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Psalms

251.Psalm 1 Verses 1-3 The man who does not live ill is regenerated by the Word of the Lord, 11 4, 5 but He who lives ill, perishes on the day of judgment, 3, 15 6 for the Lord knows everyone. 15

252.Psalm 2 1, 2 Those who should be in the truths and goods of the church are against the Lord; 2 3, 4 but men should separate themselves from these, because they are nothing before the Lord, 3 5 and they will be destroyed. 3 6-8 The Lord will put on the Human and will establish the church, 1, 11 9 and will disperse falsities that are from evil. 3 10-12 N. B. Let them therefore acknowledge and worship the Divine Human of the Lord, lest they perish. 1, 11

253.Psalm 3 Title, 1-8 (H.B. 1-9) Respecting the Lord, when He was in temptations and subjugated the hells, and was then in a state of humiliation, in which He prayed to the Father. 5, 13

254.Psalm 4 title, 1, 2 (H.B. 1-3) Respecting the Lord, when in great temptations. 6 3 (H.B. 4) They should fear Him, for He has protection from the Father. 1 4-8 (H.B. 5-9) Exhortation to repent

255.Psalm 5 title, 1-3, 7, 8, 11, 12 (H.B. 1-4, 8, 9, 12, 13) Prayer of the Lord to the Father for help 13 4-6, 9, 10 (H.B. 5-7, 10, 11) against the evil, falsifiers and hypocrites. 7

256.Psalm 6 title, 1-7 (H.B. 1-8) Prayer of the Lord to the Father, when He was in the last state of temptations, which state is despair, 13 8-10 (H.B. 9-11) and being helped, He repressed the hells.8

257.Psalm 7 title, 1-2, 6-11, 17 (H.B. 1-3, 7-12, 18) Prayer of the Lord to the Father for help against the hells, 13, 7 3, 4, 8-10 (H.B. 4, 5, 9-11) for He is just, and there is no evil in Him, 13, 7 5 (H.B. 6) that the hells may not prevail, 8 12-16 (H.B. 13-17) but may be conquered. 8

258.Psalm 8 title, 1-3, 9 (H.B. 1-4, 10) A song in praise of the Father by the Lord to regard His innocence, and give help against the hells. 13, 7 4, 5 (H.B. 5, 6) The state of humiliation of the Lord is described. 13 6-8 (H.B. 7-9) The state of His glorification is described. 10

259.Psalm 9 title, 1-8, 19, 20 (H.B. 1-9, 20, 21) Thanksgiving and joy of the Lord that the evil have been judged and destroyed, 16, 13, 8 9, 10[-14, 18] (H.B. 10, 11[-15, 19]) and the good have been delivered; 8 15-17 (H.B. 16-18) and thanksgiving of the latter that the evil have been conquered and cast into hell. 8

260.Psalm 10 1-4[-11] The evil do evil to the good and deny God, and are hypocrites and deceitful. 3, 15 12-18 Prayer to the Father, for their requital, and for judgment upon them. 15

261.Psalm 11 title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-5) The Lord arouses Himself to fight for the good against the evil. 7 6, 7 The evil will perish as a consequence of justice. 8

262.Psalm 12 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-5) There are no longer any good, but only hypocrites. 3 5-8 (H.B. 6-9) The Lord will to eternity deliver the good as against the evil. 11

263.Psalm 13 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-5) The state of the Lord’s temptations, and the grievous insurrection of the infernals against Him. 6 5, 6 (H.B. 6) He has confidence respecting the victory. 8

264.Psalm 14 title, 1-3 (H.B. 1-3) There is no longer any understanding of truth or will of good whatever. 3 4, 5 They do not acknowledge God. 4 6 They are against good and truth. 3 7 The Lord will save those who are of the church, whence they will have joy from Him. 17

265.Psalm 15 title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-5) Those who love the neighbor and God, will be of the Lord’s church.11

266.Psalm 16 title, 1, 2 (H.B. 1, 2) The Lord’s trust in Himself, 8, 11 3-5 for delivering the good, whom the evil infest. 8, 11 6-8 His is the Divine and Divine power. 8, 11 8-10[? 9-11] His Human glorified will rise again. 10

267.Psalm 17 title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-5) The Lord concerning the integrity of His life, 10 6 from the Divine in Himself; 10 6-10 from which He is sustained against the evil who rise up against Him, 8 11, 12 and wish to slay Him; 9 13 by whom, nevertheless, He cannot be hurt; 9 14 and yet they possess the Word. [?9] 15 He will be glorified. 10

268.Psalm 18 title, 1-3 (H.B. 1-4, 6) Confidence of the Lord from His Divine, against the hells. 8 4-6 (H.B. 5-7) Combats of the Lord with the hells. 7 7-14 (H.B. 8-15) In zeal He has subjugated them and laid them low. 8 15 (H.B. 16) Thus the Divine truth appears. 8 16-19 (H.B. 17-20) From His Divine He has prevailed over them. 8 20-26, [27], 30, 32 (H.B. 21-27, [28], 31, 33) Justice and integrity belonged to the Lord, 8 28, 29 (H.B. 29, 30) also Divine truth. 8 31 (H.B. 32) He is the only God. 8 32-36 (H.B. 33-37) He fights from His Divine, 8 37-40 (H.B. 38-41) and subjugates the hells. 8 41 (H.B. 42) They have no savior, 8 42, 45 (H.B. 43, 46) therefore they will be destroyed. 8 43, 44 (H.B. 44, 45) Then there will be a new church which will acknowledge and worship the Lord. 11 46-50 (H.B. 47-51) A song of that church in praise of the Lord on account of redemption. 16, 17

269.Psalm 19 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-5) The Divine truth will go forth in every direction. 11 5, 6 (H.B. 6, 7) This truth will go forth from the Lord from the first things to the last things of heaven and the church. 12 7-11 (H.B. 8-12) This Divine truth perfects man, because it is wisdom. 12 12, 13 (H.B. 13, 14) There will be no pride. 12 14 (H.B. 15) Thus there will be what is pure and acceptable. 12

270.Psalm 20 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-5) A song in praise of the Lord, that He sustains the church, 16, 17 5, 6, 9 (H.B. 6, 7, 10) that salvation is from Him, 17 7, 8 (H.B. 8, 9) that those are saved who trust in Him, and those perish who trust in themselves. 17, 3

271.Psalm 21 Respecting the Lord: 10 title, 1-6 (H.B. 1-7) From His Divine He has all good and truth, thus honor and glory. 10 7-12 (H.B. 8-13) He will overthrow all who are against Him on the day of judgment. 8, 15 13 (H.B. 14) Those who are with Him will be glad because of His power. 15

272.Psalm 22 The state of the Lord’s passion. 9 [title, 1-]3-5, 8, [11] (H.B. [1-]4-6, 9[, 12]) Prayer to the Father that He be not forsaken, 9 6, 7 (H.B. 7, 8) seeing that He was more despised than all others, 4 9, 10 (H.B. 10, 11) that He was the Father’s from conception, 9 12-15 (H.B. 13-16) that those who are of the church, where the Word is, have condemned Him to death, 9 16, 17 (H.B. 17, 18) that they have crucified Him, 9 18 (H.B. 19) that they have divided His garments, or dissipated the truths of His Word. 9 6, 9 19-21 (H.B. 20-22) Supplication that He may not be forsaken. 22, 23, 25 (H.B. 23, 24, 26) A church [will come into existence] from this [that the Lord was assisted by the Father], 11 24 (H.B. 25) and He endured [the temptation] by power from His Divine. 9 26-31 (H.B. 27-32) Through this there will be a church that will be gathered together from all parts, and it will worship Him. 11

