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

Prophets and Psalms

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 369-1 10

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Footnotes

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.