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And behold, this is not all. For thought Jerusalem has been destroyed, still my children do rebel against Elohim.
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And this has been a great hinderance to me and my other children. Insomuch that I do fear for them exceedingly.
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And behold, I do feel also to sing a song of lament for them. For behold, notwithstanding all that YHVH has shown me concerning their seed, still do I pray daily for their souls, that their hearts might be softened.
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And now I do sing, for singing does invite the spirit, and I do hope that this shall be a blessing unto them.
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Oh, sons of Lehi, sons of Zenos, sons of Abraham, I do cry unto you.
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For you hast seen numberless miracles, yet you do harden your hearts still.
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Oh, my daughters, know you not that you may see the face of your Elohim?
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Behold, all these things hast you seen, nevertheless, you will not partake.
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In the Valley of Megiddo has he searched for you, yet you did turn your face from him.
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In the mountains of Ishtar and in the lands of Nod.
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In the hills of Tarshish, and in the wastes of Moab.
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In all of these did He, YHVH Elohim, even the Elohim of all seek you.
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Yet, you would not, for you did suppose that you needed him not.
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Would that I could say, oh you fool!
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Yet, I cannot, for who is the fool? The child repeating what he has been taught, or the father who taught you all you know?
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Oh, my children, would to Elohim that you would forgive me my sins!
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would to Elohim that you would turn from me and seek the face of your Creator!
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Yet, you will not, and who is to blame? you, or he who taught you?
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Behold, I have seen my sins washed away in the blood of the lamb.
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Behold, my sins have become white, even as the freshly drifted snow.
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Yet still I mourn.
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Oh, my children, see through the folly of your father!
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Shake off the chains which bind you!
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Oh, my children, were that you were as faithful as the tree.
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For behold, the tree knows not from where it will receive its sustenance.
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Nevertheless, it reaches high and tall, for it knows that its creator will provide for it.
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And behold, because of its faithfulness, the creator does provide for it!
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Surely, oh children, we have not survived this many years in the wilderness without the aid of the creator!
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I plead with you, oh my sons, oh my daughters, surely you can see.
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But yet, you will not. Yet, how can I anger?
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Should I anger at you for holding unto that which I did teach you in your youth?
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Would to Elohim that you would make not my many mistakes.
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Therefore, my children, stretch forth your hands, I plead.
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Shake off the chains and become a new being in the Mashiach.
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Wallow no longer in the darkness of your minds but seek always the face of Elohim.