273.Psalm 23 Concerning the Lord: 12 title, 1-3 (H.B. 1-3) He teaches and leads to the truths and goods of heaven and the church; 12 [4], 5 hence there will be no fear of the hells, for He guards, and imparts good and truth in abundance, 12 6 in heaven with the Lord to eternity. 12

274.Psalm 24 title, 1-3 (H.B. 1-3) Respecting the church which is from the Lord through the Word: 11 4-6 those who are not in falsities and evils will be in it; 11 7-10 N. B. they will receive the Lord, who has conquered the hells and glorified His Human. 11, 17

275.Psalm 25 title, 1-3 (H.B. 1-3) Prayers of the church to the Lord, that they may be protected from the hells, 16, 11 4-6 that they may be taught truths, 16, 11 7-11 that their sins may be forgiven from mercy. 17 12-14 Thus they will have good, and conjunction. 17 15-20 Prayer of the church to the Lord, and in the highest sense, of the Lord to the Father, that, because He alone fights, He may assist against the hells, 7 21 for perfection is His, 17 22 and thus there is redemption. 17

276.Psalm 26 title, 1-6, 11 (H.B. 1-6, 11) To the Lord belong perfection, purity and innocence. 16, 7 7, 8 He has the Divine love of saving. 16, 7 9, 10 He is in combats with the malicious. 16, 7 11, 12 There is redemption when He conquers. 17

277.Psalm 27 title, 1-3 (H.B. 1-3) What the Lord says to the Father: He does not fear the hells which fight against Him; 7 4-10, 13, 14 His union with the Father, 10 11, 12 whereby He will subjugate the hells. 8

278.Psalm 28 title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-5) Prayer of the Lord to the Father that the hypocrites may be subjugated. 13, 8 6-8 He will assist and will prevail. 8 9 May those be saved who are in the truths and good of the church. 17

279.Psalm 29 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-4) Those who are in truths from the Word will adore the Lord who is the Word. 10, 11 5-11 The power of Divine truth from the Lord. 10, 11

280.Psalm 30 title, 1-12 (H.B. 1-13) The glorification of the Human of the Lord after He has suffered temptations, even the last of them which was that of the cross. 10, 9

281.Psalm 31 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-5) Prayer of the Lord to the Father, that He may be protected from those who devise evil, 13, 7 5 (H.B. 6) and who want to slay Him; 9, 4 6-10 (H.B. 7-11) whence He has grief of heart; 9, 4 11-13 (H.B. 12-14) they treat Him with contumely, as upon the cross; 9, 4 14-21 (H.B. 15-22) through trust in the Father He is delivered; 9 22 (H.B. 23) from despair He imagines Himself to be forsaken, but He is not. 6 23, 24 (H.B. 24, 25) Let there be trust in the Lord. 6

282.Psalm 32 title, 1, 2 (H.B. 1, 2) The just man is happy. 6 3, 4 The grievousness of temptations is described. 6 5-7 Confession of infirmities, and deliverance. 6 8, 9 He is wise. 6 10, 11 Let there be trust 6

283.Psalm 33 1-9 A song in praise of the Lord because the church is from Him through the Word. 16 10, 11 Howsoever much the evil may fight against it, still it will continue. 3, 11 12-15 Happy are they who are of that church. 11 16, 17 Self-intelligence effects nothing. 11 18-22 Those are saved who trust in the Lord. 17

284.Psalm 34 title, 1-11 (H.B. 1-12) Song in praise of the Lord because He delivers those who trust in Him, from all evil. 16, 11 12-22 (H.B. 13-23) He saves the good, and the evil perish. 11, 3

285.Psalm 35 title, 1-9 (H.B. 1-9) The combats of the Lord against the hells, and their subjugation and overthrow. 7, 8 10-16 They purpose putting Him to death for desiring their good, which causes Him grief. 9, 4 17, 18, [24] Prayer that He may be preserved from them, whence He will have joy. 4, 8 19-21, 25 They blaspheme Him. 4 22, 23, [26] From His Divine He will overcome them. 8 27, 28 Hence the justice of the Lord will be praised in song. 16

286.Psalm 36 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-5) Respecting hypocrites, that they think evil. 4 5-9 (H.B. 6-10) It ought to be acknowledged that all good and truth is from the Lord. 16 10 (H.B. 11) Those who acknowledge the Lord possess all good and truth. 16 11, 12 (H.B. 12 ) The Lord protects from evil, and the evil perish. 17

287.Psalm 37 Comparison of the lot of the evil with the lot of the good. 3, 8, 11 title, 1, 2, 8-10, 12-15, 17, 20, 21, 28, 32, 35, 36, 38 (H.B. 1, 2, 8-10, etc.) Although evil flourish for a short time, yet they perish and are cast down into hell. 3, 8, 15 3-7, 11, 16, 18, 19, 22-31, [33], 34, 37, 39, 40 The good are saved by the Lord and taken up into heaven. 11, 17

288.Psalm 38 title, 1-10 (H.B. 1-11) The grievousness of the Lord’s temptations is described. 6, 9 11, 12 (H.B. 12, 13) Those who are of the church purpose to have Him put to death. 6, 9 13, 14 (H.B. 14, 15) He bears all things with tolerance. 6, 9 9, 15-22 (H.B. 10, 16-23) Trust in the Father that the hells will not prevail. 6, 9

289.Psalm 39 title, 1-3, 8-11 (H.B. 1-4, 9-12) The Lord’s tolerance in the state of temptations. 6 4-7 (H.B. 5-8) He desires the end of the temptations. 6 12, 13 (H.B. 13, 14) Prayer to the Father that He be not forsaken. 9

290.Psalm 40 title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-6) Thanksgiving and celebration of the Father, that He has helped Him. 13 6-8 (H.B. 7-9) He came into the world, as is written in the Word, that He might do the will of the Father. 13 9, 10 (H.B. 10, 11) He also preached the gospel of the kingdom of God, and taught. 11 12-15, 17 (H.B. 13-16, 18) Trust from His Divine against those who purpose to put Him to death, 9 16 (H.B. 17) and let those who worship the Lord rejoice in Him. 11, 16

291.Psalm 41 title, 1-3 (H.B. 1-4) He who is in temptations, and consequent affliction, is always upheld and thereby vivified. 5 4-7 (H.B. 5-8) The hells among themselves devise evils against the Lord, 5 8 (H.B. 9) and think that He is to be utterly destroyed; 5 9 (H.B. 10) so also do those who are of the church where the Word is. 5, 4 10, 11 (H.B. 11, 12) They will not succeed, and will themselves be destroyed. 4 12, 13 (H.B. 13, 14) Perfection belongs to the Lord. 8

292.Psalm 42 title, 1-6 (H.B. 1-7) The state of grief and perturbation of the Lord from temptations, with trust from the Divine. 6 7-10 (H.B. 8-11) The growing grievousness of the temptations even to despair. 6 11 (H.B. 12) Confidence from the Divine that He will be raised up. 8

293.Psalm 43 1, 2 Grievousness of the Lord’s temptations even to despair. 6, 13 3, 4 Prayer to the Father that Divine truth may comfort Him. 6, 13 5 Consolation. 6, 13

