Death Valley National Park, Photo By Ken Lund
Raca Desert Foxes
Listen!
You follow your own voices
Sneaky
Like foxes in the desert
Creeping through holes in city walls
To construct that which falls
God has not sent you
He has not spoken
That which you have built will be broken
Painted stones on sheets of glass
False hopes will be shattered alas!
Visions of peace
Crafted of Paper Mache
And elbow grease
The wall will not stand
The people will be seized
The fury of falseness
Futility at God’s hand
There goes you and your land!
Will you hunt the souls of my people . . .
to keep yourselves alive,
or will you sell them out
for cheap tricks and lies?!
. . . charms and un-tempered mortar?
to your and their demise?
© 2010, Robbie Pruitt
Ezekiel 13: 3-7
“Thus says the Lord GOD: “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! O Israel, your prophets are like foxes in the deserts. You have not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the LORD. They have envisioned futility and false divination, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD!’ But the LORD has not sent them; yet they hope that the word may be confirmed. Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken false divination? You say, ‘The LORD says,’ but I have not spoken.”
