The Book of

JACHANAN BEN KATHRYN

Containing revelations given to Jachanan Ben Kathryn, modern prophet to the house of Judah.
“for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem” (Isa 2:3)

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION – LDS EDITION

The book of Ben Kathryn is a modern prophesy given in 1995 by the Jewish prophet John Ben Kathryn concerning the
restoration of Israel. Its primary message is to warn that turmoil is coming to Middle East, the Western World and nation of
Israel, to prepare the way for the coming of a more peaceful and harmonious religion which will help bridge the divide between
Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Also that God will soon end the political and religious hegemony of the Gentile Nations (esp
the United States & Europe—referred to as “Ephraim” in the revelation) as they cast off the light and truth they have been so
abundantly blessed with. A restored Israel will reform and restore a more true version of Christianity and break down the false
beliefs and idols which Christianity has developed. Even Mormonism (as an archetype of Ephraim) will be reformed in its
views of the trinity and its views of prophets. The Christian nations of the Western world are rebuked and told of needed
reforms—particularly in the way they mete out international justice. The book essentially echoes the message of Micah 5:8, 3
Nephi 20-21, 1 Nephi 21 in warning Israel and the Western word that the responsibility of meting out international law which
comes with superpower status is about to switch back to the Middle East. The message in Joseph Smith--Matthew telling of the
coming ‘repeat’ of Daniel’s “abomination of desolation” concerning the destruction of Jerusalem and global tribulation period
is echoed. The coming restoration of the Jewish Temple is described, and all are warned to prepare for a coming regional war--
- and the reforms which will be brought by a coming wave of Jewish prophets & social reformers. America is warned of a
temporary downfall caused by spiritual decay, economic trouble, the toll of internation war and external attack. After its
repentance it will be renewed as a “garden” of “five flowers”. Hope is given, that after this Middle Eastern war, a more
peaceful and united period of Western development will ensue. Israel’s priests serving in the rebuilt Jewish temple will replace
Rome and Mecca as the new seat of of spiritual light and direction for the Western World.

The Book of
JACHANAN BEN KATHRYN
Revelation given to the modern prophet, Jachanan (John) Ben Kathryn. Written unto the house of Judah (Jews), in preparation
for the things which shall shortly come to pass. Judah (the present-day nation of Israel) is chided for their traditions and
rejection of the Messiah. The temporary destruction of Israel, and a final period of captivity for the Jews is prophesied.
Through this captivity God will free the Jews of their false traditions and ‘turn’ them to Him. The true Gospel of
Messiah/Jehovah will be restored to them, and the final gathering of Israel will ensue. America (Ephraim) is chided for its
wickedness and its gradual decline, division and rebirth are prophesied. Pestilence and natural precesses will aid in the
decline of the faltering gentile nations. Detailed instructions concerning the structure and operations of the final Temple in
Jerusalem are put forth.

CHAPTER 1 THE aburden of the word of the LORD which came unto
John the son of Kathryn, the daughter of Jacob and
John son of Kathryn is called to be a prophet unto Judah. Messiah’s Light, the son of Karl Hirsch, the son of
God bids him wait until the appointed time to inscribe His Abraham, the son of Hillel, when the LORD first drew him
words. He shall warn the people of coming destruction and out from the nations and inclined his spirit to seek after the
upheaval. The prophet shrinks and wrestles at his calling. LORD. It first came when he was about 30 [1995/6] years of

1 a Isa. 21: 1, 11, 13

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age, saying expressly: “Thou shalt surely be my witness to The Lord sees the heart of Israel as they wail at the wall.
Israel.” The Jews hearts are as stones of the wall….
2 But the prophet wrestled at the word of the LORD, and
the LORD would not have it inscribed, For it is not yet time THE word of the LORD which first came unto Jachanan ben
that I cry out, that I rend and that I devour; that I heal and Kathryn in the year 5,755 [1995] concerning the Holy Place
that I say Restore. So it was laid to heart. (Temple).
3 It came again in his 37th year. See, I have molded thee. I 2 Thus saith the LORD, Do I not see Israel gather and wail
have given thee pain, and I have given thee fear. I have at the wall? My spirit goeth forth within the land and every
given thee loss and death, and a burning heart. None can man’s heart is turned toward Jerusalem in lament. Is it not
quench what the LORD causeth to burn. Lay it to heart. the heart of Israel?
4 And in his 38th year, which was a5,764 [2004], it came as 3 Look upon this stone wall, if thou canst bear it. Listen to
a flood. Inscribe it now, what I have laid in thine heart, and them ableat. Look at them bow themselves again and again
what I shall put from henceforth into thy heart, for it is time and with their parted books recite vain words.
that I cry out. And publish thou it abroad at the time of thy 4 See the concourse of stone as I see it, if thou canst bear
turning 40 [2006], for thou shalt serve me in thine aold age. the sight. Behold, I, even I, saith the LORD, do see the heart
For it is time that I plow up and that I plant, that I cause to of Israel. The concourse of stone is potted and etched and
wax young that which hath waxed old; that which is bburied doth not have the appearance of vigour and hath no
I reveal unto light, and that which is I pull up and bury. similitude unto what it was when it was cut true and polished
5 Cry out, cry out in the name of the LORD: Destruction smooth.
and upheaval! Plowing and planting, turning over and deep 5 Beyond it are the promenades of free living cats, and the
furrows, the banks thereof without footing. Heavy rains and birds of centuries have cast their dung upon it, and beyond
mud, and the furrows shall be filled, and the line shall grow. this there is the ahouse of a god which is no god. Yea, have I
I shall fence it in, and I shall reset the hinges of my gate. seen the heart of Israel. Well do they call this place their
6 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, heart.
Behold now in the dusk vision, a great acaldron set upon 6 Therefore tread upon this people’s heart, and say unto
broken desert ground. What doeth it? And I said, “It pitcheth them:
round, as on a whirligig, and doth not steady, but the water 7 Thus saith the LORD God, Thine heart is even as this
slosheth at every point of the brim.” stone, and beareth no resemblance to what it was. Within it
7 So bring I upon the Earth at every quarter, convulsion is filth and brambles, unclean things and a place for birds to
and upheaval, dismay, a setting on edge, fumes and smoke waste, and in its center are thine own imaginations. Thine
and a steamy vapour. As the water feedeth the desert from idols are loathsome to me; thine imaginations are crudely
tumult, so shall old seed sprout from upheaval. Publish it formed and have no beauty.
abroad. Fear not, for I shall put the fear of thee on mine 8 My spirit hath perceived, yea, mine eyes have beheld;
enemies, and at the time appointed I shall give thee the heart therefore my right hand is stretched forth to make the days,
not of a rabbit but of a lion. At my word they shall have even the days that shall come, saith the LORD Almighty,
confusion of face, for lo, I have not aspoken by prophet since that I shall build again the wasteland of David and restore
days of old. unto thee thine heart. Even I shall do this.
8 (But the prophet wrestled again) And I said: Why should 9 Such days as this thou hast not seen in all thy generations
they, O my Lord, hearken unto me, seeing I was not raised since, nor hath ear heard the gentle comfort of God from the
after the manner of my fathers, nor in the ways of my far places of thy dispersion. These days have been the days
mothers? —Seeing also that thou hast not raised up a of thine enslavement, and within these days the multitude of
prophet unto this thy people for so long. Why should it be thy woundings have wedged thee into the cleft of the rock
me? and sunk thine head between thy knees in weeping. The days
9 And the LORD said: Away, get thee to thy task, for I that come shall be the days of thine astonishment, the days
shall be with thee; and who can prevail against thee? seeing I of thy setting free from thy yokes, from thy sore travail and
am a hawk upon thy shoulder and a falcon unhooded against thy caged heart. For thou art in bondage without me. No
its prey. Whom I call, I shall call, and whose feet I shall matter where thou shouldest dwell, affliction is thy
place upon the path before me, I shall send before me. neighbour; desolation is thy mother.
Away, son of Isaac, get thee to thy people and declare thou 10 Thou couldest see only flesh, O daughter of Zion.
mine heart, what I have placed in thine heart. Goodly flesh and skin like alabaster thou beheldst with
pleasure, but mine honour thou couldest not touch. Blood
issued forth glory, but thou only hissedst.
CHAPTER 2 11 Thine eyes were cast to thy handsome men. Their
comely features led thee to destruction, and thou wentest
cheerfully enough.
4 a According to the Jewish Calendar.
a
Nabion suggest this will be at the age of 80 (or ~2046 AD)
4b Psalms 85:11, Moses 7:62. Ref to truth, revelations, ancient relics coming
out of the earth.
6 a Ezek. 11: 3, 7, 11 2 a sound of sheep or goats, cry whiningly or plaintively
7 a Officially to “Judah” anyway… 5 a Muslim Dome on the Rock

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 12 There they left thee, in the wilderness of thy desolation 10 Therefore stretch I out my voice, and my voice is
they caused thee to dwell. In the shadow of darkness thou salvation and my words dissolve brine. Behold a plain man.
foundest solitude, and thou soughtest to thyself no light. I stand at the door. Without thy sight thou shalt not see my
13 Thou hidst thy shame in the clefts of the rocks, and garden hinter.
amongst the scorpions thou learnst a new thing: a coarse 11 Thy beauty is gone, O daughter Zion; thou hast long lost
temperament was thy way; and thy feet walked upon the hot thy maiden innocence. Truly, thy widowhood hath been
and sharp rocks. Thy soft skin became calloused; thine heart bitter. Now thou wilt hear my call. Above the din of the
became old. market thou shalt hear, and my plain flesh thou wilt not
14 There I would not approach thee. What doth desolation abhor.
have to do with me, saith the LORD? Let thy lovers console 12 The whoredoms of thy youth I sought to redeem. The
thee. Thou art a hissing to me. whoredoms of thy middle-age overflowed. Thy body was
young and light and thine ear heavy. Now thou art heavy and
slow, and thine ear is light. Now thou shalt hear. Thy youth
CHAPTER 3 shall not return for a season, but thou shalt live with what
thou hast done.
AND in the 38th year the word of the LORD moreover came 13 Thine eyebrow archeth with curiosity. What stirreth at
unto me, saying, Behold, it is time to cry out, to lift up my that desolate house? Come and see, come and see, saith the
voice as a slash of lightning teareth the sky with its thunder. LORD.
I am a flood upon thee. My word shall be a tempest upon the 14 There is no shame upon me. I have cleansed this place,
Earth. I cry out. I proclaim from on high: and I will build it: to turn thy heart to me in purity. Thou
2 Hear ye one and all the word of the LORD, O ye nations shalt build these concourses and I shall sweep thine heart.
and thou house of backsliding: I withhold not anymore. As a Thou shalt gild with gold and I shall burnish thy soul and
hand hitting the forehead I cause the whole Earth to stop make it gleam brighter than gold, yea greater than very fine
astonied, to gape, and to stutter. gold.
3 Shall I make mankind to multiply on the Earth, only for 15 Then shall thy worship be sweet to me; then shalt thou
firebrands for the afurnace? Behold, saith the LORD, it shall have this place and call it my house, though I dwell not in
never be. I shall never let that it should be shut up. Nor shall buildings, though even the Universe is nought but a bowl
I bring forth man as the fowls, only to stamp my feet to that cannot contain a finger of my soul.
cause them to fly into the fowler’s net.
4 Behold, saith the LORD, the nations are my kingdom and
Israel is mine house. I shall return from setting my borders CHAPTER 4
and from building me far cities. I shall asweep out mine
house of the dust and the webs that grow only upon WEEP, O Zion, that thou ever didst bear a son; who can shut
quiescence; and I prune the brambles about my garden. I the floodgates of our weeping, for the hand of the LORD
shall remove the shutters, and let the light in. Yea, the very hath revealed it?
fine scent of jasmine and mandrakes shall fill mine house. 2 The mouth of the LORD doth direct mine ears to the
5 I shall reset my table and replace my candlestick, and I sound: aKidron in the sunset doth moan with the weeping of
shall light the way by day and by night to all those of my women, weeping as if over their firstborn. Louder is the
kingdom, near and far, who shall come to do obeisance weep thereof then the cheer when they see Zion formed in
before the LORD of hosts. marble and gold, for we have seen the hand of the LORD,
6 I see thee now, O daughter of Zion. Dost thou come also and a guiltless wound is etched in our pupil. Hear ye the
in the way? Ah, thou art old and no longer comely. Thy beating of breasts, women beating their breasts in anguish at
whoredoms have aged thee; and when thou didst set thy their firstborn, and saying, Truly my name is Bitterness.
mind to knowledge, behold, it was vanity: strange ideas and 3 aAstonied looks give place, I say ye, give place to
evil eyes. anguish. How is a harden brow become melted! At the sight
7 I see now the report. The truth of it is before me. The of the bwounds we without wounds feel pain. All we have
LORD hath heard the rumor and confirmeth it. In the become guilty, yet He suffereth no voice to accuse; it is we
markets thy reproach causeth even thy money to be scorned. who with shamed face ask unto him, “Wherefore didst thou
8 See the merchants magnify themselves against thee, but do this in the company of thy children?”
thou holdest thy peace. Thy skin is too calloused, thine eyes 4 We esteemed Thee not, nor in Thy affliction did pity take
too heavy to care anymore. Thou art tired of thy wounds us companion. Our hearts spit forth murder, and yet Thou
bound with dirty linen, and tears dried upon thy dirty face. bledst; our imaginations imagined vain things, yet Thy soul
9 Are the cries of merchants so loud, saith the LORD, that was afflicted; even our sins overflowed, but Thou wast
my shout of pity cannot they hear? My words are deeds whipped. Thou afflictedst thyself, but they Thy bruises have
indeed, and my deeds are mercy. What is it to thee if thou become whiter than snow, but our bright spots are ugly and
must be merciful for a season if thou shalt come to me putrid. Our flesh is rotted, yet we have no wounds; our
forever and dwell in my garden of delight?

2 a a (now dry) brook on the east of Jerusalem

a
reference to… 3 a amazed: filled with the emotional impact.
4 a new testament reference… b
reference to Christ’s wounds

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bodies stink, yet we wash. Thou hast ascars, but art more CHAPTER 5
brilliant than the sun.
4 Is this the weeping of triumph, saith the LORD? Is this GIVE ear, O heavens, cast off your sullen eyelids, O stars.
the sound to greet a Hero? Weep not, O Zion; remove the pit Canst thou imagine greater glory to shake the Earth? Canst
from thy stomach. Rather, shout ye aloud! I say ye, “Blessed thou see a greater wonder? Hast thou seen a virgin restored,
is he who cometh in the name of the LORD.” Be thou or an old woman leap as unto a young Roe again?
refreshed in thy God, and be no more ignorant of his way. 2 If I awaken the nations from their vain ways would not
See thou now, and declare: “I see.” the Earth still slumber? Did they awound Me that I should
5 Behold, behold, I have declared and my word is good. I bear grudge? But I shall restore thee as a marvel, as a widow
live forever and my feet can tread down mountains as tender to the husband of her youth, that the heavens may sing at the
grapes in the harvest. I bury with mercy, yea, mercy is the mercy of God.
only earth I know for them that love me; and my breath can 3 The LORD shall approach and the train of his majesty
blow the dust off the deepest of graves, and my voice can shall flow out from his holy house. As a cascading stream
call and bring forth the bones, even dried bones. I shall bury shall it flow over Moriah, and in it shall be his children of all
thee under this earth, and I shall call thee forth with a mighty nations. No more shall they be called strangers who come to
shout. the LORD.
6 And it shall come to pass in that time, and at that 4 Nations shall come by tens and by twenties. Ten
moment, that ye shall call upon the name of the LORD, even thousands times ten thousands speak: Come, cast mercy as
upon his goodness, and the LORD shall hear you, and he the sand. Cast it to the wind, and it shall come back to thee
shall give goodness by an ephah worth an homer, a shekel as sand doth in a gale. Come, cast gold of no value, for the
shall be worth a talent, and it shall cause your hearts to burn, treasures of the LORD are as abundant as the wind, and who
even as ye pull out your hair in anguish over your souls and can measure it upon a scale to determine its portion? As a
the souls of your fathers. As a young woman waileth who mighty wind breathe upon us again, O LORD, and give us
hath just lost her firstborn at the time of his weaning, so shall again thy spirit. Unlock the floodgates of thy soul.
ye wail. Lift up thy wounds with thy cry, O Zion, and I shall 5 Gather ’round me, saith the LORD. I gather thee as a
stretch forth my hafnd, and I shall bring forgiveness. chick is gathered under the wing, and nestle thee to my
7 As I live, saith the LORD, I will not forebear. Thou shalt warm breast. If any harm shall come to thee, mine hand
look up and feel the alatter rain as before. As a wineskin that beareth the awound, for my right hand— it protecteth thee;
is sliced open shall I pour out my spirit upon Israel. Even as and my left hand, it comforteth thee. This shall be the
thou art overwhelmed at my graciousness, even more shall I piercing of thine heart, and thy scars shall be healed. Mine
overwhelm thee with my mercy, and thy sons and thy hand shall be a shield to any foe; and a wound of battle is
daughters shall come to me, and I shall polish their upon it that shall draw the beleaguered and warn thine
pockmarked hearts. enemies.
8 Then thou shalt acknowledge thy guilt; just that: 6 Rise up and shout, O house of Jacob, shout unto heaven
acknowledge thy guilt; and I shall silence thy accusers. Thou at the mercy of God, and in that day all the nations shall
shalt then worship at Zion with a joyful sound. Thy atimbrals marvel! And they shall worship from afar off and from near.
shall be merry, thy horn a rejoicing; and I shall hear thee. The LORD thy God hath spoken.
Then shalt thou tread my courts with joy and thou shalt 7 The army that destroyeth shall worship. They shall cast
dance the fine song of the maiden for the groom in the house off their weapons and pick up the aged and the infirmed and
of the LORD. bring them to the house of the LORD, and I shall heal them.
9 There thou shalt dwell and be happy, O Israel, and at its Mine house that is encompassed shall conquer. The armies
ramparts thou shalt look upon these stones of people and that laid waste shall stand in awe, and shall cast off their
thou shalt say, “Look at what the LORD hath built; even our idols.
God had mercy, for he hath forgiven us all our sins, even 8 In that day, as in aforetime, I shall make an end of Israel,
blotted out our unbelief, our great sin, and hath purged our Israel that scattereth, Israel that lieth, Israel that denieth the
souls. He bloweth our transgression from upon the book as way. Without siege and without pulley, without fire and
dust that shall no more return. He hath gathered us to the without the battling ram shall I make an end. They that were
fullest intent of his desire.” within the camp shall be left without, and Jacob shall
10 Desolation shall yield to fatness. It shall give fruit to possess the ramparts of his God.
abundance. Your withered souls shall swell and burst forth 9 But the house of Israel shall be the portion for dogs, and
like a sweet grape. Kings and angels have desired to see that the sword shall devour. All those of my people who call
moment, saith the LORD, and such a shout shall go forth in upon the Lord of their own imagining and know me not shall
heaven when the LORD bringeth it to pass. be as if they called upon aBuddhim and Allahim and Krishna
Baalim.
10 Thou art still the younger, O Jacob, my beloved. Thou
art a aspitz and esteemest thyself evil above thy fathers; but I

2 a refernce to Christ.
a
more references to Christ 5 a reference to wound in Christ’s hands
7 a Joel 2:23, Nabion X:X 6 a “im” is the Hebrew Masculine Plural. As in Elohim
8 a bell or drum (see also timbre) 10 a a stocky heavy-coated breed of dogs

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love thee. O Jacob, I have not forgotten thee. I shall give CHAPTER 7
thee that place; for your sakes I shall give it to you. I shall
give you the pleasant gardens. I shall give you a swept THUS saith the LORD, When have I spoken in the secret
house. place, or when have my words been unintelligible? My
11 In that day I shall pose a riddle, and thou shalt give me words are not the words of agroves nor the wisps of wind.
the answer. When was Jacob not Israel? When was the When have I whispered in the ear or carried my word as
younger divided into two, and the elder portion still served skulking gossip?
the younger? 2 Your fathers cannot teach you to hear me, nor train your
12 Jacob, O Jacob, thou shalt be my prince again. Thou tongue to speak my words. My words are not tattle nor the
shalt be Israel, and the elder shall be cast away and without rumor of strangers.
inheritance. 3 All these years I have not spoken unto thee, O Israel.
Hast thou not considered? Doth not even a dog whine when
his master’s voice is long absent?
4 Yet thou hast not considered the sum of thy ways and
CHAPTER 6 looked back to see thy footsteps outlined in blood. Thou hast
invented doctrines to cover thine inward parts like a skirt for
IN that day thou shalt see my vengeance on they who made shame, and vain statutes are the covering upon thine head
thy children few—on they who stopped the womb; upon that thou wilt not bear or confront. Thou makest excuses. As
they also who took thee from thy path to heathen aTels to a mantel they cover shame, for they cover the things of thine
teach thee their ways as mine, saying: “No more do the ways own imagining. Thy study is perverse. It is wisdom only to
of the LORD, for they are things which are old.” I shall lackeys. Thou makest excuses.
make their ways few, and their traditions shall be no more 5 Dost thou think it is mine iniquity that hath caused
remembered. Even I the LORD shall do this. silence? Nay, but if thou couldst thou wouldest hear the
2 For in that day the LORD shall make an end of the heavens resound with my praise. Thou wouldest run to and
nations [Gentiles], and their glory shall be utterly consumed. fro and not be comforted as a lover seeking her spouse if
Their congregations shall be called Impudent, and shall be a thou lovest me with all thine heart. If thou knewest how
place for the casting of dice, for the forum and for the great I am thou wouldest brag until the Earth would beat its
market; their heralds proclaiming the jig and the polka. ears.
3 And the LORD shall turn the captivity of the nations into 6 Thou hast not pined and longed for me, but inventedst
bitterness, and their sojourn shall be as dried timber, that the debaucheries to keep thy mind at ease. Thou sittest and art
remnant of mankind shall seek the LORD. He shall plunder idle all the day, inventing excuses.
the nations, and he shall leave them with gall. For all that 7 When for one day thine heart and tongue do not make
they have done he shall utterly devour and cast them off, excuse, then will I declare thou hast righteousness. If a lens
because of their enchanters, because of their prophets, their can be made powerful enough that I can see thy
vanities, and their lusts. Go to, ye nations! Be as primitives righteousness then will I say unto thee that thou needest me
adorning your bodies with costly jewels and elabourate not.
piercings! Your vanities only inflict upon you wounds, and 8 Who hath spoken unto thee in my name, lo, these many
they open up to infection and are a place for the gathering of generations, these thousands of autumns the leaves have
puss. fallen to the grave, and it hath come to pass or hath
4 Mount up ye who see and hear not, for the babblers are comforted thee?
brought to nought, and the dreamer of dreams is set on edge,
and the expounder of tradition hath confusion of face. None
have children from that point, and are as unto a dried atwig CHAPTER 8
that withereth, one that a wind taketh from the stump.
5 So shall the LORD do in that day upon the house of the JUDGMENT hath come upon you, O my people, yea, cruel
nations, upon the impudent congregations. Mount up, ye judgment hath come swiftly upon you like a stag and deadly
that see and hear not, mount up and be not afraid of what ye as unto a scorpion’s sting. Without warning and without a
see in that day. word from the LORD hath it come. Yet ye have not inclined
6 For the LORD shall rise up on aMount Moriah. He shall your hearts unto the LORD, to deliver you from the sore
exalt himself above the mountains and he shall fill in the travails— Nay, but ye have courted disaster. Ye have called
valleys. All they that come to him shall come on sure upon me, and I have not answered. Ye have sought
ground, and they shall see his glory. Bring thou down our deliverance, but your bodies have formed hillocks. Your
walls; let every fortification fall out that we may see thy dead ye have left by the wayside; the avenue of your sojourn
rising early. is littered with the corpses of your dispersion. The LORD’s
wrath hath burned furiously, but you have only hardened
your hearts lest ye should see. Ye look up only to see the
vultures. And because ye see something desiring you, ye
6 1 a "hill" or "mound" in Hebrew
4 a ref “neither root nor branch”
6 a mount where Isaac was nearly sacrificed & later where the Temple of
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think ye must be righteous and possessing something worth 3 Take and eat, for so do I end the famine that I have
extolling. brought upon Israel, as I swore unto aAmos that I should
2 It is not my silence, saith the LORD, that hath caused thy bring. Therefore speak unto this people, and say unto them,
foot to continue on the hard ground. Who speaketh to a Thus saith the LORD God of Israel: Run no more to and
stone, and how long shall one wait for an intelligent reply? fro, beloved daughter. Lift up thy downcast head, O my son.
3 Behold, your hearts are hard, the heart of this people is Be ye comforted, my people and all ye nations. All ye
waxed stupid. Your minds are defiled with your pride, and Gentiles that are called by my name, wedge your staff in
your hard conceit hath made you dumb to reason, and Zion and be not moved. He that lusteth after God hath found
rebelling to the words of the LORD. I shall make the the Most High.
presumptuous woman a blemish unto you; and he that 4 Let the evil be vanquished at my word, but let my people
maketh a word an offense to make men count their words rejoice and shout aloud.
before him, even he shall be an offense to me. Your hearts 5 Open thine ears, and hear the pleasant waters, for the
and minds are defiled with your idols, and an image of your LORD thy God doth direct thee again in thy ways, and my
fancy is as a totem burned into your pupil that ye may words shall give thee peace and they shall give thee life.
adulate it all the day. 6 (The burden of the word of the LORD which was given
4 This generation shall end before me, saith the LORD. unto John ben Kathryn)
This pride shall I no more tolerate upon the Earth; they and 7 And this shall be the burden of the word of the LORD
the farmers that have become your teachers, and they who which I give unto thee:
were at the plow that have become your elders; and their 8 Thus saith the LORD unto thee, I am the God of thy
vain jangling that hath become your law; even this shall be fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
the last of it. I shall sift them out as wheat. Not one shall fall of Jacob. Thy mother Kathryn is with me, and thy mother
upon the ground that it should take hold and bear the fruit of Messiah’s Light. They dance and rejoice with their mother
this generation. None shall live out their days that they may Sarah.
as a burden place it upon the sure and youthful foot to carry 9 I am the God of thy people. aIn flesh I did appear
it forward into their generation. amongst them, and from the womb did mine eyes see the
5 They are the forehead of a foolish body. I remember the travail. I looked about at the poverty of their soul and was
feet that were their fathers, in the day that I scattered them; amazed. My spirit was grieved within me. The wealth of
and, behold, ye are indeed the forehead and the princes the ages flowed out from me, but they preferred poverty of their
crown of an ignorant head. In my sore contempt I would not flesh. In drunkenness did they bwound me. In ignorance did
approach thee. Nor did I walk amongst the promenades of they call judgment down upon themselves and their children.
thy ruins in wait for someone to come upon me. But I left 10 I shall shake off their wine of ignorance, saith the
thee to thy ruins. Thou madest the scale of the righteous and LORD. I shall sober their hearts and fatten their lean souls
the wicked equal, in that thy foolishness saith “He punisheth on my mercy. I shall teach them to fast from the world, and I
the righteous. How else can we explain our travail?” Is it not shall set them up for a sign, and establish them as a far gate
meet that I should make the head fall? Is it not good that it in my kingdom, that the overflow may come to me; and the
should fall, such a foolish thing that doth not consider where world shall know that I am the LORD.
he who was an husband unto Israel hath gone? Who shall 11 Say thou not, O Zion, “I am forsaken,” and, “My Lord
ask, and who shall enquire?— but he in whom I have placed hath cast me off for the place of a wound.” I am the LORD.
my heart and he in whom my words do reside. BEING is my name. My name is etched deeper than any
wound, and for thee I bore it. For my great namesake I shall
gather thee at last. It is I the LORD that doth ever have thine
CHAPTER 9 image in my pupil, that declareth now unto thee.
12 Beforehand it cometh to pass, I reveal unto you. Before
AND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Hearken they should happen I tell you of them. Before ye shall hear, I
unto thy heart, and be attentive to thine ears, for I shall put speak. Before I gather Israel, I declare unto you that ye may
my heart into thy bosom, and place my will before thine consider and lay it to heart at the doings of God. Behold, I
eyes. Thou shalt call upon me and I shall hear thee, and I gather mine offspring from amongst the nations and set them
shall answer thee. Thy prayers for this people I shall put upon the path. Let not the nations say: “I never was,” and
upon thy lips, and the deep groanings I shall apply unto their that: “His hand is not fierce and his visage dreadful;” and of
hearts. Of all they who since old have fallen asleep thou the days that come, “They come by natural course.”
shalt call upon me, and thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD 13 They come by my mighty hand, saith the LORD, and
God; and it shall come to pass. For I do put my words in my voice precedeth them as a howling wind before storm.
thine heart and I wrap them around thine head; and thou For this purpose I raised thee up from thy mother’s womb. I
shalt enquire, Ah, LORD God; and I shall hear thee. brought thee out from a princeling among the Gentiles and
2 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, What restored thee unto thy people which thou knewest not. I took
seest thou? And I said, “A tree heavily laden with fruit, and thee from thy righteousness and showed thee thy sin. From
upon the fruit thine holy name.”

3 a Amos 8: 11
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foolishness to wisdom I led thee, for great is the day of the 7 Thus saith the LORD thy God, Come unto me as a child,
LORD that shall come, and great shall be the repentance and like an admirer in an accomplished man so boast of me.
before it. Begrudge me not, for my great glory is greater than man’s
14 For this reason raise I up my prophets so that none of and my ways worth shouting across the Universe. If thou
my doings shall come without mercy. For, behold, I give wilt admire a great man and be filled with privilege in the
warning first: I do not delight in destruction. company of famous people, how much more should not all
15 Faint not, nor look upon thine own sin. Why dishearten mankind seek the LORD who is beyond all things and
thyself at blackness? If I should raise thee up to be a prophet, created all things?
what is it to thee? It shall be my words that shall come to 8 Speak not what Israel wanteth to hear, nor be joined to
pass, not thine. any group, nor be led to any place, saying, It is the LORD’s
16 I know thy fears and thine infirmities, thy halting will. I shall not be enquired of concerning those things
speech. It is for my word that thou wast given these. It is I already said. I bandy not with men, nor am I tried by
who have afflicted thee since thy youth, and I shall afflict mankind. If Israel shall say unto thee, ‘Judge us,’ say NO. If
thee until I take thee; that thou mayest say, Thus saith the they say ‘Administer,’ say NEVER. For I have appointed
LORD God, and that thou may bear it; that thou mayest call thee a prophet, and I shall judge Israel, and I shall be their
upon me rightly, Ah LORD God, and that I should hear thee. ruler.
See the false prophets around thee; see them carried off in 9 But gird thou up and hold thy reigns within thee, and
their pride. Rejoice then at my affliction, for thou shalt say, prophecy unto this people and tell them, Set your hearts to
Thus saith the LORD the King, and it shall come to pass. turn; let the hearts of the sons turn to the fathers, so that they
17 See how the Gentiles glorify their prophets. But I have might understand how they have wandered, so that they turn.
made thee base that thou and Israel shall know that it is I the 10 Soften thy stony heart into flesh, O Israel, for flesh
LORD that doeth these things. cannot break, and there is none who can mend rock and
18 Tie thy tongue into a ribbon and bow if thou canst, yet make it sound again. A wounded heart I will heal; but a heart
when thou speakest Israel shall hear thee, for I shall now of stone shall shatter and crumble under my fist; and I shall
cause wonders upon the Earth. Even I, saith the LORD, shall scoop up the pieces and cast it to the heap; and it shall be a
bring my word to pass and I shall turn Israel. As I place my proverb that a hard heart hath no life and can only break, but
column in the sky to lead them, so shall I place it in their a heart of flesh I shall wound and I will heal.
hearts to lead them perpetually. 11 Set thine heart to be wounded, O foolish wandering
Israel, that I may heal, so that at my coming I shall afind
faith upon the Earth and shall not utterly destroy all mankind
CHAPTER 10 at my sight.
12 For, lo, I come suddenly, and my sword is in mine hand,
AND the word of the LORD moreover came unto me, and my justice set to heart; my threshingfloor prepared
saying: Seeing that I have made thee a prophet unto Israel, unannounced. Let my people prepare, let the nations cringe
take thou no disciples, lead no one off into a far place, and tremble, for the day of the LORD shall not be as they
separate not, bind not men with customs, take no money, imagine; and it is a day in which no grain shall be spared the
make no public display, shout thou not in the street, nor reaper’s eye, nor shall one be overlooked to find refuge; and
speak rashly in my name. it is a great and terrible day when all secrets of men’s hearts
2 But rather when thine heart burneth within thee, when it are purged by the hand of the living God.
hurteth and when tears choke thee, when thou art in passion 13 I play amongst the atoms, and from nothing I can create
of my nature and great name, then speak and write in my beauty. Who will not tremble at my presence?
name and I shall bring it to pass. Fear not, for it is I that 14 Yet am I as gentle as a father with my children. As
speak from thee. gentle as a hand stroking a lamb do I comfort my people. I
3 And this shall be a sign unto thee: I shall burn these shall make thy wool white with a touch, and I shall rest thine
words into the heart of Israel, and thou shalt know that I inward parts.
have spoken from thee. Be not lifted up, nor deceived, for I 15 Therefore thus say I the LORD unto thee, speak to this
shall do these things and my spirit shall move men. people Israel, for I turn the hearts unto the fathers. Turn ye
4 Take heed so that thou fearest not at my word, seeing that my day catch you not in shame. This shall be thy burden
how hard the heart of Israel hath been and how vain have I wherewith I burden thee.
let the customs of Jacob become. It is I who shall cause men 16 (And from this point forward no more did John ben
to turn, not thee. It is I who shall be praised, not thee. Kathryn struggle and wrestle at the word of the LORD, for
5 But when thou hatest thy people for their hard hearts and he did not wish to be a prophet).
despisest them for their ignorance, thou shalt not speak in
my name, nor in thine anger declare my vengeance. For v.12 Very Significant Verse. “Day of the Lord” or “Second Coming” shall
not be like mainstream Christianity believes (big shocker). “No grain will
words spoken at my glory are harsh enough, and even from a
be spared”, or no rapture or ‘protected people’, the Lord will divide the
steady note can no one stand before my wrath. wheat from the tares among ALL people, through disease, earthquake, etc.
6 Wages I give thee not; but thou shalt inherit of thy v13. Reference to the asinine debate of whether God created universe “out
portion as a child. Thy reward thou knowest: Thou shalt see of nothing”. However, since the modern (howbeit childish compared to
of these things come to pass.
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God’s) understanding of the relationship and convertibility of Energy and 2 Rise up, O ye inhabitants of Judah and ye dwellers of her
Matter, such an argument should be mute.
uttermost borders, and give the signal to the watchmen. The
LORD cometh with a mighty hand, and his fierce ax doth
CHAPTER 11 cleave mountains before him! But is it that ye see not also?
Howbeit none see?—only because your watchmen peek at
I SHALL now stand in awe with certainty, unto the LORD, points of light and ye dwellers of the land wait upon them.
for his goodness; his word is unrelenting; his honour Open up your panorama and see smoke over the mountains.
unreproachable; they are soothing psalms of edification, for It is not the smoke of fire but of dust, the dust of stampede.
his graciousness endureth forever. Beware, O ye nations, and Behold, they are not far mountains, O Judah. And the men of
ye gainsayers of foolish traditions: He shall restore his them ye know. But, lo, ye know not the LORD your God.
people with a mighty hand; he shall honour us as at the first The LORD sendeth them not a prophet to stir them up, but I
with his holy name. For his great namesake he shall prepare send ye my servant, for many winds shall be stirred, and the
the future as a fine confection. He shall shut the dust shall approach you from many lands, yea, and
presumptuous mouth and bring to nought the thoughts of the encompass your seed even in far lands.
self-serving. Our honour is the great name of the LORD, and 3 The LORD is wonderful in wisdom and comforting in his
his presence is our joy! He taketh away our reproach! counsel. And from his depth he doth declare his wise things.
2 Set it to heart to enquire. I shall seek from mine heart his Woe unto them who do not enquire, saith the LORD, and
words; and I shall not take them for granted. Let thy people woe unto those who do not consider the sum of their ways
humble themselves and enquire. Behold, the LORD hath not and the burden of history, who take away from what the
gone so far that he cannot hear, nor are his feet slow that he LORD hath done, and who add but a foot unto his path,
cannot deliver his people. Let our prayers go up before the either to lengthen it or to broaden it by their measure.
Holy One of Israel, and let them be acceptable. 4 The LORD shall turn the dust with his breath and make it
3 Who can bear the words of the LORD! Hearts are a smoke of fire upon mine enemies, to raise up Jacob to bear
hardened and fists beat against temples. For the day of the my name, to deliver the outcasts and gather the dispersed of
LORD is declared and his words break the forms of Ephraim Israel. What thou, O mighty Syria, adevisest in the culverts
and dash the carved stones of Israel, and rework the carved of Riyadh shall bring down Damascus and shake the
trunks of the nations! foundations of Mecca; and it shall be contemplated in
4 Plain words overthrow, declareth Ephraim. He searcheth Medina; and Alexandria shall bring down Cairo with it. Hear
to find a means of annulment. The letter is an idol for him the sound of the LORD’s quake! The LORD deviseth not in
but its meaning is an uncarved form to recarve a meaning, secret of his beloved, but hath drawn my banner in days of
that he might worship the works of his own mind. old.
5 Let us, saith Ephraim, go to and cast the prophets from 5 The LORD shall save thee that day, O Judah, by his open
our midst. Oh heavy burden! Get thee hence and prophesy counsel with the words he declareth here, as in the days of
not. When thou art perished we shall adorn thy tomb and thy Babylonian captivity. Ye shall no more fall back into
make merry over thy words. Is it not said amongst the your idols, O people, for, lo, the LORD raiseth me up again
people, “What the son wisheth to forget, the grandson by wise counsel; he setteth me in an anointed place. By
wisheth to remember”?— Thus hath Ephraim trusted in the hardness he delivereth thee, and in it shall be glory.
word of the LORD, but thus he recognizeth not the words 6 In this his resolution there is tender purpose. In his deep
when the LORD speaketh. things there is reason, a fuller’s soap, a trying with fire. It
6 Wherefore, thus saith the LORD, forasmuch as this is burneth forth not with eloquence, but it refineth the metal of
true, thou shalt be plundered, O Ephraim, for by a flea in the dross and it cleanseth the linen. For the LORD shall open
ear is a man driven mad. So shall the LORD’s words be unto again the mouth of the unlearned, and from the reason of the
this generation. They shall not be a shout, to cause one to illiterate will he speak again unto his people. He shall utter
jolt and dismiss, but they shall be a buzz and a tickle that his deep things from voices long stilled, and Jerusalem shall
shall not depart from thine ears or from the house of Israel. rejoice again as a barren widow who hath found joy in the
So do and, Lay on! Boldly on! Thy finger shall route thine son of her first husband.
ear until thou art a laughing stock, and the people walk from 7 Man’s trials are hard, but the LORD’s are cunning. The
thee. meek have upset the mighty, and the brazen have learned to
keep their mouth shut. O thou, little Judah, though thou be
small and as unto a remnant, halt and quivering, shall God’s
CHAPTER 12 salvation burn in thee, and as an ember it shall ignite and it
shall consume the world. In that day the Gentiles shall cast
BEHOLD, I see Ephraim upon the mountains and in the off their idols, and no more shall a graven image be found
watchtowers, yea, the very tall watchtowers. They have set amongst them. No more shall a hand fondle stone and
their code, and they signal therewith. Though they reflect the bronze, nor heart wait upon a stony eye. Apples shall not be
sun, their signal is set to their rhythm. Therefore the stillness an offering to brass, nor flowers to the artificer’s vanity. The
of the LORD’s doings they have not detected, and the
method of his purpose hath been marvelous unto them,
incomprehensible and without form. a
see http://www.rt.com/news/arab-payroll-syrian-rebels-559/ Saudi Arabia,
Turkey and the U.S. are secretly instigating instability within Syria by funding
rebels.

