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They shall be visited for destruction by the hand of Belial. That shall be the day when God will visit. The princes of Judah have become like those who remove the bound; wrath shall be poured upon them (Hos. v, 10). For they shall hope for healing but He will crush them. They are all of them rebels, for they have not turned from the way of traitors but have wallowed in the ways of whoredom and wicked wealth. They have taken revenge and borne malice, every man against his brother, and every man has hated his fellow, and every man has sinned against his near kin, and has approached for unchastity, and has acted arrogantly for the sake of riches and gain. And every man has done that which seemed right in his eyes and has chosen the stubbornness of his heart. They have not kept apart from the people and their sin and have wilfully rebelled by walking in the ways of the wicked of whom God said, Their wine is the venom of serpents, the cruel poison. Early Christian writers, s...

Version I (From M. Bitrus Kajil) Once the sky, where our vision ends, was not as far away as it is   now. The sky was so close to the ground that when someone ascended   a very high mountain he could even touch it with a very long guinea corn stalk. When people prayed to iju he sent his only daughter, Awa, with   whatever the person prayed for. When poor people prayed to iju for   food, for example, they were given the food. There was, among the   people who were given food by iju, a very careless woman who was   too lazy to wash the container in which the food was given. So when   the daughter of iju was washing the container a splinter got under her   fingernail and she died.   See that the daughter of iju was killed because of the carelessness   of mankind, iju took the sky very far away from man so that there   should be no communion between him and man. Version II (M. Margima Gadzama) Long ago iju was close to...