Burden for
I. YeshaYahu 13
On the hilltop, raise a signal, cry aloud; O, cry aloud!
Wave the hand for them to enter those great gateways of the proud.
I myself, I commanded all my Consecrated Clans;
I have summoned mighty forces to execute my plans.
Hear the shofar on the hilltop? Hear the loud, vast multitude?
Hear the uproar of the kingdoms; hear their forces on the move?
Yah of hosts is drafting armies from prophetic, distant lands,
From the ends of these great heavens, weapons in their hands.
Wait,
With destruction, occupation, flags and fury, fife and drum.
All the forces of the future I will use to punish you.
Are you haughty? Are you ruthless? Haughty? Ruthless? I AM too.
Next the Persians, in their boasting, I will call into the fray.
They are heartless; seized by demons; without mercy or delay.
Not a shepherd, not a migrant will take refuge – but the owl.
Owls and satyr, foul hyenas, and the jackals – how they howl!
CODA:
So
Is now like
The time, no longer close at hand, the time has long since passed,
And yet another Word fulfilled; fulfilled, Zaddik, at last.
II. YeshaYahu 14
Yahweh has had great compassion on
He chose
Even aliens and strangers will cleave to Bet Yaakov
And the people who dwell there will lend her the hand.
Yahweh will rest you from all of your turmoil;
He’s healed the pain from all your grievous work.
Then they will take up the song of the King of Babylonia:
O how you have fallen from the heights unto the earth.
Is this the fellow who made nations tremble?
Is this the fellow who shook our precious homeland?
Is this the devil who massacred our children?
Is this the satan that turned out seas to sand?
Yahweh prepared for this slaughter of his children;
Udai and Kusai; upon the reddened ground.
O, Son of Dawn, you have laid your people low,
Hanged with a hemp by the neck then cut down.
Yahweh prepared great successors for your palace:
Sir Hedgehog will lead from the Throne of Swimming Pool.
Yah will divide
Once forgotten, no posterity or remnant for Abdul.