When the Spirit of His Justice envelops
Our very lives as though "upon the air"? (2)

Nations shall become angry, (2)
And stubbornly defiant, like mules.

Like a virtuous "woman" the Lord's indignation (3)
Will cast out those of the sectarian "whore".

His righteous servants will then rejoice,
When together their holy lives begin. (4)

Contemptuous enemies He will expose, (5)
Awakened by His Spirit in heart and mind.

The guilty will run from His lionlike justice, (6)
To be met by a "bear" for all unrepented sin.

                                                          26/8/04.

"Then those who have misused My Law will be taken by surprise; their contempt for it will bring them continual torment. All who in their lifetime failed to acknowledge Me in spite of all the good things I had given them, all who disdained My Law while freedom still was theirs, who scornfully dismissed the thought of penitence* while the way was still open -- all these will have to learn the truth through torments after death."  (2 Esdras 9:10-12 NEB).