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stone altars of the heathen shall be barren, and their headlong torrent to the asea. He shall cast his wise things and
foundations shall be pits. They shall break up their idols, and the mantel of his prestige upon the waves and they shall no
decay shall grow over them; they shall no more be found. more come back to him, but they shall be swallowed by the
8 For, lo, O Israel, the LORD hath declared plainly unto deep.
me: I have so declared it this day: Thou hast seen 2 They shall take up this song: In days of glory did
generations of thy children, and thou seest thy prodigal Ephraim not hearken, and with mighty deeds did he not
return. No more shall they call you son. But this day I have remain content. The LORD worketh a work of substance,
called you father. I pronounce it clear that all may know that and he shall possess the heart of his people. Let Ephraim
b
I am come, and that it is I the LORD that dwelleth amongst fall back. Let the shallowness of the world go on. Those
them, and it is I the LORD that they behold. The LORD thy that see destruction be many, and those that delight in it be
Saviour hath spoken it. not a few; but blessed is he who raiseth his voice to proclaim
9 The LORD overturneth the shallowness of the world the LORD’s salvation. He shall draw the sword of the
forever. Thou art too great; this heart hath done too LORD’s glory and he shall command the mighty men of
wonderful a thing to draw to thy courts affectations, and for valour, and on the day of the LORD they who are humble
thy caravan to be that of flatterers; that the cloisters of thy shall be honoured. Yea, blessed is he who waiteth upon the
garden should be the promenade of gainsayers. Therefore I LORD, yea, blessed is he whom the LORD will not move
have decked thee with the array of the lowly, but I have from his place but goeth before to lead him as a young colt
made thy breath as a cool breeze in the desert heat; thy through rocky ground. Yea, he who seeketh the LORD in the
words as clear water to those that thirst. I say unto thee, thou stillness of his doings shall not be upset, and through the
art my breath. Greater art thou than wind, earthquake and great and terrible day of the LORD he shall rejoice in his
fire, wherein was not to be found mine intent; but from a soft salvation.
voice did I speak. 3 Yet though for a season doeth he wonders, it is by his
10 How shall a king know the heart of his servant, and how gentle silence that he shall try thy faith, O son of man, and it
shall he test his piety? A golden crown man will obey in is by this faith that thine heart’s blood shall be replaced. Let
action, but anon his heart grumbleth. With a rough cloak a man consider. Ponder ye the way and consider what hath
tried I man, and he that followeth doth not grumble. I was been laid in Zion. Try mankind as aforetime, saith the
not comely, and no man durst follow me by reason of gain. LORD, try them with my signs to set their faith.
Cast aside thy vestures of fine linen and thy golden jewels. 4 Come ye with this people, O Gentiles. Come, hear the
Let thy spirit burst forth at my passing. Follow me. Feel trees sing you a fine tune. Hear the calving of young with the
mine hand touch thee and awaken thy reason. sound of joy. Oh clap your hands, all ye mountains. Skip ye
11 Behold a wonder, O Israel and ye inhabitants of Judaea, the clouds with his thunderous glory. Come ye to the
a ripple hath gone forth from Zion as when a block is glorious works of the LORD!
dropped in water. My ripples are gentle and my block is soft, 5 Stumble not, O Ephraim, seek thou them not because thy
saith the LORD, yet they brought down multitudes and upset faith is unsound. Try and give unto him this word that he
many a course. Who shall believe, saith the LORD, and might see the ripples again, for I do quell [still/suppress] the
whose spirit shall be tempered? Let him trace the ripples. Is ocean that they might see the ripples again, lest my block be
it not easy? But stop and consider. Doth not a straight line placed in vain. My spirit doth go out in stillness. Cast thine
lead to the center from no matter where thou encounterest eyes upon a tempered sea and behold and but seek.
the ripple? Can a ripple come from a false angle? Trace it. 6 Pray, and I shall quell the ocean that there withholden
Even from the farthest ripple shall they be safely led. any tempests, and there shall be cno storms upon the sea 40
12 For this sake I set in Zion my block, and so I let my years; for thy faith, O Jacob; for thy rebuke, O Ephraim.
ripples silently to go forth. Ephraim was upset and 7 I am a poor servant indeed if I cannot recognize my
hearkened not. He traced not the ripples but rode out the master, and bring my head down lower than his. Yet I also
swells. Let him stop and there consider his God. Yea, our see my father. Therefore I shall not prostrate myself, but I
God is the only God. shall embrace he who saw not his children, and yet he hath
generations unto abundance. Let thy spirit gush forth, O
v.1 The high watchtowers likely allude to new York city. LORD, that our lusts for thy words may be filled. The Earth
v.2 The prophet is likely Ben Kathryn, but by him shall come religious
doth starve. We hunger and yearn, but we are not filled.
upheaval to go along with the coming war.
v.10 Allusion to Christ Ephraim’s cakes are apportioned unto us by mince. But thy
v.11 This block is a reoccurring theme and is a biblical ref? It alludes to words are as sweet as angel’s food. They fill my soul and
Israel and its prophet (Ben Kathyrn?) relax my joints. Let thine Holy Spirit go about mankind and
see that we are dumb. Feed us with thy salvation, O my God.
CHAPTER 13 Stretch forth thine hand and touch my lips. Feed us, feed us,
thou who art my maker, my guide and my beauty. In thy
HEAR a cry, a cry of toppling, O Judah. Ephraim is cast resolve there is life, and this life is evermore.
from the watchtower, for Ephraim saw but he could not say.
When too late he could only point to destruction but not to
whence cometh salvation. Deliverance is far from him, and a
Is it poaaible that this is a reference to catastrophic events (ie, sea level
its path to him is retreat. For the fear of the LORD in that change?).
b
In other words, be humbled or fall from his high prideful position.
day shall possess him, and he shall cast himself as a c
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v.1 The Rich Jewish leaders of America (Ephraim) will lose their power 12 O LORD, that we had hearkened unto thy prophets; that
over Israel and the global jewish community. They will reject the prophet
we had heard thy voice. But even now at the brink, as the
and refuse to acknowledge that he was the beginnings of all the coming
religious and civil upheaval. mouth of the deep doth yawn for our souls, thy wrath is of
v.3 He will work miracles (through his prophet?) for a season, but then will short duration; thy wonder as the fire from Horeb. Stir thou
come a 40 year period with none (v.6). At the end of this period of from thy place, O God, and guide us to our borders. Guide
probation (ref), the sand storm will hit.
us again, O LORD, for we have seen thy salvation.
v.6 “for thy faith O Jacob”, that is 40 yrs to “set [Jacob’s] faith”, but to
rebuke Ephraim’s faith (since they will completely deny the prophet). This 13 In that day, I shall hear thee, O my Jacob. I take the
will condemn them, and a just judgment will be given at the end of the 40 yr elder from thine head; and the maker of traditions as a babe
probation. that learneth of thee, even he shall be at thy feet.
14 I shall moreover chastise the Gentiles in that day, saith
the LORD. How long ere innocency come? saith the
CHAPTER 14 LORD— it cometh with each new generation. So come
again the days of thine innocency; to feign its destruction is
AND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: I shall vanity. It cometh from the womb, wherefrom there is no
yet do a wonder in Zion. Not since Horeb, they shall say, memory of what hath been.
hath the LORD caused us to tremble so. He bringeth us to 15 Behold, the days come when I shall cause to return the
the brink; by the mouth of the deep he causeth us to dwell. innocency of the nations, saith the LORD.
2 But the LORD seeth Jacob. We shall not be moved. Let
the unbelieving depart. Let them seek the mouth of the deep.
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mount up.
3 Let his banner be raised. Let it go forth before us. Let the BE not dismayed at the ways of the heathen and the signs
sharpness of his eye spare not our enemies. Let Egypt run to which their own minds conceive. For one leaneth his elbow
her borders first, for she came late of battle. Let Syria be upon the mantel and smoketh long on his pipe. There he
ashamed, and they that dwelt among us find excuse. expoundeth a new idea. He hath gravened another idol. It is
4 For our stony hearts did it come to this, for in our hard without form. It speaketh from his mind, “Lo, here I am,”
conceit did we regard the LORD as Buddhim and Baalim and he followeth wherever it listeth.
and Krishnim. 2 The nations come together and say: “Let us conspire to
5 Oh that we were not a people who did mischief! Oh that throw off the LORD, for so was his anointed created in the
we did not hearken unto the prophets of the nations and the days of our ancient.” Be not dismayed at their oracle, for it is
leaders of Israel, speaking peaceably. To every desire of our quicksilver and it cannot take form. It shall be poison to the
imagination do they say “thus saith the LORD.” mouth that speaketh; poison to the ear that receiveth.
6 But thou didst not speak peaceably, O LORD, for thou 3 Oh bemoan, wail and be undone, for the owner of all
dost not condone the vanity of man, nor singest thou the things draweth nigh, and the visage of the dreadful God is in
praises of flesh. We have no excuse, for we corrupt the love the heavens. He looketh upon his creation, and he crieth out
of God and make it usury. All the willful made it a in anguish: What have they formed that ye should treat your
stumbling block to the weak. minds as gods? for I see a land laid waste; and the whole
7 We would not hearken unto thee in thy forbearing. Thy earth, it is upside down. He who stoppeth the womb createth
goodness we greeted with a turn of our backs. not, but saith “Come not forth” to that which I have sewn
8 Our face was to those who did evil in thy sight, and we together. Behold, it was never spoken by my mouth, nor did
did not look away. In the name of love they justify it ever come into mine heart, that man should so stray and
fornication, adulteries and murders, envy, jealousy and that the righteous should say “It must be.”
greed. Whatsoever they desire to do, they call love; and if 4 Behold, there is none that abideth; there is not one who
one taketh unto himself from one must it be taken. remaineth constant. I have found me none: he who maketh
9 There is no man that layeth hold, freely given; but his sin righteousness and he who maketh his righteousness
covetousness is his god and envy his prophet. sin are altogether this people. He saith to his fellow: “Let us
10 It is because they delight in evil that they corrupt the go and move together unto a far place, unto the mountains or
ways of the LORD to prevent judgment. They delight in a wilderness haven, that we may dwell in sameness of mind
frowardness and audacity, and have a perverse lust for irony. and in purity.” He shall be cut off from my sight, saith the
They heed not thy laws that they may be reproved. They use LORD. Though he saith “Let us not be as the sinners in the
love to tip the scales against those who were defrauded. city, the children of the damned,” he shall be cut off, he and
11 We drank of their cup, and are not innocent. Yet for a his fellow.
little while will thine anger endure, O Holy One. Thou 5 He also who remaineth in the city, to walk as all others
pickest us up, and dustest off our knees. Set us on thy way, that therein walk, he shall be consumed. I make him as a
O LORD. We shall call that day JHWH RAH’AH, for God strand for the straw pile, and he shall be consumed. For the
hath shown us, and we trembled more at his mercy than at righteous that would not contend for his righteousness and
his wrath, for God hath shown himself on the field of battle he who preferreth mischief in the cities shall perish together;
and hath torn heaven asunder and shouted down his name, even he who was too holy and he who delighted in sin—they
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himself shall surely perish: both cause the land to languish them and they who in like manner thwart justice and who
under sin. mock reproof.
6 Therefore thus saith the LORD, I shall chastise the 17 Provocation is their wine, and whim is their judgment.
righteous and the sinners, and shall cause to lay desolate this Is he who stretched out the heavens and breathed life as
generation; I shall make vapid the cheeks that were once they? He who is wise counseleth for the better of his things.
swelled, for there is no speaker of justice; there is no person So am I the LORD, and so are all things mine.
mature in sobriety before me, nor circumspect in his ways. 18 What graven image so evened the scales and so ordered
The righteous walk as the sinners, and say, “We are too fairness as unto the LORD? Nay, they cannot, for they own
holy;” and the sinners as the righteous, saying, “There is no nothing. The world is not theirs, nor have they possession of
sin.” a speck of dust. The LORD breatheth and the meadow
7 Behold how great is the uneven weight they create, and flowereth; he sigheth and the forests clap their hands. Man
how great is the burden they have forged upon their own fashioneth thereof what he listeth, but the tree was made by
backs. Even in the great congregation I shall silence the the LORD.
delight: “The day of the LORD cometh.” Rejoice not in the 19 But your minds have carved vanity, and destruction is
day of the LORD that cometh, nor take ye comfort; for I your artificer’s tool. Your cities whittle the soul; your babes
shall consume the righteous and the wicked in that day. are buried in canning jars. All creation languisheth under
8 Oh that my heart should be set to malice and the earth your artificer’s tool; and under the hand that formed it and
trembleth not. Oh that I should roar like a bear and growl under the mind that brought it about.
like a lion and the earth slumbereth instead. 20 A sigh stirreth my soul. I have given righteousness as
9 I shall set mine heart to wrath soon, and as a blinding the air, that a man may breathe in and live, and that
fury I shall take vengeance upon the great congregation. The therewith breathing he should live. Doth death so delight
forger of weights and the caster of iron chains have thee, son of man, that thou breathest not? — and thou that
oppressed the way of the LORD long enough. Be silent, thou breathest, doth it begin with a sigh? beginneth it with a
and thy haughty jabber! Give ear to your own salvation, for filling of the lungs. Therefore give heed unto the LORD that
ye are without knowledge, and I come to utterly purge. thou mayest live; and living live to abundance. I have
10 Oh give ear indeed ye that have made my laws a burden, waited, and man turneth not. I have spared that man might
and my ways of no effect, saith the LORD. I speak not wrath not see my wrath; but he would not.
in vanity. I shall perform my words. 21 Truly, I have heard the words of the quiescent long
11 For, indeed, ye are an oppression to my soul. It is not enough. Though he moveth nought but his tongue, he doeth
oppression to stop the oppressor, nor tyranny to say no to the so only to justify those that lead to destruction. His arms
tyrant, saith the LORD. Behold, I declare you the tyrant and raise up only to stop those who speak the words of justice.
the oppressor, ye who will not hearken unto my words to Surely I shall put an end to his civilization.
perform them and my laws to do them.
12 But ye have set prophets to justify the way of young
lions. Yea, ye are young lions set to roam. Ye bring down a CHAPTER 16
young stag and gnaw upon him to the bone while one of you
standeth off and justifieth their rapine. DECLARE thou this word unto Israel, saith the LORD. The
13 The young lions’ ways embolden them, and cause them LORD of hosts causeth me to prophecy against the nations
to think themselves seers. But see the LORD’s wrath they do and against their prophets, for with thy turning I will loosen
not! Nor do any of their signs prophecy their own the teeth of the false prophets off of the nations, so that the
destruction. Shall lust and vanity see my ways, saith the remnant of mankind shall seek the LORD.
LORD? If thou seest not Horeb, shalt thou see Nebo? 2 Thus saith the LORD your God, Behold, as a pot over-
14 Think I shall not avenge? Makest thou me into a hard boiling, so have the nations put out their own fire. The words
heart, O man, because I take vengeance? Nay, thy ways are of their prophets are as the vapour from the fire. More doth
uneven, and I have seen the defrauded. the broth singe the flame, more doth the vapour rise. Yet as
15 Did I not smite the firstborn of Egypt because Egypt it hath no substance and quickly fadeth, so shall I now make
smote the firstborn of Israel? Makest thou me hard, O fool, the words of their false prophets to fail and their kingdom to
when I gave warning beforehand I should smite? Didst thou, fade.
O Egypt, give warning unto Israel? Nay, thy ways are 3 Even by reason of their own boiling is their time full,
uneven. The sons of flesh hate my reproof; but my ways are even full to the brim of blood, lasciviousness, greed, and
right, saith the LORD. uneven weights. Not for your sakes do I cut them off, but for
16 Therefore thus saith the LORD, I shall cut off the their great sins do I cut off their head and their tail, their
prophets from you, even the blemish from you when she grasping hands and loathsome tongue. The head is their
saith “That is hardly loving;” and the shaker of heads and the tradition, their grasping hands their congregations, their
roller of eyes; and they who glorify an action and condemn a tongue their preachers, and their deadly tail their lying
reaction; and he who magnifieth himself by study to prophets; and their feet, are these not their judges? supported
overturn my words shall no longer be a guide unto you. by the strong tail.
Surely, they who say “Wrath cometh not upon the Earth” 4 They are froward mouths and foolish minds; expecting
shall find that day an undoing, for it cometh not save for hands are their gestures of praise before me; he whose heart
is set upon the crotch is their speaker of philosophy:

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therefore their prophesyings are lies, and their glimpse of the
future blurred by their own lusts. For this also my face is
against their lying tongues, and my rebuke upon thee, CHAPTER 17
because thou hast made them thine ally against my covenant,
in that they say, “The blessing is in thy flesh, O Zion;” and SHOD the feet of Israel, saith the LORD. Remove the
that thou rebukest them not in error, saying instead, “If it is a bunions and support thou the arch. Sound a trumpet in Zion,
matter by which we may gain, it is well.” and march on, for the LORD of hosts is thy banner that day:
5 Think and consider, O foolish prophets and ye ignorant mine eye in the scope, like a lion on its prey.
who have established traditions as idols of the soul: What is 2 My servant Arie, the son of BenHezeron, is he not least
the lot of the village idiot? Though he be a fool, doth not among you? and I shall drive out mine enemies, and go
thine own foolishness cause thee to think thyself sound by before the host of Israel though their backs be to the beach.
comparison? Thou restest in an unwise comparison. My spirit shall come upon them, and they shall not faint.
6 Though he be not carried off into captivity, and of the Mount up and shout, O Israel: “Our God is in our midst! The
spoils of his own house doth no man brag of taking, no deal LORD of hosts goeth before us!”
braggeth he the greater portion of getting, yet by 3 Better is the residue than the sauce, saith the LORD.
comparison the fool causeth thee to rest assured that thou art Blessed be Jacob who waiteth for me, for he shall not be cut
wise. off from the land. But they shall trust in me, and wait upon
7 Yet it is thou who art plundered and led off, and it is thy the LORD. I wave away the vapour and bring the residue to
substance that shall be spoiled by a mighty hand. taste. And the remnant of mankind shall be the LORD’s.
8 Therefore hear ye now the LORD, O Israel, So have your 4 But he that preacheth “Behold the day of the LORD is at
traditions been until now, saith the LORD, and so too do the hand; he doth smite Israel for joy”— that day shall overtake
nations fool themselves. him and be a snare.
9 When my prophets spoke in the former days, rising early 5 For, see, the false prophet is brought to nought, and the
and declaring, O foolish Israel, thou saidst the prophecy was expounder of presumptions is unmasked. I cut off both in
for a long time off. When thou considerest them today, thou one day: He who would take by envy the promises which I
sayest the prophecy was for a long time ago. have given thee, and he who declareth it falsely as thy flesh.
10 Foolish people, hard eyes, hard minds! What I declared His hands move not over stones, and caress they not trunks,
unto you came to pass, and what I declare unto the nations but he fondleth your flesh, and ye are made idolatrous of
shall soon come to pass; and ye shall know that I am the things not of the LORD.
LORD. I shall call that day Astonishment, for so shall it be 6 Out of the nations we have heard a droning, and there is a
an astonishment to the nations the day I turn you unto me; constant drip in our ears: “The day of the LORD.” Why call
and that night shall be called Terror, for shall not the nations yourselves prophets, ye preachers, when ye have seen
be overwhelmed at the sight of it? nothing? Have ye not declared my day for generations, and
11 Consider the cedar: before the sapling can grow a young then hastened your feet to vanities and fleshpots? When a
tree; or the babe, before it can have hoary temples, so shall I man seeth smoke he doth declare: “Fire cometh.” But ye
bring my word to pass. have seen nothing. He who is within the smoke seeth not
12 Shall your teeth not be set on edge at the doing? saith thither it listeth. Only after it lifteth ye see the pattern of
the LORD. Yea, they shall be set on edge, every one of you. char, and ye do declare the doings of the LORD: “Ah,
And your eyes, even they shall be set longingly to your lament.”
coasts. In that day ye shall know that the nations prophesied 7 O ye envious! What can you see if ye are not the center
unto you a lie. Your nakedness shall be revealed, and ye of the matter? Ye are in the smoke, ye false of the nations
shall know that the prophets of the nations were gainsayers and ye foolish of Judah, ye blind of Ephraim. The fire
and flatterers. scorcheth toward you. If you saw the day of the LORD was
13 Thus saith the LORD; A voice is heard from aAchor; a at hand, O foolish prophets, then why did ye not repent? If
wailing and the weeping of shame. Out of the valley stirreth ye saw its approach, why did ye also not see your
the voice of ashes; soot is the breath from their mouth. The destruction?
nations lament, and the great congregation is covered in 8 Behold, the day is at hand, saith the LORD, wherein I
shame, for I have made the nakedness of the prophets of the shall punish the nations wherein ye sojourn, wherein all do
nations an abhorrence. I shall strip them of their apparel, and only that which is right in their own hearts, for as an old
ye shall burn it, O ye valiant of Judah, upon the autumn leaven they make sour the whole lump. Therefore I shall
heap. Great shall be the conflagration in the Valley of purge them to save the dough, that it no more be puffed with
Achor; and he shall fill in the valley with their remnant and bitterness and be sour to the taste.
with the heaps of their ashes, that no more shall ye suffer 9 For the prophets’ eyes are continuously upon the young
trouble of the nations. Great shall be the day of Achor, for I lions; they look not away in distaste, but are those who
shall cause thee to fly on eagle’s wings over the valley to thy encourage the assembly of bloody cubs. They are an
borders. abomination to me, and the prophets prophecy unto them a
lie in their midst.
10 Their tongues are set to a recital. Vain repetition is the
a
The place where Joshua & Israel stoned Achon and his family for stealing tempo of their justification. Hear ye the words of your fate.
forbidden loot during the conquest of Canaan. The action caused Israel to be
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until they are utterly consumed. For thus hath the LORD AND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, A head
said: I have seen each man walk in his own imagination, and hath no power, nor can a tail survive on its own; and feet and
I will fill your empty minds with judgment. Inclusion I shall hands require legs and arms; and all are tied by sinews unto
make exclusion, and ye shall not come before the LORD. a body, and without a body none have any power. This is the
Your inclusion shall bring into your windows the inclusion nations, for it is not enough that cHazor is corrupt, and
of my judgment upon you; and as straw cannot make a nest corrupteth; she thinketh all should be dGerizim, false
for fire so can your prophecyings not buffer my wrath. practices quaint and no more; and she longeth for Jerusalem,
11 Behold, out of the windows in which ye have crept, that she may make all as Gerizim, that bastard of eShechem,
there is the sound of wailing; lamentation proceedeth where to whom she hath made betrothal. She hath by Bethel’s
once there was rejoicing. The maidens have become harlots, conquest emboldened herself, and she magnifieth her
they who once rejoiced are now soiled because the false emissaries as prophets to willingly sing a song of happiness,
prophet is exposed. an ode of justification, at their lewdness.
12 Make well your howlings, ye that are now the leavings 2 And the word of the LORD moreover declared unto me,
of whoredoms. The day of the LORD hath multiplied your Unto what shall I liken the prophets that come from Hazor of
moanings, O ye whorish congregation! Proclaim it not from the Gentiles, and unto what is the spirit of them unto whom
your solemn assemblies. For ye cannot see what is before they are sent at Jerusalem? For thus saith the LORD, The
your nose, and a matter too big is rendered invisible to those prophets of these times are like drunks staggering down a
close at hand. canyon road, proclaiming your own nonsense. Their words
13 For in that day not one prophet shall declare his echo back to them. From your own stony hearts gladly echo
soundness, and instead of “The day of the LORD is at hand,” back their foolishness in the Valley of Deception, nigh your
they shall moan; and instead of joy they shall wear land. Ye join the throng and cast ye flowers at their parade,
sackcloth. For they have proclaimed rejoicing at their and they enter the gates of your strong cities by treaty. If ye
whoredoms, gladness at their sin, and greeted judgment with would enquire of me, would ye have so enjoined them at the
mirth. For all that they desire they have declared “a gate? Ye enquire not of the LORD your God because ye are
blessing,” and I have not spoken it. They have mingled my ignorant of my law, but knowing my law ye enquire not, for
words with gall, and they have set sheep to graze ye know I would disallow, O ye foolish prophets and they
continually. They have covered their wool as dew, it is a full that set you to prophecy a desirable thing.
mantle, and the weight thereof a burden that causeth them to 3 Ye seek the attention of men; it is a sweet nectar to have
languish, even unto death. For this I cut off the shepherds praise without substance; preeminence at any cost. But of
and the prophets, and I shear the sheep, for ye are more than whom should ye have taken counsel, my people? but of him
sheep, and your sin is the sin of man. who careth not for what people think, but in whose heart is
14 Take up weeping at the sight of it, make great the equity because his heart is set upon the LORD.
wailings from your shores, for I shall avenge myself on you, 4 Shall I be fickle and speak not to you this day? Come
saith the LORD, with a great slaughter that they which come again, not today. Come another time and I shall perchance
hither for generations shall fear the LORD, that they sin not; speak a word to you. Nay, but the day of the LORD is a
even as the sin of the blemish who declared lust in my name, terrible day. I speak to you a word. I whisper not at your
and they who set my words on fire by study to make a torch whoredoms.
of their own light. Their carcasses shall line the way to aFish 5 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, That day I
Gate and to bDung Gate; those that mock the LORD’s shall make it a day of rebuke. I shall cause the Gentiles to
doings shall be heaps, and a byword. know their abominations, for their prophets speak but what
15 And in that day Jacob the younger shall take the the congregations want to hear. As a dart that whistleth forth
birthright again, and Israel shall serve Judah: the first the shall always find a target, so a mouth that speaketh
last, the greater the lesser, the larger the smaller. The LORD deceitfully shall always find an ear that delighteth in deceit.
of hosts hath spoken. 6 The mouth hath no power, as a dart hath no sting, save it
16 Tribulation shall be a snake, upheaval an adder, but find its mark. A tongue shall not wag unless there be an ear
Jacob shall vanquish them to their holes. I will make the waiting for it like a quiver waiting for an evil dart to return
nations as multitudes that follow but a small ensign— the from its victim, dripping with innocent blood. The ear is an
greater, the lesser. And I shall settle them in the land of open sheath, and the heart is its bottom wherein resteth the
Benjamin, as multitudes settle after a weary journey in edge.
fertile land. The LORD Hosanna shall cut off the serpent
from the land, and shall bring an end to the desolation, and c
Hazor was the head of the Canaanite Legue which combined to fight Israel in
no more shall my holy mount be trodden down of the Joshua 11. It was a major threat to Ephraim and was miraculously defeated by
Joshua, then plundered, destroyed, and burned.
nations. It is also the location where Absalom carried out his plot to avenge the rape of
his sister Tamar by murdering the perpetrator, Amnon (both Absalom & Amnon
were sons of king David)
d
Gerizim was the Samaritans false ‘Mount Zion’. They taught that this was the
CHAPTER 18 true location Abraham offered Issac.
e
Shechem was the Samaritan capital that Jeroboam (the Ephraimite) made
into the "New Jerusalem" after breaking away from David's kingdom
(Rehoboam of Judah). Located between between Mt. Ebal and Mt. Gerizim.
(see 1 Kings 12:25).
a
On north-west section of Nehemiah’s city walls It was also the location Jacob built an alter to commemorate God saving him
b
Still existant. On southmost section of Old city walls. from Esau. He buried his household’s pegan idols there to purify himself.

