Hello all, my God cover you as a mother hen does her chicks, hide yourselves in the Almighty Who cares for you. God please remember Your people today and come quickly, Lord Jesus. Lets keep praying for unsaved to be saved for God's kingdom. Dark days are ahead.

Come quickly Lord Jesus. Remember your people and return. Remember your bride and remember Israel.

Your enemies have reproached and magnified themselves against Your people. Come back Lord and make everything right again. God's kingdom come and God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We who love You ask in the name of Your son, Jesus. Amen

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Zephaniah 2 KJV, American Bible Society

1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;

2 before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD's anger come upon you.

3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.

4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ash'kelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

5 ¶ Woe unto the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Cher'ethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, Is. 14.29-31 ·Jer. 47.1-7 · Ezek. 25.15-17 · Joel 3.4-8 · Amos 1.6-8 · Zech. 9.5-7

I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

6 And the seacoast 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'kelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.

8 ¶ I have heard the reproach of Moab, Is. 15.1 Is 16.14 ; Is 25.10-12 · Jer. 48.1-47 · Ezek. 25.8-11 · Amos 2.1-3 and the revilings of the children of Ammon, Jer. 49.1-6 · Ezek. 21.28-32 ; 25.1-7 · Amos 1.13-15 whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

9 Therefore, as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, Gen. 19.24 even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, 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 the LORD of hosts.

11 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

12 ¶ Ye Ethiopians Is. 18.1-7 also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; Is. 10.5-34 ; 14.24-27 · Nah. 1.1--3.19 and will make Nin'eveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.

15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.


Tisha B’Av Elegy in Memory of Gush Katif

by Rachel Sylvetsky,Tzvi Gedalya
Published: 09/08/11, 11:18 AM

Gush Katif Forever
An elegy mourning the destruction of communities in Gush Katif, northern Gaza and northern Samaria, written by a Bible scholar in Samaria, is being adopted by more and more synagogues as part of the Tisha B’Av liturgy.

A small number of elegies, in addition to the Book of Lamentations (Eicha) by the prophet Jeremiah, are recited on the eve of Tisha B’Av, and a larger number are recited after morning prayers. The elegies recall the destuction of Holy Temples and other tragedies, such as the Romans' torturous slaying of 10 Torah scholars.

The elegy in memory of Gush Katif and other destroyed Jewish communities was written by famed Bible scholar Rabbi Dr. Yoel Elitzur. The government demolished them in the month of Av 5755, August 2005.

Arutz Sheva brings you the poem in translation, with a link to the Hebrew original, which is in rhyme and is filled with associations, verses and alliterative expressions taken from the Tanach. A thorough expounding of these would necessitate extensive footnotes, not written as yet, but the words as is have a beauty of their own.

Elegy for Gush Katif, to be read on Tisha B’Av:

How the lands of milk and honey are lost
Despoiled, destroyed, ruined, desiccated
Green fields, orchards, hothouses
Trampled on by shepherds and herds

How could those in halls of power betray
Their G-d, their voters, their very souls and sons,
How did the guardian soldiers and police turn
From beloved brothers to besieging foes

How desolate are you Gush Katif, beloved land
Of verdant parks, sand and sea, love and harmony,
Filled like a pomegranate with Torah, good deeds
And now a ruin, a desolation

How were religion, law, justice and custom
Trampled and mocked
The righteous imprisoned, distress everpresent
Kindness turned to keening, justice to jeering

How could the black-clothed multitudes
Burst into beloved homes at dawn
Unashamed, flags sewn on their shirts
A travesty of blue and white before our G-d

How did the grandeur filled synagogues
Turn into blazing torches at dusk
“Do not hide thy face from us” they entreated
But You answered not

How the bomb-launching demons
Did celebrate raucously on our ruins
The mistress, banished, looked on from afar
While the son of her maidservant cavorted in glee

How did the ploughshares flatten
Elei Sinai, Dugit, Nisanit
And terrorists rose from within their ruins
Sending to us their missiles of death

How the pure did rush to Kfar Maimon
But found not the strength to surge on as one
Netzarim waited in vain
Katif, Tel Ketifa were broken in spirit

How solitary sit Gedid and Ganei Tal
Netzer Hazani’s beauty is gone
Neve Dekalim, a jackal’s home
And ocean waves remain of Shirat HaYam, Kfar Yam

How the looters did plunder and spoil
Rafiach Yam, P’at Sade are no more
And a wind at B’dolach
Dims the glow of the golden sands

How could not the merit of the ancient sage
Rabbi Elazar of Kfar Darom stand up to the Heavens
While following Kfar Darom’s 1948 defenders
The youth on its roof stood resolute

How is Atzmona vanished from the earth
No grapes on her vines, her herds let to wander
Morag is dispersed
Gan Or’s light extinguished

How was Moses’ blessing forgotten
“The tens of thousands of Ephraim and thousands of Menasseh”
How, as then, in the vineyard of Nayot
Evil ones stole the land of our Fathers

Chomesh was filled with soldiers, police
Forcibly dragging young women and men
While the faithful stood in vain in Sa-Nur
To protect their newly-built house of prayer

Kadim is gone, its buildings ruins
Ganim is destroyed, tell it not in Jenin
How in Amona the spoilers arose
To beat and injure, their cruelty shown

How, tell us, our Protector

Who holds close His followers,

Whose word is truth
Can You find more loyal sons than these
Did we not pour out our pure hearts to You?

You will tend Your flock with love
Accept their prayers, and may it be Your will
To speedily bring Your sons back to their borders
For You have said: “My people will be shamed no more.”