294.Psalm 44 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-5) The church was established by the Lord among the ancients, evils having been cast out11 5-8 (H.B. 6-9) This was done by God, and not by man. 11 9-12, 19 (H.B. 10-13, 20) Nevertheless the hells now prevail against Him as if there were no Divine presence, whence it is that there is no church. 3, 6 13-16 (H.B. 14-17) He is blasphemed by the evil in the church, 6, 3 17-21 (H.B. 18-22) notwithstanding that perfection is His. 10 22 (H.B. 23) He is so treated on account of the Divine; 10 23, 26 (H.B. 24, 27) therefore may the Divine bring Him help. 6 24, 25 (H.B. 25, 26) He is in the last state of temptations, as if He were forsaken. 6

295.Psalm 45 The glorification of the Human of the Lord, and heaven and the church from Him. 16 title, 1 (H.B. 1, 2) A magnificent word respecting the Lord, and respecting conjunction with Him. 16 2 (H.B. 3) The Divine truth is His alone. 16 3-5 (H.B. 4-6) He has powerfully conquered the hells by means of Divine truth. 8 6 (H.B. 7) The kingdom is His to eternity. 10 7, 8 (H.B. 8, 9) N. B. He has thereby made the Human Divine; 10 8 (H.B. 9) thus heaven and the church are His, and they are in Divine truths from Him; 10, 12 9 (H.B. 10) thus also there are affections for truth, and in these are the societies of heaven. 12 10 (H.B. 11) Of the church where the Word is: it should depart from the affections of the natural man; 11 11 (H.B. 12) thus will it be the church of the Lord, 11 12-14 (H.B. 13-15) and thus it will have cognitions of truth and good, with subservient knowledges (scientiae); 11 15 (H.B. 16) so there will be conjunction with the Lord in heaven. 11, 16 16 (H.B. 17) It will possess primary truths. 11, 16 17 (H.B. 18) The whole church will serve the Lord. 11, 16

296.Psalm 46 title, 1-3, 6, 7 (H.B. 1-4, 7, 8) There will be protection from the Lord when the last judgment comes and continues. 15 5, 6 (H.B. 6, 7) Those who are of the church and in the doctrine of truth will be saved by the Lord when He comes. 17 8, 9 (H.B. 9, 10) They will have no fear of the hells nor of infestations therefrom. 17 10, 11 (H.B. 11, 12) This is from the Lord. 17

297.Psalm 47 The Lord’s kingdom. 11 title, 1, 2 (H.B. 1-3) A song in praise of the Lord, that He reigns over the church, 16, 11 3 (H.B. 4) that He will remove falsities and evils; 16, 11 4, 5 (H.B. 5, 6) that He will establish a church. 16, 11 6 (H.B. 7) He is therefore to be praised in song, 16 7, 8 (H.B. 8, 9) because His kingdom is over the whole church, 16, 11, 12 9 (H.B. 10) and over the heavens. 16, 11, 12

298.Psalm 48 title, 1-3, 8 (H.B. 1-4, 9) The spiritual kingdom of the Lord, how admirable! 12 4-7 (H.B. 5-8) It will dissipate all falsities. 12 9, 10 (H.B. 10, 11) This is the Divine Human. 1, 10 11-13 (H.B. 12-14) From this are all things of heaven and of the church, 10, 12 14 (H.B. 15) because the Lord reigns there. 16

299.Psalm 49 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-5) Let there be attention to the following: 2 5, 6 (H.B. 6, 7) Respecting those who are merely natural, and boast of knowledges [scientifica] and their own intelligence. 2 7-9 (H.B. 8-10) No salvation comes from that source. 2 10-13 (H.B. 11-14) However much they may boast of such things, they perish, 2, 15 14 (H.B. 15) and come into hell. 2, 15 15 (H.B. 16) Salvation is solely in the Lord. 17 16-20 (H.B. 17-21) Knowledge [scientia] and one’s own intelligence does not save after death. 2

300.Psalm 50 title, 1-6 (H.B. 1-6) The Lord will come for judgment to those with whom is the church. 1, 15 7-13 The Lord does not desire sacrifices and external worship. 2 14, 15 He desires confession of the heart. 2 16-20 External worship is of no avail, so long as evils are committed. 2 [21,] 22 They do evils, and therefore evil befalls them. 2

286-1 . This is the division of Schmidt’s Latin Bible. In the Hebrew-Latin Bible verse 12 is divided into two verses numbered 12 and 13.-Editor.

301.Psalm 51 title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-7) Prayer that He may be purified of the infirmities derived from the mother. 13 6-10 (H.B. 8-12) If He be purified of them He will be pure, 13 11, 12 (H.B. 13, 14) and He is holy. 10 13-15 (H.B. 15-17) So will He teach Divine truths. 10 16, 17 (H.B. 18, 19) Not external, but internal worship. 11 18, 19 (H.B. 20, 21) He will institute a church, in which will be worship from good. 11

302.Psalm 52 title, 1-6 (H.B. 1-8) Respecting hypocrites: they will be in hell and will perish. 15, 3 7 (H.B. 9) So likewise those who trust in their own intelligence. 15 8, 9 (H.B. 10, 11) Those who trust in the Lord will flourish. 11, 17

303.Psalm 53 title, 1-3 (H.B. 1-4) Everyone has departed from God, there is no one left. 3 4, 5 (H.B. 5, 6) They have destroyed the church without any cause. 3 6 (H.B. 7) Therefore there will be a new church from the Lord. 11

304.Psalm 54 title, 1-3 (H.B. 1-5) Prayer to the Father that He may assist against those that wish to destroy them. 13, 9 4, 5 (H.B. 6, 7) He assists against them, and they will perish. 3, 8 6, 7 (H.B. 8, 9) A song in praise of assistance.8

305.Psalm 55 title, 1-5, 9 (H.B. 1-6, 10) The grievousness of temptations is described, in which He prays to the Father. 6, 13 6-8 (H.B. 7-9) He would fain give up the combats because of their grievousness. 6, 13 9-14 (H.B. 10-15) The malice of the hells is described. 7 15 (H.B. 16) They will be cast down into hell. 7 16-18, 22 (H.B. 17-19, 23) Prayer to the Father, and He will bring help 7 19-21, 23 (H.B. 20-22, 24) against the evil and hypocrites. 7

306.Psalm 56 title, 1-4, 10, 11 (H.B. 1-5, 11, 12) Temptations of the Lord, in which He has confidence in the Father. 5 5, 6 (H.B. 6, 7) Malice of the infernals. 7 7, 8 (H.B. 8, 9) O that the Father would help in affliction! 13 9 (H.B. 10) He will help. 13 12, 13 (H.B. 13, 14) Song of praise for protection. 8

307.Psalm 57 title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-6) Prayer to the Father when in the combats of temptations with the hells which attack Him. 13, 7 4, 6 (H.B. 5, 7) Their malice against Him. 7 7, 8 (H.B. 8, 9) Confidence from His Divine. 8 9-11 (H.B. 10-12) A song in praise of the Father for this reason. 8

308.Psalm 58 title, 1-9 (H.B. 1-10) Against those who were of the church, who cherished evil thoughts against the Lord: they are in mere falsities of evil, of which they perish, 4 10, 11 (H.B. 11, 12) so that those who are in good may come into the church. 11

309.Psalm 59 title, 1-6 (H.B. 1-7) Prayer to the Father concerning those who are then of the church: they wish to destroy and slay Him, although He is innocent. 13, 9 7 (H.B. 8) They fight from falsities against truths. 7, 9 8-10 (H.B. 9-11) Confidence in the Father. 7, 9 11 (H.B. 12) He prays for them. 7, 9 12, 13 (H.B. 13, 14) They destroy themselves 8 14, 15 (H.B. 15, 16) by malice. 8 16, 17 (H.B. 17, 18) Confidence respecting help. 8