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 7 Prophecy thou unto the whoredoms of the nations, unto shall rot and fall to pieces because you do nothing in the
a
Hazor yonder nigh Lebanon, against those who also say the name of the LORD without bean counting.
LORD spoke of times long ago, and for today he speaketh of 13 Ah vain revelers! Your places of forgathering are not
wrath long to come. holy places but a den of merchants and the bazaar of players.
8 Speak unto them, Thus saith the LORD God: I have But thus saith the LORD, If I cause to open the mouth,
purposed your overthrow. I have thought it, and I will wisdom proceedeth; and of the heart, godliness as an
execute it with craft. Jerusalem shall not die from your dart, ointment and balm of relief. Where is found secret words,
and I shall resurrect bBethel by my breath on Jerusalem. for the works of the LORD cannot be hid, and his glory
From the desert cometh my breath, through the dry winds of cannot be shut up? He doth not require initiations. He doth
the Negev. In vain spoke I not from the wilderness wherein not babble, and burblers do not speak his words.
Horeb dwelleth, and therefore thou Canaanitish wench hast 14 What have your babblers seen? Declare ye unto me, for
no excuse because thou art of the nations. From the desert I the LORD demandeth of you? Thus saith the LORD, Hazor
bring my prophets, from the nations my people. If man putteth off my name, and each man and woman hath dreams
should speak and write vanities in my name, should I raise and seeth visions on her Tel, but Israel seeth none nor
up prophets proclaiming so? Yet there were no prophets dreameth dreams. Labour in Jezreel beckoneth, and mounts
raised up justifying a wayward people. Why should I raise are a dreamy place. Moreh is barren, Tabor is high, and
them up now? Carmel is wicked as unto Hazor. Envy not the mounts, nor
9 Wear the frock of humbling, for I bring sore chastisement tend to Jezreel when the LORD is nigh. Beseech ye the
upon ye of Jerusalem. Wear widowhood in betrothal, for I LORD in Jezreel, even his compassion unto Sharon. Come
smite Hazor, for this your lover was a Canaanite; and ye to the river, come ye to the cool of the brook, for my
espoused have a storyteller for a father-in-law. The marriage compassion is not far from you, and a strenuous pilgrimage
shall not be consummated, for Hazor went back to her shall not endear you. I have not spoken from the mounts, nor
ancient ways, and for her whoredoms I have sent her back. appeared to any there in dreams. Behold the revelry on the
10 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O ye of Jerusalem, long mounts; how their faces open in sighs of ecstasy as if from a
not for Hazor. Come ye forward; be ye circumcised in heart fine wine, and yet their prophets do not pour out my wine.
before the LORD your God, where there dwelleth and They are not drunk on my ways, saith the LORD. They
abideth splendours forevermore, where the LORD is your delight in their feelings; their imagination hath made them
ruler and your judge of mercy. dumb to reason. Each one feeleth special, though even
11 But without there is no man innocent before me by 15 But hear ye the clear word of the LORD, the word
reason of the error of those who rule over them. Each one against the nations and their assemblies, their Tels and
delighteth in deceit and the perverting of judgment, in that encampments on the plains: You have become detestable
ye judge by defense and not by action. He that followeth things in my sight, empty vessels with hands reaching about
seeing the footsteps outlined in blood is as guilty, saith the perchance to grab a spirit. Wherefore? Shall ye make the
LORD. Behold, this is the nations before me, saith the LORD as something for to shove within your purses that ye
LORD, and they in Jerusalem who espoused themselves by may keep him as a Djinn? Behold, your ignorance is
heart and practice. But I shall not send ye back Hazor way, offensive. Ye caress idols of your mind, and your hand
for it is from there that I took you and brought ye on to this moveth about to adore idols without forms.
time. My compassion burned for you. I dressed you in silks 16 Long enough, saith the LORD. Indeed, yea, long enough
of many colours, combed your hair and made it radiant, and hath mine holy things been scattered in the nations. I shall
decked you with many splendours, until Hazor desired you restore them to Judah, even my name. At the casting forth
in the plain of her assemblies and petitioned you from the with a mighty shout of Saviour, that is my name, the LORD
Tel of her power. Ye shall not depart from me; the of hosts, I shall make Jerusalem a crown and its inhabitants
wilderness is a poor place for the brightness of silk, and the my heralds again. In that day Rome shall be a widow, and
splendours of my side shall make you remain. No man shall she shall call her children bastards. They shall praise my
plead his prince as justification. I shall judge the empty soul name and bow down to idols, and their hands shall work for
by its emptiness, and another Ishmael.
12 Go not to that place, to her ancient stones and the 17 But I say unto thee, O Judah of my beloved, I say
carvings of predatory eyes. There is no deed done by mercy, Restore. I place this in thy mouth, and at the saying of this I
neither a heart stirreth by pity; but gain is always before their make thee a mark of offense, a point of chiding and derision
eyes. Have I not listened all the day long to selfish unto the nations. I make thee a teething bone upon which
gainsaying and love of reward? Those that say “a jewel in they shall gnaw. Say not “I knew it!” I make thee of brass.
my crown” by whatsoever act he doeth in mercy shall not Thou shalt not be delivered up unto the Gentiles. But
get one. I shall cause your crown to tarnish your head. It because these words shall make thee a hissing, I shall chiss
unto them. I whistle for the raven and not for the roosting
bird; and my word shall be carried on the wings of
contention, so that all Israel shall hear them.
a
Hazor being the biblical head of a Canaanite league next to Ephraim
becomes a symbol in this chapter for the Gentiles in league with modern
Ephraim (a dualistic term referring both to Western Christianity and modern
Syria/Islam and the events to take place there)
b
Bethel became one of Ephraim’s capitols. Pointing to the idea that the c
Isa 5:26 “he will lift up an ensign… and wil hiss unto them from the ends of
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 18 Thus saith the LORD, In that day I shall break the place of shadows than an highway of blood— until the
betrothal of aHazor to Gerizim, that no more the things of the LORD raiseth up his salvation, that he who is delivered of
heathen mix with the storytellers, and no more shall they be the children of Israel shall know it is I the LORD who hath
called the ways of the LORD. delivered him.
19 Take up this parable, my prophet, and prophecy thou 26 Then smite the dam and the stones shall crack, that a
against Hazor yonder Galilee, against the ancient stones of flood may be prepared. Strike the base and the water shall
her meeting places that she hath dug up, this oracle: flow. Shake the ends thereof and the flood shall gush forth.
20 She who calleth herself my bride hath bidden you, O When it becometh a trickle shall the dam be easy to rebuild,
foolish prophets, as vulgar minstrels and impish players. She even with flimsy stone shall it be built and then reinforced;
setteth you to play at her banquets. Ah, it is a sight! Thou that they that come not forth at the word of the LORD may
hast a low flame, O Bride, for fear it will set thy fat on fire be snared by precepts, fall back and not be delivered. (These
like a torch. are the mighty oracles against Hazor of the Canaanites, and
21 Thou art vulgar, O Bride, and these thy minstrels are against the wisdom of her ancient stones, her prophets and
louts. The place I made glorious in the latter times thou hast allies)
polluted with thine ancient stones. Thou carvest even now
thine own idols with thy tongue, and with foolishness
anointest thine own prophets. Thine idols are lewd, and their CHAPTER 19
b
votaries— Ah, my, are they a homely lot! They scare
varnish from wood! They bring revelers, effeminate men, WOE unto the rebelling nations, and woe to the horde of
c
homosexuals, perverts and strange minstrels. They live off mischief makers, who say “It is” and therein is found the
my wealth and mock me because I am patient. I leave thee to will of God, and a blessing to be ordained; the purpose of
thy lovers, perchance they shall abide thy contentions and whose council is to overturn the word of the LORD; who
find musings in them. make themselves the center and by their own council mold
22 How hast thou become an harlot! How have thy children the LORD’s doings to justify their set ways.
committed abominations! They go not into the secret 2 Lo, the nations imagine a vain thing; their mind is in
chambers to commit their iniquities, but with a mighty league with deception. Each man formeth me in their own
beckon bring out their champions of lewdness. They dance image, and if I were to send them a prophet they would not
with rioters and cavort with revelers. How I delight in the hearken. Not with stones form they my image, but with their
sound of children playing in the streets, but they have vain minds and self-seeking spirits form they my image.
brought out filth and trample them therewith. Better they made a dumb idol than pollute my ways, saith
23 Am I not as a mother unto Israel? saith the LORD. Shall the LORD. For an idol hath no power of itself to teach any
I not run and pick up the children and spare them from the man its dumb ways nor enlighten a suppliant with its
trampling feet? Am I not a father unto the nations? saith the ignorance. The ignorant seeketh an idol and remaineth in his
LORD. Shall I enquire whose child is in the path of the first estate, but a fool seeketh the counsel of the foolish and
chariot wheels before I rescue? Behold, I save first before I is made like unto his foolish image.
turn over the chariot’s wheel. When the children are safe, I 3 Vanity is deceit itself, above all deceptions wherein the
plan a trap for the trampling of the horse and for the sons of flesh deceive themselves. And I the LORD regard no
chariot’s wheel, and the driver shall be upset in the snare. one more foolish than they who fear not at my word. Is not
24 And this shall be the snare thereof: I give you this, at the an idol worshiper and him that revereth a carved trunk less
hand of the LORD: Israel is too small for my works, and foolish than they who take my name upon their lips and do
mine hand is too broad. I will draw with a sweep of my not my ways? who declare I live and then declare I speak not
mighty arm the treasures of the Gentiles, and they shall clearly, and that I have not made the heart in mine own
come unto me, saith the LORD that doeth this, even the image?
Mighty One of Israel. Ye shall weep in your poverty on that 4 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Is not
day, saith the LORD, ye congregations of foolishness. the melting of snow a slow and steady process? In like
25 Thus saith the LORD; An end hath come, an end of the manner shall such be overthrown. Destruction shall come
nations. Now smite the arch, saith the LORD, until it upon them, by my hand shall it come, and who can save
collapse, that the steeple fall, and make great the rubble them in that day? Yet by grace it is thought, and by mercy it
thereof over the street in which the revelers have defiled my is written: Only they who call upon the LORD shall escape.
holy name, that no more traffic shall be heard therein, nor 5 When indeed have the nations sought me, saith the
the sound of children playing. Better a ruin than a snare; a LORD, and who in my far journey hath taken hold of me by
the hand that he should lead me in his ways? Doth not a
shepherd take his sheep to seasonal grass, and when the
a
Hazor was a cannanite city, and Gerizim was Ephraim’s false “new season turneth yet again doth he not take them to the old
Jerusalem”—a symbol of the league between the Heathen nations and the
gentile Christian/muslim churches. pastures and the old cotes to graze? Behold as the sheep
b
a person, such as a monk or nun, who has made vows of dedication to graze he mendeth the cotes and then leadeth them into
religious service.
c
Note that there is nothing to suggest that any of these groups of modern
safety. Or seeing a fire come to the seasonal grass, will he
votaries (nuns or munks), revelers, effeminates, homosexuals, etc, are not hasten, especially when seeing that the old grass groweth
unworthy of love and respect. But the implication does appear to be that these ready?
behaviors are less desirable in the creation of a strong and wealthy “bride”
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 6 Therefore thus prophecy thou unto thy brethren, the 2 And it shall come to pass in that day that they shall long
children of Israel, So am I a shepherd unto Israel, saith the to see me, and their hearts shall be turned to crave me. Yet
LORD, and so shall I do. Follow my paths and come to my for all that I will not end the days of man upon the Earth, but
sheepcote, for my shepherds have gathered speckled sheep. I will stretch it to the uttermost that life may come from my
But I will not mix ye, saith the LORD. I shall asack my side until the time of my desire. And if they should turn to
shepherds and scatter their speckled beasts. And from my no longer desire my face, I shall still not end the days of man
pure sheep I shall raise me up aseven shepherds. For from upon the Earth for vengeance sake. But the dreadful day of
sheep born of another pasture, of the seasonal grounds, shall the LORD shall come at my choosing.
I speak unto this people and lead my people back, counsel 3 Speak unto them, saying: For all this the nations have
them, govern them, and restore them to the old cotes. sought and not sought, and neither hath its desire added one
7 My name shall be carried back as the holy things of old, pim unto the congregations nor have they prevented the evils
and upon my people, my chosen generation, shall it reside. of mankind therewith. Therefore prophecy thou unto the
From the islands afar off shall they return, from bTartessos, nations this oracle:
Gog, cAshkanaz, and America. Britain shall give forth; 4 Thus saith the LORD: Prepare for a day of jealousy, for
d
Sepharad shall stretch forth its hands and carry my people. the Bride’s children are as their mother, and a proverb of
e
Kittim shall boast and rejoice, and shall fill my courts. ignorance. There is not light in the nations. Behold a smoke,
Ishmael shall come by caravans and shall deck thee, O a blue smoke, thin and curling upward. Thy children kindled
Judah, with the wealth of the East. fCathay shall come with a fire. A fire is kindled in the nations. The smoke shall be a
aloes and ointments, and whithersoever the nations furnace and the fat of the Bride shall be its fuel.
encounter thee, my beloved of Judah, my chosen of Israel, 5 But there is in Judah a sound. Hear one and all the sound,
shall they carry you, and ye shall all rejoice in the LORD. a sound is in gDan and Naphtali, the sound of bells tinkling
8 And the word of the LORD moreover came unto me, over the deep. Zebulon heareth them. Joppa doth ring. Acre
saying: And in that day this parable shall guide them: I came rejoiceth and all the seacoasts there between. Gaza is glad
to my cote and, behold, my shepherd was gone and my again. Jerusalem weareth bells of gold, and the soft breeze
sheep unattended. And I was wroth with my shepherd and I sendeth the sound thereof over the mountains. “What fire?”
sought him on the high and rocky hills. There I met him, in a say we. We see the fire of the LORD. He hath restored our
place between the tight rocks, in his arms a strange lamb. glory and made himself our refuge.
And I chode with him. Why hast thou left, seeing there were 6 Therefore thus saith the LORD God unto the nations:
no sheep missing? And he said: “I went forth to seek, Consider Judah, and dismiss not the mercy of the LORD. I
perchance any stranger had happed into thy domain. And, have moated thee and made thee a keep, O Judah, and
behold, I have found one, lame, this one in mine arms, who Bethlehem a parapet and a tower of rejoicing. hBethel and
could not pass through thy land. And I have brought her, Shiloh are places of congregation and praise. But iSamaria I
even as a little ewe lamb.” make a place of warning, a warning unto the nations. I write
9 A son speaketh unto me. This is the voice of him that it on the hills so all they who pilgrim from the nations can
loveth me. Surely thou hast done well, my shepherd; for so see it afar.
shall I take of the strangers’ lambs, and so is a diligent 7 For I have set my name amongst you again, and ye walk
shepherd before me. the paths of Judah and Israel with my sandals. Lo, I have
returned unto my people and ye have returned unto the
LORD your God, and his Holy One. The young men are
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finest silks, and the locks of their hair are intertwined with
The Lord sends destruction on Israel, they will not see it flowers. The ancient is honourable again, and no man
coming because their watchmen look in the wrong place. regardeth small matters or turneth he aside another for a
trifle.
THUS saith the LORD God; And it shall come to pass in the 8 Sound an alarm of lovingkindness unto the nations, that
days after the fullness of the nations hath come in, that they they look upon thee. See that it goeth forth as a mighty
will no more say: “Last days;” and no more shall it be heard. trumpet. For, behold, how the LORD loveth the Gentiles,
But they who walk in my paths shall be gird with a pap of that he should call them forth. And in that day ye dwell
iron, and my words shall be written thereon. Upon my word safely they shall forget their philosophies, even the
shall they engrave “sandal,” and they shall say of my name: Samaritans their stiff neck; and vain knowledge and false
“Mine identify and mine honour.” tels, the congregations their divisions and contentions; and
the Samaritan his solitary isolation. I shall heal thus: humble
yourselves and enquire of me, saith the LORD God of Israel,
a
See Zach 11:16. Sack the “worthless shepherd”. See also Ezek 34:9-14 the
Lord will gather his sheep.
a
See Micah 5:5 & whole chapter (“seven shepherds and eight principle men”).
Also BOBK 22:1 Also. Nabion 9:11; God to call 7 prophets and mighty men
b
Ancient region of sothern Spain. g
Dan & Nephtail are Bilhah’s only children (Reachel’s Handmain)
c h
Gomer or Germanic & Slavic lands. (medieval Hebrew term for germany). Major religious centers of Ephraim (as opposed to Jerusalem and Bethlehem
d
Likely France. (identified with the Iberian Peninsula) which were centers of Judah). Suggesting the restoration of the kingdom of
e
T.O.N. Son of Javan (Japheth). Often identified with Cyprus or perhaps Ephraim as well as Judah.
i
Anatolia. Samaria (north of Shechem and Shiloah), is a symbol or the Samaritans who
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and I shall hear you, and I will lead you to my compassion, aside caravans into the market square. A new thing the
for I the LORD have spoken this. LORD doeth not to get the attention of the crowd.
9 Consider ye not tribulation, nor thirst for judgment lest ye 15 What use is there in speaking to man? His ways are set.
be snared and overtaken. He who seeth destruction the His path leadeth to destruction. Upon a horse, with a
clearest shouteth the loudest of salvation. Redemption do I switchback, doth he set the gallop to his end. Take ye heed,
bring, a correction and a sore reproof that no more they that O ye of Samaria, and hearken unto this oracle: ye shall not
dwell upon the Earth shall call me by the moon, or by the go down to aMegiddo. Nor shall the LORD overturn you
winds, or say I am the power in the sun or in the river. All with a mighty battle. You set the tempo to your end, and it
shall say, We know he is the LORD. For I the LORD am cometh as a snare in an unexpected place, without honour
One; I had no rising. I have no setting. I am. There is no and without chance to draw the sword.
force but my will. 16 Look off to the north, ye caravaneers of Heshbon. Set up
10 (The oracle against the vanities of aHeshbon, whose camp. Raise your pulpit and set it to the north. The Assyrian
watchmen’s eyes are always upon bAmmon.) The desolate watcheth from the heights as a predator. The Palestinian
places of Moab and Ammon make ye to see every whirlwind lurketh in the clefts. Judgment cometh from behind you and
and every wisp of dust, O ye watchmen of Heshbon. Ye not from the desolate realm. They have passed Jordan before
dwell too nigh desolation, and your face is set to it daily, and you, because your eyes were laggard on the camp of your
your brow squinteth to mark an undoing. Your ways are neighbour, upon the desolate places. They are within your
contaminated with theirs, and emptiness prompteth your camp, and ye are cut off first.
visions. cShittim is bored with your words, and letteth her 17 (The oracle for an end of time) Thus saith the LORD
gates lie idle at night; the passes to Jordan are unguarded. unto the nations: An end, an end cometh. The time hath
Though dNebo is close, ye mount not and look not yonder to returned. Now hath the time of your hebdomads come to
promise. fruition before me. Say not, From whence cometh
11 Tribulation, great tribulation— my soul is in tribulation destruction?— ye are within the seething pot. Your
at the bleat of their words. I cannot bear them. Last days, last congregations saw false visions in the desert sand, and your
days are a mockery. I don’t wish to hear them. Your days house is laid desolate. Your retreat is also stalked. I set ye
have been long. Full of days hast thou been, O Heshbon. now to the time of your probation. Hear ye the word of the
Ammon still remaineth, and Moab’s wastes are still not arid. LORD: My mercy setteth ye a time. Shout it aloud, and from
Have ye been removed except by judgment so that another the rooftops let this message go forth! Get ye to repentance!
may take your place in an arid time to come? So shall thy Cast off your ways, O foolish people, and harden not your
preaching foretell thine own removal. Thy days have been as hearts. Put aside your uncleanness, your vanities, and your
full as the former days, prosperous Heshbon. Whose last cold self-seeking hearts, and I shall lead you yonder Jordan
days do thy seers see? Say no more “last day,” but come where dwelleth aSharon’s fertile plain and bJezreel’s
unto the LORD, the Great God, the God of the horn of cultivated fields.
Judah, the Redeemer of Jacob. Behold how Jacob was a 18 A son is a son, and the choosing of a son is the same.
trickle ye flicked with your toe, and now he is a torrent. Cometh it not from the heart of him that chooseth?
12 Tribulation shall vanish with your days and the bleat of Therefore I was your God, and in far lands that heard of me
your ignorance; but Judah shall be set aright. Her shores will not there I was called upon, and there I heard. But, come,
be glad, and her fishermen heralds. Her coasts shall not be your sins are a river crimson, and your ignorance is the puss
rocky, her lighthouses not desolate. Hearken behind ye as of your infection. Your wounds I have opened because your
well, O watchmen of Heshbon. See that the desert hath laid strength is eaten up from within, expelled in riotousness and
waste your oasis whiles ye scanned the desert; your gates are iniquity.
sprung. Thou Heshbon art become as Ammon, and dry as 19 Come bind them with free gauze, and nurture them with
unto Moab because of thy watchmen who left off thine oasis balms that cost no money; where wit maketh thee none the
to watch yonder wisps kicked up of passing caravans. wiser, and beauty none the better. Why spend money for that
13 Bend ye your minds unto him who is from the beginning which perisheth? Come unto the LORD upon a free path,
and changeth not; and set your courses by the helm of the and perish not.
LORD. Hearken unto his word and take ye comfort at the 20 The end of the oracle: For when the Israelite shall smite
mercies of God, for he is the head of days, and he is their the Assyrian, ye shall know your watchmen looked amiss
extender unto the uttermost point. He bringeth beginnings, and led you astray. The LORD shall cause an aend of time
and he shall bring an end according to his wise purpose. upon the nations, upon their congregations; and their
14 Why must I set a tune and play it again? ye caravans of watchmen shall be no more. Ye shall return over Jordan and
Heshbon passing fair through Shittim to yonder Jordan’s low re-inhabit the desolate places, and bHeshbon shall not be
banks. The LORD is not a suppliant that he should entreat dwelt in until it is within a fertile valley, and her watchmen
before flesh. Nay, he is not a minstrel that he should replay no longer see the desolate mountains of Ataroth and
the same tune to a market that heareth him not. I turn not
15 a Armageddon in Greek. Valley near Nazareth west of the sea of Galilee.
On main trade root between Egypt & Damascus
17 a Region consisting of Central Israel’s coastal plain.
10 a town 12 miles sw of Amman, Jordan (on a mountain) b
Inland valley in north of Israel (contains Megiddo)
b
capitol of Jordan, east of Jerusalem a
will mark the “end of the times of the gentiles”
c
likely a place west of Amman, Jordan 20 b City directly across jordan valley from Jericho. First Israelite victory, while
d
Mount west of Amman, Jordan. Where Moses was taken up or translated moses still lived. Below Mt Nebo where Moses saw p. Land.

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Rabbah; and the Ammonite and the Moabite shall dwell 9 Upon the outer door they be, proclaiming not what is
peaceably within the congregation of the LORD, and the within but what is not. So understand ye the prophecy of the
nations shall dwell peacefully with Israel. 70 hebdomads of the Gentiles, for they who calleth
themselves my watchmen have been of heavy ears, heavy
eyes all these hebdomads since.
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v.6 I “feel” like this is alluding to the distance between Tel Aviv and
Jerusalem (~30 miles), [then to Bethel, (10 miles) as well as doubling for a
THUS saith the LORD thy God, in the year of the 70th
time period. Thus symbolizing the journey of Israel during the 40 year
hebdomad of the Gentiles set thy face to the east, and set it probation period from Tel Aviv (a symbol of American anti-christian
to the west, to the north and then to the south, and prophecy Judaism) to Jerusalem/Bethel (a symbol of the true Judaism of Abraham
thou against them: Your times come to the full. The LORD and their fathers).
God setteth ye a time to repent.
2 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: Set CHAPTER 22
thee now a goodly vase before thee. Fill it with fine bflowers,
with delphiniums, roses, marigolds, wild flowers, and every The Lord will return Israel into captivity for 70 more years,
beauteous flower thou canst find. one last time. This captivity will be the means of enlarging
3 Prophecy unto the nations: For so is the LORD’s Israel.
fulfillment. I set my ways and my laws to the purpose to
which they were intended, and it nourisheth and causeth all IN that day I shall set to me feight princes of my people. And
beautiful things to grow and to sustain. upon them and my prophets shall my spirit come, to direct
4 Empty now, my prophet, the vase of the goodly flowers. the ways again, and for a sign and a pillar unto Israel. They
Prophecy unto the nations, unto my Bride, for so she shall raise up my standard as aforetime, and my people shall
fancieth herself: This is what ye call fulfillment; then smash look up and be healed.
it against a wall so that it shattereth. 2 Fear not, thou trembling land; for a great thing have I
5 Therefore thus saith the LORD God, so I do with thy done in all the land. For, lo, I am returning this second time
fulfillment before me. So I make of thy fulfillment, and this the captivity of my people Israel. Whilst the land trembleth,
shall be the end of thy fulfillment before me. even by reason of boots, do I swell your borders and enlarge
6 In the year of their 70th hebdomad, so set thy face against your house. My laws do go forth, amidst the up-cry they are
them and thus prophecy thou: In your probation ye shall heard in Judah and Jerusalem. Laud ye the LORD in his
c
traverse 40 miles. Your watchmen shall fall to the side of land! And tell ye the nations to repent at his doings.
the road, the might of their camels collapse, the burden of 3 And it shall be a hissing to the nations in that day, a
their loads dropped aside; and ye shall leave their parched source of offense, and as a shout of rejoicing is to him that
bones. But ye shall be holpen by the sight of aBethel, for the seeketh solace. I shall gather the congregations against the
hand of the LORD rebuildeth it. Plant the dgoodly flowers at house of Israel as one that gathereth an army to battle, and as
Bethel, the late flowers also and the early flowers in their one pulleth the bit in the foamy mouth. But I shall be jealous
season. They shall be sanctified by Bethel, by the spring again for my people, Israel. And it shall come to pass in that
breath of the LORD, and he shall blow their seed over day that the congregations of the nations shall be broken by
Jordan and make Heshbon’s vista fertile. the staff of Jacob. I have made it a gdouble staff and a
7 But as for the vase, this is mine oracle against it, saith the quartershaft, and Jacob shall vanquish his enemies; on the
LORD. Thus saith the LORD: When thy probation shall be right and on the left shall the staff strike as unto the sting of
ended I shall smash thee against the wall, for eempty thou behemoth’s tail; and in that day Israel shall know that it is I,
shalt be, and a vase be of no value unless it is set to the the LORD, who is their righteousness, and that I have not
purpose to which it is intended. changed from my purpose, for my purpose is spoken before
8 Bend now a little; give me some time of your minds. I set the world was, and it shall be lauded after the world passeth
thee now a sign and a riddle: Ezra riseth of the nations away.
[Gentiles], from a cold and inhospitable place, and again 4 Laud ye the LORD in the land, for he hath doused his
with nails my laws, my ways, and my fulfillment are raised mighty sword. Whole Palestina rejoice! The LORD, even
up unto all nations, and my laws go forth. the LORD GOD of Israel, speaketh, Even I speak peaceably,
He saith; unto the seed and unto him that soweth I speak
a
peaceably. Worship ye the LORD in the land; let the images
Cities east of Jordan River (Moab) with biblical significance.
b
A major motif in Soloman’s temple.See 1 Kings 6,7. Also Isaiah ch. 28 & 40 of Hazor be put from your minds, ye Galileans. Call him not
“Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower…” Baal after your fashion. Form him not in crude minds.
c
Reference to 40 year sojern in the Wilderness. Also the 40 miles between
Bethel & Jerusalem (a symbol of transition from Ephraim’s /the Wests)/ power
Understand the LORD this day by his doings. Worship ye
to Judah’s/Middle Easts coming power) the LORD. See his doings today, and know it is done by the
a
Place of Jacob’s Latter vision. God re-establishes his covenant and LORD, the God of Israel. Where his name was meek it is
covenants all isreal to jacob’s seed. Jeroboam (see BOBK ___) makes a
pegan alter there after Israel & Judah split. Likely a symbol of covenant with now mighty. At his roar bears do retreat. Bank not your flesh
Israel. Ie- God is restoring the covenant with Israel with winter/late and
spring/early rain/flood.
d
The “early flowers” may well be an illusion to the restorationism movement in f
See Micah 5:5 (“seven shepherds and eight principle men”) see also BOBK
America—the late flowers an illusion to the restoration of Judah. 19:6 To occur just before “Assyrian shall come into our land”.
e
Isaiah ch. 28 “Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower… An g
Allusion to Zech 11:7-14. “I grew weary and said I will not be your
illusion to the destruction of the gentile Christian church. shepherd…I took one staff and broke it…”

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unto the nations, ye of Israel. But say: What is a Jew that we thy guilt. So the LORD shall make thy overturning a public
should marvel? But God is our boast. Yea, beauty upon matter, and thy fate a matter of the public square.
beauty, beauty burning brightly, shall they call the LORD 7 Woe, my prophet, declare thou woes unto the nations,
God of hosts, the king of Israel. and rebukes unto Israel, saith the LORD. Woe unto them
5 Rejoice, O children of Zion, for the LORD, even the who declare Dispensation, for they cannot be turned. He
Living God, draweth you unto his bosom. He taketh the sanctifieth his ways as mine.
glory and traditions of men and casteth them from you, and 8 Woe to them who rest in Chance, and who live by Luck.
with them the Gentiles shall be confounded. Luck cometh not before the LORD; nor doth Chance find a
6 In what ye gloried, ye shall abhor; in what ye feared place in the Almighty’s quiver. No archer fireth blind, nor
among the Gentiles, ye shall tread as though clay; in what ye doth any warrior rest upon an untried weapon.
had pride ye shall scorn with laughter. 9 Woe unto them who search my words merely to overturn
7 Howl, O ye nations, saith the LORD, for aone of you them. Woe unto them who are drunk for signs, for they shall
dreadeth the day out of envy when I shall turn Israel and the drink the wine of those who interpret signs, and they who
other lusteth for it to see a sign. Yet though you be as far interpret have created them.
apart as the poles, yet shall it be an undoing for you when ye 10 Their signs are revealed by shouts of Conspiracy,
both shall see it. Conspiracy. They are both gods and prophets of their own
vanities. They declare their word, and they shall fulfill it.
Thus saith the prophets of the nations, Conspiracy! Those
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conspiracy!
OH, my soul, indeed, ah, my soul grieveth that man doth not 11 Behold, they have declared, and the LORD shall fulfill
consider; that no one layeth hold of knowledge; that man’s their words upon them and heap the end result upon their
heart seeketh only what is before his face, and yet he doth brows. What is the end of conspiracy but tumult, and of
not consider the sum of his ways. tumult is it not upheaval?
2 Ah, man hath no knowledge, and my servants are but a 12 There is no afterthought with the LORD. There be no
breath amongst the crowd. Why must I raise up my servants chance or luck in the outcome of things. There is no splinter
to face mockery, and in the public place to scorn? Hath it of wood wherein the LORD cannot count the weight or
been any different before? discern the grain thereof. Know ye that what cometh of
3 Behold, we are mocked; behold a worse vexation, O my judgment upon the Earth cometh of the LORD; and then
Lord: they make themselves prophets by fashion and fad. consider thy ways, O man.
We no sooner declare thy fury and thy righteous way, and 13 Have the sum of thy ways, lo, these many generations
the foolish of the nations and the boisterous of the been written in the sand that thou shouldest not see the
congregations scramble from between the planks and declare works of God? Though I spoke not unto thee by prophets,
“We too are prophets!” did I not make the way of the LORD clear unto thee before?
4 Can any man take the LORD Saboath so lightly that upon Why seekest thou new prophets to declare unto thee strange
impulse or envy he declareth his words to be the ways when thou wouldest not hearken unto me before?
Almighty’s? Prestige is their god. They lust after the feeling 14 What ways do they declare unto thee?— but the ways of
and contend all day to appear accomplished. Like a ravenous thine own lust and avarice. Why needest thou justification?
dog their neck is half full yet their eyes are not satisfied. As fire burneth so doth man run to his weaknesses. Why
They are lodged in the corner of their sockets upon the meal should I make my word an bemolument for them? Thy
of the other dog. So do they seek prestige without having the prophets do not point to any way; they justify thine own
necessary merit to warrant it. conscience.
5 aDispensation, hear the cry of dispensation, O people, for 15 Yea, the generations of man are foolish and their ways
by it ye have set your ways to destruction. Ye are a river of utter nonsense. He hath not tempered his ways with my
foolishness, a highway of noise in what otherwise could be a laws, nor shod his feet with my words. He waitheth not upon
peaceful cobblestone walk, ye that call out dispensation. the word of the LORD to see it come to pass, but saith:
6 Dispensation is thy death warrant, O fool. By crying it “Yea, hath God spoken?” But ye justify the false prophet
thou hast signed it, and thou hast shouted from the housetops when his words come not to pass. Why should I not give ye
up unto them for a season? Look back and see your oracles,
a
Islam and Gentile Christianity. Islam dreads the day, Christianity lusts for the
your incantings from books and your teachings, and declare
sign. unto me, if you can, have they come to pass?
5 a See Wikipedia, Dispensationalism. A movement at the roots of evangelical 16 Yet my words have come to pass. I declared unto Israel,
(Baptist) Christianity from early America. Defined by a belief that Israel as a
nation is ‘distinct’ from the Christian Church. (And thus God’s commands and but the daughter of Zion heard me not. I declared I should
c
promises were dictintly different to each of them). go unto the nations. I declared that I should place my foot
They hold the idea that the restoration of the nation of Israel is requisite to
Christi’s “second coming”, thus Christians should actively support a Jewish
return to the Land of Israel, along with the parallel idea that the Jews ought to
be encouraged to become Christians, as a means of fulfilling a Biblical
b
prophecy. the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of
This was part of the drive for Western Countries to promote Zionism, and compensation.
create the modern Jewish State. Also motivation for western Hegemony in the c
Deut 28:64, 1 Kings 14:15, Ezek 34:8-11, 36:19 “I scattered them among the
Region, as often promotes unfair treatment of native Arabs—causing regional nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with
instability. their ways”

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upon the dry ground and raise my aright hand toward heaven false idea spreadeth faster than a disease amongst the hens
and declare I live forever. But she preferred her timbrals, and addeth therewith unto the din until no man can hear the
and sewed upon her elbows pillows that she might lean on way but courseth with the headlong torrent.
her hand all the day and contemplate the handsome men. 5 Even if the LORD should provide only a shriek, we poor
17 Hast thou not waited upon the LORD, but I came not? souls should have no excuse. Stop and Consider, O nations.
Hast thou not longed to see me, yet blinded thyself to my Pause from thy feast, O Bride; rest not in thy matchmakers’
judgments, lo, these many generations? interpretations, in thy lawyers’ adetente. The LORD hath
18 Be grateful, pat thy breast with a sigh and regain the spoken plainly. His ways are manifest about us. Take ye up
wind taken from thee by sudden startle. Be grateful thou hast again the edicts of a mighty king, yea, our God is a mighty
not seen my day, else thy doom is complete. They who walk king.
after the dispensation of their mind’s idol cannot hear my 6 There is no hidden way before the LORD. No code to
words, nor see the end of their ways that they should turn satiate the mischief maker. As the LORD saveth from the
a
and be healed. din aforetime, so is his word a house of refuge, a den of
19 I walked not with the idolatry of Rome, and fashioned comfort to those who break from their journey.
not my kingdom after the ways of the high places of Carmel, 7 The LORD hath an house of refuge, a citadel high upon a
after the place of Dagon and the straddling floor of his feet. mount, a solemn place of retirement, a place to rest your
But I brought down Dagon of Askelon, and his poised legs weary souls. The LORD hath always been our refuge, a
could not withstand. So shall all those be brought low and gentle and soft wing under which to seek comfort and
upset who keep a foot on their floor of their past to justify it solace. The LORD hath always been. He is from everlasting,
and a foot on the way of the LORD JHWH as he marcheth and his ways declared from the beginning. What hath taken
forth to accomplish his ways. There shall be such a him by surprise, or wherein have the sons of flesh invented
spreading that thou shalt be spread and fall. something curious for him? Hearken unto his words and
20 Leap thou now, cast off thy past idols, and let thine old live.
ways be forgotten, and leap thou fast upon my chariot as it 8 They who run to judgment, to the day of the LORD, run
passeth the way. Clutch upon its rails and see thy master to their own destruction— and they who run to their
drive goodly steeds. There shall no one upset my hero. Is he destruction see not what is ahead of them.
not a breathtaking sight to see at the reins? 9 But see ye God by all his wondrous works, he who
21 Cling not to thy past idols of the mind. Let thy soul leap formed the Earth and broadcast the stars as if casting sand
within thee at the good ways of God. from his fist; he who created the light within your eyes.
22 Hearken and Consider, look to the end of the ways of Tremble then and let fear seize the marrow in your bones,
many nations and therein say: “Thus saith the LORD.” See for he liveth and his judgment shall come to all men, and
idols smashed and justice raised as a standard, and say: “The there is none who shall stand without shaking before he who
LORD’s spirit moveth amongst us.” created Hell also.

