Monday, August 4, 2008

יח יְהוָה--אַל-אֵבוֹשָׁה, כִּי קְרָאתִיךָ; יֵבֹשׁוּ רְשָׁעִים, יִדְּמוּ לִשְׁאוֹל

O LORD, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon Thee; let the wicked be ashamed, let them be put to silence in the nether-world.(Psalm 31:17)

Become dry, delayed, confounded...
Existing one, past-present-future, becoming...
Cry out, proclaim, invite...
Guilty, condemned, troubled...
Become dry, delayed, confounded...
Still, quiet, die...
Place of begging, asking, enquire...

The Hebrew sheol - nether-world - is derived from sha'al: to ask, borrow, beg.

I am dried out and I cry out. May the drought be ended. I beg for the still rain of creative reality.

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