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Lamentations

119.Lamentations Chapter 1 Verses 1-3 The church and its doctrine from the Word, which had been dominant, but now enslaved and laid waste. 3 4, 5 All of its truths and goods are perverted. 3 6 There is no power against the hells. 3 7-11 All things of the church have been devastated, and hence it is in evils and falsities. 3 12-16 Its grief on account of the devastation. 3 17-22 There is no help from heaven. 3

120.Chapter 2 [Lamentations] 1-9 Because all truths and goods have been destroyed, that church has been rejected by the Lord, and there is damnation. 3 10-12 Grievous mourning of the church on account of the devastation. 3 13-15 The church has no conjunction with the Lord, because it is wholly perverted, and hence rejected. 3 16, 17 Evils prevail. 3 18-22 Lamentation of the church over her devastation. 3

121.Chapter 3 [Lamentations] 1-64[-66] Description of the combats of the Lord with hells, which were especially from the Israelitish and Jewish church, with despair, because all had been in evils and in falsities therefrom, and against the Lord; 7, 6 He invokes the Father that He may not be forsaken and that He may conquer and subjugate these hells. These things in a summary. 13

122.Chapter 4 [Lamentations] 1-3 Holy truths and goods turned into falsities, 3 4 so that there is a lack of all of them. 3 5-8 Their spiritual things have become infernal. 3 9, 10 Affections of truth have become cupidities of falsity. 3 11 They were against the Lord. 3 12-14 They falsified the truths of the Word. 3 15 It was impure. 3 16, 17 The Word was rejected owing to their own intelligence. 3 18, 19 Nothing of the church was left, and therefore came their destruction. 3 20 The Lord was rejected. 9 21, 22 The external of the church was also vastated. 3

123.Chapter 5 [Lamentations] 1-5 Lamentation to God, that there is a lack of everything of the church, 3 6-9 because of falsities and evils. 3 10-18 They have become infernal. 3 19-22 Prayer to the Lord, that the former church may be restored. 11