6.1 Curse
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6.1 Curse
Curse – definition: a prayer or invocation [calling upon] for harm or injury to come upon someone: imprecation [to invoke evil on]: evil or misfortune that comes as if in response to imprecation or as retribution [receiving of reward or punishment]: a cause of great harm or misfortune: torment [extreme pain or anguish of body or mind]: to use profanely [abusively] insolent [insulting] language against: blaspheme [address with irreverence]: to call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury: to execrate [detest utterly] in fervent and often profane terms: to bring great evil upon: afflict [to cause persistent suffering or anguish ]: swear ‹cursing loudly›. Merriam Webster Dictionary
Isaiah Chapter 34
1. Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things that come forth from it.
2. For Jehovah hath indignation [syn anger, fury, ire, mad, rage, wrath] against all the nations, and wrath [strong vengeful anger or indignation: retributory punishment for an offense or a crime: divine chastisement anger] against all their host [one that receives or entertains guests socially, commercially, or officially] he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
3. Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4. And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf] from the fig-tree.
5. For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
6. The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7. And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8. For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9. And the streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10. It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
11. But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
12. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
13. And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
14. And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
15. There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.
16. Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.
17. And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
Comment: This text shows how far Jehovah will go when he becomes indignant and wrathful. Did the God of Jesus also become vengeful and delivered up nations (hosts) who accepted the Israelites into their fold. Here we see the extent of the jealousy of Jehovah. He utterly destroys them and the Edomites to whom (he actually has the kind God Baal in mind) he brings slaughter.
The results of Jehovah’s sword filled with blood against the people of Edom what is now southwestern Jordan, between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. The curse of Jehovah sounds much like the war-hungry present Netanyahu and Israeli supporters. Is this why there is so often referred to as ‘the fear of the Lord?’
If this is the God of the ancestors of the present-day Israelis, Christians and Islam, then it must be pleasant to be a far-eastern believer or an atheist. This happened more than three thousand years ago. The followers of Jehovah, the petrified Israelis and their shortsighted Zionists, are taking vengeance today on the descendants of their elder brother, Ismael. We will discuss the stupidity of Israel’s motives at some other time.
Read up the following: Deuteronomy 4:3; 12:29-32 and 24:1-4.
Jeremiah 26:4-6. Exodus 33:23; Leviticus 4:31; 21:5; and
1 Kings 14:10 and 19:10, 14.
We have much for you to reflect on. To guide you, we have marked the text with bold type.
We thought that the words fat and fatness may have meanings other than the fat in animals and humans. We looked up these words in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and found these meanings:
Fat: well-filled out; full in tone and quality; substantial and impressive; richly rewarding or profitable.
Fatness: best or richest part.
If you look at the context of the words, they do not have these meanings. So, you will be correct in thinking the words mean: animal tissue consisting chiefly of cells distended with greasy or oily matter. This being so, what does it say about Jehovah?