310.Psalm 60 title, 1-3 (H.B. 1-5) Lamentation of the Lord, that He has been forsaken, together with the church. 6 4, 5 (H.B. 6, 7) Confidence respecting deliverance. 6 6-9 (H.B. 8-11) A church internal and external is being instituted. In the highest sense respecting the Human of the Lord, that it will be made Divine, 11, 10 10 (H.B. 12) from His own power, 11, 10 11, 12 (H.B. 13, 14) and from His Divine. 11, 10

311.Psalm 61 title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-6) The Lord’s song in praise of the Father because of help, 16, 10 6-8 (H.B. 7-9) and because of union. 16, 10

312.Psalm 62 title, 1, 2, 5-8, 11, 12 (H.B. 1-3, 6-9, 12, 13) Confession that the Divine alone has power, and from it there is help. 8 3, 4, 9 (H.B. 4, 5, 10) They are of no avail against the Divine. 8

313.Psalm 63 title, 1-8 (H.B. 1-9) The desire and love of the Lord to be united to His Divine. 10 9, 10 (H.B. 10, 11) Those who lie in wait for Him will perish by falsities of evil. 3 11 (H.B. 12) Then there will be salvation from the Lord and rejection of the evil. 17, 15

314.Psalm 64 title, 1-6 (H.B. 1-7) The lying in wait of the evil against the Lord. 4 7, 8 (H.B. 8, 9) They will perish. 4 9, 10 (H.B. 10, 11) Thus the good will be saved. 17

315.Psalm 65 title, 1-13 (H.B. 1-14) From the uniting of the Divine and the Human in the Lord will be a church that will be in all truth from the Lord, and safe from infestation from falsities. 10, 11

316.Psalm 66 title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-5) Joy that there is a new church that trusts in the Lord, 11, 16 6, 7 who will save it from evils. 11, 16 8-12 The Lord was united to His Divine by means of grievous temptations. 19 13-17 Thus Divine truth from the Lord is with men. 19 [?18,] 19, 20 This has been done through His perfection. 13

317.Psalm 67 title, 1-5, 7 (H.B. 1-6, 8) The whole church will acknowledge and worship the Lord from joy of heart. 11, 12 6 (H.B. 7) Everything of the church will be theirs. 11, 12

318.Psalm 68 title, 1, 2 (H.B. 1-3) The hells will be subjugated. 8 3-5, 31 (H.B. 4-6, 32) Those who are in good, will acknowledge the Lord, who is Divine truth itself; 11 5, 6 (H.B. 6, 7) He will be their protection; 11 7-11 (H.B. 8-12) He will regenerate them. 11 12-14 (H.B. 13-15) It will not be so with the rest, although they have the Word. 3 15-17 (H.B. 16-18) Respecting the church from the Lord, from whom is everything of doctrine. 11 18-23 (H.B. 19-24) He snatched them out of the hand of the infernals. 17 24-29 (H.B. 25-30) Song in praise of the Lord on this account. 16 30 (H.B. 31) The natural man will be subdued. 16 32-35 (H.B. 33-36) Song in praise of the Divine power of the Lord [acquired by Him] through union [with the Father]. 10, 16

319.Psalm 69 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-5) The temptation-combats of the Lord even to despair, 6 5 (H.B. 6) even to the thought of withdrawal; 6 6, 7 (H.B. 7, 8) but He endured for the sake of those who awaited salvation. 6 8-12 (H.B. 9-13) He is shamefully treated by those with whom was the church. 4 13-20 (H.B. 14-21) Prayer to the Father for help, lest these prevail. 4 21 (H.B. 22) When He desired the good and truth of the 4 church, they gave Him falsity and evil, as upon the cross, gall and vinegar. 9 22-28 (H.B. 23-29) For this reason they are being destroyed. 3 29-31 (H.B. 30-32) When He is delivered, the gospel will be preached, 11 32-36 (H.B. 33-37) because then those who are of the church will be saved, and will worship Him. 11, 17

320.Psalm 70 title, 1-3, 5 (H.B. 1-4, 6) Prayer to the Father for help against the hells, 8, 13, 5 4 (H.B. 5) that those who worship Him may have salvation. 17

321.Psalm 71 1-4,[5,]7,12,14 Confidence that the Father will assist Him. 13, 7 6, 7 He was the Father’s from birth. 10 9-11 Let not the hells say that He has been forsaken by God. 9 13 Thus they withdraw, 8 8, 15-19, 22-24 and the name of God will be preached, 8 20, [21,] 24 when He has gained the victory. 8

322.Psalm 72 title, 1, 2, 4 (H.B. 1, 2, 4) The kingdom of the Lord. 12 3, 6, 7, 15, 16 The happy state of those who are of His kingdom. 12 5 Worship of Him from love and faith from eternity, and thereafter. 12, 16 8-12 The greatness and extension of His dominion. 12, 16 12-14 Protection and redemption. 17 17 N. B. They have acknowledged the Divine Human from eternity, in which is all of salvation. 17, 10 18, 19 A song of praise to Him. 16, 17

323.Psalm 73 title, 1-9 (H.B. 1-9) A matter of wonder to some, that the evil vaunt themselves and prosper. 2 10-14 Whereby the good are led astray, imagining that good is of no use, neither affliction. 2 15-20, 27 But afterward it is granted them to know that the evil are nevertheless devastated and consumed. 2 21, 22 They do not know this; 2 23-26 but the good are always upheld and live with God. 17

324.Psalm 74 title, 1-9 (H.B. 1-9) The church with all things appertaining to it has been utterly destroyed, and its holy things profaned, they saying in their heart that religion is not anything. 3 2, 10, 11 Prayer to the Lord to bring help. 11 12-15 Before this He has overthrown the hells, 8 16, 17 and before this, being protected, He has established a church; 11 18-21 let there therefore be compassion, that the church perish not 11 22, 23 through the uprising of evil. 3

325.Psalm 75 title, 1-3 (H.B. 1-4) When the Lord comes He will raise up the fallen church. 1, 11 4-6 (H.B. 5-7) Let not the evil exalt themselves above the good, 3 7 (H.B. 8) for the judgment comes, in which the evil perish and the good are saved. 15, 17 8, 10 (H.B. 9, 11) The evil will then perish through direful falsities, 15 9 (H.B. 10) but the good will worship the Lord. 11

326.Psalm 76 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-5) The Lord is in His church; protection there against falsities and evils. 11 5, 6 (H.B. 6, 7) There is no longer any truth in the Jewish church. 3 7-10, 12 (H.B. 8-11, 13) The Lord will effect a judgment, in which the evil will perish and the good will be saved. 15, 17 11 (H.B. 12) Let the Lord be worshipped. [16]

327.Psalm 77 title, 1-9 (H.B. 1-10) State of temptation of the Lord even to despair, whether the Father would give help; 6 10-15 (H.B. 11-16) strengthening Himself from His Divine from things past, that those that had prayed for it had been saved, 6, 11 16-19 (H.B. 17-20) and that power was His through Divine truth, 8 20 (H.B. 21) and that the church was preserved. 17

328.Psalm 78 title, 1-7 (H.B. 1-7) The Word was given to the children of Jacob, and they were confirmed in it by means of miracles; 2 8-10 but their fathers and the children had gone back, and had not lived according to it, 2 11-31 the miracles in the desert even having no effect, all of which involved how the Lord teaches and leads those whom He calls to His church. All these things recited. 2 32-37 On account of the miracles they returned, indeed, but only with the mouth, not with the heart. 2 38-40 The Lord forgave them. 2 41-51 Again they were seemingly converted when they recalled the miracles in Egypt, all of which involve the removal and dispersion from them of the hells. A recital of these things. 2 52-55 The Lord thus led them unto the land which was the seat of the church. 2 56-58 Yet they backslid and worshipped another god. 2 59-64 Therefore they were forsaken by the Lord, and delivered over to their falsities and evils; this of themselves. 2, 3 65-67 Thus they were rejected. 3 68-72 Therefore a new church was instituted, which would worship the Lord, and which the Lord could lead. 11

