the Gaza Strip over to the Palestinians.
1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! Add you year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
3 And I will camp against you round about, and will lay siege against you with a mount, and I will raise forts against you.
4 And you shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust, and your voice shall be, as of one that has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
This fits Aril Sharon and checkout
Zephaniah 2:3-10
2:3 Seek you YAHVEH, all you meek of the earth, which have brought about His judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be - you shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.
4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ash-kel-on a desolation: they shall drive out Ash-dode at the noon day, and Ek-ron shall be rooted up.
5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Ker-a-thites! The word of YAHVEH is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy you, that there shall be no inhabitant.
6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ash-kel-on shall they lie down in the evening: for YAHVEH their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity. 8 I have heard the disgrace of Moab, and the reproach of the children of Am-mone, whereby they have reproached My people, and magnified themselves against their border.
9 Therefore as I live, says YAHVEH of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of thorny weeds, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of My people shall spoil them, and the remnant of My people shall possess them.
10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of YAHVEH of hosts.
Oy vey---YAHVEH has it all in control, even when it seems there's no hope!
And remember what YAHVEH said in
Genesis/ B'resheet 12:3 says
I will bless them that bless you, and curse them that curses you:
Speaking of Abraham and his descendents through Isaac and Jacob who became Israel.
Keep it all in Prayer, Rabbi Tom
from a personal letter from Rabbi Tom to me published with his permission.
