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@AngelicaKamen @StopAntisemites 1) The Prophet Said There'd Be Times Like These
Isaiah 59: 4-19

No one enters suit justly,
no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
they conceive mischief & bring forth iniquity.

@AngelicaKamen @StopAntisemites 2) They hatch adders’ eggs,
they weave the spider’s web;
he who eats their eggs dies,
& from one which is crushed a viper is hatched.
Their webs will not serve as clothing;
men will not cover themselves with what they make.

@AngelicaKamen @StopAntisemites 3) Their works are works of iniquity,
& deeds of violence are in their hands.
Their feet run to evil,
& they make haste to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,
desolation and destruction are in their highways.

@AngelicaKamen @StopAntisemites 4) The way of peace they know not,
& there is no justice in their paths;
they have made their roads crooked,
no one who goes in them knows peace.
Therefore justice is far from us,
righteousness does not overtake us;

@AngelicaKamen @StopAntisemites 5) we look for light & behold darkness,
& for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
We grope for the wall like the blind,
we grope like those who have no eyes;
we stumble at noon as in the twilight,
among those in full vigor we are like dead men.

@AngelicaKamen @StopAntisemites 6) Justice is turned back,
& righteousness stands afar off;
for truth has fallen in the public squares,
& uprightness cannot enter.
Truth is lacking,
& he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
The Lord saw it, and it displeased him
that there was no justice.

@AngelicaKamen @StopAntisemites 7) He saw that there was no man,
& wondered that there was no one to intervene;
then his own arm brought him victory,
& his righteousness upheld him.
He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
& a helmet of salvation upon his head;

@AngelicaKamen @StopAntisemites 8) He put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
& wrapped himself in fury as a mantle.
According to their deeds, so will he repay,
wrath to his adversaries, requital to his enemies;
to the coastlands he will render requital.

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