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WHAT hear I, say I; A sound, a sound of rushing. Whence MOREOVER the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
come ye, and whither go ye on? Get ye from this torrent Set thine heart to grieve over this generation, over a
down! Behold, look behind you and consider what hath multitude led by rumor and by secret words, for they will not
been; yea, pause and consider. hearken unto my words, but they prefer mischief. They have
2 Hear ye a sudden wail. Be ye moved at a curdling shriek made the day of the LORD an allegory, a song from the
cut short. Stop in your way, look behind you and retrace complacent, saying, “Nought shall overtake me.” They
your steps. What hath happened? provoke a reaction only to condemn it. “No action leadeth to
3 Hear this the word of the LORD, O ye nations, ye good or evil, but power decreeth.” Choose to do good, saith
headlong to destruction, hear this as if it were a shriek in an the LORD. But they say, “Choice is not ours but God’s. If
unexpected place. Be not fearful but curious. Consider and our feet be laggard, is it not the LORD’s doing?” Shake
investigate, O man. Ponder, ye sons of men. The way of thy thine head soulfully, and say, Alas, an end hath come, an end
path leadeth to destruction. The avenue of thy course on the power of the ancient and established. Swords shall
bringeth thee to tumult. Forsake the crowd and hearken to fall and borders shall be redrawn in blood. For all this is
the cry. Break from the undaunted torrent. Enter a required by their hard hearts because they would not hearken
doorway— close off the din without, for all they without unto the words of the LORD. They built the ways of the
who hear the din go to destruction, and even a jolt will not LORD by fad, and they tear them down equally.
cause them to turn. 2 Behold, saith the LORD of hosts, I bring such days as
4 O blind and conformist, thy world is as a chicken coop. thou hast not imagined, and pleasant days few have enquired
One cackleth and they all cackle together the same tune. A to discover. They come as unto the birth of a baby, after the
travail and the anxious hours. I bring days upon the trickle of
a
Isa 62:8, Jer 22:22-26, Dan 12:7 “when he held up his right hand and his left
hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a
time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the 5 a easing of strained relations between nations
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this generation as have not been seen for many, many New York is chided for its wickedness. Its destruction is
evenings and mornings, for many still autumns. The earth is foretold. The New Jerusalem is alluded to. We are reminded
struck with a mighty jolt, and out of the valley of decision of the destruction of Tyre and Zidon.
cleaveth two ways. From aHinnom who can see the house of
the LORD for the multitude of dwellings that magnify THUS saith the LORD, What of mockery have ye found in
themselves? But from bKidron look up. So is the dwelling my ways, O city of excess, that ye should mix my name with
place of the LORD seen first by the wilderness, and it is profanity and that ye should regard urine the comment of
a
clearest even in the dark of night. A beacon of hope and profundity? It is because mine eyes are upon your
comfort is the name of the LORD and his Holy One. Delight neighbour for good, and yours are upon him for gain, for
in the captivity’s end, all ye of this generation, for the days covet and for evil, for ye seek to be lordlings and care not
of Hinnom shall come, wherein they shall seek the LORD by for the LORD’s reproof. Wherefore find ye reverence in
ways others have set, by alleys and byways between the tall your heart for a carved stock, that ye should walk on your
buildings, narrow walks and culverts, wherein there be many knees? but your neighbour ye turn him aside for trivialities.
who tempt and who are set A dunghill is your bTel, and it is the place of your horn of
3 Ho! How he bringeth fat days upon them that love him! wisdom. Lo, it shall come to pass in the days of the mount of
He bringeth his children out again to wander in the good the LORD that ye shall be ashamed of your profanities, your
grass, back to the nursing stocks of their olden days, to enjoy lewd pictures, and your spoilt heart.
the peaceful habitat of the LORD. Send forth they who 2 O thou New York, thou mighty city of pinnacles, I, even I
sought refuge into a green and fertile valley. the LORD, shall make thee a scape of mountains and thy
4 Straighten ye the way of the LORD, ye who go to the homes hillocks of rubble. Thou hast made of mankind a
fertile valley. Come out of my refuge and see the land sewer, and thou art a caster of snares. Thou art a crown of
remaineth, the hamlets are peaceful, the houses have arbors culture, and therewith thou art become a polluter of
hanging with fattened grapes. inspiration. Thou hast built many a grave, but none so much
5 Go gather and eat, cultivate and plow, tread out the new a monument as the mountains that shall come from thy
wine. Feast unto the LORD, for he is good. They that sought rubble. Thy byways shall be impassible, thy streets valleys
the end are gone; the fox is left off the land and the tender and bstagnant bogs; thy marbled porticoes deep caves. Thou
grape shooteth forth again. shalt no more profane the name of the LORD, but thou shalt
6 Thy day is as a day before me, saith the LORD. Rest ye be the place of the hermit, and the lodgings of wailing, and
the Sabbath Day and let no man oppress you. Lift thine arm the grazing of herds.
to remove the yoke. Let this be thy Sabbath work, a true 3 Though there be many days until thy fulfillment, it is
work unto the LORD. For in six days did the LORD do all because I extend them for the sake of Jacob, and not for
his work, and in the seventh did he rest. Therefore fill thyself thee. But it shall come to pass soon, saith the LORD, that aI
on the Sabbath and feast on what the LORD hath done. shall build me a city and an house. In that day I shall also
Rejoice in the pleasant days to come, after the LORD hath prune thee of my people; and as thou sawest the nations
removed the din. Make it a day of gladness, make it a day of usher to thee, so shalt thou also see them exit. I shall draw
Spring, a day to hear the pleasant waters, the trickle of the unto me their tender shoots. Unto me shall all of them be
brook. brought. And I shall plant them in Zion. I shall leave them
7 Thy year is a year before the LORD. He hath been grafted, and I shall graft them in with Israel, and my vines
forbearing. He hath ransacked the nations of their goods, and shall yield a sweet fruit, and I shall be surrounded by all my
he bringeth the latter harvest to Zion. What great patience children, saith the LORD.
requireth the LORD if he knoweth not the duration of thy 4 Jacob shall play at my feet, and the nations shall be as
travail, or wherein is his mercy a sure rock if he knoweth not Edom. Yea, the stranger that sojourneth shall sojourn no
its urgent need? Look back and see the history of man, how more, but shall be bounced upon the knee of the LORD.
the LORD hath endured the violence of the nations and 5 Come unto me, saith the LORD, for I have not the spirit
taken the goodly shoots in their time. How patient is our of a man that I should waver and be flattered. There is no
God! How beautiful are his ways! Longsuffering is our God. turning in me, O Israel. There is no sudden fury, no faltering
Who can move him from his purpose? mood. My spirit is steadfast and great and doth not falter.
8 But look ye to the nations and their follies today. The Leave behind thee the coast of cTyre and Zidon to the
LORD bringeth their last days to pass, and the asecond time b
cormorant, for her coasts will no more be inhabited, nor
to fruition. And the LORD shall say to them in that day: shall they hear the barking of merchants; but there shall be
“Here is your desire. But why do ye have confusion of instead the barking of the seal.
face?”

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CHAPTER 26 b
"hill" or "mount"; as in, place for the temple or watchman
b
Perhaps because sea level will rise, the city will eventually have to be
abandoned and become a bog.
3 a Jerusalem is already built…thus this appears to be referring to the New
Jerusalem.
2 a a valley sw of Jerusalem (directly south of Mt. Zion) c
Great ancient trading cities, destroyed for wickedness. Here compared with
b
brook east of Jerusalem (between Jer. and Mt. of Olives) New York.
a
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 6 Howl and bemoan, oh, bemoan! for Tyre that great city, 11 O foolish mortal, thou canst not see the glory of God
which was so great, is uninhabited and a wasteland. O thou about thee. Thou hast taken for granted a agilded habitat, and
Zidon which rang of liberty art become a snare and a trap, a how can he who readeth no blueprint fashion God?
prison, and thy rulers bailiffs. Israel laboureth to the tune of
a requiem within thy walls. The baritone voice lamenteth.
7 I have spoken and it shall come to pass. I say come unto CHAPTER 28
me. I am not like man, but I have created man like me.
8 Surely, if thou canst love thine own parent, thine own The prophet did not ‘seek’ his calling. The turning of Israel
children and all that which is thine own, then thou knowest to Christ is foretold. Blessed is the Lord who foretold the
how to come unto the LORD without hint of gain or desire Babylonian captivity. A last captivity is alluded to.
to deal.
GOD knoweth I did not seek this avocation, nor from
wrestling at the word of the LORD would he remove his
CHAPTER 27 hand from me. The LORD hath purposed, and it shall be
done. I wrestled in vain at the word “Thou shalt surely be
RETURN unto me, return unto me, return, O my beloved. I my witness to Israel” in the day that he visited me, for who
see the fruit trees. I lay hold of the golden wheat chaff. I can say what shall come of this? Yet I know I have spoken
consider the proportion of all things ’round about me. What rightly before the LORD the King, the God of Israel. Of all
bearing tree, bringing forth its food, is so high above that I that he hath done since the beginning he hath well done, and
cannot reach and taste the LORD is sweet? Tell me their blessed is the man who, so understanding, saith, “It is well
numbers; tell me why none towereth high like the pine. Yea, done of my Lord.” It is right, yea it is exceedingly right in
all are within my reach. his eyes, that he should turn Israel. It shall be in that day a
2 What is the purpose of the sycamore or the cedar and the sign and a bconsummation to the Gentiles so that the
great sequoia that is so high? Upon them doth no man remnant shall seek the LORD.
subsist. Of their fruit doth no man winnow. Upon luscious 2 Hear, O ye Gentiles, he hath set me as a teething bone
fruit, even nuts and roots, doth man subsist and not on the unto the nations, but I shall not be devoured, for he hath
branches of the uppermost pine. surely spoken, I will not deliver thee into their hands. But
3 All I see about me is marvel. The swift is easily brought the LORD shall provoke Israel against your provocation.
down by man. The sea is thy fruit basket, O son of man. Cast And in his cunning Israel shall hear, and ye, O nations, shall
thy net and take of its bounty freely given. Pluck fruit off the be astonied!
fruit trees. Breathe in fresh air because of the pine. 3 Yea, blessed is he the LORD who declared with a strong
4 Consider the proportion of things all ye sons of flesh. voice our calamity in the day before our calamity at the
Thresh wheat in its season and sift barley to overflowing. hands of the Babylonians. Yea, blessed is his spirit that led
Walk amidst the corn and take of its sweet ears. us no more into idolatry from our smiting. Yea, blessed is
5 Let the fool climb to the tip of a pine. Let the ignorant the terrible day of the LORD to come, that he declareth
gnaw on the bark of an eucalyptus. Nay, there is no man so beforehand the smiting that should come, so that in that day
foolish that he will not pluck off a grape in its season and we shall no more delight in the captivity wherein we have
reach for a peach in due course. remained captive, so that we go not to the grave in gloom.
6 Shalt thou herd lions, O fool, or shalt thou herd sheep? 4 He is merciful in his doings, for generations that come
Shall the lowing of cattle cause thee startle as unto the roar shall recall these the works of the LORD that I am sent to
of a tiger? Dost thou contemplate breeding eagles that thou declare, and shall wondrously marvel. How the LORD hath
mayest feed mankind? revealed himself! They shall know that all that hath been
7 Consider the proportion of things, O ye sons of men. from the beginning is of the LORD; that he is righteous and
Take not for granted the stars, nor forget the clapping consuming in his ways. He striketh dumb earth and giveth
thunder, the sprinkles upon thy face ignore no more. life by his breath. The LORD grant me a quiet blessing, and
8 Though thou canst not reach to the moon, it bringeth to give me the peace of his salvation. How well hath the LORD
thee fish in its given season. The sun is forever out of thy done in all his creation!
grasp, O man, yet it bringeth forth thy herbs from day to day.
9 Consider the grass that is soft upon thy feet, a sole for
thine arch as thou journeyest on thy way. Consider the drink CHAPTER 29
of life, O son of man, that of all things water becometh
lighter when the harder, the longer it endureth cold. It AND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Take a
sinketh not, but floateth upon the sea, and therefore all ye child, a boy of 11, and set him to hold his hands in piety.
sons of men are not squelched from off the Earth. Place upon him a atalis of btichales and white, having him
10 All things cater to you, O sons of flesh, therefore take ye gird in black. Teach him to repeat: “Give me, my father,
heed, for surely wrath shall come upon men justly who say whatsoever I ask of thee.” Let him bow three times before
in their heart there is no God, who say of their right hand,
“Thou art my god; I fashion what I will;” and of their mind: 11a lavish; covered with a thin layer of gold
“Thou art the lathe upon which I shall form him.” 28 b to bring something to its completion (a covenant)
29 a Jewish prayer shawl; similar to a fringed scarf
b
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his father. Let him approach and walk around him thrice. Let because thou, O Jerusalem, abhorrest that which is thy
him say: “Give me my bread and I will help thee when thou glory? Now do the wise of your children walk in the nations
art old.” And when his father in the midst thereof doth strike as upon egg shells, and the man of wisdom placeth his
him on the cheek for his selfishness, say unto Israel, SO forefinger upon his lips as counsel.
SAITH THE LORD UNTO THEE! 2 Yet though ye discern the times and their rough edges, ye
2 Is this not this Israel before me? saith the LORD. So have cannot incline your heart to discern the ways of your God.
I seen their insincerity. So do I see vain gestures, and empty Ye who pride in being my chosen pride not in him that
words do I hear all the day long. Away with it! My soul chooseth thee, I the LORD. Ye know not even what ye are.
loatheth it! Your souls are not made cleaner for the vanity of There are those who say they are Jews and are not, so that
your words. They make you not clean but filthy. they may milk your cow and gore your ox. Wherefore bring
3 Behold, foolish people, man is not greater than God. He ye upon you men of different customs, brutish men, men of
is not deeper than the ALMIGHTY. His eyes are not sharper other religions who say they are Jews that they might live off
that the LORD is so dim. Nor is his perception so sensitive your wealth? Because ye are foolish, saith the LORD, and
that the LORD is dull. There is no creature that can make know not even what ye are, also whereof setteth ye apart. Is
itself small enough to escape his wrath, nor is there one so this not remarkable, saith the LORD: the left hand and the
base as to be unworthy of his salvation. right hand join only when ye sit on them.
4 But the haughtiness of this people maketh them dumb to 3 Furthermore, saith the LORD, Did I scatter you amongst
reason. Are ye not moved to indignation and can ye not see the nations that ye may settle by a neighbour, and say,
the selfish acts of your children when they supplicate in such Unclean, thou unclean! so that ye may boast of thy heritage?
a manner? Shall you endure them? I think not, saith the Nay, ye know me not, even what is clean and unclean.
LORD. 4 Even in simple things have ye trespassed against the
5 But this people is ignorant, saith the LORD. They lift up LORD your God; and your hearts have been double sided
a shield of my law; on the outer face thereof it is written for like a coin with two faces engraved thereon, in that ye have
all to see, but their face is to the underbelly wherein is taken my gift and ye have straightaway thrown it back in my
written their own law: ‘Thou shalt seek thy want more than face, for I have heard you say of my Sabbaths, They are not
anything.’ O ye hard hearted and foolish hypocrites! Ye a gift; and that my day of rest, It is a day of merit. Behold,
cannot keep my law without first your heart. Behold, it is ye have made my rest work, in that ye say there shall be
right, saith the LORD, that I should smite you grievously merit from it. Ye break my law and ye mock my heart, saith
this time; that I should strike your shield and break it, that ye the LORD. Keep my Sabbaths as a gift from me, not as an
may bend to pick up the pieces and there again see its face investment for a reward. Indeed, ye trespass in simple
and my laws written thereon, lest the world should say of my things.
great name, He spoke not unto us from Horeb. 5 Thou trespassest in more than this, and I the LORD have
6 My mouth shall devour you, and the sword of my seen it. For thy heart is surely foolish before me, and thy
vengeance shall cut your hearts. Speak now, and declare if fears are born in a cold and guilty soul. But thus saith the
you can, when I commanded in a corner that ye should love LORD, My thoughts are not the thoughts of a merchant, that
the LORD your God. Set your mind to recall. I cannot not, I should set in store for a profit. Thou canst give me nothing;
saith the LORD. I mumbled it not from under a stone that ye and if I commanded thee to keep in order to get a return I
did not hear; but the whole mountain quaked at my word. admit I have want. Then am I a merchant and not God, but I
7 Turn ye unto the LORD from now on and forevermore. am as the dumb idols of the nations which need men to carry
Plunge your hearts into the LORD and rest ye there assured. them. Are they not created by the mind first, before the hand
For surely the LORD saith, the God of hosts, This shall layeth hold of a tool? So are the gods of the nations the
silence the impious lips. Justifying tongues I do not hear. It potsherd by which men pour their own wisdom and from
is as language to the deaf. But love the LORD your God which they balm their own guilt.
more than anything, and then shall your prayers issue from 6 Hast thou played upon the bands of Saturn? Hast thou put
your soul and the LORD shall say: This day I have heard thy foot upon the dog star to rest thine arch? Hast thou set
you. This day I have made your fears acceptable. Then shall the galaxies in their place and began evening and morning so
ye know he is deeper than a father and more knowing than that all things revolve? Hast thou formed wisdom from thine
the wisest of men. own bowels? I need nothing from thee.
8 I see your heart and know your impiety, saith the LORD. 7 Canst thou count the number of my days? Wilt thou lead
Your words and rituals do not fool me. They make you not me when I am old when I have no age? Dost thou generate
clean but filthy. life from within thyself? I was not. Nor can I become, saith
the LORD. I always am. I AM BEING. BEING I AM
BEING.
CHAPTER 30 8 If there is an act awaiting— behold, I am already there. Is
there a time to come?— Lo, I have already formed it. How
THUS saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Hearken can thy rest make thee acceptable to me? I set thee at liberty
Judah, art thou not in captivity in thine own land? Hearken that day, and thou madest it a burden. Indeed, your hearts
Jerusalem, art thou not the city of the great king, but trespass before me even in simple things.
abhorrest his crown? Why tremble ye at your neighbours? Is 9 Thus saith the LORD moreover unto this people, To what
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not love? Thou art not that far lost, O Israel, else would I thy Father’s property, and he doth care for what he hath
destroy thee entirely. Children of this confused generation, made.
hearken unto me! Thou art dumber than an animal if thou 9 If thou lovest me, and admirest, and makest thy boast that
knowest not love. thy God is thy father, then wilt thou love the works of mine
10 Wilt thou claim my words were edited, that thou hands. Thou doest well in all thy boastings if thy boast is not
knewest not these things? If thou knowest to love thine own, words but deeds.
thou knowest how to love the LORD more dearly. 10 Though I hate putting away, yet love I my works. All
11 Where is thy pride in my law, O man, for thou didst not things are mine, and there is nothing that doth not belong to
add one measure to it, nor counsel me one iota in one of its me, saith the LORD God.
jots? Yet thou actest as though it is thy glory that it 11 If a wife is sore abused by her husband, then aseparate
proclaimeth rather than thy shame. her from him and punish him alone, for he hath abused my
b
12 For if thou wert righteous, why then must I restrain thee property, and took no thought of what I made; for I will
with laws? If thou wert wisdom, why must I dress thee? If have mercy and not affliction, and the love of God over the
c
thou wert not a child, why should I feed thee? potentate of men.
13 Thou bitest mine hand, and braggest. Thou piercest the 12 Other than this and adultery, if thou puttest away, thou
feet that led thee, and decry, It is not He. Indeed, thou doest the thing I hate. If the man repenteth of his arrogance
trespassest even grave things. before God, then dlet her return.
13 Search the book, make it sure, and see what is written
therein of me. For a meal I overlooked rituals, for a full belly
CHAPTER 31 in them that love me did I cast aside my strictures. This
covenant with David shall never pass. It is as the ordinances
The Lord hates divorce. Those who love him will not do it. of matter. Unto them to whom I say Live, shall no man say
We are commanded to love others and do good to all men. Die; and unto those to whom I say, Friend, enjoy, be merry
Love and common sense are more important than rituals and and be free, eshall no one make into a servant. There is no
tradition. more haughty person than he who maketh my covenant a
burden to any. But a haughty person I will bring down.
AND moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, 14 David need not sacrifice and offer, but had a heart after
saying: Take unto thee a foolish child, an adolescent, that mine own heart. Surely the mercies I showed unto David
she smoke in the face of her mother who is ill and cannot shall follow them that love me; and surely they who make
bear the vapours of it. my covenant with David a bargain shall I bring down. To
2 When she cougheth, will she bless thee? With every him whom I call a son, I shall never make into an accused.
breath shall she believe thy words of devotion? 15 I spoke unto thee face to face and thou sawest me not.
3 Thus saith the LORD: So have I said I hate divorce. Why Wilt thou now believe me because now thou knowest I am
doest thou it then if thou lovest me? Why do the things that I God? Was it the mountain trembling that thou hearkenedst
hate and say “I love thee”? I will not be fooled. If thou to, or is it the substance of my words?
lovest me thou wouldest do what I delight in and needest no 16 Yea, had it been that thou wouldest have believed me
commandment. though my voice was meek and my breath did not disturb
4 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: straw.
Command a child in secret, tell him to take of thy soft and
luscious cake a wedge and tell him when he walketh across
the room, through the gathering of elders, that he pelt it in CHAPTER 32
the face of a man.
5 How long shall it be before his father grab him by his arm HEAR the naked truth, O Israel, and be ashamed at its
and squeeze him until pain overfloweth his eyes? In shame telling! Let the veiled head bow, and the haughty thinker
shall he drag him from the room. In shame shall he leave and have confusion of face. Did I not free the black man, and
with stripes will he howl. bring to the dust empires? I multiplied the Arabian in the
6 The LORD commandeth not good deeds to give thee desert, and brought the Huns from the Steppes. I caused to
righteousness, but to care for his creation [other children]. If
thou canst not stand to see thy child abuse another and cause
upon thee shame, what thinkest thou of God? a
“separate her” seems to mean allow them a separation or even a divorce
(see v12, which suggests that abuse and adultery are the two justifiable
7 With what spirit did I breathe into Adam?—was it not reasons for divorce).
mine own? saith the LORD. Thou art surely made in mine b
Not property in the chauvinistic, misogynistic or western sense but His
image, O man, and have no excuse in that day. Thou shalt property because all mankind are God’s household and His responsibility; He
claims ownership or complete responsibility for their care---and thus God
cry “The love of God was different” and thou shalt be expects us to treat His household with love and respect. Saying in essense to
condemned. abusers, “wives are not YOUR property they are MINE, and if you hurt them
you should be punished.” Referencing v.8 & v.10.
8 I have no double weight, but thy love hath a double c
Bully. A person so powerful they don’t have to follow the rules. An autocratic
weight toward me: fat toward thine own and lean toward me. ruler or influential person. A potent individual.
d
“let” as in encourage her to return if she wants to, not force her to return. Not
Therefore do good unto all men. Thou shalt receive no cause or manipulate her to do something against her will. The verse is saying
reward. Thou shalt do it unto the LORD, knowing they are abuse and adultery are acceptable reasons for divorce (v. 12).
e
Further chastisement of Middle Eastern treatment of women. Men shall not
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inherit Britain the Anglos and the Saxons from the hinter 8 As thou seekest the best for the things which thou lovest,
forests and the Normans from France; and they are not yet so more shalt thou seek after the LORD thy God to do his
removed from their lands. The Spanish came from Spain at ways. With all thine heart shalt thou seek after him. With all
my command, and the Americans from the uttermost parts. thy soul and thy strength thou shalt love him.
Mine eyes are upon my creation to do according to what my 9 Then, saith the LORD, Peace shall I bring. I shall make
spirit listeth. Mine eyes too are upon them that love me, and your things heavy unto you, and the love of God an easy
my soul delighteth in him that keepeth my commandments. thing in that day. Is it not an easy thing to hearken unto your
2 Wherefore glory ye in your flesh, and wherein find ye creator? The LORD hath never commanded usury of men.
rest in your land? Is your flesh and land more than I gave Think of a time when he laid a burden upon your backs. It is
others? Then consider to what end I placed my name upon the LORD, even I the King, the God of Israel, that freed you
you, ye idle thinkers of Judaea. Then consider why ye are out of Egypt. But ye are as a wound upon my side, a pain in
still in captivity and moreover scattered among the nations. mine arch, and a buzzing in mine ear.
And no man asketh: Wherefore hath his hand been so severe 10 Calculate not the measure of thy will with me, nor
on us alone? Then hear ye this word: Thus saith the LORD, I incline thine heart to consider the measure of thy soul. Thou
shall not be severe on you after a time; but I shall gather canst not look into the abyss and there is not weight and
you, and ye shall put down roots in Zion, and ye shall not be form to thy righteousness.
plucked up. Cast off your cynicism and your habits, and 11 I have shed love upon the Gentiles, and given thee laws
prepare ye for the day, for surely it cometh. I shall remove for the betterment of all. Measure therefore the righteousness
the jealous heart, and replace it with humble knowledge. of my ways, if thou canst. Draw a line upon them. Find a
3 No more shall ye speak great swelling words and on your scale upon which thou canst bring to harmony the weight of
lips will not take my name. When commanded I this hollow my ways with thine. If I should give thee the Universe to
respect, and when did I say I crave worship? Prostrate heap upon thy side of the scale thou shalt be found wanting
yourselves before your parents and measure your works on a in that day.
scale to calculate your reward. See if they shall be moved
with compassion for your double self-seeking hearts. Ye
shall not inherit of their estate, but your selfishness shall CHAPTER 33
bring you to want, to make you a castaway. Why do ye think
ye shall inherit of the LORD’s estate, when I can see every BEHOLD, the LORD knoweth that thou canst not see him.
thought of your hearts? Nor can thy light reveal his countenance. Therefore is he
4 Your mindless offerings, O people, are a burden to me. pleased with faith, and he hath made it as the sure foot of the
Your prayers are gibberish. I wish I could drown them in the babe running to his mother’s comfort. He shall hear thy
ocean, that I may laugh at the sound of them. But your cries, and he shall be quick to comfort.
prayers are not humourous and your ignorance is offensive. 2 Why should the LORD judge a man by his works? A
Ye read the words of others, but care not for the words of the peaceful time breedeth peaceful men; and the righteous of an
LORD. easy season could very well be the transgressors in a hard
5 O Judah, thou that dwellest in dark shadows, I have made season, at the time of the LORD’s testing, at the moment of
thy cynicism a boil unto thee. Jerusalem, thou that shouldest decision; and contrarywise he who is a rock in an hard time
be his bright spot, is forsaken. Instead of casting a light, ye would be overbearing and an offender in an easy time. When
draw your curtains. Thy children make love into obligation, the ax is laid to the stump, could not he who died exalted in
sincerity into appearance, and think that I cannot understand a peaceful time, falter in a calamitous time? Therefore are
what is in their hearts. Ye delight not in my words, but ye the works of man an uneven weight before the LORD. But
put your faith in your strength, and your counsel cometh faith abideth in any time, and the love of God is a steady
from the valley of your sojourn. weight to weigh faith more precious than gold and more
6 Is it such a marvel that thou dwellest not in peace, O enduring than time, and of more value than flesh.
Jerusalem? I have afflicted thee, but thou hast not grown 3 Why seek ye one and all the LORD by the light of your
wise from thy stripes. Thou thinkest with thy flesh, why then own counsel? But hear these words, O Manasseh, thou who
hast thou not learned from thy stripes? Instead of thy crown, followest thine uncles so close, and hearkenest not unto the
O Judah, Jerusalem is thy last bastion. The LORD shall LORD thy God. Thus saith the LORD, for thus ye are
plead his cause by his sword, and deliver thee by his mighty quickly gone astray: even because the light of the anxious is
hand. What shall your pride be like in that day, O ye dim, and it lighteth only their countenance. The LORD is as
stubborn of Israel and ye haughty of Judah? Shall ye speak unto a mirror, and he revealeth thy face. Therefore, ye sons
out of form that day, and bring insincerity in your basket of of Israel that follow the sin of Manasseh, ye keep your light
offering? dim, for the sojourn of such as ye is as in a dark tunnel.
7 But speak ye every day, The LORD hath holpen me; I 4 Thou too labourest with but a dim candle in a dark tunnel,
know not all. Evil hath betimes come to me, yet I knew it O Judah waiting for redemption, because Manasseh is thy
not, for the hand of the LORD delivered while I slept. We light, and he is thy younger, and Ephraim is belligerent and
shall rejoice in the sun’s rising as in the day of our leadeth with shouts; thou seest not anything but that which is
deliverance. Perform not the covenant of the LORD with an around thee. Whither thou goest thou knowest not, hither by
eye and heart to getting a reward, lest ye perish as the what route thou camest thou hast long forgotten. Thou
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encircleth thee closer. The sum of thy ways is lost. What 3 For the LORD’s wrath caused the whip to crack, and for
hath been thou canst not remember, and whither thy way his glory sake he was far from us. But the LORD’s mercy is
now wendeth thou canst not imagine. everlasting, and his faith the finger that doth pluck the chord
5 Interpretation is a dim candle, and rationalization is a to thine heart and cause it to come to life and hum a new
brittle wick. No man hath seen his heart while he liveth. song. He doth declare: I shall make thy children as an
Therefore walk after the way of the LORD. He declareth ancient, and he who hath few days as if he was from the
unto thee again, thou hardhearted— Ephraim, thou hast beginning. My ways have not changed, saith the LORD. As
made of thyself a god of thine own imagination, and created a mother loveth her child and as a father bkvelleth for his
me in thy changing image. Thou wilt not speak in my name, son, so have my ways not changed, and so my ways shall
but thou wilt command and declare thy traditions to be holy remain forever.
and thine oracles to be those of mine own mouth.
6 Therefore have I spoken clearly unto thee, O Israel, while
Ephraim gropeth the walls, and while Judah waiteth to see CHAPTER 35
what shall become of Manasseh. Behold how I, even I, saith
the LORD, speak unto thee plainly that thou mightest know WHITHERSOEVER I send my word, it is the breath that
in the day of my smiting thee wherein thou hast sinned, and cometh before my body, as the shout of a caravaneer before
so cry unto me and I will hear thee, and I will turn thee unto his train. Hearken unto the LORD, O ye mountains of Israel
me, saith the LORD God. Thou shalt recall my words and and ye parapets of the free cites, and ye towers in the
thou shalt turn unto me and I will deliver thee out of the cultivated fields. Let his words reflect from off your souls
troublous hands of thine enemies. like the sun off the purest gold. Send forth the message: The
7 I have written upon mine head Faithful, and I shall call ye distant land trembleth before my words, and my caravan is a
back. I the LORD do declare it. My word shall stand, O my mighty army. Entreat the LORD while he approacheth, and
people. I shall not see you destroyed anymore. I shall harden not your hearts or make dull your ears. Let not the
perform my words which I speak here upon you. I shall battle be set in array. Your troops are but a line of ants
wound and I shall heal. Though ye have been halt for so before me, and your great men but a bug of a bigger belly. If
long, your legs shall tighten in their joints and spring ye into ye entreat not, then be as wise as the ant that fordeth up for
balance, and ye shall leapcall at my words as a young calf. the flood of the LORD, for the LORD sweepeth over the
Ye shall cast aside your dim candle, and ye shall place your land, a sword from Galilee to Gaza, from Acre to Elat, as
feet on the steps of Shiloh. No more shall ye have an idol of unto a winter flood before he shall sweep over the land as
your minds— no more shall there be an high place in your unto a spring flood. In that day the LORD shall reveal the
hearts, in the day when I bring you back from your coasts beauty of his countenance, and in the interim ye shall come
and restore you to your dwelling places. Henceforth and from the American wherein ye sojourn, from the nations
forevermore from that day Israel shall say, I am the LORD wherein your feet are not sure.
and Thou art my God. 2 Come ye that make haste, and make ye haste indeed;
come from the wilderness in that day, for the nations
conspire wrath. Come ye a rejoicing, come ye with haste that
CHAPTER 34 see the LORD’s doings; that rejoice in anticipation of his
beauty. Zion is bare. Her ground is smooth by reason of
I DO declare faith unto them that have not faith. Unto them flood, and not tilled; her seed waiteth to spring forth. Some
that thought of me not, shall I be as a fountain of life. Faith I shall spring wild and some shall wait for the tiller’s plow.
shall give as water that a desert may bloom. As a chorus of 3 Hear ye now even the word of the LORD concerning this
fine instruments stirreth the soul, so shall I cause a rushing Zion that languisheth by reason of its hardness. I have given
in the heart. The Gentiles shall see thy resurrection, and they thee glory in the nations, O Zion, O crowning mount and
shall come forth to life. For faith is life to a body. It is the choicest parapet of Israel, and made thy glory as unto many
picked chord from my soul, a highway from mine heart. springs in a dry place. Yet thy garden hath not grown, nor
Faithful am I, saith the LORD. I shall call thee forth and set the beauteous flowers of spring bloomed. I have made thee
thee up as aforetime. Death, get thee from me! Away, thou beautiful, and thy people as the beautiful bodies in the sun of
evil affliction and curse of man! The LORD mocketh thee Elat, of tan skin and white breast. I took away from thee the
from his heaven. scourge of Europe and the falsity of cimpression. Admirers
2 If thou be plunged within thine iniquities as in a churning have come with flatteries, and thou hast hearkened unto
torrent, doth it require much faith to know the land shall them. They sought thee as the bodies of dElat, and they
support thy foot? Stretch forth thine hand. Come from the delighted in thy flesh, and thou wast flattered.
river acrimson and be thou blotted clean by a clean cloth. Be 4 What good was their counsel? Was it not from the lust of
anointed by a fragrant oil and let thy sins be blotted away their eyes? Where now is the abode of thy glory? Those that
and left without trace. The LORD shall change thy remain to flatter thee are few and foolish. Where will be the
countenance with a touch, and he shall give thee comfort to
abundance.
b
Kvell; to be happy and proud.
c
Christian tradition of pretending to be “jewish” to makeone’s self seem more
authenitically part of a “chosen people”?
a d
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unterlickers in the day of judgment? Behold, it shall be so: of the hatching of crocodiles and to the breeding ground of
the flood shall cause them to cease first in its undertow. cockatrices. As the eggs of the serpents hatch serpents, and
5 How thou hast delighted in usury, and banked thy flesh cockatrices hatch cockatrices, why then doth Israel’s eggs
unto thy flatterers in the nations! Thy credit is near at an end. hatch forth a worse generation than them that laid them in
Why didst thou not deal in my word as in sacks of grain, and store? Was the former not bad enough? As serpents’ eggs
as in the bounteous harvest? where money cannot affix a hatch so hath the self-righteousness of Israel given birth to
value and no lien shut off its reaping. worse ignorance and ignorance to greater presumptions.
6 But thus saith the LORD, Because of thine unbelief I 2 Declare unto them, peradventure they shall hear thee:
have removed thy flatterers and made thy borders to quiver. Behold, the LORD shall be as a vulture to this Judaea, and I
I have taken the fine bodies of Elat and replaced them with shall swoop down and kill the serpents a laying. And I shall
the black hat of ignorance, and the coolness of the seaside be as a badger, and I shall steal the unguarded eggs and take
breeze with that of the presumptuous mouth. Not because of them thence to another lodging, and there I shall place them
thy flatterers, but because thou wast smitten by their lies. by partridges and train them at their hatching and teach them
And why wast thou smitten?— because thou believest not in they are not serpents, that they no more know the ways of
the LORD thy God. Turn your heart unto me, ye captivity, their fathers, whom I slew in my wrath.
even now, saith the LORD, even now, and I shall hear you. 3 The LORD enquireth of Judaea, Doth not a buzzard cast
How can your heart be right if ye do not believe, and how a shadow for a time to come? Therefore take this as a
can ye obey if ye do not believe? And how can ye believe warning, O Judaea, before the buzzard descendeth. Ho, all
and not obey? ye of Judaea! I speak plainly unto you. With no rhyme,
poetry, pictures or prophecy will I thus again declare unto
your hard hearts the superfluity of your ways. I speak
CHAPTER 36 plainly, and put no fine point upon my matter with you: Ye
are rude. I pass by your marketplaces and your sacred
BEHOLD, I knock down the pillars and the roof shall fall; I meetings and, behold, ye are a rude people.
kick out the braces, and the walls give way; I remove the 4 O Judaea, thou braggest of the law so thou coverest thy
floor from under this generation, that he who standeth by droppings lest my spirit see uncleanness in the land as I go
faith may be declared unto this perverse generation. about the camp. Thou delightest over a tree, yea thou
2 To him will I look, and I will make him a pillar to come. I gloriest over a sapling, and makest thy rivers clean and thy
will put my heart into his bosom, and my words into his hills green.
mouth. Even to one as this shall I look favorably: he who 5 Thou makest the land a clean place and the environment a
standeth by my faith, and shall not yield to the multitude of shrine in the name of the LORD; but thy sins stink more
perverse counsel; that saith not of tradition, “It is the will of than thy sewers, and no sewer can discharge thy filth.
God;” or of things wherein man delighteth, “He hath 6 Your rudeness is more offensive then your draught. Sins
declared it.” The generation that shall come shall call him a ye cannot bury under dirt, my people, consider; but your sins
prophet and a prince, he who standeth by faith and putteth ye cannot bury under dirt, and with time they do not
aside the vanity of this wicked generation; that knoweth and decompose and feed the soil. They rot the land and corrupt
declareth to this people that traditions are the will of God your generations after you.
only to those without faith. 7 Put thy sins from thee, O Judaea. Love the LORD thy
3 I shall strip this generation of its walls and its foundation God with all thy heart and call him not a liar. Hearken unto
to see whose faith is in the LORD. I shall strip them as an his word, even from the beginning until now, to believe and
army defeated is stripped of its armor. And no more shall I to do it. Let every man love his neighbour, do justice without
be called Idol, and no more shall my words be called Totem; reward, and I shall see no uncleanness in the land and my
but they shall know me again, and they shall scamper to do soul shall not abhor thee.
my words.
4 Upon such an one that shall stand by my faith I shall
place my name, and he shall declare me his God; and I shall CHAPTER 38
be his God. The evil of the days that shall come shall be as a
coward before him. He shall vanquish them as days that are WHEN indeed hath Israel believed upon me, and when hath
already long forgotten and not to be seen hereafter again. any nation embraced me? Who hath called upon my name
5 Faith is a rock indeed, and he shall say of the LORD, that I had not appeared unto first, as unto the morning star?
“Thou art my mason.” Blessed is the man who saith of me 2 They see me from afar. They see me early; but no man
“He Liveth,” and the son of man who saith “He is my rock.” approacheth. Yea, no man draweth nigh to the place of my
I shall guide his paths, and all the days of his life he shall habitation. No man keepeth my sight in his heart as he goeth
know that his God liveth. upon his courses.
3 The sun casteth a shadow upon them. Its shadow is a
burning canopy. All they that walk upon the earth tread in a
CHAPTER 37 desert place. There is no tree, nor doth rock and cleft give
coolness from the sun; but its own shadow casteth the sun.
AND the word of the LORD came unto me, even the burden Their light causeth dimness of their eyes, and the lids thereof
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 4 Night cometh and even this light is removed. Man 18 Yet I look about me, and I am grieved. There is an
stumbleth in the evil thereof, and terror is his companion. empty holder, and a man tendeth a brittle wick. Behold, over
The darkness of their noonday yieldeth to the bleakness of the nations darkness and a gloomy bleakness. I am grieved
their night, gloomy darkness, stillness, except for the for there is no man to strike a light.
surefooted approach of calamity. 19 Therefore the LORD doth set his light in the tumult of
5 And as dawn approacheth yet again, and the fear of thee, O Judaea— a light as unto the morning star. Remove
gloomy terror is removed, and the heat of day not yet full ye the brittle wick, my people, clean the holder.
come, man considereth the evil of his ways. He looketh off
to the morning star and considereth his ways yet again.
6 So hath been man before me all his days, saith the CHAPTER 39
LORD. Why wilt thou not remain content, O man, and keep
the dawn vision before thee? The sun shall not scorch thee, PREPARE ye to hear a sound in Moriah: “Let us reside.” I
nor a mirage seduce thee in thy desert journey. The terror of say ye, an echo in the courtyards is heard. Leave off thy
night shall keep to its abode as thou passest the way thereof. labour and come and worship the King. Lay upon his steps,
7 No nation hath called upon me, saith my Lord, and no and shed tears upon his feet; and be thou clean every whit.
man can boast himself of me, saith my God. Who is there 2 They that counsel in blood cannot be found, and he that
among you who looketh to a star where it be not? seeketh them knoweth me not. Blood I abhor. How my soul
8 I plundered me Israel upon whom my name is called. I loatheth death, and my heart the soul, the thought of him
plundered me the nations, who called upon my name. Out of who intimateth death. The pit beheld me; at the day of its
many, I took many, out of much I took plenty. forming it dreaded my coming. No place was found for it in
9 But no sign holdeth a man for long, nor can the image of the earth, in the day of its begetting. Corruption was afraid
it remain in his pupil. He goeth back to his ways. The sun of me; for my abhorrence of death it would not draw nigh.
casteth a shadow upon him and he cannot behold me. He As God liveth, so do they who call upon my name live
squinteth his eyes; but his heart closeth his ears. forever. What hath cattle death to do with me, and where can
10 I call not out; but I shall be found of him that its place be found in my abode?
considereth, of him that forgetteth not the stillness and peace 3 The ways of the LORD create peace, and they cause the
of the early dawn vision. flower of Zion to bloom; but the slaughter of thy flocks
11 Ah, to what end availeth it a man that he should boast of created a cold heart, and one not inclined unto the LORD.
my name for prestige and know me not? saith the LORD. But come ye to the LORD, for he is comely, and of a gentle
What is this saying, my prophet, that the children of Israel hand upon all those who shed tears. Be thou forgiven at the
have appropriated amongst the nation in which I cause thee sight of the LORD. Kiss him as a beckon before he cometh.
to dwell? —we must keep up with the Joneses. 4 Hear, O Israel, declareth the LORD with a mighty voice,
12 Set thyself against thy people, and prophecy: In like and all ye nations that call upon the name of the LORD,
manner doth Israel call upon the name of the LORD. The offer now of your hearts offerings unto the LORD: peace,
heathen boasteth of wealth, and Israel boasteth of me; but it graciousness, and a meek spirit, love and benevolence,
is a false boast, saith the LORD. Oh, how my soul groaneth oppress no more the hireling, and give unto all a fair
at he who boasteth of my name to feel the better amongst his measure for their labour. Ye who shorten the hours of an
neighbours! Of they who journey in the desert, there is none hireling that he might not earn his bread, shorten no more. O
so foolish. vexed land, be thou clean, and set not thy cleverness to
13 They construct a pleasant mirage, a beckoning oasis in cunning.
the desert of their day. They lie amidst the palms of their 5 Rejoice O land that is muddled, and O ye careless
fancy, and in the cool breeze of their imaginations do they thinkers be subdued. For the LORD, for his great namesake,
lie idle. They drink the elixir of deception; and none shall subdue the impudent brow, and he shall cause to cease
knoweth that he withereth in the sun. They who make it to the perverse tongue. The circumspect man shall be a
night shall be delivered to the terror. They shall not keep congregation. He shall declare the great name of the LORD,
strength to pass through to the dawn. Their redemption is and take courage and inspiration from his doings. For the
ended. LORD is honour and dignity, he is the ancient and
14 Hearken unto the LORD, O Israel: I chose thee not, O honourable, and the noble Lord. He mindeth not small things
Israel, but I chose thy father Abraham. What good dost thou that he might lay a snare. For his great namesake he shall
see in thyself? Say not the LORD chose me for this. I chose never run before his enemies, nor see them dash to pieces his
thee not. people. His crest is upon him and his holy name gird about
15 When I promised thy father, to set thee apart, to what his waist. By liberty and abundance doth he conquer, forever
purpose was it? Did I not magnify the nations that day, the conquering is the Mighty God and never oppressing. Liberty
day I honoured thee with my name? conquereth; she is forever in his hand; oppression is not her
16 The LORD set thee as a light unto the nations. Yet thou scepter.
drewest very few. He who setteth the tune and writeth the 6 The liberal shall be elevated, and the seeker of iniquity
lyrics thereof, for whom doth he do this? Is it not for all who cut off. In place of the grasping hands, the giving palm; in
shall hear? place of the clamorous mouth, circumspect speakers.
17 Oh, how valuable the nations that I did raise up so great Wisdom shall choke out weeds, and shall cast its pollen in
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berries. Beauty as the thorny rose shall pierce those that you, O captivity, and yet ye would not turn unto me.
draw night unto it, that it may be regarded with respect. So Because your withered teachings told you to regard my
shall the LORD clothe the land by his wisdom, and place words as less than those who scavenged them, ye could not
over Israel the apparel of beauty, and so shall he cause all believe.
those who approach to respect her. 16 When my words were spoken, your masters snatched
7 And we shall dwell in peace and surety. The hours of the them from you, saying: “We too act on behalf of the
hireling shall not be stopped nor shortened that masters may LORD.” A word here. A word there. Let us make it into a
make long their income. He who is skilled shall not be mountain impassable. They weighed my words falsely, saith
treated as a migrant. In all the land there shall be plenty, that the LORD, and in the balance they added their own words
a man may call a stranger friend, and friend his brother. and tipped the scales to anger me more.
8 Woe unto him who deviseth mischief, whose counsel is 17 Therefore I speak clearly in my wrath, saith the LORD,
set to find means of annulment and circumvention. The that ye may know I am, and that ye may be sure it is I who
LORD shall not set him in an high place in that day, nor him bringeth this sore chastisement upon you. And that ye may
whose mind is set to extract money, who thinketh long and also be sure, saith the LORD, that it is mine hand which
hard on how money may be gained. Woe unto the bringeth also the good, in the day in which I turn you unto
government that setteth money as the annulment and as the me, to make you a peculiar prize amongst all nations; that ye
redemption, for their clerks govern them and their officials may know from hence forth to walk in my ways, to teach all
are money changers and their judges are reapers of lucre. nations. For I will teach thee once again to be a glory, O
9 But rejoice thou land of adders’ tongues, for the LORD Jerusalem, and thou O city of David to be a fair virgin; Ariel
shall give unto thee the eloquent man, the artificer of beauty, to soar, where my justice dwelleth. Thou shalt hearken unto
the clever wit, he who maketh profound his music, the my words and I will guide thee. What is not clear I shall
builder of gates, and the judge who judgeth rightly by the make as glass. What man hath made murky, I shall distill.
heart of the LORD. In that day the adder shall withdraw into 18 Thou shalt surely soar with aAriel that day, for I have
its den, and for lack of air and stalking it shall die. Great promised it, saith the LORD. Thou shalt swing from
shall be the death thereof, that the adders’ dens shall cave in b
Orion’s belt, and converse with cCassiopeia; dPleiades shall
by the multitude of their rot— and the place of their nesting, be instructed at thy voice. Thou shalt say to eDov, “Come,
the chief habitat of their domiciles, shall be called the valley hear;” and thou shalt take of the fladle, even the greater and
of silence for the depth of the valley that shall remain. And the lesser; and thou shalt extol the name of the LORD thy
ye shall no more be vexed by the adders’ tail. I have heard God, whose hand hath made all these, and whose hand hath
this from the LORD, and so shall it come to pass. chosen thee. Soon thou shalt giggle at the heights. Yea, thou
10 Behold in that day a sound, in Moriah a sound: David shalt laugh at thy former ways, and the philosophies inspired
singing to his lover. An offering from the LORD: flesh by rubble. Thou shalt not mourn at thy turning for long, and
reappearing. The LORD of hosts shall perform this. shall humble thyself at the graciousness of God.
11 (The oracle against the heads of Ephraim) 19 For in that day you shall see that I AM, that I AM God,
12 Thus saith the LORD unto the towers of Jerusalem, and because I draw you unto me as tender children, so that not
unto the mountains of Judaea, I call from the horn of one of you faileth in the way. Now shall I arouse the envy of
Jacob— and who is he who answereth? He is gathered as Jacob, saith the LORD. The languishing of Ephraim will be
unto the fallen stones and dispersed seed. A call to assembly no more. He who is exalted from on high shall be the envy
is heard in the plains, and a gathering is made of armies in of Jacob and the pattern for Ephraim. Laughter setteth well
the ruined places. Moreover, thus saith the LORD who on him who despiseth petty things. So shall Jacob and
calleth from the horn of Jacob and maketh it the sounding of Ephraim scorn the teachings of your Polish swamis, and so
his voice: Come ye from the houses of death, ye within the shall they shake their heads at the cowherds and barbers ye
cities. Let the watchmen of your gates see the gathering of made Rebbes. For Jacob’s envy of the LORD hath waxed
banners. But no man stirreth, and there is pity because none strong, and Ephraim’s desire shall be to his God.
answereth. The houses of death have done their work, and 20 Thus saith the LORD, be not like unto them. They are
the watchmen are next. They shall come out and join the not the ancient and honourable, and their seed no older than
army, and leave off the artificer of death. 10 generations. They are mystics whose gsouls soar as the
13 Is this not the state of the wise of my people, saith the crow; but as a crow landeth on a pig so too do they haggle in
LORD? Have they not dealt in natron, instead of the fragrant
spice? and in detestable things rather than pure. a
Name for Jerusalem, also the gnostic demiurge (will/creator god, the Lion)
14 Bile is the broth of their ointment. In your hunger ye Leo
b
went to them, and in your thirst ye drank of the wisdom of See Orion Cheifs of Oahspe. Home of high gods who govern earth, swing on
their belt as a child would his Father.
mankind, bile unto the LORD. And then as ye withered, ye c
extremely wise and beautiful Goddess, associated with Andromeda system.
d
turned to false teachers and yet ye did not grow fat. Your Associated with Atlantis (jaredites or antediluvians?). The seven sister
goddesses. See Job 9:9 and 38:31, Amos 5:8 and Rev.1:16 It is supposedly
ways grew thin. Your laws and your traditions were as this sun around which our sun revolves… thus the Kae-e-vanrash of the
parched skin on dried bone. There was no substance and ye hypocephelus
e
Hebrew for Bear or Ursa Major
could see no substance. f
Little and Big Dippers are contained in constellations of Ursa Major and
15 Speak unto them this word, saying, Thus saith the Minor.
LORD, Is this people’s pride not a stiff neck or is it a weak
g
Like Eastern and modern mystics they can leave their bodies and their spirits
can commune with other planets, but they don’t better humanity much… and
heel? Yea, saith the LORD, it is a weak heel. I have afflicted thus not themselves either.

