7165. 'Lord, why have You done ill to this people?' means that those governed by truths and forms of good are molested excessively by falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'doing ill' as allowing people to be molested excessively by falsities, for this is what doing ill implies in the spiritual sense when used in reference to those governed by truths and forms of good; and from the representation of the children of Israel, to whom 'people' refers here, as those who belong to the spiritual Church, thus those who are governed by the Church's truths and by its forms of good, as just above in 7162.