All mankind will pass before You
like members of the flock.
Like a shepherd pasturing his flock,
making sheep pass under his staff,
so shall You cause to pass, count, calculate, and consider the soul of all the living;
and You shall apportion the fixed needs of all Your creatures
and inscribe their verdict.
For Your Name signifies Your praise:
hard to anger and easy to appease,
for You do not wish the death of one deserving death,
but that he repent from his way and live.
Until the day of his death You await him;
if he repents You will accept him immediately.
It is true that You are their Creator and
You know their inclination,
for they are flesh and blood.
Our origin is dust and our end is dust.
At the hazard of our life we earn our bread.
We are like a fragile vessel,
like the grass that withers
the flower that fades,
the shadow that passes,
the cloud that vanishes,
the wind that blows,
the dust that floats,
the dreams that fly away
Verily.
The dreams that fly away.
Your kingship is an eternal kingship.
2 comments:
And Biden wants to release the mastermind of the attack.
Amen.
A good friend lost his son, a firefighter, in one of the towers. Dad was a firefighter as well, from NYC. I remember the moment Joey came in the door and said "A plane flew into one of the Twin Towers." We looked at him like he was speaking Danish. It didn't even register. Then we heard from downstairs the plane had flown into the second tower, and everyone ran for the bar, which had the only television on that part of the island (Key West).
Lord help us.
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