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common courts. They taught you to round a corner of your ye shall say, “We are the flesh for which the seething is
heart that ye may not serve me, and to weigh my words, and prepared.”
of their study they make a false science.
21 Upon their women they require a covering and then
make it a false covering of hair that they may mock CHAPTER 41
substance and make it look as if there is no covering.
22 Better not to be born than to do shallowness in the name MOREOVER, the word of the LORD doth declare, O ye
of the LORD. The sins of my people have a false covering of shallow and blind-hearted, not a double way, as in your own,
righteousness, and your bandage, ye Perushim, causeth their but a single way. I shall plead wisdom to my people with a
sores to fester, and the Pious to wax as a canker. I see them rod and a sore humbling. I shall make it as the exchange for
dance as do the primitives. I see them carry my law as a barley and for wheat, and I shall exchange therewith and
token and as an idol of men. But they know not what is in it, feed my people. No more shall they who sit in conclaves
nor do they understand. teach my people. And no more shall their lurching prayers
23 See from afar off, ye mystics; let your souls seek the declare my spirit. They are as those who pass stones, and the
past, even the mists of Europe, to see what I have done to the deep contortions of their faces have marked the passing of
place of your nativity. For your father was a Pol, your offense into the bucket.
mother a half-cast passing thought, and that place became a 2 It shall come to pass in that day that all those who keep
desolate inheritance. Mend your ways while the LORD the things whereof I gave unto Moses, thinking that he shall
speaketh peace. gain from me the resurrection, shall be as they that sacrificed
in secret places. He shall be called ‘He who maketh the
LORD into a usurer and merchant.’ He will hide in the
CHAPTER 40 graveyards, and the things of the LORD shall be a shame
unto him. He shall preach to the gophers, and he shall root as
THUS saith the LORD, The embalmer’s art doth speak. By the hedgehog, and the bats shall be his commiserants.
strange practices the heart hath been preserved, though 3 But who is the man to whom the LORD shall look upon
withered and empty. They who escaped of my people went with delight? even this: he who should love me more than
thither unto the house of death, unto the artificer who anything; he shall be as my child and I shall be his father. He
preserveth, unto the vats of natron to be immersed therein. shall keep my ways for he seeth that his father feedeth him
Thus they hid themselves from famine. aCorruption did they and clotheth him, and freeth him from the hand of man’s
not see, neither did they live and thrive. oppression.
2 Therefore thus saith the LORD, I am against you, O ye 4 Is there any father among you, saith the LORD, who
Pious, the chief artisans of vanity. According to your vanity placeth a burden on his son or delighteth in keeping accounts
will I do unto you, and according to this will I accomplish with him? It is this that the LORD hateth: that we know not
your rebuke: Behold the crow and her kin. I have arrayed that our piety is sin. We all Pious are dried sore as a well
them in black that they might scavenge and not be desired. with no water. We all made his laws selfishness. Yea, self-
They come from their place with a loud noise, and no man obsession is our light; it is waxen gross upon us like the
careth for it. But a loud report sendeth them on their way. So bright spot of disease. Our sins are grave indeed, but,
are ye crows, and your conclaves the roostings of her kin: behold, it is our hearts that have truly transgressed, for they
the magpie is black and white and hath a beak called roar like a lion, and we boast like unto the cockerel.
beautiful; the raven maketh a threatening sound, and the 5 Let the lion roar no more, and let the cockerel see the
rook appeareth wise. The jackdaw congregateth. But they roasting pot, and leave off its boastings. But hear ye the
are all scavengers of the odd and unusual, and all squawk an word of the LORD: Ye say I clothe you— but I recognize
offensive sound. That which delighteth their eyes take they you not. Ye say ye brag of being my people— but ye fear
to their nest. So do you scavenge the words of the LORD, every man, and a dog maketh you to tremble. Your eyes
but only of those things which attract you, and so do you wander at a count to 10, and for fear ye will not admit the
take them back to the place of your nesting and do nothing number. How deep ye are! How shallow must my spirit be if
with them. I walk with you. Rather should my people eat of swine’s
3 Are not the master’s birds fed at his aviary? but the flesh and break a dog’s neck before me than cast my name
scavenger feedeth without. Bend your ear unto this unto the carnival and tie my laws with the knot of the
condemnation, ye artificers: thus saith the LORD, your ways superstitious and fearful.
have arisen from the wilderness; your food was retrieved 6 The heavens rejoice at my glory. The Universe trembleth
from the unfurrowed lands. I commanded Moses from at the awakening of my wrath. My glory causeth the angels
Horeb, and I spoke through the Prophets, but spoke I not to burst forth.
from the groves of your dispersion nor from the mountains 7 But ye are as brave as your conclaves and as mighty as
of Poland. Keep your 613 ways, divide them as it is pleasing your inability to count to 10. Call yourselves not my people,
unto you, and at the time of your gathering unto your fathers for my sons would be as me. Neither the coming of the night
nor the heat of day would retard them. Mercy they would
run to. Graciousness would light the paths before them. A
a
The lot of all the pios is thus, living in fear they stay innocent and escape whirlwind they would tame, and a burp they would not
corruption, but they also never thrive! Prosperity and intelligence comes form
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 8 Behold, they whom ye have detested, I have not detested. right,” for who art thou, O man, to always think of gain and
And they for whom ye had no regard, my countenance hath consider thyself in the measure of things?
looked upon. Though they be not like you, because they be 3 But upon whom will the LORD place his rebuke, and
scattered amongst the nations I shall gather them back and who will the LORD harden— even him who esteemeth
give them the land of Israel. And many peoples shall run for himself by grace and who useth grace as an excuse. To him
refuge unto the LORD in that day, and I shall plant them will He make His works a burden, that grace may have no
safely in the land. form, that pity may have no meaning, that the works of God
9 But be thou Samaritan, saith the LORD, for thy ways may have no substance, so that he might stumble and fall,
shall not be linked with me, saith the LORD God of Israel. and be cut off from the name of the LORD. Even such an
Whence cometh this foolishness that I see? Behold, they one as this will God harden, that grace may be only word
who are called the most pious amongst you serve other gods, upon word, work without deed, feeling without substance,
and your hands lay hold of a chicken wing for justification. precept without purpose, that they that teach grace without
Ye are as they whose hands caress stones, and as they who mercy may be snared at the heart of God, and destroyed.
covet a tree to make of it what they will. Be thou Samaritan, For him will the LORD’s words be winnowed, strained and
for thine abominations and sacrifices do make thee as sieved, that the LORD’s wrath upon him shall come and not
a
Bethel, a place of false altars, and thy heart the hob of false tarry, and that he may not see the days of grace that shall
fire. Thy flesh is a false sacrifice, and Gerizim a seedy come. They are chosen for destruction, and grace to them
mount; and it shall come to pass that as the Samaritans thy will be without mercy, grace without form, word without
flesh shall be false and thy ways far from me. Thou shalt be deed.
no more Israel, and Judah shall not accept thee, nor shall 4 But let your hearts go forth. Let them fly from you as a
Moriah be thy mount of rejoicing. But thy ways shall be the swallow, that ye may visit all men and be messengers of the
ways of mutterings, as thine incantations; and ye shall be most high God. He is the LORD your maker, the great king,
cast off, every one who corrupteth his soul with the bflesh of the God of Israel. Blessed is the man, yea, blessed is he
beasts and the sacrifices of hen’s blood. whose feet weareth bells sounding the egood tidings of the
10 I seek to rejoice, but it is far from me; for this my people LORD; whose heart chimeth in tempo, proclaiming the
hath corrupted their way. Their hands fondle birds and their lyrics of the doings of our God. It is he who craveth not
hearts utter strange spells. This people is iniquitous; the worship, nor commandeth appearance, nor accepteth
branches are foolish and the stock is dry. Why? Because persons. It is he who is your God, calling the heart to
c
guilt hath made wise their own knowledge, and the people repentance. He delighteth not in a heavy rod, nor doth he
shrug at indifference. come with scales that his words might be the barking of
11 Come ye to the graveyards, to the pits therein that ye merchants.
have dug, and sacrifice to the idols of your own incarnation,
for no more shall the light of day bear them, or the sun cast
its rays upon them. They are for the moon, and for the deep CHAPTER 43
and shadowy haunts.
THEREFORE thus saith the LORD your God, who is he that
is foolish and what maketh a man to delight in a stupour so
CHAPTER 42 that he will not stop and consider himself and the sum of his
ways? Is it not he whose mind and heart is always to his own
THE LORD speaketh bold, he proclaimeth clear from his gain? Thus saith the LORD, this is indeed this people of
mouth his dholy oracles. Let all men live by them. Let them mine. They have indeed become stupid, for only one thing is
rejoice at their understanding, in the day of their before their face, and this causeth them to interpret my law:
understanding. Let them not forget the LORD their God, for even their own gain and their constant thought of rewards.
he is a mighty terror unto the nations that hate him, and a Therefore I shall bring up with me always they of the
sure rock for those who call upon him. Blessed is the man Gentiles who shall believe upon me. Because their fathers
who shall live by the LORD, who calleth unto him in also saw my terrible works which I wrought in Egypt and
passion “My God, My God.” came forth from Egypt to hear me at Horeb; and because
2 The LORD is not joyous when the wicked perish, and he they came to me with no works of gain, but sought the Lord
hardeneth his heart only to bring to balance the scales, that while he was near; if my words should ever pass, if my way
no man should say of his creation: “It is my trough,” and of should ever end, so shall the remnant of the nations end
his fellow man: “He is my ladle.” But the Earth is the before me. I say unto thee, Never shall they of the nations
LORD’s, and all they that labour and all they that rule are cease to be a people before me, to tread my courts, and to
the LORD’s. Let no man say “Grace hath given me the praise my name. The LORD thy God hath declared, and so
shall it be. I shall never make an end of grace, nor shall pity
cease before me. They are as the ordinances of the heavens:
a
Jerobaom set up false alters at Bethel after the Split from Soloman’s they shall never cease. They were spoken in the beginning,
kingdom.
b
See oahspe for the hidden meaning of beasts. The fleshly beasts of the earth
and they shall not cease to be spoken after the end. They are
are our corrupt offerings to our false Gods, who are in fact the beasts we the works of mine hands; the labour of my soul.
sacrifice.
c
Ones own feelings of guilt are the seeds of pride and self-righteousness.
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 2 Mercy, mercy, hear the armies of the angels sing before plain, thou sayest “eh?” Your captivity languisheth; its feet
me. See my throne carried from on high, for I the LORD do laggard, its heel a lead ball. But ye masters of foolishness
mount up my hosts. Trumpeters sound, tambourines are snatched away my words lest my people should consider and
beaten, the host move forward. Who will stand before me repent.
and put up his hands and say “I cannot find my covering. 5 Ye are scattered about the Earth, to the four winds.
Where is the place of my kippa?” I send forth mine angels, Jerusalem is in desolation. Ye are in captivity. Was it sin or
they who have stood before me, and where is their covering, righteousness that caused this to come upon you? But ye say
and what cloth is so fleet that it may match their speed as my words are of no moment anymore. We shall hearken
they go forth? unto the Elders. Let them tell us we are beautiful and that
3 I proclaim it as I am true and that there is no other God our souls are clean.
beside me, saith the LORD. I look down from my heaven, 6 Therefore, thus saith the LORD of hosts, hear, O Israel,
and marvel. This people hath become shrunken and blind the hard way that thou hast chosen. This last time I shall
hearted. Ye are shrunk within your wall, ye Perushim; it is as afflict thee. Affliction is a hard tool, and a rod from Syria
a band constricting you. Therefore, thus saith the LORD, I shall I bring upon thee, and the Egyptian from the south. I
shall appear first outside, and I shall marshal mine army shall lift up thy filthy skirt so that the American no longer
against your wall and against your masonry, and your gates adoreth thee and plieth for thine hand. He shall not deliver
shall not withstand the army of the LORD. thee from the affliction that I shall bring.
4 If my ways are small, saith the LORD, and if my mercy 7 Go call him the eagle if thou wish. But he shall have a
should be set in bounds, my goodness drained as if from a woman’s head and a man’s desires; a scepter she carrieth to
bucket, so shall Israel remain a remnant before me, enclosed tilt the scales of justice. The LORD is a mighty archer, and I
in high walls, shrunken, picayune and without knowledge. have brought me down many a swift bird of prey, and lured
But as my mercy is a torrent, my nature a never-ending many a chicken hawk from the nest of its neighbour.
fount, so shall I as a flood course through Israel, even Judah, 8 And the LORD instructed me, Go place a caldron at
a
and I shall make your remnant as a multitude, your hearts an Damascus Gate, for out of the north I will bring tumult on
open green pasture; and Israel shall not be again made unto a this land and on this city Jerusalem. It shall be a river. The
remnant, but the sons of Isaac shall be many, many as unto American shall pass through this gate to bJoppa way, as a
the stars of heaven. Your walls shall I bring down in my river also, and he shall no more return. For I make Jerusalem
flood, and my torrent shall disperse the masonry of your a caldron and the Syrian as the boiling water seeking its
hands. So shall the LORD do this, for your masonry is as stony hearth.
unto an idol before me, and your shrunken laws as useless as 9 For they have provoked me in all that they have
a lifeless form which cannot speak, even to say Ho! there is provoked, saying, The American will deliver us. I am angry
your God, O Israel, he cometh, he cometh hither even to with Jerusalem and discontent with Tel Aviv. I shall make
shatter me before him. Jerusalem as the handle of the caldron, and Tel Aviv a
morsel in the seething therein. I moreover shall make your
walls as the potsherd and Tel Aviv as the shards of its
CHAPTER 44 residue. Hear this word that I have spoken, O Jerusalem, and
turn and repent that I shall relent. Cast ye off all the
O FOOLISH people, hearken unto your God. Ye of the malnourishment of the dispersion, wherein ye hearkened to
seacoasts, prepare! Ye of the mountains, look afar off to the foolishness in the poverty and famine of your souls, for I did
east, to the north and to the south. Place your hand upon not speak unto you then, nor did I counsel your fathers, nor
your brow and squint. Set a watch. Set a watch for a would I hear their prayers and guide their dreams. None
sandstorm, for a wall of destruction, and a bitter overthrow. came into my presence and sought my counsel, nor
Sound a trumpet at the sight. Ring the bell of warning. Let instructed I them in anything. But you have sought the
him sink in the valley of decision, and cover himself with American, and you have desired the nations. Even now do
the LORD. you desire them to deliver you from hard times; but ye know
2 If ye believe upon the LORD would his scorn be not the LORD your God.
injurious to you? Why suffer it! Why endure ye in the dry 10 Yea, surely all they that walk within the desert walk
and desert place, only to come to the darkness of your ways? alone. They seek a companion; they look for footprints to
3 If thou believest that I am, O seed of Jacob, why dost guide them. Yet they who come to the night seek to be
thou tempt me? Why dost thou walk a desert place? My alone; fear of footsteps in the darkness, a companion coming
water is for thee to drink. Why then hast thou poured it upon through the unknown. Before the dawn breaketh upon thee,
a desert weed that it may grow? Shall a weed give thee O Israel, that companion shall afflict thee. In the darkness
shade from my wrath? before dawn, the terror cometh upon a drowsy slumber.
4 Thy potsherd hath committed sore abomination because
of the wickedness of thy soul. Thou hast poured it as
magical potion, thy magicians declaring “Make a curse into CHAPTER 45
a blessing, and rejuvenate this land.” Thou hast poured out
thy soul as blood in the doing, and wherewith will thy soul
now be rejuvenated? Is my law a riddle? When I gave thee a
Modern gate on north directly between the Christian and Moslem Quarters.
plain riddles, thou understoodest them not. When I speak b
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THE word of the LORD that came unto me, saying, Speak embassies to America to deliver thee pointless. The Lion of
unto Israel, even Judaea and Jerusalem, and reserve a word the Isles will not come to thy rescue. But I say, Nay, go thou
against that day that cometh, and say: O ye scattered not up, whole Britain, nor send thou the Scot with the
captivity and thou entire Palestina— Ye have chosen a hard American, lest thou sufferest a greater wound from thine
way. A fool’s ears are on his back, and with a rod must he be ally. They shall not thwart my purpose nor douse my hot
taught. Ye that pass through these gates, that have made sword from the smithy’s furnace, for I set over the fEast
a
Dung Gate a highway and bValley Gate a river, say not “We Gate a two-edged sword is in mine hand, against thy rest and
come nigh unto the temple of the LORD” while ye betimes against the nations it shall burn.
do business. “By the hand of the LORD, by the hand of the 5 gKedar shall not be a safe exile for you in that day. It
LORD, the nations preserve us.” Thus saith the LORD of shall be a gathering of armies, and into every wilderness ye
hosts, the God of Israel: Pass no more through Dung Gate, flee ye shall be within the scope and not be hidden. For my
for I shall make the nations a heap and a stench in cHinnom sword shall swiftly streak over Jerusalem in that day, toward
by my fury. I pour out my fury on them, and I upset, and the West, and it shall cause the great sea to boil, and the
make them to bewail; and ye shall enter dSheep Gate for the strength of the occidental lands to fail. It shall cut in pieces
stench thereof shall be great and the heap thereof a source of the priests of Baal-America who bestride hValley Gate in
scattering. Charisma-Hinnom, saying, “By the temple,” but denying I
2 O ye muddled and wearisome, ye make long your avenue am He, and it shall dash even the armies that come not
of repentance and short your avenue of pain; long distant hither, in every wilderness yon. Because of the nations and
your place of confession. Each one flattereth himself and their priests of Charisma and their lying tongues is my wrath
expandeth the chest in boast. By ignorance ye boast of the sore upon this place.
nations, and by foolishness ye set no watchmen upon the 6 Have a dull ear, shake the head, pull away the shoulder.
walls, that ye may make long your deception of surety Ah, think thyself the wiser for thy implacability. Let the
within. Hear ye these words, for the LORD God of Israel is cynic be raised as a standard; every tiller of the ground and
he who lifteth up his voice in the gates, and his cry from the plowman think himself a prophet in that day. But I shall
walls. It is just that I should make an utter end of you for bring my word to pass, saith the LORD, though ye say,
your arrogance, saith the LORD, but it is not just that I “God cannot speak;” and though the guardian of customs
should cause sudden wound unto mine own heart. Therefore maketh himself bold: “Let us hear him then, if so he
I will not see you cut off as a people, saith the LORD, speaketh. Was he not the invention of our fathers?” Do they
though schlunder ye make your pace and laggard your heel. not provoke me to anger, saith the LORD, though I will not
Thus saith the LORD, It is I who did scatter the Ishmaelite be provoked? “Speak not a word against our customs that set
and the Palestinians around about you that I might bring this us apart. Say not God is not, but speak thou not in the name
day to birth, even the day that I wipe away your pride and of the LORD.” Though it is a provoking, have I provoked
blot out your transgression. me that my soul should lash out?
3 I have waited for the day, and now I speak it. I form it 7 Stand ye aside from the gate! What aileth thee, watchman
with my words, and I prepare your hearts to hold it. Even of the LORD? Have we not called thee our brother? Wail not
while your fathers sinned I preserved them, even while ye in the name of the LORD, thou Nazarene. We hear no
sinned I wiped your enemies from you these last 55 years e. marshaling of troops. Shalt thou, my servant, be provoked, if
Do ye think it was your own power which dissembled them? I am not provoked? saith the LORD. The voice of Hananiah i
I set in store for this moment. Ye shall never perish before from America doth magnify himself as Hananeel j, and
me as a people, nor shall I make an utter end of you from the declare the LORD hath not spoken unto me harsh tidings, to
land. I speak it now forever: it was not to preserve thy flesh thwart thy people that they should repent. Behold, they say
that thou shouldest be preserved before me, O Israel, but it let all worship what he will; the LORD causeth this peace,
was for this generation to see my great namesake justified in and he is found in whatsoever causeth contentment.
all the Earth; that they might be raised up, and that Israel 8 Behold, saith the LORD, do they not make a mockery of
should bear its place, a nation of believers in the LORD their me, saying this is my peace, these whoredoms they have
God. I shall get me honour in all my creation that day when pronounced? Therefore thus saith the LORD, though they
all the Earth knoweth I have prepared this day from the provoke, it is their contentment that shall cause sore pain
beginning, and now I speak it. upon them. For this I will deal terribly with them, for my
4 Hearken unto me, for I will not part from my purpose. people are corrupted as unto the Americans without, and
For surely, saith the LORD, I make an end of thy surety on thus they hear not the marshaling of troops. Though troops
the nations. Thy rest upon the Gentiles is vanity, and thy marshal not, I shall destroy them; them that marshal I bring

