How shameful!

For as often as I speak, I cry out I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.

For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

Finally, Farid Salim commented on the use of election symbols farid56 The election symbols mean that the majority of people are ignorant and that they can hardly remember drawings like children.

But what does voluntary mean in a community where, when a girl gets raped, her father's first impulse, rather often, is to murder her out of shame?

Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, Yahweh, and don't give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'

Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?