' spoken of twice in verse 5 symbolize judgements based on Divine truth. (See Apocalypse Explained 134)

Next follows a prayer for the peace of Jerusalem and the prosperity of those who love it. Spiritually, the peace of Jerusalem represents the unity and power of all our beliefs in the Lord. This consequently brings wholeness and healing to us. (See New Jerusalem 185 and Divine Love and Wisdom 367)

The psalm ends much as it began, returning to the picture of the house of the Lord, 'I will now say, Peace be within you. Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.'

We, too, go full circle as we go through through the continual process of spiritual growth and rebirth, and the development of a new will. (See Apocalypse Explained 242[4])

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The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Teachings # 6

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6. I need to explain briefly what "Jerusalem" means in the spiritual meaning of the Word. "Jerusalem" means the essential church, with a focus on its body of teaching. This is because there in the land of Canaan and nowhere else were the Temple and the altar, there and nowhere else were sacrifices offered and consequently was actual worship of God performed. That is why the three annual festivals 1 were held there, and every male in the whole land was obliged to attend. That is why Jerusalem now, spiritually understood, means the church in regard to its worship or to its body of teaching-which amounts to the same thing, because its worship is defined by its body of teaching and performed as that body of teaching prescribes.

The reason it says "the holy city, the New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven" is that in the spiritual meaning of the Word "a city" means a body of teaching, and "a holy city" means a body of teaching based on divine truth. This is because divine truth is what the Word refers to as "holy. " It says "the New Jerusalem" for much the same reason that it refers to the earth as new. That is, as just noted [§5], "the earth" means the church and Jerusalem means that church in regard to its body of teaching. It is described as coming down from God out of heaven because all the divine truth that gives rise to a body of teaching comes down out of heaven from God.

It is obvious that "Jerusalem" does not mean a city (even though it looked like a city), because it says that its height was the same as its length and breadth, twelve thousand stadia (verse 16); that the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, was the measure of a human being, that is, of an angel (verse 17); that it was prepared as a bride adorned for her husband (verse 2); and that later "The angel said, ‘Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb. ' And he showed me the holy city Jerusalem" (verses 9, 10). It is the church that is called the Lord's bride and wife in the Word, his "bride" before they have been joined together and his "wife" afterward-see Secrets of Heaven 3103, 3105, 3164, 3165, 3207, 7022, 9182.

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1. The Festival of Unleavened Bread (Passover), the Festival of First Fruits (also known as the Festival of Harvest and the Festival of Weeks), and the Festival of Tabernacles (also known as the Festival of the Ingathering, Festival of the Booths, Sukkoth, Succoth, or Sukkot) were three major sacred holidays in the ancient Jewish calendar. For the biblical description of these events as originally instituted, see Exodus 23:14-17; 34:18-24; Leviticus 23:4-21, 33-43; Deuteronomy 16:1-17. For Swedenborg's explanation of their inner meaning, see Secrets of Heaven 9286-9287, 9294-9296. [JSR]

  
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