a f
Enlarged in 1952, to become main passage for vehicles. Ancient gate, perhaps just east of Dome on the Rock facing Mt Olives.
b
Likely the sealed golden gate above brook Kidron, between temple mount Christians think Christ will enter through this gate at his coming.
g
and Mt Olives. Mentioned 9 times in Bible. Likely a reference to Jer 2:10, where Kedar refers
c
Gr. Gehenna (hell). Place of Baal sacrifice outside Jerusalem, facing Dung to the Ishmealite lands of the East (opposite the meditranean sea).
h
Gate. Ancient disputed gate, given this verse it was likely east of the Mount near Mt
d
Ancient gate near pool of Bethesda. Jesus usually entered through this gate, Olives and Kidron as already mentioned.
On the northeast opposite dung gate. In modern muslem quarters. First gate 7i False prophet who opposed Jeremiah’s message of destruction, proclaiming
Nehamiah rebuilt. that Israel would NOT be destroyed and that the captives would be returned
e
55 years before 2004 when prophesy was inscribed, or 1949 when Israel was from Babylon within a few years.
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unto this place. Ye shall flee via Dung Gate, and cast behind ye may know the LORD’s intention upon you in that day.
you aHinnom and its baalim. Content therein is every man in For thus saith the LORD of hosts, I shall cause great fear to
his valley. Everyone seeketh distinction, rewards, and come upon all the northlandsn; and bodies shall make their
power. The most judgmental are called liberal; the searcher homes their tomb. The American shall walk on foot. I shall
of iniquity is called tolerant; and he who defendeth himself bring up they from the south for fear of what shall befall.
is called hateful. As the kingdom of Jeroboamb the son of The seething shall take them; it shall oconsume their tongues
Nebat, are they any different than the Canaanite about them, first; their eyes shall be consumed, beast and man, great and
and any less cvenal than the Phoenicians in their day? small. Yet for all this I shall not speak peace upon the earth,
9 Thus saith the LORD, O ye foolish custodians of vanity, nor stay mine hand until I make an utter end from the pOld
ye that say God is our expedience: Behold I, even I, saith the Gate westward, and a wind to cleanse upon the East Gate to
LORD, bring convulsions upon your gates, and grave fear the islands afar off, until the houses of their god’s are bare
the nations; even from the Dung Gate dsouth unto the Sheep and their gold an abomination.
Gate, from the eHorse Gate east unto fJeshanah, even as the 13 I shall speak unto the deep, my voice shall reach unto
world as upon Jerusalem; and ye shall be as enchanters who her lowest abodes: Bring up Leviathan, that king of the sea,
have lost their arts and flatterers who have lost their guile. I that coiled armored serpent, to be discovered from the place
shall pour out my fury and mine anger as bitter windg upon of his myth, into the harbours, for too long hath the LORD
the nations; the horse shall lose his rider and the oxen their been declared myth; and as he breatheth fire so shall the
yoke; and thy yoke off Israel I shall take. And it shall come LORD declare his vengeance upon this generation; and they
to pass that they who be left shall tread my courts with shall no more say, “He is a myth.” See your stars qcrash
gladness, and lift their song in the house of the LORD, down, they which ye have placed in orbit. Who can rturn the
where there will be no more enchanter and no more moon, and who is he that bringeth the heavens upon us?
gainsayer. Who can change man’s speech by waves ye know nought
10 In that day my hmountain of fury shall fill the Earth, and of? It is I, the LORD. Glory is my going forth. Justice is my
it shall rise forth as a smoke and a thunderous mounting burning fire about me.
upwards. And there shall be no place wherein a man may 14 And astonied I prayed against the dread which was to
run and say he hath excuse, for my wrath shall scorch even come, saying, “Lord, have mercy upon this Earth and turn
the ihinter forests wherein dwelleth the reindeer. thy face from thy fierce wrath.” And the word of the LORD
11 Search ye now for the fox’s roost, or for the place of the came unto me, saying, I shall have mercy upon the Earth by
dwelling of the unicorn, for surely if ye repent not now at my fierce wrath. Thus saith the LORD, as the Ishmaelite
my words ye shall flee and hide from me. No scorner shall burneth his own wealth to spite the nations, so hath this
remain in all my jholy mountain. For my wrath shall not be generation burned its own mercy before me and halted its
quenched upon the nations, saith the LORD; my fury not own rise. I shall plunge it low and utterly purge it before me;
made short until I have sunk the heart of every man, and I shall utterly bleach it in the depths of its iniquity, and that
removed the adder’s tail from every mouth; the prophets of which escapeth shall be escaped in mine hand, for an upward
k
Charisma from lHinnom’s gates. thrust maketh the LORD, and a sudden deliverance. No
12 Flee unto the multitude of cities, but a flood shall more shall they kill and eat their children; no more shall the
overtake you all. Flee unto the sea, but upheavals shall upset meek be a prey and the speaker of justice a target. They shall
you. Flee not and stand haughtily in your place, but the pray unto me, but I shall harden their hearts that they
green fire of heavenm shall descend upon you, and ye shall reprove, even reprove the LORD God, that I may bring upon
lose your hard eyes. Thus saith the LORD, seethe your meat these nations the wrath they have courted for generations.
in the caldron, and draw the flesh upon a seething fork, that For too long did they raise their bloody hands to me in piety
and praise.
a
Valley were Israel offered children to Molech & Baal (Jer 7:31, 32:35).
15 And ye shall set watchmen upon your walls in that day,
b
Made by Solomon the superintendant of conscripted laborers. An Ephraimite, in the day wherein ye need them not for the desolation that I
Made king of northern kingdom after their sedition. shall bring upon the face of the earth. And they shall look for
c
Showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery. Corrupt.
d
Sheep Gate is north of the Dung Gate (the Dung Gate is the southmost gate); men, and they shall not find them; but they shall find the
thus this refers to circling the world.
e
unyoked oxen; and the place where the horse was tamed, lo,
See Jer 31:38-40. Associated with prophesy of the city being rebuilt.
f
Gate mentioned in Neh 3:6 & 12:39. Also called ‘Old City Gate’. West of the there shall he be wild.
Horse Gate; thus again circling the world. 16 Say not the LORD will not do this thing. I have made it
9g Reference to Solar Wind or CME that will cripple technologically advanced
nations and create effects here described?
long, that ye may know the prophecy cometh and tarrieth
10h Reference to Moses and The Mount. Same destroyer to come, events in not, cometh even unto your gates and unto your desolate
reverse order? (40 yrs “in wilderness” to occur first). mount, and extendeth even beyond the days of your
i
From German; behind. A region remote from urban areas; backcountry.
11j His Temple/Church (it shall begin at his house). Isa 11:9 rejoicing and recovery, that ye may take warning from the
k
Reference to the “Charasmatic Movement”, as opposed to
“Dispensationalists” (see Chap x:y). Charismatics believe God calls people
through the gifts of the spirit without traditional ordination. (Allusion to Gentiles 12n Polar regions more affected by CME’s radiation? Celestial body heading
who self-proclaimed themselves as God’s chosen people and chosen rulers of toward earth comes from below (south) earth/solar system?. Or CME hits
the world) during winter and affects South Atlantic Magnetic Anomolie most?
l
2 Kings 23:10, a location where Israel sacrificed their children to Moloch. Jer 12o See D&C 29:14-21. Esp. v.19 also Zech. 14:12, Rev 16:9,11,21
19:2, Jeramiah commanded to stand by Hinnom’s Gate and prophesy Israel’s p
Once again, Old Gate is in the old city walls on the west, so ‘westward’ refers
destruction for their idolatry; esp sacrificing childen to Baal. to circling the globe before returning to Jerusalem.
12m Global aurora accompanying the Coronal Mass Ejection and/or magnetic q
Satalites will come down as they are damaged by the solar wind/radiation.
field collapse? r
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bitter overthrow I have brought upon the nations which cast 10 In those 50 days my spirit shall search out the heart of
me off, and ye shall trust in the LORD your God, and ye Israel to see if they shall abstain from their ways and from
may have peace because he cut off all they who would not the idols of their minds. He that ccrosseth the lintel of the
walk circumspect upon the earth. beams of the frame of his door, I shall visit. The LORD thy
God hath come to thy house to establish it. He that placeth it
as a charm or as an idol, I shall not come to. See, I am spirit,
CHAPTER 46 and man must worship me from a right heart.
11 I shall open the synagogues, and Israel shall teach the
AND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: My nations. As Jerusalem yielded to Constantinople, and as
prophet, speak thou unto Israel this word, also this word to Constantinople yielded to Rome, and as Rome yielded to
lay up against that day, a word to bring down the high places Wittenberg, so shall Wittenberg yield back to Jerusalem.
of Rome and Carmel, and a word to shake the powers of the The d time shall return. But ye shall not be like them, unto
nations; to lay in store, a day to build the shield of Jacob, their ages and times, nor walk according to their ages and
that I may bring the younger to age and set them up in that times, saying what happened therein was precedence of the
day as an anchor, a reserve I shall not deplete. No, they shall LORD, and I shall not humble you before them.
not be depleted, but they shall be a fine oil, a fragrant oil in a 12 Thus thou shalt not drink of the cup of the nations; but
jug that I shall pour out on all nations and yet it shall not thou shalt drink of the juneval headwaters of the LORD. His
empty nor its line decline. water is pure indeed, at the mouth of the rock; but, lo, the
2 This is what they shall do to lay in store against that day: further the water floweth the more impurities it picketh up,
In the year of the 70th hebdomad of the Gentiles, counting and there where it sitteth it becometh brackish and unsound
from Passover unto the 50th day, for I am the only shield for mind and body. So shalt thou consider the day of
and buckler unto Israel; salvation as the juneval source of the LORD. Ye shall
3 Therefore in those 50 days, let them enquire of me thusly, hearken unto Moses and all the prophets, and all that I taught
for I shall hear them, and there shall be no doubt. Enquire of your fathers in the day they would not hearken unto me
me of thy whole heart. There shall not a man or child waver. before my face before I scattered them upon the face of the
4 Enquire of the LORD your God: Did I come in the flesh whole earth; and ye shall repent.
amongst their fathers at the time appointed by my servant 13 Ye shall repent. Every man and every child. Ye shall
Daniel? I shall not hearken unto a lackey, or of him that doth repent. Your wives and your daughters. All that is within
not enquire heavily of my spirit to know. your household. Ye shall return and turn unto me.
5 They shall enquire thusly: 14 Ye shall correct the Gentiles in their ways, for, lo, they
6 In the volume of the books is it written that I should do have corrupted themselves; in things old and new they have
this, that Israel should not hearken as a body, and that I corrupted themselves: in matters pertaining unto the powers
should ago out unto the Gentiles, and that they should hear of the living God they have corrupted themselves, in that
me? they say I am not one. Lo, I Am eOne, saith the LORD.
7 No more of their excuses. They shall read, and they shall JHWH is my name. I have none other. My Spirit is holy and
enquire of me during those 50 days. They shall enquire of my tabernacle is fSaviour. I am Saviour, and gbeside me
me and study my words daily. They shall pray with a there is no god. There is no other path but mine. I split not
humble heart to know. asunder. Thou shalt not be instructed of the churches, but
8 If they hearken unto thee, and if they should believe in thou shalt instruct them, for indeed have they corrupted
the LORD their God with a whole heart, and if they should themselves before me; and my spirit shall come upon you to
enquire of me with a whole heart, I shall answer them, and I teach the nations. [This statement of Unitarianism accords
shall deliver. Lo, they have hearkened. I shall keep my surprisingly with Joseph Smith’s early Unitarian teachings
words whereof I spoke unto Moses, and they shall bnot be on God. See Mosiah 15:1-5, Ether 3:16, 2 Ne 11:7; 31:21,
cut off; for, lo, they have hearkened unto me, and I shall etc. See footnotes for more information -ed]
swell their hearts and enliven their spirits, and I shall remove
their tremulous hearts and their tense inward parts, and I c
Instead of putting blood on the lintel (top beam) of their doors as Moses did,
shall give them a new heart; and I shall give them peace. Jews are now asked to put a cross (painted, drawn or ornimenta?)
d
See Oaspe ‘Kosmon’ a return of the time of spirituality. B.O.M.; Restoration
9 They shall bow with their hearts to the ground and pray of Israel. These three text have surprisingly similar voices in this topic…
to me, without book or rehearsed speech shall they pray unto e
For Mormon’s, this verse may hold special significance as it was also one of
Joseph Smiths aims to “correct the Gentiles in their ways” concerning the
me. They shall pray unshod. They shall pray as they walk, nature of God. His initial teachings seem to have mirrored this teaching of the
and as they cook, as they study and as they dine. They shall Unity of God. See Mosiah 15:1-5, Ether 3:14, 2 Ne 11:7; 31:21, 3 Nephi
be unshod; for I shall pass amongst them to look upon them; 11:27-36 and a multitude of other sources such as found in this FAIR article on
modalism by Barry Bickmore. Or this this post.
and I am holy. I shall pass over them not as I did in Egypt The confusion in trinitarianims and modalism is also explained well in
when I passed over their fathers; but I shall come to the channeled texts such as “The Law of One” or “Oahspe”, where the complete
unity of consciousness in the Higher Dimensions is explained—as well as the
humble heart that seeketh and shall not pass him by or be far symbolic functions of the titles “Father, Son, and Spirit”. Like Joseph’s D&C 76
from him. and 132, Oahspe harmonizes the concept of a divine pluralism or multiple
levels of higher dimensional beings who are often called god or gods, but are
only truly God when acting in unity with “the one true god”. Or in Mormon terms
whenthey align themselves with the complete unity of Joseph’s Celesital realm,
see also Moses 1:6
a f
Isa 66:19-21 Ie Yahshua, (Yasha), to deliver, deliverer, or saves, savior.
b g
See Duet 18:15, Acts 3:22. Also 1 Ne. 22:20, esp. 3 Ne 20:23, 21:11,20 See Hosea 13:3, Isaiah 44:6-8; 45:5,21;

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 15 Behold, they have kicked fat, being fat and spoiled; and me in that day and my voice ye shall not ignore, and ye shall
having not seen me each fancieth his spirit’s indulgence. know that I the Lord, am the LORD your God.
None prospereth, and no hands join for a common good, for 20 Who knoweth the heart of men but the LORD? I see thy
all seek only what is pleasing in their own minds. But put ye pride, O Israel, and I shall hone it after knowledge and not
aside your witchcrafts, astrologers, your palmists, the after foolishness. But the stock thereof, thy pride in me, I
workers of Wicca, your wizards and enchantments, your shall let remain as the shaft of the beam that I shall hone.
quartz charms, and those who work with familiar spirits and And with it I shall support the uppermost works of the
speak for dogs and animals. Cast away the bones and carved house.
lewd images. Bring out from you these abominations that it
may be well with you, for by these arts doth a haughty mind
deceive himself. Those who claim a familiar spirit are CHAPTER 47
abomination to me, and those who declare “It is a gift,” lie in
their deception. Put these away and cleanse your souls that it HEAR ye now the cry of Jacob, a swaddling cry! From baby
may be well with you in the day of my wrath. For all this to manhood he groweth, for his hand is in mine hand, saith
mine hand shall not be stayed; but I shall utterly purge the the LORD. I teach him to walk again, and I bring him forth
nations wherein they have committed these abominations, and guard him through the travails of life. How love cannot
and wherein they pollute my holy name. choose! One is bound! Love compelleth! So am I bound to
16 Who layeth it to hold that the LORD is holy? And who Jacob, saith the LORD, and he will not earn me by
understandeth his great glory? As East is from West, so are knowledge, or by craft, cnor will a work endear him. Speak
my ways mysterious to man, and my ways approachable but not to me of thy merit; gratitude I am tired of. But come all
never surpassable. Know ye not that the LORD is honour, ye who are compelled toward the LORD, and receive
and without him there is no dignity. There is none who can everlasting life!
command of my spirit that I should perform it. 2 Behold, saith the LORD, though I gather Israel slowly, or
17 Shalt thou see me as I am? Shalt thou say, Lo, God gather I them fast, I honour my words, and they shall be
speaketh to me by each evening’s twilight? Nay, there is no gathered.
creature that can bear my sight as I am. I croon not by the 3 In that day thou shalt go up Nebo. There thou shalt take
window of maidens past their prime. I visit not within thy fist the dust of the earth. Mingle it with clots of
underachievers to give them their daily pride. Behold the clay, hard earth mingled with dirt, clotted earth. Mix within
great powers of heaven— it is as straw before my glory. But it pebbles. Within thy fist clutch it. From thy right hand
by my words ye shall know me and by my doings ye shall broadcast it before thee with one broadcast. As the dust
see me. scattereth and findeth no foundation so shall I disperse the
18 I am the LORD: I speak and it cleareth the muddled power of the nations about thee, and as the pebbles hurl to
mind. I breathe and it giveth wisdom. My words do not the earth in one gathering, so shall I gather Israel and scatter
prolong, but they give fruit an hundred fold. It lingereth not the power of the nations about thee; and as the mingled
in the ear, nor doth it remained caged within the heart. clumps of clay and earth shall fall around the pebbles and
Understand they not, nor doth flesh comprehend, no mind intermingle so shall they be a bulwark about thee, O Israel, a
hold, that no one can stand before the LORD as he is; no bulwark from thine enemies in that day.
creature can behold. No man, yea, no angel, hath seen his 4 Fear not, for I have scattered the power of the nations
face. No creature can withstand my glory; and as I live, saith ’round about thee, and I have driven them to thy borders,
the LORD Most High, I will not change my glory or sully it. beyond the river Jordan, beyond Galilee and Golan, and
Fire would quench your land, glory blind your eyes, and even unto the river of Egypt; and thou shalt go up Nebo and
your earth set a smoke. thou shalt perform this sign before Israel; that it is of the
19 Therefore I did a wise thing, and there where I placed LORD their God, that he shall perform this, at the time when
my spirit mine house was honoured. Canst thou lock me in a I have turned them.
house of stone, saith the LORD? Rock and metals cannot 5 I shall give them laws in that day, laws from my heart,
hold my spirit. No, nor can the apiercing of flesh destroy any saith the LORD. Laws that are good, good for their souls and
man’s soul. Therefore did he walk among us, and spoke unto good for their bodies. I shall codify my laws; laws to live by;
us bface to face, as we are. And who is there that understood, and all Israel shall hearken unto me, saith the LORD; all
and who is there that comforteth? We all are ignorant. We they of the nations with thee shall hearken unto me; the
all comprehended not. O Emmanuel. We called upon a kohenim, the prophets, the seers, and all they that dwell
temple of stone, and we delighted in a place that did not within the land; and they that cling to the LORD his God to
speak, and no man called upon his tabernacle. But we shall love me and to keep my commandments.
call upon thy tabernacle forever more. So shall ye call upon 6 Laws they shall be to impart unto the people my ways;
from a right heart they shall hear and they shall do; laws that
shall not tip the scales of my words; but laws that shall be
from an even weight before the LORD. I shall bind them to
a
Allustion to Christ, but this wording is but a hint to the soon to be restored
truths of Godhood and the God-head. Jesus was Jehoveh, because of the
unity inherent in that class of being(s). Not because “God split asunder” and
one became three like unto an egg…
b
Allusion to Moses being forbidden to see God’s face in Ex 33:20, (and yet c
Calvanist-like doctrine of grace vs. Judaic/pharisaical salvation primarily by
Christ came to let all see his face). works.

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their feet as sandals, and I shall engrave them upon their 8 The Kantors shall enter the holy house, and they shall
hearts, and in their minds will I rehearse them. sing before the LORD, before the holiest of all shall they
sing. With base, tenor or soprano voice shall they sing. They
shall sing in exultation, in solemnity, and in adulation. They
CHAPTER 48 shall sing with loud and with temperate voices.
9 This shall be the mood that ye shall keep in all my holy
The work of the temple is set forth. mountain, in all my courts, and in the passageways: Let their
be joy and a rejoicing, and let all who come remember this is
WRITE this in a book and set the words in store against that mine holy house, an house of prayer and peace, of stillness,
day, against the resurrection of mine house, for the keeping and of a burning heart, a lump within the throat, and a
of mine house, and for the ordinances that I shall give thee, penitent heart. It is the place of my feet.
for all who shall come to my house to worship. See that
mine house is built according to all the manner and custom;
and according to the need for size; that the plan of the inner CHAPTER 49
court and land oblation be done as I gave unto bEzekiel—
Was he not thy predecessor?— in the day that I gave it to LET the Great Basin be used for baptism. Let the priests lay
him. hold of they who come, and let them anoint them with oil for
2 At the base of the cross thereof, according to the design I comfort and for healing. Let them pray unto me, and I shall
gave him, I shall meet them. It is where I place my feet. It is hear the right heart.
my throne. It is the holiest of all. That place shall be holy. It 2 Let also the baptisms be done in order, and once only;
is not an idol for the people, nor is mine holy name an idol to once for each. Let the children come forth to be blessed. Let
be cast out, now allowing, now forbidding. But this is my them be blessed and the babies also, before the house of the
throne, and the outer chamber wherein there is the LORD in the inner court by the Great Basin. Let the
candlestick is my footstool. Thou shalt worship before me. sojourner that sojourneth among thee, even he that saith I
This is not thine house, O Israel; this is the house of the shall not be separated from his people, nor from the land, let
LORD thy God. This is not mine house in Jerusalem, among him come to this place, and before the priests let him be
many houses in other nations. This is mine house. I am the purified by the house of the LORD. There I shall see him,
LORD thy God. and there shall he be a Jew to keep my ways before his eyes
3 No more shall they demean the kohenim in that day, nor all the days of his life, and his children shall come also.
make light of them, saying, “It is only symbolic,” but they 3 Let the priests remember before whom they stand when
shall hearken unto my word. they shall perform their oaths and their duties before the
4 The kohenim shall keep their place in mine house, but Great Basin and the house of the Most High. For they who
him that polluteth the office, whether by deed or by mouth, come, come to me, and man may not prevent a sincere soul
saying, This hath no weight— he shall not serve until he from coming before the LORD God at mine holy mount in
hath repented before the LORD. Jerusalem.
5 And the kohenim shall comfort they who come to 4 This shall be the law of the nations who come before the
worship. They shall walk the courts of my house and they LORD, to be baptized, to have their children blessed before
shall walk among those that worship. He who is in distress the LORD, or for the sick to be anointed before the Most
and weepeth shall they comfort. They shall walk the courts, High, to be comforted before the eyes of the Almighty. From
whether they be the courts of Israel, the women’s courts, or the side doors of the inner court thou shalt set a barrier, a
the courts of the nations; they shall walk them and perform barrier of fine ringed cords, royal cords of purple and gold;
their duties. They shall comfort and edify all who come, and thou shalt extend it to the Great Basin, in the form of a
whether from the nations or from Israel; for this is the house right angle shall it lead up to the Great Basin from the door
of the LORD your God, and this is the service of his priests. to the inner court; and on days set for the baptism of those of
6 And I shall look upon their soft hearts, and I shall have the nations, or on days in which they shall bring their
mercy upon them; and the comfort wherewith they shall children and their babies, ye shall admit them to the inner
comfort people shall be my comfort, for I am an holy God, court of mine house. Ye shall ring off the soreg, and let them
and I do look down upon the humble heart and I do see the pass through; and they shall approach the basin in order.
soul in distress. They shall call upon me, and I shall hear They shall not step over the royal cords, for I have given that
them, and the kohenim shall comfort them and shall bless unto Israel to worship me any day or night; to bow and sing
them. to me, and for the Levites to harp before me. It shall be a
7 With harp and chorus may the Levites play before me, in solemn place, an holy place to worship the LORD for Is
a great congregation before me in the inner court; and they 5 But on sundry days, or as the need alloweth, thou shalt
shall sing a solemn sound before the Most High. With admit the nations into the inner court, all they to be baptized
Kantor and with psalms shall thy songs be acceptable to me, before me, and to have their children blessed and the sick to
whether base, tenor, and soprano voice. And the people shall be comforted and anointed. This shall be the work of the
sing unto me. Even the voice of the boy and the voice of the kohenim, and ye shall keep the barricade, for as I
old. covenanted with thee so did I go out amongst the nations and
they heard my call and came to the great king, to his
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court on sundry days and times and occasions as is a Jew all his days. He shall not depart from the ways of the
necessary; and shall walk within the cords and approach the LORD, nor his wife nor his children.
priests of the basin, those who perform the things of the 5 The lesser basin shall be of aaurichalcum, as the Great
Great Basin wherewith I charge thee now. Basin, supported not by the symbol of the might of the
6 There shall they be baptized unto repentance; there they LORD, but by four horses set as steeds facing out at each
shall bring their children, their sick and their babes; their old angle; for he who cometh unto the LORD to be as one born
and their maimed, and I shall look out upon them, and thou in the land shall be carried upon a mighty steed to declare
shalt bless the humble heart. Let not he who is proud the ways of the LORD all through his life, in his manner, in
approach me, no not of the nations, no not of Israel; for I am his ways, in his voice and appearance.
the LORD God, and thou shalt minister my things before me 6 If a man or woman seeking to cling unto the LORD God
and be a light unto all who come, warning and cautioning at Jerusalem, to be as one born in the land, shall have a
that they who come walk on holy ground; for I am holy, spouse that consenteth not, let there go from amongst those
saith the LORD. who know him, or those of your company, and let them
7 But he who is baptized unto the baptism of Jewry, he reason with her or him. If they shall not be moved after
shall tread mine inner courts as a Jew. Whithersoever the several times, then let that spouse still come to me to be
worshipers be gathered before me of Israel, there shall he too baptized with the baptism of the convert, for he cometh to
be. me, and nothing shall prevent him or her. I am the LORD,
8 On the days, and on the occasions wherein ye minister and all things are mine, and none shall come between me
the things before me on behalf of the nations, on these and they that love me to come to me and keep my ways and
occasions ye shall open the opposite door of the inner take upon him my holy name.
court— doth this not lead to the court of the women? They
may approach as far as the royal cords wherein walk the
nations, and they may worship the LORD their God within CHAPTER 51
the inner court where all Israel doth worship. They shall
worship before me, and they shall be dressed modestly. They THERE are no gods of the nations, saith the LORD. I have
shall not come with makeup or with jewels, nor great rings never been formed in stone, nor hath paint found mine
and plenty. They shall come modestly attired, and with a image. There shall no one come into my courts with a
humble heart. graven image. Nor shall anyone come to be blessed in the
inner court as one that maketh the courses of diverse
religions to be blessed. No one shall be blessed of me who
CHAPTER 50 supplicateth to krishnim and baalim, and whatsoever idols
and gurus they have. The LORD your God is not one among
THEY who come of Israel, male or female, and they who many. I am the LORD, and there is no God beside me. He
come from the nations, whether male or female, shall be who cometh to the LORD, cometh to him who IS, and he
baptized and anointed by the Great Basin. Upon the steps cometh knowing fully well that there be no God but JHWH.
they shall mount to the top, and by the Great Basin they shall 2 Herein shalt thou keep mine inner court holy and pure: on
be anointed. the days that thou shalt admit the nations, thou shalt not
2 And this is the baptism wherewith ye shall baptize them: permit any graven image before me. It is abomination. No
They shall kneel upon the platform, by the brim of the basin, embassage shall come before me of the nations to gawk.
upon the platform ye shall make for to access the height of Thou shalt not make a spectacle of the blessings of the
the Great Basin, and the priests shall dip a large golden bowl LORD. But thou shalt minister before me in the blessing and
into the holy water of the Great Basin, and thou shalt pour it the rituals of they who come to appear before the LORD.
over their heads, for I shall pour my spirit upon the humble 3 Thou shalt not receive money of any suppliant; no
heart of him that cometh before the LORD his God at donation. Gifts shall be given unto the LORD for the
Jerusalem. keeping of the courts at another place; and it is another
3 Let it be done in order, without rush or expedience, for ye matter whatever. The gold of him who thinketh he buyeth of
do administer before the LORD your God, before his holy the LORD shall be a curse to him. And the priest that taketh
house. Each in turn shall ye do it, and priests shall keep the things for his service shall be cast out into the nations.
basin full so that the chief priests among you shall continue 4 For no man keepeth the LORD, and he that bringeth gifts,
to baptize they who come to the Great Basin to be purified doth not the LORD also give a portion unto you for your
therewith. I am the LORD thy God that watcheth thee, and keeping? Therefore ye are kept by me, and ye shall receive
thou shalt not perform this grudgingly or with an empty nought of payment before the LORD. Take care, lest the
heart. This is the law of the baptism of the Great Basin, LORD see abomination before him.
whereby ye shall baptize Jew or Gentile before the LORD.
4 But the baptism of a convert ye shall immerse. Water
shall be taken from the Great Basin and placed in a lesser CHAPTER 52
basin which shall be at eye level in the holy court aside the
Great Basin. There ye shall immerse he who cometh unto
you, to cleave unto the LORD your God; and he shall remain
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AND on the day that ye shall come together to dedicate mine furniture or object. All gold and metals that shall be used to
house, so that all Israel casteth its eye to this place to rejoice build the holy house, the courts and their promenades, both
and to sing, on that day ye shall open two of the great side inner and outer, shall be virgin from the earth, and no tool
doors to the inner court; those that are further back from shall have struck them before their smelting save those to
mine house, the doors wherein ye shall cord from time to extract them from the earth. They must not have been
time so that the nations may enter before the LORD to the fashioned into anything and then molten again: they must be
Great Basin. Ye shall open them both, as they are opposite virgin from the earth; this is the ordinance for the precious
each other, and ye shall cord off the inner court in a straight and blunt metals that shall be used in the house of the
line from those doors so that there is a walk between the LORD, whether inner or outer courts; and likewise for the
cords from door to door. stone: ye shall use no stone that hath already been hewn by
2 After ye have dedicated mine house, and have man. The same applieth to wood; it shall all be virgin before
worshipped and shed your tears of joy, and of sorrow and the LORD. No idol that is melted down shall have of its
repentance before me, when and during your songs still molten gold or other metals used in the house of the LORD.
coming up to me, at the moment of climax of your service This is an holy place to the true God.
before me, as ye begin your duties before me, ye shall open 2 Save only for gems and precious metals. If they belonged
the doors and allow the nations to pass through, from one to an idol, were its eye or adorned any other part of its false
side unto the other ye shall let them pass, stop, bow their lifeless body, it may be brought before the LORD as a
heads and lift their hearts to me, and pass through before the tribute: the eye of an idol crushed and broken it shall be
LORD. called. It shall be laid before the LORD as booty, and it shall
3 And ye shall open the hinter gate of the inner court to the be honourable as prize of conquest over the superstitions of
women’s court and ye shall let the women to enter and sing men. It may adorn rooms of the courts that people may gaze
and worship before the LORD their God. On that day ye upon the gems and glory at what God hath made, ponder at
shall do this, and on days if the press is many and the inner what man hath corrupted its use thereof, and what it hath
court can handle it. But it shall be done peaceably. It shall now become: spoils over the idols.
also be done on especial occasions before the LORD, on the 3 So shall be the law of gifts brought unto the LORD.
feast days, and days of great rejoicing and press. There shall no idol be brought. But if an idol is brought, and
4 Only the fool saith I covenanted with the nations with not it is of goodly stone or metal, let it be received, molten or
the same covenant. Therefore ye shall let them pass through hewn for the sake of the poor or for other service unto Israel
before me in the inner court. But the rest of this court shall or those upon whom my name is called. It is the dispersion
be for Israel to worship, and it shall not be tread by the of conquest and booty, and it shall be acceptable after it is
nations, save within the path that leadeth up to the Great hewn or molten. But no idol shall be sold in its form, for
Basin on those occasions wherein the priests shall perform they are gods which are not gods, foolish lifeless stone and
their holy duties. Then a walkway shall be corded from one the incarnation of the ignorance of man.
of the great side doors, and they shall approach the Great 4 Whatsoever gifts are brought before the LORD at his
Basin. Have I not commanded thee already? holy house, and shall be received, ye shall accept, and ye
5 But Israel shall worship me, both in the inner and outer shall place where all Israel, and where all who may come to
courts, the soreg; whether by day or night, they shall pilgrim themselves in the land or to the house of the LORD,
worship. With a solemn sound shall all nations come before may see and observe. But an idol ye shall not receive, no not
to worship the LORD God. even they which are not worshiped and which are of great
6 The prophets that are prophets indeed may have latitude. value. Ye shall not receive them or sell them, nor broker
If they should come into the house of the LORD, they shall them, for the kohenim serve before me, and the LORD is the
be shod in socks of red, and wearing white tunics of the sort only God. Ye are not to have anything to do with idols
they wear, and their cloak, which is their fashion, shall be unless it is the casting down of them, and the taking of the
around them and upon their head— Is this not their custom eye of the idol. Ye may conquer idols. Ye may not serve
before me when they worship? This they shall do, for I have their interests. Any man that serveth an idol of the nations
set them apart as my servants, and I speak through the shall not come into mine inner court.
prophets. Therefore they shall have latitude before me, for
thou knowest not if I command them. Only in their rough
cloak and tunic shall they not enter mine house; but they CHAPTER 54
may enter mine inner court dressed as unto the prophets’
dress before me, for I have set them apart. SEE that ye build mine house and make my courts
accessible to all. Ye shall abhor no one who cometh to the
LORD to worship, neither because of skin, heritage, rich or
CHAPTER 53 poor, maim or beauteous. All shall come unto the LORD.
But into the inner court only the nations may come at sundry
THERE shall no gold or metal wrought, whether precious or times, within the royal cords, and there to worship and make
blunt, that shall come into mine holy house— for it is an peace before the LORD. Ye shall in no wise prevent them,
holy place unto the LORD’s name and a dedication to his or resist mine oracles, by hook or by loophole; but, see, I
laws and his ways—a fount of the purity of his way—that shall make your heart soft at your turning, and ye shall know
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to administer rightly before the LORD. Harden not your by case, on the merits thereof, by the actions and not the
hearts so that you abominate not my holy sanctuary. defense of those who come to judgment shall they be judged
2 Thou shalt give no upper place unto the rich, nor cast before the LORD.
back the poor. He that cometh shall worship at a place that is 3 Take heed, O ye kohenim and judges, lest ye corrupt my
open to worship, whether rich or poor; in the outer courts name in judgment, for the world saith, “We shall go up to
whether Jew or Gentile. But the inner courts shall be for my the LORD God at Jerusalem.” I shall hold him guilty of the
natural son, for Isaac. They shall worship, sing and weep punishment, he who goeth to the left or to the right of my
before the LORD here; and he who hath joined himself to judgment. I shall visit him with punishment in his life, and
them, as one of them; he shall be as they. he shall not escape who tippeth the scales. So is the scale
3 There shall be no permanent place for a worshiper; not before the LORD: equal and even; he that taketh it shall be
one for purchase, rent or from custom. All shall be taken from that none may profit by deceit and treachery in
a
circumspect before the LORD, and shall quit themselves the land. The LORD your God hath spoken.
when they are finished, with circumspection. So shall I look
favorably on the running of the temple.
4 They that come shall worship sincerely. For their sakes I CHAPTER 56
have given them that house, and I do see the heart of them
that come and I do not see the pretense. Let flesh look out THE royal courts thereof, the royal promenade of the main
upon flesh, but the LORD shall see thy heart. Cause them to entrance unto the temple, even at the outer courts before all
understand, and let the teachers and the priests cause them to those who pilgrim and petition shall enter the perimeter of
understand, that I flung the world into being, and all things my holy mount, ye shall make deep and columned. Of
seen and unseen. There is no greater fool before the LORD precious stone ye shall make them, of pleasing colors,
than he that imagineth that I cannot see the heart and that I variegated, and the capitals thereof shall be covered with
only see the gesture. precious metal. It shall be a place for cover. In here man
5 Ye shall not abominate with hearts of insincerity before may teach and speak of such things pertaining to godliness.
me, saith the LORD, for the visage of my wrath shall be Ye shall have courts in the outer courts where ye shall hear
upon this place if mankind should harden its heart and cases, and ye shall be holy before the LORD in all your
defame mine holy habitation whereupon my name is to be doings, even upon the most outer cloisters.
called. 2 There shall no money or trading be done within my holy
mount, nor anything done wherein one shall say, “We shall
even up outside the house of the LORD.” Ye shall be holy.
CHAPTER 55 3 Mine house shall be a refuge for the needy, a place of
solemn worship and comfort; a place of edification and
TAKE care, and guard ye well, in the distribution of rejoicing; a sure rock upon which one may call upon the
judgment, for many nations shall come up to Jerusalem, LORD God, and I shall hear him, the place I have tread.
saying “Let us go up to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, 4 He that causeth a tumult ye shall cast out until he
for we shall receive his justice there.” Let the judge put a repenteth. He shall come in and he shall repent before those
knife to his throat, and let all they who come be heard. Let before whom he caused the tumult; for mine house is an holy
them not be silenced from the matter at hand, nor let the house. If he be a prophet indeed then it is I who cause him to
courts be run as if a game and a show, for justice is sought of make a tumult. Look then upon your ways and uncover your
the LORD your God. misdeeds before me. Cleanse yourselves and repent. No
2 Let no case be tried by less than 5, and let them give prophet shall cause a tumult unless grave abomination is
themselves to prayer and humility before the LORD, to being done or about to be done, and I raise him up to warn
render his judgments, for the name of the LORD is upon you.
thee in that place; and many in the nations and in Israel shall 5 In rooms within the bcloisters ye shall have classes and
say, “Let us go up to be tried and we shall receive justice teachers, and they shall cause thee to understand my ways.
from God.” Let no one who cometh to judgment render Ye shall likewise have a place whereupon priests shall sit in
payment, but the judge shall judge from the heart of the the seat of enlightenment to dispense my laws and
LORD, with his words ever before him. Justice is no instructions to whomsoever should come, they who need
business before the LORD, nor cometh judgment by luck of verification or instruction in my ways and in the equal
the draw. Unto all an even weight: rich or poor, great or weight of the LORD. They shall sit upon their seats and they
small, handsome or homely, Israel or the nations, for I am shall instruct all who come, whether of the nations or of
the God of all flesh, saith the LORD. And this is judgment Israel. They shall have the books before them. All who come
before the LORD: equity. There shall be no expedience in to enquire of the law shall have an answer of instruction.
judgment, no fad or precedence: precept upon precept, case 6 The kohenim shall keep the temple always. They shall
not be polluted, nor shall they pollute. See, I have set ye to
your ways by inheritance. None hath earned of me. Rejoice
a
Defined as “well-considered”; but more specifically as defined in “Nabion,
instructions to the prophet”, where it is defined as “ ...to look around oneself.
in your calling, and possess hearts of flesh, so shall ye
See thyself in proportion to the greater scene. See where thou canst fit, see
where thou canst exploit and build up the right way. No man can walk rightly
b
unless he knoweth himself in proportion to the greater affairs about him. He will A cloister is a covered walk, usually with arches or columns. See
judge foolishly, and in a tornado [he] will object to a burp.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloister

