374. 7758. ....[Is. 24:] verse 8. All spiritual and heavenly joy will also cease. Inner joys of a different kind are described here, and different causes that arouse joys which cease when the causes cease. What heavenly joys are nobody can know but one who has learned it by the Divine mercy of God the Messiah. And because I have had this experience now over a period of time, I can only declare that they are ineffable, and that if they were to be expressed even as to the least part (for they are indescribable), no human being not having had the experience could believe it. Nothing whatever occurs that is not joined with that ineffable joy, in a thousand variations, etc. etc. [Joy] 7759. Verse 9. A comparison is drawn with the joy of the inhabitants of the earth. For the fact that the joys of the world are completely bitter to those who are tormented by a bad conscience, may be well known to many, as also to those who are in mourning, and even more to those mourning spiritually. What a bitterness of spirit there can be in the midst of outward joy, I have also learned from experience, because