885. That 'crying' (clamor) in the Word is said of grief and fear of untruths out of hell, and consequently of devastation thereby, is plain from these passages:-
The former troubles shall be forgotten, and they shall be hidden from Mine eyes; then the voice of weeping shall not be heard in her, nor the voice of crying Isa. lxv 16, 19.
These words are also concerning 'Jerusalem', as here in the Apocalypse.
They have been blackened into the land, and the crying of Jerusalem goes up Jer. xiv 2 seq.;
where it also treats of sorrow over the untruths that devastate the Church.
Jehovah looked for judgment, but behold a scab, for justice, but behold a cry Isa. v 7.
A voice of the crying of shepherds, because Jehovah is laying waste their pasture Jer. xxv 36.
A voice of crying from the fish-game, because their wealth is become a booty and their house a desolation Zeph. 10, 13;
besides elsewhere, as Isa. xiv 31; xv 4-6, 8; xxiv 11; xxx 19; Jer. xlvi 12, 17. But it should be known that 'crying' in the Word is said of every affection breaking forth from the heart, and therefore it is a voice of lamentation, of imploring, of supplication arising from distress, of entreaty, of indignation, of confession, even of exultation.