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minister before the Most High day and night unto all who shall be as if ye heaped to yourselves an over-abundance,
come. This is your lot before me. beyond the measure of the LORD; and it shall be a canker
unto you. I shall be a canker unto you until ye put the
abomination away and make penitence.
CHAPTER 57 2 Each Passover thou shalt recall the acts of thy people, and
their deeds before the LORD, and when thou slayest the
YE shall have no waste upon my mount, nor shall ye make lamb thou shalt rend thy clothes. Thou shalt (the High Priest)
waste and cart it from the mount unto the sewers. Ye shall be wear a red cloak, and he shall rend it at the slaying of the
clean as so much as it be politic. Ye shall not spit; none who Passover, before all the people he shall rend it in anguish.
cometh shall have an issue from his body; save only tears 3 Ye shall eat of the lamb, and on the third day ye shall
shall I accept, the washing of the heart. Places shall be burn what remaineth, so that nothing is left to rot. This is
provided within the lodgings of the kohenim for they who perpetual before you. And ye shall remember that at
fulfill their course there, but ye shall not make stalls and Passover thrice the LORD passed ye over: at Egypt; at
b
places as a part of mine holy house. Let all take care before Golgotha; and even the day I turned ye again, when I came
coming and when going. Places beyond the outer court shall unto your souls. I am the LORD your God.
be provided. Sneezes shall be held by hankies; wounds shall 4 And if there shall be a great concourse of prayer and
be bound. supplications at mine house, and the kohenim shall receive
2 Someone who becometh ill, seized upon a sudden, shall prayers from all who give them, petitions and supplications
be taken to medicine. Ye shall provide a place wherein they before the LORD. And they shall pray for all right prayers
may be taken in emergency. Ye shall have mercy, and it before the LORD; and they shall humble themselves and
shall be as a river, yea, a flood, upon my holy mountain. He wear deep crimson over their tunics, for ye are a bloody
among the kohenim who saith “I am too holy to have mercy people before the LORD; all the kohenim shall wear wool
or to touch and be touched in mercy” shall be unclean before stained a deep crimson on that day before the LORD, about
me three days. I know the weakness of flesh, and mine eye is their courses.
upon the maimed, the injured, the distressed, and the aged. 5 And it shall come to pass in the latter days to come, saith
Ye shall be holy in all my holy mount. the LORD, that when thou abominatest before me, even with
3 The priests shall walk the courts, the open places and the blood and foolish things, things which never came into my
cloisters, their ears diligently seeking the distressed, the mind nor ever did mine heart counsel, I shall send blood
plaintive and the tearful, and they shall comfort. They shall unto thee. Thy courts in which thou delightest shall be a
comfort from the rising of the sun and the setting thereof. In mourning. The cloisters that once heard rejoicing shall hear
darkness and light, in heat and shadow, shall they perform anguish. The open spaces that were thronged by worshipers
the mercies of the living God, for my spirit looketh out. It shall be a place for the laying of cots and for the stretching
goeth abroad from my holy habitation and scoureth the land, out of the wounded. Thou shalt minister before the wounded
seeing who shall follow the ways of the LORD. Ye stand at and the battle scarred, and thy feasts will be shrunken and
my feet, all ye kohenim; be ye holy and circumspect. Ye without joy, for I shall bring upon Judaea, even unto
who are too holy, I shall be too holy for, and ye shall not Jerusalem, the sword that avengeth.
minister before the LORD JHWH. 6 It is I the LORD who cshall stir up the host of thine
enemies, and the train of their armies shall cover the
hillsides and encompass Jerusalem. As thou delightedst in
CHAPTER 58 the blood of bulls and goats, and in thinking the sound of the
slaughter of thy herds should herald my forgiveness, so shall
THIS shall be the law of the High Priest. It shall be even as I bring upon thee slaughter and the beast. Away with your
before. This shall be his duty upon the Passover. Upon the bloody hearts! The screech of an animal being slain shall not
Passover, ye shall slay the lamb, and ye shall hearken unto herald my forgiveness. If it shall expiate the guilt in thine
the LORD, unto the laws I gave unto my servant Moses. Ye own heart, I declare it a false expiation. Thy guilt remaineth,
shall eat of the lamb as I commanded him. Ye shall not saith the LORD.
dispense with doing this. Ye shall slay the lamb before the 7 Then shall mine hand shame thee. By a people that thou
people. It is anot an offering. It is for your feast. Ye shall hatest shall I drestore my holy things in that day. I shall
make no offering before the LORD, of blood or of flesh. I declare unto a nation that thou hatest, Bunyin, Restore, and
will not see it. It shall be as manna before the LORD, when he restoreth.
your fathers gathered too much. It shall be rot, for ye are a 8 But if thou shouldest put away the pride and the
bloody people before me; and if ye make it an offering it abomination, even in that day that thine enemies are sore
upon thee, I shall scatter them, and their standards shall not
a
remain at the gates of Jerusalem. So shall I do. Thou shalt
See Nabion; "KNOW of a certainty, and speak thou bold, that God
commanded not the blood of bulls and goats, nor did he instruct in any way in remove the abomination and I shall shame thee at the hands
the sacrifice of the flesh of animals. He condescendeth; he looketh upon the
heart of him who offered; a stony heart he accepteth not, but upon a acontrite
b
and penitent heart he regardeth and looketh with favour. What place then hath Allusion to slaying of Christ
c
the blood of bulls and goats? And wherein can be found expiation in their Prophesy, perhaps alluding to end time destructions of Jerusalem in Book of
flesh? " Revelation.
d
See Ex. 29; Heb. 10:4; Heb. 9:12-28, Isa 1:11, Jer 7:22, 1 Sam 15:22, Hosea This seems to suggest that the temple will have been rebuilt for some time
6:6, Amos 5:21-27, Micah 6:6-8,, Mark 12:33, Heb 10:8 NIV before the ancient holy things (Arc of the Covenent) are found and restored.

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of the nations. And thou shalt know that I am the LORD thy themselves and repent of their sins, for I have b atoned for
God. What I have done can never be added thereto. them and shall pardon them. He shall call out: “Behold your
9 Why endureth the LORD the froward, the arrogant and sins; behold your atonement.” And ye shall consider, and ye
the multitude of evil fellows? —only to declare those who shall recall your guilt, and ye shall recall mine atonement.
shall follow the LORD, and to make them a light of his 6 Alone of the chief priests shall the High Priest be unshod
word, that he might be understood and justified when he on that day before me in mine house. He shall not have
bringeth judgment; and also he convicteth the presumptuous socks upon his feet. The others shall have socks upon their
mouth— all they shall see what manner of men the evil are. feet; royal purple it shall be. But the High Priest shall go
And they shall know justice, and reconfirm it, and equity barefooted within the house of the LORD and without. The
shall be their sword, when they see the LORD overturn a others may shod without.
perverse man and a generation like unto a haughty, spoilt 7 And he shall take the bleached linen of wool and he shall
woman. take it to the altar, and he shall burn it upon the altar; and he
shall sprinkle the fire with the crimson water thereof, from
the plain wooden bowl, until it is gone. He shall do this
CHAPTER 59 before Israel, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
8 Save only the first Passover, when thou performest this
AND on the Day of Atonement, when ye shall come to the for the first time before me; then thou shalt not burn the
LORD, the chief priests shall come with the High Priest, the bleached cloth of wool, but thou shalt fold it before the
upper courses. They shall walk behind him into the house of people, and keep it in a storage vault aside the house of the
the LORD. He shall bear in both arms before him an empty LORD that ye may look upon it from time to time; for surely
bowl. It shall be a plain bowl, a wooden bowl without its whiteness will fade and its fabric become mehrp.
adornment or mark, roughly hewn. And he shall set it before 9 And because this is an high day, ye shall open the
the holiest of all, before the curtains royal of the holiest of opposing doors of the inner court, and ye shall cord the area,
all, and he and all they in the house of the LORD shall cast and ye shall admit the nations to pass through that they too
their crowns to the ground, upon the golden floor, and they shall see the work which the High Priest shall do.
shall bow their hearts and their foreheads to the floor and ye 10 Notwithstanding, after he burneth the linen, the High
shall declare: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD God Priest shall mount up upon the walls of the surrounding
Almighty.” And ye shall pray for forgiveness, and ye shall cloisters so that he overlooketh the soreg and the outer
pray for the people. courts, from the utmost heights of the surrounding cloisters
2 And the curtains shall be drawn open on this day, and of the inner court, at a place prepared. He shall overlook to
fastened, while the priests perform their duty, and they shall the south; he shall overlook to the east; and to the north; he
be closed upon completion. shall overlook to the west. He shall come forward and be
3 And the High Priest shall rise up, and they with him, seen by the multitudes; and he shall raise his hands, palms
leaving their crowns upon the ground, cast aside, and he outward, and give the blessing of the priests to all the
shall take from one of them a deep crimson cloth, made of people, wherewith I commanded Aaron and his sons to
wool and dyed a deep crimson. And he shall unfold it and bless. His voice shall be heard, and his hands shall be plainly
place it in a golden bowl, and he shall there bleach it until seen, the stigmata plainly seen. He shall do this east, south
the color bleedeth out and staineth the water. And the and north, and west.
bleached water shall he pour into the wooden plain bowl, for 11 And this shall be throughout your generations, upon
c
plain is thy soul and empty and incapable of offering before Yom Kippur, as a memorial to the people, and unto the
me. But as he filleth it with the bleached water, so have I nations, that ye are a bloody people, and I have brought
filled your souls with mine atonement. atonement. I am the LORD your God.
4 And if one should shed tears, another shall wipe with a
clean cloth, whether it be the High Priest or another. None
shall wipe his own tears. Ye shall not let your tears fall to CHAPTER 60
the floor.
5 And one of the chief priests shall place upon the High UPON Tabernacles ye shall come as before, to build
Priest’s hands and upon his unshod feet marks from the dyed dwellings, impromptu lean-tos, and recall your wanderings
water, astigmata, dyed with thick dye from a golden jar, in the desert. Ye shall build your dwellings where ye are
mingled with the dyed water, so that it may be stained upon able, and ye shall make them as before. Only now shall ye
the palms and the back of his hands, and the same for his drape over them a blue cloth, made of linen, and it shall
feet. And the High Priest shall walk outside the house of the insulate your roof. It shall be for all your tabernacles for a
LORD and he shall stand before the people, with palms out, perpetual reminder that the LORD your God causeth a
he shall stand upon the steps leading from the house and covering for you in the desert, a covering from your sin.
looking out over the inner court, before the altar and Great 2 Whether they be of Israel, or of the nations, they that
Basin, and ye shall all recall your sin. All Israel shall humble come to build a tabernacle to dwell therein during the feast,

b
This entire ritual symbolizes Israel’s rejection of Christ and his Atonement
a
Stigmata is a term used by members of the Christian faith to describe body (who himself was a symbol of all humanity’s wrongly afflicted innocents)
c
marks, sores, or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion Or Day of Atonment. Most Holy Day of the Fall festival (Feast of
wounds of Jesus Christ, such as the hands, wrists, and feet. Tabernacles). Just after the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah).

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they shall cover it with blue. All they who come shall cover and worms the saplings, but the seed of the LORD shall
it therewith. It shall be a perpetual memorial that I am the grow a mighty sunflower.
LORD your God; that I am the God of all flesh, and my 2 For they who are in a shadow there shall be no darkness,
covenant is my covenant with all flesh. Ye shall give no and they who are of his company dwell under the shadow of
separate place unto the nations and unto Israel. He who his wing. This generation shall surely say we are in the
cometh, cometh, and he who buildeth, remaineth at that shadow of a time past, of things we thought not, of
place. Ye shall eat bread and honey, and your feast shall be confusion and convulsion. But they that dwell in the shadow
sweet. of the LORD’s wing shall dwell in the light of his
3 At the Feast of the Ingathering, ye shall open up the countenance. Thus shall I preserve my seed, and none of it
opposing doors of the inner court, and ye shall string off the shall be eaten by birds or devoured by worms.
walk between with the royal cords, and ye shall admit the 3 For, lo, indeed, seeds hath my sunflower cast to the
nations; for so gather I all nations unto me, saith the LORD. ground and none have taken root. I shall let the head fall and
And they shall walk between, and I shall have mercy. embed the seed. A seed shall take root under the weight of
4 Thou shalt be clean before the LORD Almighty. Thou the head, and it shall spring up and cast off the dead head;
shalt not eat anything prepared with sodium mixed with and I shall build me up a towering sunflower. Let the times
another chemical. Thou shalt not preserve thy meat with it, pass as before, for the LORD remaineth. I create Jerusalem
thy fruit or thy vegetables. Thou shalt not cook with it, or anew, and a new heart in my people. And there shall no
use it as seasoning. It is abomination unto the LORD. more be there the peasant preacher, even the Perushim, and
5 In this fashion do all the nations that I draw you from their gezeirah and minutae; nor the lackey eager to obey.
abominate before me, and cause asore illness upon their own But they all shall hearken unto the LORD, and their heart’s
people. Ye shall not do so, for the LORD hath wrought a lust shall burn for me, and I shall care for them, and I shall
wondrous thing in his creation, and ye shall be holy. there love my people again as the fatlings of my flock.
6 There shall no man come to mine inner court bearing 4 For, see, I cause peace. I shall tie my sunflower to a stake
upon him a tattoo, save one burned upon him against his and fasten it at a dcross stake. I shall tend it and it shall not
will. It shall be removed before he cometh into mine inner be wild. This shall be its support, and it shall endure. Watch
court to stand before me. ye the ties, watch ye that they grow not brittle and frayed.
7 See, I have given thee these things, which thou dost not Tend ye to my work, O ye in my garden, lest I try my ties
wish to hear, both symbol and meaning, that it may be a and find them frail. For without support, when the head of
blessing and a weight upon thee. But thou shalt bear it. I the sunflower becometh full, it shall yield to its own great
shall give ye that house again, and it shall be a memorial to weight.
your ways and a light unto my ways that ye depart not from
my ways again, to abominate before me.
8 Behold bwhy I have made such symbols: that at cthy CHAPTER 62
corrupting of them, thy heart may be revealed, and the evil
known for what it is, made manifest to all mankind. THE LORD sendeth a message; by his mouth he doth
declare his judgments. Restrain thou my soul at the doing,
restrain my heart at my passing, lest the dead rise before
CHAPTER 61 their appointed time; for the glory of the LORD passeth by;
his feet touch the earth and if he should not restrain it should
LO and behold, I create a new day. I mend the rend between cause Sheol to tear open. Restrain, saith the LORD, restrain
thee and the nations. I heal the injured and I broadcast wheat my heart lest all the sons of flesh are consumed. The work
in the charred soil. A great sunflower taketh long to bloom, that I do is glorious, and the peace that I bring eternal.
but then it is magnificent. Yet it dieth and decomposeth, and 2 Let Sheol tremble, for it is reminded that its day doth
is food for the ground; but from its richness seeds there come. It languisheth not. Its door trembleth as in a pillar
again springeth up another. Birds may eat some of the seeds rumbling beneath its cornice in a mighty earthquake.
3 The dawn cometh again, and the vision in the cool of the
a
purple horizon. The third day doth dawn and beginneth bold,
For some reason diabetes and heart desease have recently sky rocketed in
the Middle East. Up to one in 10 Arabs now have diabetes. It’s uncertain why and the way thereof to the gleaming beams of the LORD.
e
this cultureal & geographical trend exists, but a reduction in salt might greatly For two days I wounded thee for thy sin. Now I say, Arise
help to curb heart desease in these populations.
b
Part of the purpose of revealed religion is to expose false selfish people.
from the pit. Shout ye, declaring, fResurrection of our God,
Those who think they are the most righteous and yet are the most selfish and the Regeneration! We see again and pat the face of our
evil—and thus are the most dangerous to society. beloved, and feel flesh again. Even if my shadow should
The same reaoning is given about animal sacrifice. God commanded the lamb
to be killed as food for the feast. And he wanted to see the heart of the people touch a man he healeth, and the dead he riseth. Thy strength
and priest as they killed an innocent creature for their own enjoyment. He is renewed, O thee of my choosing. All ye whose faith is in
wanted them to be sad about it. To do it in thanksgiving and understanding that
all cultures should seek to avoid the inevitable practice of slaughtering the
lowely innocent to engorge the exalted. But the priests corrupted it. They
glorified in the killing thinking that it made them righteous—a profound symbol d
Allusion to Christ’s cross.
of the self righteousness of idolatry and organized religion. e
See Hosea 6:2. “After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise
See Isa 1:11, Jer 7:22, 1 Sam 15:22, Hosea 6:6, Amos 5:21-27, Micah 6:6-8, us up…”
f
Mal 1:8, Mark 12:33 The resurrection of Israel is a common motif in biblical prophesy. See Ezek
c
Regardless for the reasoning behind these two strictures (no salt, no tattoos), 37:1-14. Part of the “resurrection” has to do with the restoration of cultures,
religionists will inevitably over-spiritualize and corrupt them. peoples and religions.

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the LORD, my beloved is justified, his name is magnified 7 The LORD shall not be a carnival to the nations, nor shall
among they who heaped curses upon him, they who were his mercy be made market for the comment of fools. But the
once his friends. I stand in the asunburst, all ye inhabitants of LORD shall be spoken of with awe, and when his word
the land, and what power can match mine, saith the LORD? cometh to pass he shall be praised, for better is the residue
They who heard the curses, curse not, and they who than the sauce, saith the LORD.
delighted in mockery are vanquished. A clean sweep doth
the LORD provide; by a mighty wind doth his spirit breathe
upon the face of the ground. The dust and the dirt is blown CHAPTER 64
away, by a steady east wind it is blown
4 They who heard the curses now bless. They follow the COME to reason, saith the LORD. O house of Israel, Come
east wind and brush their hand over the foundation. Upon gather your wits, and consider the LORD your God, that he
this they shall build their dwelling. But they who cursed are is a mighty shield and an everlasting hero. Consider what
blown, yea, blown far from the foundation. Sand is in their hath transpired unto you for so long. If the LORD bring
eyes and fret in their voices. The LORD hath silenced the upon you sore travail, a scattering, and a chopfallen
scornful and diverteth their tongues; and their shaking fists countenance, if I can bring upon you evil cannot I bring
are turned into groping palms. Truly, this is of the LORD. upon you all the good and blessings that I swear to bring
upon you? Just repent, turn from your hard hearts, and
believe in the LORD.
CHAPTER 63 2 If ye will not, but if ye remain stubborn, and pride
yourselves in your stiff necks, behold, I warn unto you of the
AND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: Give d
fox’s coming. Surely, he cometh to your tender vines. Doth
ear, my servant, if any of the elders of Israel come before the fox live within a vineyard or outside of the vineyard?—
thee to prove thee if thou hast spoken in my name, or to say in the unkempt lands, in the unfurrowed lands the fox doth
outright thou hast not spoken in my name, sit before them make his home. It is a brutish place where man stumbleth
and say: and where no foot is sure but the fox’s. The men of those
2 Hard eyes, hard minds, see the ducks walk, see the geese places are brutish, and their minds not cunning. Their
meander, see them lead their chicks on their way. Are they counsel is from stocks, and they seek counsel of vain
not a sight? Though they lead, doth not they that follow walk statutes. They make themselves gods in order to sanctify the
even as they? Have ye not walked this way since your own counsel of their own conceit.
youth? Though ye lead ye are a sight; the ways of habit, a 3 Forasmuch as ye have sought the counsel of the
musing and a source of laughter. American, ye have let down the fence and nurtured the efox.
3 When a man walketh to, do they not even scatter and Hearken, Israel, if the land be the eye, is Israel not blind
waddle away, parting before the greater force? without the apple? Nevertheless, O ye sons of Aaron, ye
4 Even soon do I bring my word to pass, and ye shall part minister only at the urging of the nations. Ye build and
before the storm of the LORD. Give little attention to my cultivate and cause to return fallow the desolate heritages
words, ye hard-hearted? So shall the nations and peoples which I made fertile; and no man counseleth the LORD’s
give little attention to it for the convulsions that shall be part. America hath urged thee, O Israel, but mine hand hath
upon them. Each shall fear at his own fence and cast not an forebearn that I should not let it be built. Why is this so?
eye to Jerusalem. 4 Even because the behest of the foolish is vanity,
5 Because ye sought the land to take comfort in it, and foolishness of a people consumed with their own
because the heathen proclaimed to you that land was the imaginations. Your sins and hard hearts remain. Therefore
jewel of my covenant, hear ye this word from the LORD: I fear constricteth your heart; it constricteth your borders.
appoint you to 70 years of captivity again, captivity and Your tent is howled upon and fluttered by mighty winds; and
desolation in your own land, captivity which ye expounders ye seek the counsel of a merchant’s passing caravan. Yet
of false laws could not extractb because of your hard hearts, again, ye will not seek the counsel of the LORD.
and because ye sought land and not the LORD. Because ye 5 The bullock and the horse shall tread in blood— the bull
sought a god of your creation I have given you no place to behind the plow and the horse before the cart. Ye shall sow
call upon. and reap, and no grain shall be clean of blood. Ye shall
6 Thus saith the LORD; cThy fence hath kept thee from my thresh with weapons and gather with coffins. Languish and
laws, but the storm of the LORD shall hurl his mighty dart, lament shall stir your bards’ tongues. The banker shall
and he shall pierce the siyyag, and the balustrade shall cave exchange with blood; and the builder and the stone mason
in at that point; and though it encircleth, all of it shall cave in shall hew with implements and fend themselves with them
and bow toward that point. as weapons, until ye vomit the land from your souls because
of its abhorrence; because blood and iniquity hath become

3a Reference to the cause of many of the destructions mentioned in chap #. d

Luke 13:32, allusion to Herod and the Roman Occupation of Judea. America
Electromag burst from sunburst. being likened unto Rome/Carmel and its “lying prophets”. See also Ezek 13:4-
5 b remove, usually with some force; get despite difficulties or obstacles 9; “O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts...They have seen
c
Israel has been more worried about maintaining its land and borders that it vanity and lying divination...”
e
has trespassed its nighbors. The captivity of Israel in an imerging Islamic Luke 13:32, allusion to Herod and the Roman Occupation of Judea. America
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abomination before you; and ye can feign tolerance no more, grape fit for the spitting out of it. Though I lift up thy skirt
even because you have become detestable by reason of your and offend America with thy nakedness, yet shall it be only
unbelief. for a season.
6 Until ye acknowledge again the LORD your Redeemer 13 But I lift up the skirt of America and until the end I shall
shall this come betimes upon you; and the LORD shall take make them a aproverb unto all nations. For I lift up their
you away from the land wherein ye dwell. Are there not skirt to thee now, that thou mayest know what kind of lovers
many, many more sons of Isaac in the nations that I can thy baseness hath taken to thee.
bring? For your land was neither womb nor breast. Anguish 14 The nations do not consider, America doth not lay it to
was the womb that brought you forth to your land, and heart concerning my word. They shall say in that day “Israel
despair your pap. The German was your midwife; America is not worthy.” But the LORD shall answer them with a
your wet-nurse. What are they before the LORD of hosts?— swift voice: Then it is not mercy. Hear now and pay heed, O
even the instruments of a dreadful God. giddy nation: Thou art wicked and yet I have not sent thy
7 For all mine hand hath made this: sowing and harvest, feet quickly to the dust. Thou art not worthy, yet thou hast
springtime and summer, flood and winter. I declared with tasted long of my mercy. Doth not the keeper of the king’s
laws the bounds of righteousness, and I spoke by faith the forest have mercy upon the tender sapling? Yet when the
ordinances of holy things; and man corrupteth the way great oak is mighty but diseased and rotten, doth he not anon
thereof. From start to finish, seed time and threshing, man’s cut it down to make light for the sapling to grow? How
desires are natural and primitive. There is none who hath much quicker shall it be done when the king himself seeth
declared righteousness before me; there is none who the forest and declareth and commandeth straightway that it
executeth judgment. After the similitude of beasts and man should be so ordered? Behold, I cut down a mighty oak so
made he his gods; out of the vanity of his mind he hath that a tender sapling can grow.
broken my precepts. I am the LORD. I cannot be formed in 15 In times of trouble shalt thou build, O Jerusalem, and
stone, nor can man form me in his mind. thy array of battle a swaddling cloth. Thine enemies shall
8 There are no bounds placed upon the limit of man’s snarl, and yet shall thy labourers not fear their enemies, for I
presumptions aside from my law, and there is no wisdom have enlarged thine house, and I have restored Edom as a
that proceedeth except from faith in me. Each corrupteth his bulwark, and I have replaced Moab as gates are replaced and
neighbour. The land is soiled with blood; it poureth out from as moats are redug; and they shall know I am with them.
the mind. It defileth the land. And why doth each man slip 16 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O seed of Jacob: Thus
thereon?— even because his eyes burn with mischief against saith the LORD your God, I have brought me down many a
his fellow. He counseleth toleration that he may lay in wait conqueror, and many an empire have I buried in the dust.
for blood with him who delighteth in it. Judgment is brought Have I done this for my amusement, saith the LORD? Or
hastily for nought, and for things of weight there is no did not the wickedness and pride of those nations come
counsel but wait, that ye can upset the measure, making the before me?
pim great and the talent small, the shekel justice, and the 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD, I pull the lobe and
poor a prize. The orphan and the widow are considered for a speak loudly: See how I disturb thee. Hearken, give attention
write-off, and their deliverance is expedience. and prepare for the day. America shall not deliver you, but I
9 Come, saith the LORD, though your sins be a river shall deliver them to convulsion, and they shall run when no
crimson, I shall make them fragrant oil, clear and distilled. one is chasing them. At a cough they shall be dissolusion.
Though your hearts be hard, I shall make them soft and Out of one I shall make many, and the time of their passing
pliable, and your mind of understanding. Come, enquire of they shall not see or consider.
the LORD. Come, trust in me, saith the LORD, for no 18 Their cities are as heaps of fall leaves, of passing decay
disaster cometh nigh unto me, and I shall not have fickle that rotteth, should it be left long if it heapeth. They are the
attention and passing feelings for thee, O Israel. gathering of bright colours; but they are brittle, and water
10 O American that seeketh flesh, Thou seekest such only causeth them to rot. There is no regeneration for a leaf
wealth as that fadeth, and treasures that are of so much dung. cast from the branch. Fire and wind are the only solution; so
Wherefore braggest thou, O Chaldean, over the Hebrew? shall I burn some in heaps, what man hath heapt; and so
Am I not the LORD that made them both, and that divided shall I scatter some that a congregation of them rot not the
the Hebrew from thy river? Wherefore braggest thou Japheth soil at the time of rain, and the watering of the labourer.
over Shem? whose flesh is the same. Incline not unto the 19 Howl ye for the fine buildings; they shall come down
American, nor entreaty him with a wink that magnifieth thy slowly at their own hand, and with a yawn shall she depart
flesh. from among nations, from being Queen of nations; for I have
11 The LORD is thy boast, O Judaea, and he is the name heard the cry of the black man and the red man wherewith
that setteth thy forehead apart and maketh it holy. A fire they have cried unto me.
driveth away the fox, but today’s sour grape protecteth the 20 So shall I do unto that mighty people, for their skirt is a
vine for another season’s sweet harvest. Stay ye within the filthy one, and their houses of prayer whitewashed pens, and
vineyard, for the LORD’s foot is surer than the fox, and his the land is soiled with bloodguiltness. I shall give their lands
cunning is better than a lion and his grip unrelenting like a quietly to others that they loath. As they openly cheated, so
badger.
12 Hearken attentively, for this is of the LORD: Thus saith a
In the same way Israel and Rome/Catholic church were also made
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shall those that come after subtly steal. For merchants rule gadgets of Japan. Hear them bark: “Goods for all! Burn
over them and they think my blessings are in wealth and incense to enterprise! Is she not clever! Fineries, silks, gold,
usury. oil, yea, rum and sugar of the islands, the tool and the
21 Woe unto that nation, for they kill and eat their children craftsmen… and flesh for the lording over by success— is
to sustain their old age. Their babies have no graves, but not God with us?”
their cry cometh up unto me. 7 Therefore, saith the LORD, I shall send the piper, and he
22 As they bled their womb, so shall I bleed their heritage, shall entrance thee from thy pulpit and lead thee from thy
and unto a mightier people will I give their land. gates with a merry jig. Thou art foolish, O America. Thou
23 They have removed life for convenience; I shall remove shalt play them a tune and make them to follow thee. But
the convenience of life. I send them the bug. See a wonder: thou knowest not where thou goest. The servant shall sit on
by a speck the Earth is destroyed; against the multitude of the horse and play the pipe, and thy leaders shall hold the tail
tininess can no army fight. The LORD hath spoken. and dance.
8 Everything ye call a conspiracy I will make a conspiracy
unto you. Everyone’s home shall ye make a fortress and
CHAPTER 65 your neighbour shall be your tyrant. The world shall pick
your wealth. For when ye try and defend yourselves, even
THE burden of America. Speak unto that nation, unto your leaders shall pull at the horse’s tail and upset your
America, speak woes, prepare thou to take up lamentations, defense.
for great doth she fancy herself amongst the nations. Yet I 9 Thou hast made thy walls strong and thy gates a glittering
know ye are clay and iron, and money is in what you trust. with jewels, ears as unto pomegranates, eyes as unto rubies,
2 O thou mighty land of the eagle, I shall make thee a land and hearts as unto sapphires, cold and blue. Yet thy gates
of the seagull, a place of nesting and thy shores as a through which thou makest merchandise of the world shall
mother’s apron unto thee, thou wilt not travel far from; thy be desolate. No man can bring them down. Hast thou not
wings clipped and not able to endure the flights of the ocean. even magnified them unto God? Nevertheless, thou shalt
The cormorant shall vex thee. The crane shall step on thine return from thy jig, and there weep at the decay; in the cleft
eggs. As none delighteth in the squawk of thy beak, so shall of thine elbow deep weeping; arms shall hide thine eyes,
none care to stand under the path of thy flight. Thou makest hide them from the desolation because the LORD caused
noise and castest thou a shadow, but thou art no bird of prey; them to decay; and the weeds thereupon shall embolden the
and the longer thou circlest the more they underneath feel predator and the small nation.
thy waste, and sigh again at the cost of thine indecision. 10 How thou magnifiest thy law! Yet it is not as old even
3 Whom shalt thou deliver, and who trusteth in thee as a new family, and thine orchards have not been planted
anymore? Strip Israel of its armor, lay out her soldiers long enough to yield their first clean fruit. What say ye of
naked in the sun, yet shall I, even I, saith the LORD, smite Precedence? —shall it make bribery not bribery; and
their enemies at the day of their turning. extortion, is it any different? How the complacent braggeth!
4 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, How the wine vat bubbleth with languish! What is left after
that there shall be a howling at your shores and weepings one purgeth the winepress of the pulp? Bitterness is left, as a
upon your mountains; thy sorrows as the flow of thy great heart that is sewn with salt. No more can a good thing grow,
river Mississippi. The majesty of thy mountains shall be or a tender shoot reach for the sun.
sackcloth, ashes the mantel of thy prairies. 11 So is thy harvest, O foolish nation. I shall purge thy
5 Forasmuch as thou sayest I bless thee because of thy winepresses and lay bare thy vineyards. Long shall thy
wealth, so shall I make it plain that I curse thee, for thou presses dry before a new sprig reacheth for the sun and a
makest merchandise of justice, and at the call for swift new vintner maketh wine in them from a new harvest.
punishment thou brokerest law. Thou makest them bankrupt 12 Why seek ye such a companion, O my people, and why
who defend themselves, and he who hath no money hath no do ye rest assured in a people afar off? Their feet are quick,
advocate. Thou declarest the process and not the outcome to but their heel is weak.
be justice. For a thing of nought thou lettest men be accused, 13 Why do ye walk the wayside with such a companion
and findest them guilty of suspicion because of the demands when I plainly set before you the end of his ways? He who
of the prudery of gainsayers and gainseekers. Seedy maketh all the ways of justice, chancery; and the law
grandeur motivateth the arrogant, and for money thou wilt becometh dubious and dispute, that he might give weight to
mull over a word to bring the innocent to book. The feet of his spleen and its whims— even he is an abomination to my
thy constables are set to earn thee money, and the innocent soul. Even as such shall America persecute thy seed that
and meek are ravished at the same time. sojourneth. With loophole shall she overlook their
6 Behold, I have seen it, and I will repay according to thy oppression. Without leaders shall each town throw stones at
measure; according to the smirk of thy hauteur. Thou art thee.
without knowledge. Canst thou elect it, O ignorant nation? 14 Hear a gentle sound from afar? A subtle purr from
Thou desirest only auctioneers to rule thee, and the oratory America. They make bold their purr; yet now at the rebuke
of the tradesman is eloquence unto thee. They stand at thy of the LORD their conceit only causeth them to mull. In any
gates, thy beautiful gates wherein entereth the wealth of consideration they give themselves the best, and wisdom is
Cathay, the fineries of Europe, West Indies goods, the tortured in the marketplace for the merriment of fools. They
weavings of Britain, the carvings of the Latins, and the offer no introspection, and no man doeth anything but vent.

