But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD which exercises lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.
In the verse (23) before the above (Jeremiah 9:24) the LORD concludes an indictment of His people, calling all to mourn, verse 21 saying, “For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces.” For those without understanding, the quote speaks of not seeing what’s coming (through the window, meaning a lack of foresight necessary for good leadership), and, therefore, those (the dead-minded) leading lead to death.
The title verse is quoted in 1 Corinthians 1:31, amid Paul’s abrading the wise of this deluded and insane world, whose falsely so-called wisdom is intentional ignorance, foolishness they use to manipulate and control those following them. In Jeremiah 9 (which Paul is referencing) we are called to consider these things, that the world has become confounded. The LORD says those leading should call His people to repentance and mourning; instead, they are rejoicing in their self-righteousness, as is their way.
Jeremiah 9
12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perishes and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13 And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out [“into the midst of deceit” – see verse 6 below].
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his [the LORD’s] mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus says the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23 Thus says the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD which exercises lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.
The confounding and forsaking of the land (the earth) is spoken of earlier, verses 3 thru 9 describing the condition caused by not knowing the LORD, and therefore rejecting His “lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth.” He says it is for this He has visited to avenge His soul on a nation such as this.
Jeremiah 9
3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, says the LORD.
4 Take you heed every one of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
7 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lays his wait.
9 Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
The word above rendered “avenged” is naqam (5358), a word used in Deuteronomy 32:43 as the LORD says “he will avenge [naqam 5358] the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance [naqam 5359] to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
The word rendered “forsaken,” above in verse 19, is the Hebrew word ‘azab, referring us to Deuteronomy 32:36, there saying it’s when the LORD sees it, that none are “left,” when His people’s power is gone, He will come to judge the earth.
Deuteronomy 32
28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight [that there is none left], except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
35 To me belongs vengeance [naqam 5359] and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left [‘azab].
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods [who are men who’ve put themselves in God’s place], their rock in whom they trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live forever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance [naqam 5359] to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
43 Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge [naqam 5358] the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance [naqam 5359] to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
The powers of the earth have no power but that given (allowed) by God for His purpose. They can do nothing against Him because all they know is deception: lies: darkness that can do nothing against the truth except spew more darkness.
2 Peter 2
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the daytime. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: [by] the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice [who] forbad the madness [insanity] of the [the false] prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness [ignorance] is reserved forever.
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the LORD and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again [spewing out the darkness in them]; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
2 Peter 3
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the LORD and Savior:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night [unknown to the ignorant]; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise [the voice of God as thunders], and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas of wicked men] shall melt with fervent heat [from the word of God released from heaven, unto fire], the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia].
17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall [away into fables created from men’s imaginations] from your own steadfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.
The word “steadfastness” is from the once used Greek word sterigmos, from the thirteen times used word sterizo, meaning “to set fast, i.e. (literally) to turn resolutely in a certain direction, or (figuratively) to confirm:–fix, (e-)stablish, steadfastly set, strengthen.” Peter uses the word (sterizo) once in 1 Peter and once in 2 Peter, both describing the LORD establishing us, in which He says we should stand fast.
1 Peter 5
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
10 But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish [sterizo], strengthen, settle you.
11 To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
12 By Silvanus [branch of heaven], a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein you stand.
In 2 Peter 1, it (the word sterizo) is used as Peter is telling of the promises, the knowledge of God and our LORD Jesus Christ, through which is multiplied His grace and peace. The word “multiplied” is the twelve times used Greek word plethuno, meaning to increase, and referring us to the LORD using it in its first appearance, in Matthew 24:12, there speaking of the many false prophets and their teaching that now “abounds.” He says, because of this (false teaching) the love (agape – giving this word as received: the love of the truth) of many waxed cold. It (sterizo) is the antithesis of this chilling (psucho – waxing cold) Peter describes: the reversal by teaching what he, in 2 Peter 1:11, tells us is the entrance (eisodos) “into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.”