329.Psalm 79 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-4) Falsifications of the Word and direful evils have destroyed the church.3 5-12 The cry of the church for help, that she be not 11, 3 destroyed at the same time, and her prayer that those who have ruined the church be removed.15, 8 13 Thus there will be worship of the Lord. 11, 16

330.Psalm 80 title, 1-3, 7 (H.B. 1-4, 8) Prayer of the new church to the Lord, to come and lead, 11, 16 4-6 (H.B. 5-7) because they are in affliction. 2 8-11 (H.B. 9-12) He has instituted a church and reformed it by truths from the Word, 2 12, 13 (H.B. 13, 14) and yet falsities begin to destroy it. 2 14-19 (H.B. 15-20) May the Lord come and restore it, and may it thus be vivified.11

331.Psalm 81 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-5) Song in praise of the Lord by His church. 16, 11 5-7 (H.B. 6-8) When called upon and when He has proved man, He delivers him from the hells. 11 8-11 (H.B. 9-12) The church among the children of Israel has gone back, and worships another god; 3 12 (H.B. 13) therefore they have been left to themselves. 2 13-16 (H.B. 14-17) If they had obeyed, the hells would have been removed from them, and they would have enjoyed every good. 2

332.Psalm 82 title, 1 (H.B. 1) The Lord to the church, in which is the Word, from which it is possible to be in Divine truths: 11 2-4 let them not do evils, but goods; 11 5 because they do not do goods, the church is tottering; 11 6, 7 thus, although they possess the Word, they will perish. 11 8 Prayer that the Lord may come and effect the judgment. 15

333.Psalm 83 Combats of the Lord with the hells. 7 title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-6) The hells wish to destroy all things of the church. 7 6-8 (H.B. 7-9) The hells that rise up against the Lord are enumerated. 7 9-11 (H.B. 10-12) They will be cast down and subjugated 7, 8 12 (H.B. 13) from the places where they have made seeming heavens for themselves. 7, 8 13-17 (H.B. 14-18) Prayer to the Lord to overthrow them, 7, 8 18 (H.B. 19) that it may be known that power belongs to the Lord alone. 8, 16

334.Psalm 84 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-5) Love and desire for the church and heaven. 11 5-7 (H.B. 6-8) Because of trust in the Lord, the church will increase in truths and goods. 11, 17 8-12 (H.B. 9-13) Her happiness arises from trust in the Lord. 11, 17

335.Psalm 85 title, 1-7 (H.B. 1-8) Prayer of the Lord to the Father, to institute a new church after judgment has been executed upon the evil. 13, 15 8-13 (H.B. 9-14) Perception from His Divine that a church will arise and flourish, which will acknowledge the Lord, walking in truths. 11

336.Psalm 86 title, 1-8 (H.B. 1-8) Prayer of the Lord to the Father for help in temptations, 13, 5 [9, 10,]11, 12 because thus there will be worship of the Lord, and confession of Him; 11, 16 13, 14 the hells are in insurrection; 7 15-17 by His help they will be overthrown. 8

337.Psalm 87 title, 1-7 (H.B. 1-7) Song in praise of the Lord by a new church that will be gathered together from all parts. 16, 11

338.Psalm 88 title, 1-9, 13-18 (H.B. 1-10, 14-19) In temptations that continue even to despair, the Lord addresses the Father, that He is seemingly overcome by the infernals. 13, 7 10-12 (H.B. 11-13) God has no glory from the hells. 7

339.Psalm 89 title, 1, 2 (H.B. 1-3) All Divine truth is from the Lord. 13, 10, 16 3-5 (H.B. 4-6) The Divine truth is from Him because there is oneness with the Divine Human. 10, 16 6-9, 13 (H.B. 7-10, 14) Thus the Lord has all power. 10, 16 10-14 (H.B. 11-15) All of heaven and the church is from Him. 10, 16, 12 15-18 (H.B. 16-19) Happy is he who trusts in the Lord. 12, 16 19-25 (H.B. 20-26) The Father to the Lord, or His Divine to His Human that by oneness with Him He has omnipotence over the hells. 10, 16 26-29, 35-37 (H.B. 27-30, 36-38) N. B. There will be eternal oneness with Him. 10, 16 30-37 (H.B. 31-38) Even if those of the church should fail there will be eternal oneness with Him. 10 38-42 (H.B. 39-43) Of the Jewish nation: It has destroyed conjunction with Him, because it has destroyed the church. 4 43-45 (H.B. 44-46) It has utterly repudiated Him. 4 46-48 (H.B. 47-49) Prayer to the Father, that, unless He assist, no one will have eternal life. 13 49 (H.B. 50) Unless oneness be effected, 10 49-51 (H.B. 50-52) the hells will otherwise prevail. 10, 8 52 (H.B. 53) He assists. 10, 8

340.Psalm 90 title, 1-6 (H.B. 1-6) Man is nothing of Himself, but the Lord alone [is of Himself]. 16 7-11 The church perishes, 11 12-13 unless restored by the Lord 17 14 by means of His coming. 10 14-17 Thence is salvation. 17

341.Psalm 91 1 Song in praise of the Father by the Lord, who is to be made one with Him. 10 2-6 Thus there will be protection from every attack. 10 7-9 Thus there will be no uprising of the hells, 8 10 not even against the church. 11 11, 12 Thus heaven will serve Him. 12 13-16 There will be no fear from the hells, when the Divine has been made one with the Human. 8, 10

342.Psalm 92 title, (H.B. 1) The oneness of the Divine of the Lord with His Divine Human, which is the “Sabbath.” 10 1-5 (H.B. 2-6) Song in praise of the cooperation of the Father with Him. 10 6 (H.B. 7) The evil do not understand this. 3 7-9 (H.B. 8-10) Although the evil flourish, yet they perish. 3 10, 11 (H.B. 11, 12) Thus He has Divine omnipotence against those that rise up against Him, 10, 8 12-14 (H.B. 13-15) from which the church will flourish, 11 15 (H.B. 16) and will sing praises to the Lord. 11, 16

343.Psalm 93 1, 2 Through the oneness of the Divine and the Human in the Lord, heaven and the church will endure to eternity. 10, 12 3, 4 The joy of those who are in Divine truths from this source. 12 5 The Word established in the church. 12

344.Psalm 94 Of the Jewish nation: it destroyed the church. 1, 2 O that judgment may be executed upon them! 15 3-11 Because that nation has destroyed the church, neither does it fear God, although He sees all things. 3 12-15 For the sake of the church the Lord will come to judge. 11, 15 16-19 The Divine of the Lord gives help against the evil and in temptation. 6, 9 20, 21 The evil rise up and wish to kill, 6, 9 22, 23 but through help from His Divine they will perish. 4, 8

345.Psalm 95 1 Song in praise of the Lord: 16 2-5 Omnipotence belongs to Him; 16 6, 7 He is to be worshipped in humility. 16 8-10 Let them not be like the nation sprung from Jacob, who estranged themselves from the Lord, 3, 4 11 and with whom, for this reason, there is no conjunction whatever. 3, 4

346.Psalm 96 1-9 Song in praise of the Lord by His church, that to Him alone belong power and glory. 16 10-12 He will come to judgment, that heaven and the church may worship Him from joy of heart. 15, 12 13 He will come to judgment. 15

