Psalm 27:7, “Hear, O LORD, [when] I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me”
History records Elul 17 to be a day to cry out for mercy.
Traditionally, it was the day that the 10 spies that returned from the Promised Land with an evil report died of a plague. (Numbers 14:37)
In 1935 Nazi Germany passed the Nuremberg Laws, a set of racist policies directed primarily against Jews. The Nazis blamed the Jews for poverty, unemployment, and the loss of World War I. Jews were banned from any professional jobs and Jewish stores were boycotted. Anyone with even one Jewish grandparent was stripped of German citizenship, with no basic rights. Within 10 years, the Nazi genocidal machine had swept through eastern Europe, leaving 6 million Jews murdered.
Today the Jews are being blamed for many things, history is again repeating itself.
Psalm 83 reads like the daily newspaper: God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, And don’t be still, God. For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads. They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones. “Come,” they say, “and let’s destroy them as a nation, That the name of Yisra’el may be remembered no more.”For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you. (HNV)
The alliance listed are the “Arab Confederacy”.
- Edom: Southern Jordan and Palestinian refugees
- Ishmaelites: Saudi Arabia
- Moab: Central Jordan and Palestinian refugees
- Hagrites: Egypt
- Gebal: Northern Lebanon
- Ammon: Northern Jordan and Palestinian refugees
- Amalek: The Negev and Sinai Peninsula areas
- Philistia: The Gaza Strip and Hamas
- Tyre: Southern Lebanon and Hezbollah
- Assyria: Syria and Northern Iraq
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Thanks for listing the modern states because that connects the history for us. As Solomon said, There’s nothing new under the sun.