Prophets and Psalms, by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1761], tr. by J.E. Schreck [1900], at sacred-texts.com

Prophets and Psalms

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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