347.Psalm 97 1-6 Joy of the church over the Coming of the Lord, with whom is Divine truth. 11, 16 7 All who are in falsities will be removed. 3 8, 9 Joy that the Lord is the God of heaven and the church. 10, 16 10-12 He will protect those who are in truths from Him. 11, 12

348.Psalm 98 The Coming of the Lord and the glorification of His Human: 1, 10 title, 1 (H.B. 1) He will then have power. 1, 10 2 Hence is salvation. 1, 10, 17 3 The predictions are to be fulfilled. 17 4-8 Song of praise to Him and joy on that account.16 9 He comes to judgment.15

349.Psalm 99 1, 2 Song in praise of the Lord who is the Word and the God of the church. 16 3, 5, 9 He should be worshipped, because 16 4 power and justice belong to Him. 16 6, 7 The Word is from Him. 16 8 He is the Redeemer. 17

350.Psalm 100 title, 1-3 (H.B. 1-3) Song in praise of the Lord, that He is to be worshipped with the heart, because He is the Former of the church. 16, 17 4, 5 Let them draw near to Him through the truths of the Word, and confess Him. 16, 11

351.Psalm 101 Something concerning judgment by the Lord. 15 title, 1 (H.B. 1) He is to be celebrated. 16 2, 3, 6, 7 His perfection, and He loves those that are perfect. 16 4, 5 He rejects the evil and the haughty. 3 8 The evil will perish when the Lord comes. 3

352.Psalm 102 title, 1-11 (H.B. 1-12) Prayer of the Lord when He was in temptations even to despair, which state is described. 13, 6 12-18 (H.B. 13-19) Nevertheless, those that are out of the church expect compassion, that they may become a church. 11 19-22 (H.B. 20-23) He hears and has compassion, and a church is formed of such. 11 23, 24 (H.B. 24, 25) Let Him not fail in temptations before that comes to pass, 6 25-28 (H.B. 26-29) that heaven and the church perish not, but may be established. 11, 12

353.Psalm 103 title, 1-7 (H.B. 1-7) Song in praise of the Lord on account of redemption and reformation. 16, 17 8-18 These are from mercy, because He knows the infirmities of man. 16, 17 19-22 The heavens and the earths are His, therefore He should be celebrated. 16, 17

354.Psalm 104 Song in praise of the Lord. 16 1-4 From Him are Divine truths, or the Word. 16 5-9 Of the sense of the letter of the Word, on which the church is founded: 16, 11 10-23 from this all are taught, everyone according to the state of His intelligence; 16, 11 24-30 from this are the knowledges [cognitiones] of truth and good, from which is spiritual nourishment16, 11 31-35 May the good be saved, and the evil perish! 17

355.Psalm 105 The establishment of the church by the Lord, and the reformation of the natural man. 11 1-7 Song in praise of the Lord and of His works for the establishment of the church. 11, 16 8-15 The establishment of the church in the beginning, and her protection from falsities of evils. 11 16 When there was no longer any truth, 3 17, 18 the Lord came, and they afflicted Him; 4 19-22 but He afterwards became the God of heaven and earth. 10 23, 24 Hence those who were of the church were natural, and in knowledges [scientifica]; 11 25-36 therefore their natural has been purged of falsities and evils of every kind, which infested; these here treated of; 11 37-41 afterwards truth and good, and protection from falsities, are granted them, 11 42-45 and He causes them to be a church. 11

356.Psalm 106 Of the church instituted among the Jewish nation: it became perverted and revolted. 3 1-5 Prayer of the Lord to the Father to give help, that He might see the church established. 13, 11 6-8 Although those who were of the church beheld Divine miracles, they backslid, and yet they were preserved, 3 9-34 as at the sea Suph and afterwards in the desert (many [instances here recounted]), nevertheless they rebelled. 3 35-39 They totally destroyed and profaned the truths and goods of the church. 3 40-43 Therefore the church with them was forsaken by the Lord, and destroyed. 3 44-46 Then those who were out of the church were heard, 11 47, 48 and a church constituted of them will arise and will worship the Lord. 11

357.Psalm 107 1-3 A new church, which the Lord has redeemed. 11, 17 4-8 They are in falsities of ignorance, but in a desire for truth and good. 11 9-15 They are in ignorance and in lack of truth. 11 16-21 They have no spiritual nourishment, although they will have it through the Word. 11 22-31 When they were in knowledges [cognitiones], they were admitted into temptations, and preserved. 11 [32], 33-34, 39-40 Song in praise of the Lord, that those who were of the devastated church have been rejected, 16, 3 35-38, 41-43 and that those who are of the new church have been accepted, with whom truths and goods will be multiplied. 11

358.Psalm 108 title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-6) Prayer of the Lord to the Father to give help, and show His power, 13, 3, 8 6 (H.B. 7) that those who are to be of the church may be delivered. 8 7 (H.B. 8) Answer, that the former church will be destroyed, 3 8, 9 (H.B. 9, 10) and an internal and an external church will be instituted. 11 10-13 (H.B. 11-14) The Human will become Divine when the hells have been subjugated. 10

359.Psalm 109 Of the perverted Jewish church. 4 title, 1-6 (H.B. 1-6) It repudiated the Lord, and considered Him vile, and hated Him. 4 7-12 They will perish in the judgment, and there will be others in their place, who will be received, and a church established with them. 15, 11 13-20 Their posterity will likewise perish, because they are in falsities of evil, and because they reject the Lord. 4, 3, 4 21-25 To the Father for help, because He is considered vile, and as nothing. 13, 4 26-29 Let them be put to shame. 3 30, 31 Song in praise of the Father, because He gives help.

360.Psalm 110 title, 1-3 (H.B. 1-3) Victory of the Lord over the hells, owing to which He has dominion over heaven and earth. 8 4-7 N. B. From this He has authority over the hells. 8, 10

361.Psalm 111 1-4 Celebration and confession of the Lord; 16 5-9 He redeemed men, and saves to eternity; 17 10 to worship Him is wisdom. 17

362.Psalm 112 1-7, 9 He that trusts in the Lord and lives well will be saved. 17 8, 10 He will have no fear of the hells, however much they may rise up against Him. 17

363.Psalm 113 1-5 Song in praise of the Lord, because He is omnipotent; 16 6 because He came into the world; 1 7-9 because He will save those who will be of His church. 17

364.Psalm 114 1, 2 The church established by the Lord from the nations. 11 3-6 Its falsities have been removed, and the goods of love and charity take their place, 11 7, 8 because the church is from the Lord, who will instruct those that are in ignorance. 11

365.Psalm 115 1-3 Omnipotence belongs to the Lord. 16 4-8 From what is His own, man is nothing but falsity of evil. 16 9-11 The trust of all who are in truths and goods should be in the Lord. 16 12-15, 18 The Lord will save them. 17 16 Heaven and the church are His. 17 17 Those who do not trust in the Lord will not be saved. 16, 17

366.Psalm 116 1-11 Song in praise of the Father by the Lord, that He gave help in grievous temptations; 6 12-19 thus the Divine will be worshipped in the Lord. 6, 16

367.Psalm 117 1, 2 Song of praise to the Father by the Lord, that He gave help in temptations. 5

368.Psalm 118 1-4 Song of praise to the Father by the Lord, for the church; 11 5-9 He helped Him in His distresses; 5 10-14 the evil fought against Him, but He was helped by the Divine. 5 15, 16 Joy because there is Divine power through His Human. 10, 16 17 The Divine truth is from Him. 10, 16 18-22 He it is through whom is all salvation. 17 22-25 It is the Divine Human from His Divine in Himself, which is the source. 10 26-29 Happy is he who confesses and worships the Lord. 16

