Flaming Spear!

The Witch of the Flaming Mountain.

Your fragrant body your flaming beauty

We hear you, Flaming Spear!

Maybe red, bright, flaming red.

What a warm, tender love

There was a burning question though that would not leave me.

You could light it from that inscription, couldn't you?

We peer down into the core of our planet, and the blazing interior of our star.

You're all goin' to the painful, stinkin', scalding', everlasting' tortures of a fiery hell, created by God for sinners, unless...

But the biggest risks posed by unilateral recognition of Kosovo s independence are in the South Caucasus, a region that abuts the tinderbox of today s Middle East.

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Mr. Zacharakis (Greece) My delegation feels obliged, in exercise of its right of reply, to respond to the inflammatory statement made yesterday by the Foreign Minister of Albania.

and tell the forest of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt thereby.

And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

Bilateral relations have been bedeviled ever since by a festering dispute over the divided territory of Kashmir, India s only Muslim majority state (but home to only 3 of India s Muslims, who are scattered in larger numbers throughout the country).

Given the two countries long strained relations, this visit would have been remarkable at any time. But coming as it does only one month after the alarming Russian Georgian confrontation, it may offer real hope that tensions in the volatile Caucasus region can be eased.