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The moment passeth, the evening falleth, a gentle purr howl of the great city upon the river River and the bareness
resumeth, and barely doth a belch recall the day’s of thy columns, for that day shall come, and thou shalt not
excitement. punish the Ishmaelite.
15 Swiftly came entropy upon France, likewise upon
Russia; so too upon China— the servant sat upon the horse
and the princes walked on foot, the thing which I hate in CHAPTER 66
mine heart, saith the LORD. Though swiftly it came upon
them, slowly shall it come upon you. As a creeping fog in AND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, The
the night shall it come, and ye shall not be delivered after LORD will not relent upon the matter, even upon his issue
three generations except by division. with Judaea, for he hath an issue with the land, even Judah
16 Thou art a wondrous flower, O America. Thy roots and Jerusalem, Samaria and Galilee, and the coasts of Gaza
spread far, and it taketh much nourishment to maintain the and Lebanon. He hath made it plain and engravened it upon
beauty of thy petals. But when the ground is all roots, their idols by night, that the dawn may reveal the LORD’s
wherewith shall it be nourished? The great aflower dieth and sacrilege of your dumb idols. The indignant brow he will
becometh the nourishment for seeds dropped by birds. The break, and he will declare his mockery by the power of his
flowers that spring forth shall grow from thee. Thy flesh doings. He hath an issue with the West Bank, with the East
shall sustain bfive flowers and then they shall cast their seed and with the North and South. Jerusalem is in desolation and
and there shall be a cgarden. no man layeth it to heart. There is bloodguiltness, and no
17 The LORD hath sworn in his wrath. He shall not relent. man considereth.
Thou thinkest thyself so new, so original; but doth he not see 2 Ye turn aside your faces from the merchandise of Gog,
the same sons of flesh as thy fathers? As he waited upon the and the affliction of the maidens of Magog, in that they are
times of the Amorites, as he surveyed Sodom, as he endured caused to be made harlots. Therefore I have turned my face
Egypt, as he judged Rome, as he humbled the Ottomans, so away from thine indenturing to America, and thou shalt be
hath he seen thy ways, O foolish nation. indentured for a season as the harlots of Magog, the
18 From beginning to end they have come before him. He merchandise of Gog and Damascus. But thy bed shall not
lifted up thy skirt, but thou only saidst “I am now blind cause thee to earn thy redemption. I, the LORD, shall
because of my lifted skirt and see not my nakedness.” Thou redeem thee. I shall redeem thee from the indenture
hast no knowledge, and thinkest that thou canst fool the wherewith the maidens of Magog have been indentured, for
Almighty? thou lovest thy whoredoms and seekest not to be free of
19 O people of glass! Thou knewest thy nakedness was them. I shall smite Damascus in battle, for it is the head of a
revealed, thy shame seen of the world. Thou hast fooled no serpent that doth coil through aTyre and Zidon, bBerytus, and
one but thyself. As thou wilt not hearken to thine ears so that unto cAleppo. Its tongue dangleth out, and the venom on its
thine eyes may be opened, so thou canst not fathom thy end tip is dAmman.
hath come before me, saith the LORD. 3 (The oracle of aRiyadh) Behold, doth Israel not know that
20 Why art thou also so blind, O Israel? —because thou the gopher is deadly in battle? unsetting the warhorse in its
trustest not in me, proclaimeth the LORD. What victories charge. Behold then ye fine men of Arabia and their
hast thou won? How hath America removed thine enemies embroidered trim of golden thread and their flowing linen of
from thy borders all these years? They make pretty their the finest cotton of the East. No covenant with Riyadh shall
speech, but even the nations wince at its recital. stand, for the LORD overturneth the counsel of sly men, and
21 Thou hast lost land; thou hast lost faith. Thou waitest bringeth to nought the pacts of those whose purpose is
like a fat child to be served of the nations, and they have underhanded. Fear not Arabia or her handsome princes clad
only robbed thee, and now they hate thee. The same that in flowing garments, for when Damascus calleth for the light
delivereth thee from bondage art thou then in bondage to. of day, in the day of battle, the House of Saud shall not bear
22 When they had power they did not hearken unto my it, as a burrowing creature cannot bear the light of day. So
spirit, but burnt Japan with fire, which thing I commanded shall the LORD God overturn the House of Saud and all the
them not. I gave their secrets to others, and in fear did I give princes thereof, and bring to nought the counsel of the
that generation life. Fear turned to foolishness, and beautiful men of the east and the priests of Mecca.
foolishness turned to dlies. For one tooth they took ten, for 4 The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Speak
the lives of 1000 took they 100,000. unto Israel, saying: Thou shalt not abhor the Egyptians, for I
23 Behold, saith the LORD, weepings and howlings unto shall break the rod of Ishmael through them, and as cracks in
thee. I declare not joy. I repay according to thy ways. Oh the a dam shall Islam break from Egypt, and the cracks shall
spread unto Turkey. They shall rejoice in what they had
before, and shall say unto the nations: Are we not a crown of
a
Flowers are a major motif in the Book of Ben Kathryn, as well as in the Bible. the nations? Is not Greece our stepchild and Rome our
Both in Soloman’s temple and in Isaiah’s prophesies concerning Ephraim. For
instance Isa 28, “Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower..” admirer?
b
See 1 Kings 7:49
c
See Isa 1:29-30 “ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth and as a garden
that hath no water”. And Isa 51:3/Ezek 36:35 “the Lord shall comfort Zion; he 2 a port cities in Lebanon (anciently major ports)
will comfort all her waiste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, b Roman name for Beirut, Lebanon
and her desert like the Garden of the Lord. See D&C 101:16-23. An allusion to c second largest city in Syria (Northern Syria)
the New Jerusalem in America. d capitol of Jordan
d
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 5 Shall the West brag over us? Is the West not our from afar with false faith. Is it more painful for thee to turn
stepchild? We shall go to the West, to our stepchild. The than it is to endure the wrath of God?
desert shall teach us nothing, but we shall encroach upon the 14 Awake! Let thy reason return. Riyadh grinneth as a fat
desert. Alexandria was mother and Constantinople our cat behind his ashomahg. He careth not for the Palestinian.
nanny. He seeth a plump canary. Damascus thinketh of battle, and
6 Thou shalt also not abhor the Kurd, for they were thy Amman by reason of gain again longeth for thee, and Cairo
kinsmen, and I brought them out of the Chaldees at the same forever waiteth as a maiden to greet them as one greeteth the
time as thy fathers. merchants of bBosrah.
7 The oracle of Tel Aviv. She is new but languisheth. She 15 Thus saith the LORD, this shall not be. They are beasts
is new and she magnifieth herself against Jerusalem. Thou about thee, and as a man leadeth beasts to water so shall they
shalt be brought down, thou pup, and the ways thou hast come at my beckoning, but not drink. Their counsel will not
made look new shall be revealed as decrepit. It shall come to stand, nor their conspiracy triumph.
pass in the days that the LORD’s mount shall be magnified, 16 But hear ye this word, saith the LORD, this Israel hath
when my people dwell safely; even in that day thou shalt be taken upon her the ways of a shrew; and a shrew caught by
a valley and thy ways a stagnant bog that goeth no place and her neighbours with her lovers, to whom must she turn for
corrupteth the ground upon which it sitteth. help? She durst not call her husband. She playeth the whore,
8 (The oracle of Iran) O thou land of the Aryan that and enticeth by treaty and by pledge to deliver her. Thou
treadeth on Media’s heel; thou despoiler of Persia and dost indeed speak softly into the ear of America to deliver
scorner of aFarsi, because thou enquirest of the watchmen thee from thine enemies.
when thou thyself seest, thou shalt go no where. To the dust, 17 Though I chastise her, it is to correct her and not to
to the dust, go thy ways. Be thou sand; thy ways peeling destroy her. I the LORD declare unto you before it shall
stone. happen. Send your armies back to the sun, ye of Arabia,
9 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: When hung shoulders and with sorrow on their faces. Damascus
Israel doth not hearken unto my words for a season, for even rebuild and fill thy time with contemplation. Riyadh, see a
now do their enemies encompass them and seek the land, princeling become a king; a crown to come forth from
speak unto them, saying: I have wasted Israel. I have Medina. Baghdad cast off thy brutish heads. I have declared:
punished them with sore reproach and with a heavy hand all Israel is my chosen, saith the LORD. See Amman repent and
these years; why will ye hearken not unto my words? Egypt seek peace, and make ye peace. Come and worship all
10 Ah, can it be that even I the LORD have forgotten? ye nations. Grind your weapons into medicine, and your
Thou hast made me; yea, that is the truth of it. I have heard pride, transform it into humility. I declare unto you before it
thy philosophers and thy wise men debate it. Have them happeneth that ye may seek me and know that I have spoken
declare my goings forth unto you, if it be that they know me. and that there is no God but me, saith the LORD.
Let them even now speak of what is at the threshold, for my 18 And thou, O shrewish Israel, brag not, for thou didst
words are nigh. Run to them during the day of my wrath, if bring the American upon thee not as a wife but as an harlot,
thou canst find them. Ye foolish hypocrites, look ye now at and they shall despise thee for this after a time. Thou spokest
your enemies encompassing you. When the defense bell is softly into their ears. Thou wast sure in thine imagination
rung for you to rush into the walled cities shall ye cry unto that they should deliver thee, and thou luredst them to go up
me and proclaim “Great is the LORD for smiting Israel” or after and against thine enemies.
“I am a man blessed that the sword falleth upon me!” 19 Yet I shall confound them before thine enemies. They
11 Shout that at the nations and see if they mock you. If ye shall ravage the serpent’s head but be driven home by a flea.
had my spirit, ye would be abhorred of your ways, and cry, Thy pledge shall be broken, thy wealth no longer barter.
“Just is the LORD for smiting me.” I have spoken, O Israel, 20 O America, repent of thy bitterness, for thou canst close
and my words are sound and my words are life. They are thy loopholes. I shall not hold thou guiltless in that day when
honey to an empty belly, and they gush forth the ways of life thou lookest the other way.
and are water in a dry place. 21 Turn unto me, O Israel, and I will fatten thy soul. Thou
12 Behold, how I desire to speak peaceably. Hear ye praise shalt swoon in the ways of my spirit and thou shalt delight to
in Sinai, and rejoicings in Hebron. The wilderness of Sin is love thy brethren. Go out from thy flesh unto all mankind
an habitation; the place of sojourn a city. The LORD hath and cleanse the land of thy sins. Have mercy and declare
enlarged the house of Israel. Negev and Zin are irrigated. He thou justice, and I shall make thee to delight in the land. Thy
maketh a desert to bloom and the bob to plumb many belly shall be full of the new wine and thy palate shall feast
houses. Shiloh, ring Shiloh, the LORD of hosts setteth a upon the cream and honey, and thou shalt forever dwell with
table in the desert. He gathereth armies to dwell in far lands. the LORD.
13 Come, children of they who drank at the rock,
acknowledge thy guilt. Turn from thy sins. Consider now thy
lot, for thou art encompassed by thine enemies and they seek
thy life, thy land and all that which is thine. I have spoken, O
Israel, but thou wilt not incline thine ear. Jerusalem dimmeth a
Arab Headdress (also known as keffiyeh, hgutrah or shemagh)
its light. Judah closeth the curtain; and Ephraim boasteth b
See Micah 2:12, Isa 63:1. See http://endtimepilgrim.org/bozrahdeliv.htm
Christian refugees will be the merchandise of Bosrah Jordan, as sheep of old.
Chosen Israel will come forth from with [blood] dyed appearal?
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 CHAPTER 67 conceit and strife, piercings and tattoos, thievery and every
abominable state of the heart. Now ye have gone to the right
SHALL ye chide with the LORD, O house of Israel? Shall and ye have gone to the left, but no man courseth true. What
you become like the Jews of Jeroboam in his sight? they more are ye worthy of than they, and why should it not come
who became indistinguishable from Canaanites; and in such upon you?
foolishness ye have spoken like unto the Canaanites of
whose ways ye have become enamored again: “He is a
phobic for not leaving me to my ways. A phobic! A phobic! CHAPTER 68
He declareth there is wrong! A phobic!” Rather, turn ye one
and all from his sins. Be not as they who say “There is no GO, I have thought it, my Spirit hath conceived it, my hand
good or evil.” He that believeth in no good or evil shall be is now even forming the time: Make thou to know and make
reserved for destruction; and a season that will not turn such thou to understand, give them ears to hear and a soul that
as he shall be as a body that fighteth not cancer. He shall seeketh the deep things of God; for they enquire, and I shall
destroy the whole body; and the LORD shall consign your not harden my heart against them as at the former time.
time to the fire. Behold, such a time the LORD now putteth 2 Give unto yourselves a span of rest, from Passover unto
before you. Shall ye choose to do right before the LORD and Pentecost, even for these 50 days give yourselves over to
correct all your doings, or shall ye say: “There is no right. prayer and fasting. In the year of the 70th hebdomad of the
The nations have spoken truth; Wine is truth. It maketh one Gentiles sustain yourselves with one another for these 50
merry. We shall drink of the wine of the nations. What is days. Let him who worketh abstain, and let your
calamity if we care not that it cometh?” congregations and those of substance amongst you lend
2 Sober yourselves early, saith the LORD, for such a support for those 50 days, that all Israel may abstain from
numbing will the LORD remove from you; and there is no their routines and incline their hearts unto the LORD their
fear like sudden fear. It sobereth the soul when it is too late. God, with deep prayer and fastings.
Instead of the fear of the LORD, ye shall have sudden terror 3 Give ear unto the sum of thy ways, O Israel, and consider
because ye walked in the ways of the nations. if there hath been a time like unto this before? Have the
3 Because he breathed his soul into Adam that he should words of thine elders come to pass or explained unto thee all
live was he wroth with your fathers more than because of that thine heart hath perplexed over, over all that thou hast
their vulgar sins. For ye know from whence cometh the kept in thine heart, and what hath happened unto thee and
fountain of your souls; that it is the LORD. Yet moreover he thy fathers, lo, these bottomless years of thy second
did give you his words, and he did declare them before the captivity?
entire congregation his laws, that ye should know life and 4 Then give ear, and incline your hearts unto the LORD,
death, good and evil, left and right; that ye should live. Ye the God of Israel, and soften your hearts before me that I
knew to love the LORD your God with all your heart, but ye may pass amongst you in those 50 days and not harden my
would not. Therefore, O ye sons of Israel, are your sins heart against your stiff necks and your foolish minds.
grievous because ye reject the LORD your God and would 5 Let the dullness be removed from your minds, and let
not believe and declare his ways to the nations that they may your foolishness flee from you as day vanquisheth night. In
repent. His own power brought salvation unto the nations, the 70th hebdomad, in the final of the hebdomad, let the veil
and no man shall make levity of the ways of the LORD be lifted.
again and thereupon not reap destruction. The LORD shall 6 Thou shalt measure the sum of thy ways before thee, and
not let the canker grow until it destroyeth the whole body. thou shalt hearken unto my servants the prophets of old.
4 What think ye shall be your fate if ye now moreover Thou shalt read them by books, and thou shalt above all bow
become as the nations in their sins and the heathen in their thyself to the ground in prayer. Thou shalt pray unto the
backsliding? LORD thy God that he enlighten thee, that he will place thy
5 Thus saith the LORD, he who inhabiteth eternity and sin before thy face that thou be no more deceived with
changeth not: In days past I smote thee and scattered thee thyself, and thou shalt hearken unto his words at last.
amongst the nations. I gave thee up to foolishness and the 7 Whether thou be in the synagogue or outside the camp;
preaching of minutiae, minhaga and gezeirahb. I gave thee whether thou hast taken a wife of the nations, or an husband
over to obstinacy. Instead of repenting, thou heapedst to of the nations, thou shalt leave off thy work, and thou shalt
thyself teachers justifying thy ways, and saying: “It is a give thyself to pray and fasting before the LORD. Thou shalt
blessing from the LORD to be persecuted.” Who can turn meditate upon his ways, and thou shalt ask of him, “Are
such as these? See what a heavy hand I had upon thy fathers these things so?” Be thou humble, for the LORD thy God is
because of their unbelief. But they went not after the a mighty God, and there is none before him.
lewdness of the nations, the immorality and decadence of 8 If thou hast children by thy wedlock with the nations,
barbarians in which ye now trespass, even in detestable thou shalt bring them with thee. If thou hast children by
things: chomosexuality, adultery, extortion, uneven weights,
as “tattoos” or “piercings” or it may be as grave as adultery. Theivery is also
called a “detestable thing” here, yet we are reminded in 31:13-14 that the Lord
a
an accepted tradition or group of traditions in Judaism completely “overlooked” David’s thevery and blasphemy in feeding his hunger
b
A gezeirah is a law instituted by the rabbis to prevent people from with temple bread- because David’s heart was in the right place. One must
accidentally violating a Torah mitzvah remember the words of 31:13-14, “There is no more haughty person than he
c
Note that despite calling homosexual sex a “detestable thing” -- there is little who maketh my covenant a burden to any”. And 70:7, “let mercy flow as a
indication as to the gravity given homosexuality as a “sin”. It may be as trivial river”. Also 4:7, “I shall overwhelm thee with my mercy”.

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whoredoms with the nations, thou shalt bring them with Whithersoever thou dwellest prepare for the babes to knock
thee. I do seek out all the sons of Isaac, and each shall stand on thy door. Marshal the troops. Bring down the walls. Let
on his own. This shall apply to all those born of any Jew, the sunshine shine on those within. Awaken them that sleep,
for I do call back my people, the seed of Isaac. Let him who ye rulers. The army of Judah hath arrived! We are made like
is an Hebrew not call himself not a Jew. unto the wicked of Israel, we who were princes are sent back
9 Trust not in the vanity of thy ways, nor in those that teach to our fathers’ plows and our women are barren! Babes
thee that thou canst make of the LORD thy God what thou come upon the shoulders of them who are not their fathers.
wilt. Nor take advantage of the span, to revel and cast aside They all sing out “Our God reigneth!” An hundred
thy sincere heart and make it a time of play and holiday. For, generations cometh to the dust and in our place there are
see, I speak clearly unto thee. Can the world bear it? Can the sucklings.
world withstand the glory of a sudden thing? Then 3 Mount up over the rubble of their walls, my children.
understand, the LORD thy God causeth a wonder: slowly, Inhabit their cities. Come back, Jacob. The LORD hath done
slowly, day by day, Jew by Jew. The dawn shall rise and as a a good work. Thy swaddling cry stirreth my bowels with
scattered army shall Israel trickle back, waves here, streams passion. The final battle hath passed.
there, over the hills, with their shields, with their young, 4 Lo, here I am, saith the LORD. Call upon me again, O
with their things, and with their households, so shall they daughter of Zion. I am not far from thee, and my salvation is
come back from their desert journey to the dawn light of the my breath upon thee. It shall cause thee to stir and to awake.
LORD their God over the peak of the mountains. Thy sleep hath been as unto an hibernation.
10 I set in Zion a lodestone. And it shall draw my people,
metal from amongst metal, wrought and pure, for I have
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lest the nations say of all that hath been “It was not of the
LORD.” ARISE, arise, shake off the dust of battle, the dust of thy
11 See the desert in the dawn light. See the things move humility, the ashes of thy disgrace. Behold thine enemy
about: a line here, a group there, babes upon the shoulder. fleeth across thy borders. His feet are intertwined and he
Like ants see them slowly come. See them rise up the tumbleth hence. Thine enemies are cast beyond the river and
incline, see them mount toward the top, over the peak to a I give them into the hands of Edom and Moab and Ammon.
new dawn. See them come home unto the LORD, the God of Under the rubble of thy walls is buried an hundred
Israel. generations of ignorance, and it shall be buried forever. I
12 Forsake your desert journey, my people. Neither ship have declared unto thee beforehand that this day shall come,
nor horse, neither thing of the air or under the sea, shall saith the LORD. Awake, it is time to awake! It is time for
bring you back unto me. Ye shall each one come of a way the healing of thy wounds. I shall no more wound thee, my
you have not known; and that way is I, saith the Lord. beloved. Let joy form thy features. Let it cause thee to
chuckle in awe of a wondrous moment.
2 For the day of understanding hath come, and the cloud of
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LORD seeth thee now, and he will not harden his heart. Lift
SEND forth a message to Edom: Prepare ye to be reborn. up thy head from thy humility, and rejoice! Wash and be
Relay it to your kindred, Moab: Prepare to be built up. The thou clean. Put on thy robes of white, sing and rejoice. Feel
walls bow out from Jordan to your borders, O Ammon. life in thy veins, and bless the name of the LORD. Behold
Israel swelleth with the early harvest. For I the LORD give the repentant are as the river rocks, smooth and polished and
ye each one this word as comfort, for a time appointed hath without number. Thy people repent, my Lord, and this
come, and a longing is satisfied. Jericho is an open gate; moment is for them. Thou hast taken them from the dust of
Jabbock doth flood from Jordan’s trickle. Dan is secure. battle and set them aright.
Rueben is restored. Timnah’s skirt is enlarged. Hear ye a 3 As a river thy spirit breaketh forth from the breach and
sound in Anathoth; her fallen stones stir. Succoth beyond sweepeth over Zion. The hard and jagged rocks are made
Jabesh-gilead bloometh. Pelusium open thy gates, for cool and smooth. The tree branches stand up, the grass
Beersheba’s house expandeth. Mount Carmel rejoiceth with groweth again, and the fruit loseth its bitterness. Our harvest
Tabor; Gilboa and Ebal look off to embrace yonder Hermon is at last sweet. We no longer walk upon the hot and jagged
and even the mount of Lebanon. Tell ye all in Zoan, I cause rocks. Our wounds are unbound and the scar fadeth, each
to flourish the desolate heritage. O thou whole Phoenicia, and every one. If a man should let sunlight on it, it fadeth. If
cast ye off Islam’s yoke. Amman, thou shalt not afflict the he should wash it in the river, it melteth away.
children of Israel. My spirit cometh unto Israel. It rebuketh 4 Behold, our God hath come unto us. Zion is blessed by
the cynic. It courseth in the hearts of men. Lay it in store the breath of his mouth. Thou awakenest us from our deep
against the day of their turning that it might enliven them: slumber with a jolt, but quickly thou embracest us in thy
2 I shall bring low the walls of thy cities, O Zion, and all tender arms. Salvation! Shout it abroad! Salvation of our
thy far away outposts; all thine encampments shall have their God hath come! I have seen thee turn Israel. I know thy
walls leveled. I shall bring low the mountains first, that all word is good and it shall come to pass. Thou hast healed us
they which are outside the camp may see the sunrise first. and, behold, the nations come to gawk. Let them come, saith
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healed thee, O beloved Zion. Let them join the multitude and 3 Is the LORD not to be sought more than marble and the
walk in his steps and see my wonders again. finest of goodly stone? Hear them shout without. The LORD
5 Indeed, a wonder of wonders, O my God, thou hast done is amongst us! Come out! Gold moldeth into any form,
a wondrous thing. With mine eyes I see thy salvation, that buildings are lifeless. Come out! Can ye not hear? Come out
goodly structure, more brilliant than the blue of the summer from the retreats of your dispersion. Have ye not seen what
sky, more soothing than the pink of twilight. Blessed are hath been done in Zion? Come ye to Zion, O all ye sons of
they who see thee as thou walkest the paths of Zion. Isaac, with your aged, with your bairns, with your servants,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, hear all nature rejoice. with your whole households. March on, march on. The
We have seen thy salvation. Our eyes are opened and our report is true. God liveth. Yea, our God reigneth, and he
hearts have become supple. calleth for all his sons to return. Return, return unto me, saith
6 Hearken unto my words and live, saith the LORD. Yea, the LORD.
hearken and live anew. I have abundantly shed grace like a 4 Hear, O ye nations, my people come out, my people
rain. The dust no more afflicteth thine eyes. No more doth it come hither. Hinder them not in their way. For surely I am
bite thy taste. Look up and taste the sweet dew. The dirt and the LORD, the king of all the Earth, the dread Lord; and I
grime of a hundred battles melteth from thee. It is no more call unto my sons; I reach for my daughters. What is there
thy tears that fall to the ground. Ye are clean again before that I will not do to call back my children? I am a roaring
me, my people. lion, yea, aI am a ferocious lion against mine enemies. I tear
7 Go ye one and all to the place of wisdom, to the solemn and I rend asunder to protect my brood.
moment. Go ye to Jerusalem. Weep ye for joy in the path 5 Wonder of wonders, saith my soul. Wonder of wonders
thereto. I shall free Moriah of the nations. Violence shall not moveth my tongue. Who is like unto the LORD our God? I
hold onto my holy mount and it shall not be tread by force, have seen the great King, he who is BEING. I am
nor shall it be freed by multitudes. But by a lad shalt thou speechless. There are no words. Groanings of my soul
speak to them, and my word shall cause the nations to cannot form them. Behold, burnings in mine heart cannot
decamp. Come ye and build. O Come ye and hear the materialize words. What a wonder that he should breathe
heavens set you a fine tune. Sing, thou Israel, weep and sing, into man his spirit! Yea, I live because of the LORD,
for, behold, salvation hath come of thy God, thy stony heart because of his burning fire. No heart can bear the
is gone! Build ye, O Jerusalem, build ye a light, build ye and compassion of his ways. I see no son of flesh who can stand
lay the path of the LORD’s highway. It cleaveth the murky before an ounce of his glory.
waters; it is a solid road to Jerusalem amidst the mucky 6 I have never seen beauty like this, like unto the LORD
ground. Let the nations come and seek forgiveness. Let our God. Consider, O man, his doings, for eye cannot behold
mercy flow out as a river, for there is no God but our God, nor can heart appreciate his visage. At the healing of our
and the ends of the Earth shall once again behold his wound, we do see him. At the gentle hour, we do hear his
salvation in Israel. call. The LORD hath drawn his portrait and hath made me
8 Cry not anymore. Comfort yourselves with my the frame. From beginning unto end, I have been written on
forgiveness. They that have sinned I have cut off, and they by his hand, that all the Earth shall see and understand his
came into the pit wherein their own feet did lead them. But glory.
for thee, my beloved, I have filled in the pit that no more 7 Behold, behold, my face created all that existeth, worlds
should enter therein, for my salvation hath come. of worlds, cosmos and all therein. What face shall ye give
me, and what features will you give my doings? Ye reviled
my appearance, but the wonderful acts of God— who cannot
CHAPTER 71 see them? What is a tabernacle to you if it cannot speak? A
face that cannot speak is no better than stone. Why seek ye
INDEED, a wonder of wonders hast thou done in all ages mine image and yet hearken not unto my ways? With my
and for all times, O my God, thou glory of all times and mouth I speak of wondrous things, and with my doings I
seasons— my rock and my lot. Thou hast taken upon a face draw my face. Open thy soul, O son of man, and see me
that we might see thee. Behold, I see thee and call thee Ishi. clearly. Cast thine eyes to the throng of repentance, and
Thou speakest from a clear and sure mouth, and thou art not therein see the heart of thy God. Rejoice in his acts. Draw
silent as unto stone. What fools we have been in our nigh unto his glory.
hardness! Pass us over with thy mercy, yet come quickly
unto us. Look not at our sin and at the foolishness of our
spirits. Shall we resist the knowledge of God? At such a CHAPTER 72
moment shall our pride make hard our understanding and
dampen our souls? In thy humiliation there is wisdom, in our YO, all ye sons of flesh, all ye who seek rest, come with me
gratitude there is understanding. Behold, is anything too to Jerusalem, to the house of the LORD our God, the great
difficult for God? Is anything beyond his measure? King. Ye thin and wasted become a fatling. Ye starving, be
2 Is it such a wonder that he should walk among us? Open ye satisfied at a banquet. Ye maimed mount up like a joyous
the portals of thine heart, O Israel, God is God and his word calf. Ye babes become princes. The LORD doth reign. How
hath come to pass. We have not been left in the cave of our
shame. Come out into the light, saith the LORD unto thee. a
Like a lion among the beast of the forest who teareth asunder… see Micah
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wonderful are they who joined the throng. Come, all ye again, O foolish nation. I say unto thee, Arise! Look up, O
Gentiles. Let your armies be conquered. Come all ye meek Israel, look up, for my words are at the door and my
and subdue nations! salvation draweth nigh. Now I say unto thee, Arise, and thou
2 Drink at the fount of his throne. A river doth come out of shalt live again; and the nations again shall see my salvation.
Zion. The LORD hath sweetened it and anointed it with his 5 Hear now these words while yet thou may. For surely I
kiss. His lips have flavored it with the words of his mouth. have spoken again unto thee, O Israel. Surely as a crack of
Come ye all, come ye all to repentance. Cast off your idols, thunder and as a tremendous rumble I shall stir from my
for the LORD is our bridegroom. Many, yea, though many place and purge Israel for my great namesake. Turn unto me,
be gathered to his bridal chamber, only the single shall go in. O Israel, and tarry not.
Cast off all the idols, throw them down and be thou virgin
again, O Israel, and be thou yoked forever, O daughter Zion,
to the King, the great King.
3 The ground is tilled not, neither doth a man lay hold of a
plow anymore. But the harvest groweth before our eyes.
Fruit fatteneth upon the tree. Flowers blossom and are as
numerous as drops of rain, the peaceful rain of spring.
Springs burst forth, sweet waters. Lo, there is peace, and no
man striveth with his neighbour. Each man careth for his
fellow, and all lay hold of justice. No man extorteth from his
brother. No more is there the cry of the orphan, and the
widow and the spinster have children to abundance. If there
is a cry, lo, the LORD comforteth as a rushing whirlwind.
There is plenty to abundance, for, behold, I create a new
heart in my people, and a new body will I fashion. Where
are thy scars, O man? Where is the place of pain? It shall be
no more. The abode of fear and its dark recesses are
vanquished. Worry is gone, covetousness is vanished. Evil is
no more and selfishness is as a scab dried and blown away.
Worlds await thee. My world hath come. The dwelling
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LOOK up, O Israel, look up, look up unto the clouds driven
by a strong wind. So the time presseth upon thee. Look up,
O foolish people. What man can lay hold of a cloud or cast a
rope around it? Run to thy vats, open thy barrels and prepare
for the latter rain as before. My spirit shall be with thee, my
Jacob, my beloved that delighteth in me, and I shall drive out
thine enemies before thy face. With the bow and the sling
shall thy young warriors defeat men of iron and their great
rods. Thy young men will not faint, nor grow weary. Thine
enemies shall flee and thou shalt pursue them to thy borders.
2 For my compassion is toward thee, O Israel, and my
mercy made manifest. Thy sin is etched in lead. The sin of
my people is engraven deeply in a thick slab, saith the
LORD. Though thou buriest it, corrosion cannot remove the
inscription thereon. So hath thy sin been uncovered time and
time again, and brought thee accusation, and accusation
misery and desolation. Only I can raise the slab from the
earth and blot out thine iniquity before me. I have wrought
me a great name, and my sword hath circumcised unto me a
people, and they shall be blessed of the LORD forever.
3 And the peoples of the Earth shall say he is blessed of the
LORD who believed and who hearkened before the day of
the LORD’s chastisement upon Israel.
4 Thy days of being wounded draw to an end, and it is
darkest before the dawn. The third day arriveth at an
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