369.Psalm 119 1-176 The Lord fulfilled the Law, or the Word, from its firsts to its lasts, and therefore He was hated, 16 and suffered temptations, and thus made the 5 Human one with His Divine. 10

370.Psalm 120 title, 1-7 (H.B. 1-7) To the Father, against those in the perverted church, who secretly try to destroy Him. 13, 4

371.Psalm 121 title, 1-8 (H.B. 1-8) [Prayer] to the Father to keep [Him]. 13, 5

372.Psalm 122 title, 1-9 (H.B. 1-9) Joy of the Lord over the new church where He reigns. 11, 16

373.Psalm 123 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-4) [Prayer] to the Father to be present, because He has been utterly rejected by the Jewish nation. 13, 4

374.Psalm 124 title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-5) To the Father that He may be preserved in temptations 13, 5 6-8 from the deceitful and hypocrites. 5

375.Psalm 125 title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-5) From the Lord the new church is kept from falsities of evil. 11

376.Psalm 126 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-4) Joy of the nations with whom a new church will arise. 16, 11 5 It will be instructed. 11

377.Psalm 127 title, 1, 2 All things of the church are from the Lord, and nothing from man. 16, 11 3, 4 He who is in truths from the Lord remains safe. 16, 11

378.Psalm 128 title, 1-6 (H.B. 1-6) Happy is he who is of the Lord’s church, for good in abundance is there. 11

379.Psalm 129 title, 1-3 (H.B. 1-3) From the beginning they have done exceeding great evil to the church, 2 4-8 but, after a vain effort, they were compelled to retreat. 11

380.Psalm 130 title, 1-4 (H.B. 1-4) Prayer to the Lord that they may be preserved. 16 5-8 The Coming of the Lord and redemption is expected. 1, 17

381.Psalm 131 Of the Lord: title, 1, 2 (H.B. 1, 2) He operated from His Human; He indeed operated through influx from the Divine, but not from the Divine alone. 10, 17 3 Let the trust of the church be in Him. 11

382.Psalm 132 Of the Lord: title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-5) He will not rest until He sees His church established. 11 6, 7 He was born in Bethlehem, let us adore Him, 16 8 for He united His Divine to His Human. 10 9, 10 N. B. let them worship Him from good and from truth. 16 11, 12 It is an eternal truth, that those who worship Him will be saved. 16, 17 13, 14 The Lord dwells in His church because He loves her; 11 15, 16 because there He dwells in truths and goods. 11 17, 18 For this reason she will be in power and in light against falsities of evil. 11

383.Psalm 133 title, 1 (H.B. 1) Good itself is the conjunction of good and truth, 11, 12 2 for the good of love flows into the truths of the external or natural man. 11, 12 3 The truth of good is from heaven upon those who are in the church, in which is salvation. 12, 17

384.Psalm 134 title, 1 (H.B. 1) Song in praise of the Lord by those who worship Him, when the church has been devastated. 16, 3 2, 3 Let them worship the Lord, who is the God of heaven and the church. 16

385.Psalm 135 1-3 Song in praise of the Lord in His Divine Human, 11, 16 4 who institutes the church, 11 5 and who alone is God, 16 6, 7 who alone teaches the church external and internal truths, 11 8-11 who delivers the natural man from falsities of evil, 17 12 and there implants the church. 17, 11 13 This is done by the Lord, 17, 11 14 who leads her. 17, 11 15-18 One’s own intelligence effects nothing. 16 19-21 The spiritual and celestial church worships the Lord who is the God of the church. 16

386.Psalm 136 1-3 Let them confess the Lord, who alone is God and Lord, 16 4-6 who, by means of the Divine truth, has formed heaven and the church, 12 7-9 from whom is all truth of doctrine, and good of love, and knowledge (cognitio) of these; 12 10-22 who delivers the natural man from falsities of evil, and there establishes the church, and dissipates evils of every kind. 11, 12 23-26 Celebration and confession of Him who delivers from falsities and evils, and grants truths and goods, 16, 12 1-26 and this from pure mercy. 12

387.Psalm 137 1-6 Lamentation by the nations who are in falsities from ignorance, because they do not have the Word. 11 5, 6 Of these a church will be formed by the Lord, which He will love. 11 7-9 Those who have devastated the church will perish. 3

388.Psalm 138 Song in praise of the Lord by the church. 16 title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-5) The Lord ought to be worshipped from the Word, where is His Divine truth. 10, 16 6-8 Those who are humble will have salvation from the Lord, and life and protection. 17

389.Psalm 139 Song in praise of the Father by the Lord. 10 title, 1-5 (H.B. 1-5) He knows everything of His thought and will because He is made one with Him; 10 6-10 omniscience and omnipresence belong to Him; 10, 16 11, 12 enlightenment in the natural is from Him; 10, 16 13-15 by Him He was formed and from Him He is pure; 11, 12, 10 16-18 hence all things of the Father are united with Him; 10 19-22 the Lord rejects all evil and falsity from Himself; 10 23, 24 perfection belongs to Him. 10

390.Psalm 140 title, 1-8 (H.B. 1-9) Prayer of the Lord to the Father to be delivered from falsifiers and hypocrites, who purpose evil against Him in the perverted church. 13, 4 9-11 (H.B. 10-12) They perish through their falsities and evils, 3 12, 13 (H.B. 13, 14) and those who confess the Lord are saved. 17

391.Psalm 141 title, 1, 2 (H.B. 1-2) Prayer of the Lord to the Father, to have regard to His perfection; 13 [3,] 4, 5 He has nothing in common with those who are in evils, because He has been made one with His Divine; 16, 10 6, 7 His words, which are Divine, they have made of no account. 10, 4 8-10 Confidence that their evil thoughts and intentions, by which they themselves perish, do no harm. 8

392.Psalm 142 title, 1-3 (H.B. 1-4) Prayer of the Lord to the Father, to give help in temptations, 13, 5 4, 5 (H.B. 5, 6) because He is known by no one except the Father only, in whom is His trust. 4 6, 7 (H.B. 7, 8) May He be delivered from temptations, and come among those who acknowledge Him. 5, 11

393.Psalm 143 title, 1, 2 (H.B. 1, 2) Prayer of the Lord to the Father that He who is true and just may hear, 13 3, 4, 7 that He may not fail in temptations. 5 5, 6 He longs for the ancient state in respect to the church. 11 8-12 He has confidence of being delivered from the hells, by which He is assaulted mightily. 8

394.Psalm 144 title, 1, 2 (H.B. 1, 2) To the Father, that He may be a help to Him in His combats, 13, 7 3, 4 for without Him He has no power. 13, 7 5-8, 11 O that He may be delivered from the hells which assault Him with falsities! 7 9, 10 Thus He would have salvation, 17 12-14 and thus would Divine truth and Divine good be His and from Him. 12 15 (H.B. 1-7) Happy is he who acknowledges Him. 12

395.Psalm 145 title, 1-7 (H.B. 1-7) Song in praise of the Lord because of His works and His justice; 16 8, 9 because of His mercy. 16 10-12 All who are in the heavens will confess Him, 12 13 because His kingdom is eternal. 12 14-16 He raises up sinners, and leads them into truths that they may live. 12, 11 17 He is Divine. 17 18, 20 He saves those who believe in Him, and those who do not believe perish. 17, 3 21 He is to be worshipped. 16

