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O Holy Mother!
Never was there a place unknown unto thee!
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Never was there one that desired mercy
that you showed not mercy unto them!
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Who are they that have not asked for your mercy?
Shall Judah be denied thy shield and thy protection?
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Who are they that have not found solace in you?
In the Presence?
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Who are they that have not found succor in your bosom?
Or solace in your womb?
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And who is Israel
that she shall be denied your succor and your solace
that your child should be shattered
and scattered about unto the foreign winds?
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YHVH, I pray thee!
Give unto me thy hope,
for it is not vain!
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O Holy Mother,
give unto me your succor and your solace,
for your peace is even an eternal peace!
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O Elohim,
wipe away these, my tears, that my heart be content;
have mercy for all those that live upon the footstool of YHVH,
and have mercy upon Israel!
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For my heart is content
to kneel at your footstool,
to gain favor in your sight.
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My desire, YHVH,
is but to come into your Presence,
to see that beautiful Mother,
the Queen of the Heavens,
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To dance in Her orchards,
and to gather up the fruits of Her garden,
and to delight in the flowers of Her fields!
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O Mother of the lamb of sacrifice!
Bride of the Heavens!
Even as YHVH is the very Father of Israel,
so too are you her Mother.
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How I long to stand in your Presence,
to rest my wounds in the healing power of your flowing waters!
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O fountain of healing!
O wellspring of grace!
You are a home of peace unto my soul.
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You are the most precious gem of the heavens,
Mother of YHVH, and a virgin most pure!
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O Divine Mother,
how you weep for your daughter, Zion!
How you lament for her,
but not in vain!
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For she shall return unto YHVH
weeping in her sorrows,
humbled in her defeats;
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Yet YHVH shall be glorious,
yea, YHVH shall ever be undefeated.
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YHVH, I invoke you in my mourning,
for I know this: In your name have I been spared.
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You, Zion, shall scorn me,
and leave me forgotten;
but YHVH shall remember.
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The enemies of YHVH shall falter into eternal anguish,
yet YHVH shall even make a way for these!
And in this shall Israel be forever remembered.
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For it is by the seed of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob;
and by the seed of Judah, and Peretz, and Chetzron;
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And by the seed of Ram, and Ammynadab, and Nahshon;
and by the seed of Shalmon, and Boaz, and Obed,
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And by the seed of Jesse, and David, and Solomon
that salvation shall come.
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For it was even by the seed of Solomon that Israel was again divided,
but through the seed of David shall Israel be made whole again;
so speaks YHVH,
so mote it be, Amen and amen!
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And in that day shall Israel feel pains
even as a woman in labor,
for a son will come to save Israel from death.
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Israel shall labor to bear her a son,
and she shall give birth to a man-child,
and her pains shall bring joy eternal.
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Her son, O how great he shall be!
Even a counselor with power,
a man with the power to control the wind and the seas;
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But Israel carries the seed of death in her womb
and shall suffer from the pit in her horror.
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And the foundations of the walls of the temple will shake
even as a mighty boat being whipped about
upon the face of the waters.
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Clouds shall grow dark,
like those in the storms of the seas,
and those that live upon the islands shall flee in terror:
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But shall even as in the great flood,
they shall not escape the roar of the waters
or the desolation of the lands.
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The wise men of Judah,
their wisdom confounded,
lost in the abyss as the windows of heaven are opened,
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Yet by their own self-conceit
shall those windows be bolted shut unto them.