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O Israel! O Judah! O Zion!
You were even as Adam and as Eve,
the first people created to know YHVH
that mankind might see the salvation of YHVH,
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Yet do you worship or fear Ha’Elohim,
to keep the Torah and the mitzvoth?
or do you bow down to dumb idols of wood and stone?
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Do you stand to offer sacrifice to the living Elohim?
or do you sit before the doors of empty temples?
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Consider the soothsayers, those teachers of sin:
Repeat aloud the parable,
declare now the mystery even as we speak;
then you will know if you have understood.
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Know that YHVH sees you
and will reward you by your hearts,
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Yet in your foolishness
the vision I have been given is sealed up from you,
and you have not understood
the eternal mysteries in their fullness;
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You have not become wise
in your understanding of the Torah
and the ways of YHVH;
and why is this?
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It is because you have not properly understood
the origin of Wisdom;
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But if you should unseal the vision that I have been given,
then you shall know,
then shall you understand!
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To hear the parable, to see the mysteries
you must first give up all your wisdom,
for you are wise unto the things of this world,
and they are but the errands of fools!
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Hear now what wisdom is:
Wisdom is to know the Creator,
to feel of His love,
and to love even as He loves;
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What greater wisdom can there be than this?
And yet, who is Judah that her neighbors should fear her?
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Judah is a wicked people
who takes pride in crafty ways;
scoundrels who belong to the liar;
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Two-tongued, adulterous, idolatrous, evil-hearted,
taking only for themselves—
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Will no one endowed with wealth and goods give any part to another?
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Will any give of their substance
for the wants of the poor,
the hungry,
the naked,
the widows,
and the orphans?
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And because of this, O Judah,
your daughters
shall have secret lovers to keep her child from hunger,
and there is no husband to gain,
for your sons are drunken fools!
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You think that this mighty kingdom rests in the power of this world,
forgetting of the immortal King
and therefore, you, Judah, will fall.
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Judgement shall come unto you by the Eternal Savior,
even the Son of the Eternal Father
who created the heavens and the earth.
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And YHVH sees where you stand, Judah;
a people that delights in the blood of the innocent,
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Other men will reign over you,
will profit from your sorrows,
will have you seeking the Messiah in your ruin
that you will not know when He does appear.
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And as a holy prince shall YHVH come into His creation,
to wield the scepter of His righteousness
over all the earth;
yet you will know Him not.
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Three share their fates when He is crucified;
one will hang with no sin,
and one will be forgiven,
and one will reject truth.
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And fire shall sweep over the isles of the seas,
and darkness shall cover the earth
for a moment, that the earth may weep for her Creator.
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O wretched Adam!
when that time shall arrive, even the judgement of El’Olam,
the King of creation, shall be turned back in His mercy,
for so great is the Mercy of YHVH.
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And YHVH will forgive His creation,
and the graves shall be opened
and shall yield up many of their dead;
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And many qaddishim shall appear
and live, never to again taste death.
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And shortly after, Judah will be scattered,
and her lands taken over
and she shall weep in her sorrows.
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This I have seen,
if Judah does not return
and move away from her whoredoms.
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And even now, Judah, you are like Sodom,
that wicked city that was destroyed for their greed:
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Sodom did have
even as much pride as they did lack charity
in those days;
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For we do know that they had bread and wine in abundance,
and they still would not sustain the poor and the needy.
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And so it was that she who supplied the poor man with bread
was cast into the fire and burned to ashes,
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And no one took notice of her or pitied her,
and her cries ascended to the heavens,
and their sins were great before YHVH.
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And so it was that the great cities were destroyed,
for they took no pity,
and they would not heed the words of Lot
when he did preach unto them.
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And even like Sodom,
YHVH shall send out the righteous from among you, O Judah,
and give unto them new lands,
even lands upon the isles of the seas.
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And now, Judah, you whose mothers and fathers were brought
by YHVH out of Egypt to this land:
When did you forget YHVH
and lay waste unto the stranger?
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Wherefore, in a flash of gleaming fire is your destruction coming,
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You shall be burned with torches
and carried out of the land
that YHVH has given to our fathers and our mothers.
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Your long days have become shortened,
like your false and useless idols
feeling no shame.
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But they who fear the true El’Olam shall inherit life,
and forever dwell in the fields of paradise,
feasting on the sweet bread
and looking on throughout the heavens.