396.Psalm 146 1, 2 Song in praise of the Lord: 16 3, 4 Man from His own is nothing. 16 5, 6 Happy is he who trusts in the Lord, who is the God of heaven and earth, 16, 11 7-9 who teaches and leads all who are in falsities from ignorance, and who desire truths. 16, 11 10 He reigns to eternity. 11, 12

397.Psalm 147 1, 2, 7 [12] Song in praise of the Lord by His church, 16 3, 4 who reforms by knowledges [cognitiones] of truth, 17 5 who alone is able to do this, 17 6, 8, 9 who teaches truths to those who are in ignorance. 11 10, 11 One’s own intelligence is nothing, but that which is from the Lord is something. 11 16 13-15 The church will worship the Lord who protects her, and teaches the Word. 16 16-18 The Lord disperses ignorance by means of the Word. 11 19, 20 All this He does for His church. 11

398.Psalm 148 1-6 All who are in the heavens and on the earths should worship the Lord from goods and truths that are from Him; 16, 12 7-10 all who are in the lowest parts of heaven and the church should worship Him from truths and goods of every kind; 16, 12 11, 12 in general from the understanding and will of truth and good; 16, 12 13, 14 because salvation is by means of those things that He gives. 17

399.Psalm 149 1-4 The Lord is to be worshipped from an affection for truth and good, because He loves them, 16, 12 5, 6 because Divine truth belongs to them, 8 7-9 and by that the hells are restrained. 8

400.Psalm 150 1, 2 The Lord ought to be worshipped because He is omnipotent; 12, 16 3-6 He ought to be worshipped from every affection for good and truth. 12, 16

369-1 The following words are here crossed out in the manuscript: “The initial letters here signify such things as are meant by them in the spiritual world.” This note refers to the Hebrew initial letters of the verses, which follow the order of the Hebrew alphabet, the first eight verses beginning each with Aleph, the second eight with Beth, etc. This is indicated in the English Bible by the names of the Hebrew letters to be found as inscriptions over the successive groups of eight verses. See more on this subject in Apocalypse Revealed, n. 38.-Editor.

401.The Historical Parts of the Word [The Historical parts of the Word, like the prophetical parts, contain a spiritual sense within themselves, in which there is nothing Historical of the world, as in the sense of the letter, but there are heavenly things which relate to the church, and in the highest sense to the Lord, just like the prophetical parts. The Historical parts there are representative, and all the senses with their expressions are correspondences. It ought to be known, that all the churches, down to the Coming of the Lord, were representative churches; they represented the church, and in the highest sense, the Lord; it is from this that the Word is spiritual and Divine. But the representative churches ceased when the Lord came into the world, because all things of the Word, those that are prophetical, as also those that are Historical, signified and represented Him and this is why the Lord is called “the Word.” There were three notable changes of the representative churches: the first, which was before the “flood,” shall be called the Most Ancient Church; the second, which was after the “flood,” the Ancient Church; and the third, which followed the Ancient, the Israelitish and Jewish church. The Most Ancient Church is described briefly by “Adam” and His posterity; the Ancient Church, by “Noah” and His posterity; and the Israelitish and Jewish church by the Historical portions of the Word. The former churches are described in like manner, but by more interior correspondences, in the Word that is mentioned by Moses; but this Word has been effaced, and in its place the Word was given that exists at the present day. The church that followed these three is the Christian church, which church is internal, differing from the Jewish church as a moonlight night differs from a dark night. But as this church has come to its end, by the accomplishment of the last judgment, a new church is now being instituted by the Lord, which is called, in Revelation, the “new Jerusalem,” to which the things that are being published by me at the present day will be of service; it is also being instituted elsewhere. The Historical parts of the Word involve in a summary the things that follow.]

402.Genesis Chapter 1 [1-31] In the spiritual sense the new creation or the regeneration of the men of the Most Ancient Church is here described; the process of their regeneration from firsts to lasts is here contained in its order.

403.Chapter 2 [Genesis] [1-25] The intelligence and wisdom of those men, while they were being regenerated, is described; for that church was a celestial church, the first of all on this earth.

404.Chapter 3 [Genesis] [1-24] Fall and end of that church, as they departed from the celestial to the natural man, from this they had intelligence from what was their own [proprium] in place of intelligence from the Lord.

405.Chapter 4 [Genesis] [1-26] Division of that church, which took place between those who made everything of the church and thus of salvation to consist in the mere doctrine and knowledge [scientia] of cognitions (who were “Cain”); and those who made it to consist also in a life of love and charity (who were “Abel”); and, abstractly, that a mere knowledge [scientia] of doctrinals, like faith alone, when all of religion is made to consist in it alone, slays charity. But those who made a church out of mere doctrine, and did not at the same time make it consist in life, were rejected.

406.Chapter 5 [Genesis] [1-32] Divisions and changes in that church are described, being meant by the “posterity of Adam from Sheth.”

407.Chapter 6 [Genesis] 1-6, [?7], 10-12 [?11-13] End of that church, when there was no longer any truth or good, because they were in their own intelligence; [8-10, 14-22] and the beginning of a new church, which is meant by “Noah” and His “three sons.”

408.Chapter 7 [Genesis] [1-24] The destruction of the Most Ancient Church is described by the “flood,” and the beginning of a new one, by the “ark” and its preservation.

409.Chapter 8 [Genesis] [1-22] The end of the Most Ancient Church, and the beginning of the Ancient Church.

410.Chapter 9 [Genesis] 1-17 Precepts and statutes for that church. 18-28 [29] That church is “Noah,” its celestial is “Shem,” its spiritual is “Japheth,” and its natural is “Ham.”

411.Chapter 10 [Genesis] [1-32] As that church spread over a great part of the Asiatic world, and consequently there were divisions, these are described by the “posterity of Noah,” or of His “three sons.”

412.Chapter 11 [Genesis] 1-9 The beginning of Babylon and its destruction. [10-32] Continuation respecting the various states of that church and the nature of them even to the end, when it became idolatrous and magical.

413.Chapter 12 [Genesis] 1-8 The institution of the Israelitish and Jewish church, which was from Eber, and therefore was called the Hebrew church, and its first institution from Abram, who was commanded to go into the land of Canaan, for the reason that all places in that land, and those round about it, had been allotted spiritual significations by the men of the Most Ancient Church, and these were to be mentioned by name in the new Word that was to be written among them, in which the names of those places were to be employed. [9-20] The first instruction of that church, which is the instruction of the natural man, by means of knowledges [scientiae] which are meant by “Egypt,” in which country Abram was at that time.

414.Chapter 13 [Genesis] [1-18] Growth in the knowledges [cognitiones] of the church, and separation of spiritual knowledges, which are “Abram,” from natural knowledges, which are “Lot.”

415.Chapter 14 [Genesis] 1-17 Combat in the natural man, between the truths and goods and the evils and falsities there, and when victory hung on the side of the evil or of hell, the spiritual man attacked them and overthrew them. 18-24 Thus the natural man became spiritual-natural, and removed evils and falsities from Himself.

416.Chapter 15 [Genesis] 1-6 Since there was as yet only multiplication of truth, and not the fructification of good, and thus not the church, He was urgent that the church might exist with Him; 7-21 but it is foretold what the church and its conjunction with the Lord would be, namely, that it would be perverted.

417.Chapter 16 [Genesis] [1-16] Conjunction of the truth and good of the natural man, from which there would be only an external church, which is rational. But concerning all this see Arcana Coelestia, where [it is explained that] these things pertaining to the church signify things pertaining to the Lord; for all things of the Word in the spiritual sense treat of the church and heaven, but in the celestial sense of the Lord.