Matthew 24
10 And then [in these things the sorrows shall begin] shall many be offended [skandalizo, meaning “to entrap {in false doctrines}, i.e. trip up (figuratively, stumble (transitively) or entice to sin, apostasy or displeasure)]”, and shall betray [paradidomi, meaning “to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit,” speaks of surrendering the entrusted holy place, and there placing the false doctrines men call their gods] one another, and shall hate [reversing the love of the truth] one another.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure [not surrendering what is holy] unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached [as it has here and now] in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15 When you, therefore, shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso reads, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee [the exodos, the leaving the misleaders] into the mountains [from the low to the high place, to the transfiguration where the LORD is revealed outside the corrupt church]:
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take anything [leave all their false doctrine behind] out of his house:
18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes [the filthy rags spotted by dead flesh, the false doctrines of false prophets and false teachers].
As we know, when Daniel speaks of the “abomination,” the cause of the desolation when put in the place of the holy, the Hebrew word is shiqquwts, meaning “disgusting, i.e. filthy; especially idolatrous or (concretely) an idol:– abominable filth (idol, -ation), detestable (thing).”
Daniel is speaking of what he learned by reading Jeremiah (a process we know is the wheel within the wheel, understanding sent forward in the written word, to give the understanding by which we overcome the wicked). He is specifically referring to the use of the word (shiqquwts) in Jeremiah 7:30.
Jeremiah 7
30 For the children of Judah [Judaea – the place of the current crop of corrupt leaders, who are misleaders and wholly corrupt by the leaven of their false doctrines] have done evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations [shiqquwts] in the house which is called by my name, to pollute [corrupt] it.
31 And they have built the high places of Tophet [in the fires of hell], which is in the valley [the low place] of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
32 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom [who offer their children in the fires they’ve created], but the valley of slaughter [therefore flee to the mountains, and take nothing from these corrupt houses when you leave]: for they shall bury in Tophet [in the hell fires], till there be no place.
33 And the carcasses [the dead in the flesh] of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate [by the abominations these false teachers and false prophets have put in My place].
The LORD tells Jeremiah, earlier in verse 2, to “Stand [fast] in the gate of the LORD’s house [the entrance into His kingdom], and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.”
To the misleaders in this evil generation, “who oppose and exalt themselves above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that they as God sit in the temple of God, showing themselves as if they are God,” hear this word:
Jeremiah 7
3 Thus says the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war], the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4 Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;
6 If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.
8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom you know not;
10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the LORD.
12 But go you now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
13 And now, because you have done all these works, says the LORD, and I spoke unto you, rising up early and speaking, but you heard not; and I called you, but you answered not;
14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein you trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
When the LORD says “go now” to Shiloh, and of His rising up early speaking, it’s a reference to removing the house of Eli and replacing it with Samuel (shmuw’el – hearing God). Samuel heard the voice of God, first thinking it was Eli, and then realized it was the word of God’s mouth telling Him of the end of the house of Eli.
The deep meaning in the above leads us back to the one named Shelah, the son of Judah he promised to Tamar and never fulfilled. The name is from the fourteen times used word sh’elah (shelah), meaning “a petition; by implication, a loan:–loan, petition, request.” It is the petition for a son deferred, and again given, established (again) in Shiloh, to those who hear the voice of God’s mouth.
The name Eli (the high priest in Shiloh when the ark {the presence, glory, of God – openly manifested} was there), is from the word ‘alah, meaning to ascend, refers us to Amos 1:2 and 9:3, when those who’ve climbed to the top of Carmel wither.
The word “wither,” in Amos 1:2, is the Hebrew word yabesh, meaning “to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage).” In the first six appearances of this word (yabesh) it is the waters “dried up,” first (Genesis 8:7 & 14) of the flood, of the Red sea (Joshua 2:10 & 4:23), and of the Jordan (Joshua 4:23 & 5:1).
As we understand, these waters are the words of men (the ideas and ways of the ignorant that carry to and hold in death) as a flood that covered and destroyed the old world, an event also represented in the tower of Babel, when humanity advanced and though it could reach heaven by wickedness.
