The Day of Hashem's Vengeance

 8 Av 5783 

The evidence indicates that it is Israel who brings down the West.  In what way, shape or form that takes is anybody’s guess.

Quoting from The Stone Edition Chumash with commentary:

…For the day of Hashem [His day of vengeance] upon all the nations is close; as you have done, so shall be done to you; your requital shall return upon your head.  For just as you drank on My holy mountain, so will all the nations drink ceaselessly; they will drink and be confounded, and become as if they never were.

On Mount Zion there will be refuge, and it will be holy; and the house of Jacob will inherit those who had dispossessed them.  The house of Jacob will be fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for straw; and they will ignite and devour them.  There will be no survivor to the house of Esau, for Hashem has spoken.

…the saviors will ascend Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau and the kingdom will be Hashem’s.  (Ovadiah 1.15-18, 21)

 

…Your awe-inspiring presence has misled you, the wickedness of your heart, you who dwells in the crags of the rock, who has seized the height of the hill.  Even if you raise your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there – the word of Hashem.  Edom shall be desolate; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and whistle over all its afflictions, like the overturning of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbors – said Hashem – where no man shall dwell and no human shall sojourn.

Behold he will ascend as a lion from the heights of the Jordan to a secure pasture land; for I shall bring the enemy suddenly and make him overrun her, and he who is chosen I shall charge against her.  For who is like Me?  Who can challenge Me?  And who is the shepherd who can stand before Me?

…From the sound of their fall the earth quakes; a cry, at the Sea of Reeds their voice is heard.  Behold he will ascend like an eagle and swoop down and spread his wings over Bozrah.  On that day, the hearts of the mighty men of Edom will be like the heart of a woman in travail.  (Yirmiyahu 49.15 -22)

[Commentary on 49:20]  “The enemy, who was earlier compared to a ferocious lion (v.19), is here likened to the youngest sheep, because Edom will be conquered by Israel, which is regarded lightly by all its enemies (Kara).

Who is this coming from Edom, with sullied garments, from Bozrah?  (Yeshayahu 63.1)

"FUN FACT"

When I queried Google, this was the response: “Bozrah, bordering on Lebanon and Franklin, is thought to be the only town with this name in the United States.”

According to a persistent legend, the name "Bozrah" was derived from [a] Biblical text, which came to someone's mind under the particular circumstances surrounding the community's petition to the Connecticut General Assembly for township status. Whether or not the story is true, the informal, early name "New Concord" was dropped when the town was incorporated.

The community, according to the legend, really wanted to call itself "Bath" after the famous spa in England. The local man chosen to carry the parish's request to Hartford had a somewhat eccentric manner of dress, however, and when he appeared before the Legislature he was dressed in loud, parti-colored homespun so odd as to bring to the mind of one amused legislator the query of Isaiah 63:1: "Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?" Overcome by the humorous appropriateness of this verse, the Assembly decided to name the town "Bozrah" when it incorporated the place. (Wiki)

 

Still hoping there won't be a fast, but if there is, I hope it is the last time.  Use it well!
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