Genesis 6
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 7
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark [wherein the seed of life is preserved] went upon the face of the waters.
Genesis 8
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried [yabesh – the words that destroy men and nation withered away in the experience].
15 And God spoke unto Noah [rest], saying,
16 Go forth of the ark [wherein you were protected from the waters of death below, and now enter rest], you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh,
The oppression that then rises is through Ham (Noah’s son) from the word chamam, meaning to become hot. This word’s (name’s) meaning is found when the word first appears in Exodus 16:21 telling of when the sun “waxed hot,” the manna melted (macac).
As we know, the word manna is from Hebrew word man, meaning “a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it [not knowing it is the bread of life, the word from the mouth of God, the loaves the LORD Jesus rightly divided and fed many, showing in the fishes it was the life unknown below the surface of the waters].” Its fuller description is found in Deuteronomy 8:1 thru 3, saying “1 All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers. 2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. 3 And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna [man – the word from His mouth], which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread [lechem] only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live.”
Ham (the manna withered in him) then brought forth a son, Cush (darkness), who had a son, Nimrod (rebellion), who was a hunter (of souls). The beginning of His kingdom was Babel (confusion – see Genesis 10:10), and out of that land went forth Asshur (communism – See Genesis 10:11).
Matthew 24
33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. [Does any other know this is the time and the season, ending the old and creating the new heaven and earth?]
37 But as the days of Noah were [when He entered the ark, and those with him rested in peace, in Shiloh], so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
The name Shiloh is from the Hebrew word shalah, meaning (from the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon) “to be at rest, prosper, be quiet, be at ease.” It is referring us to the petition for a man child (that was deferred in Shelah) fulfilled in Shiloh, entering the rest therein when the ark (the man child who hears God speaking) returns with the bread of heaven.
Friends, Ecclesiastes 3
10 I have seen the travail [to bring forth a man child], which God has given to the sons of men to be exercised [‘anah – humbled] in it. [Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail has God given to the sons of man to be exercised {humbled} therewith {to understand there are many things only God knows, when they’ve withered from the mind of men, which only He can and does set in order again, by the man He ordains}. 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun {when the word from the mouth of God withers from the minds of men}; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 15 That which is {made} crooked {by men} cannot be made straight {by man}: and that which is wanting {needing correction} cannot be numbered.]
11 He has made everything beautiful in his time: also he has set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.
12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.
14 I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.
15 That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been; and God requires that which is past [the foundations of the world to be restored, into rest and order].
16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
17 I said in mine heart [because these places are corrupt], God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
The first petition (shelah – for a man child) is cited in 1 Samuel 1:17, and fulfilled, in verse 27, with the birth of Samuel, who hears God speaking. As mentioned above, this comes in Shiloh, and is the preparation for the end of the house of Eli. The reason for its end is Eli let the light (the lamp of God – 1 Samuel 3:3) go out in the temple, meaning by this the word of God, understanding, withered from the minds of men. This is reflected in his (Eli’s) sons, Hophni and Phinehas [constant strife and mouths as serpents misleading].
1 Samuel 3
12 In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.
13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
1 Samuel 4
11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
16 And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?
17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken [from Shiloh].
Amos 9
1 I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that flees of them shall not flee away, and he that escapes of them shall not be delivered.
2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up [‘alah] to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
5 And the LORD God of hosts is he that touches the land, and it shall melt [muwg – see verse 13 below], and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up [‘alah] wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
6 It is he that builds his stories in the heaven, and has founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
7 Are you not as children of the Ethiopians [Cush – darkness] unto me, O children of Israel? says the LORD. Have not I brought up [‘alah] Israel out of the land of Egypt [out from the oppressors]? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
8 Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom [the enemies mixed among us, destroying us, our nation, and our culture, all while saying it’s peace and for our safety], and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, says the LORD that does this.
13 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt [muwg].
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land [of America] which I have given them, says the LORD your God.
Psalms 76
1 In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
4 You are more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
7 You, even you, are to be feared: and who may stand in your sight when once you are angry?
8 You did cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise you: the remainder of wrath shall you restrain.
11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
