The rabbis should have created a Hebrew prayer reflecting Jewish concern for Catholic hearts. I last spoke Hebrew the morning of February 18, 1967 at my Bar Mitzvah, but can still recall the gruesome yarn about God randomly killing 3,000 Hebrews because a mere handful worshiped a golden calf (a prohibited, but nevertheless common practice at the time). Wasn’t it Stalin who said “better to kill a thousand innocent men than allow one guilty man to go free?”
Let us also pray for the Christians that God our Lord should illuminate their hearts, so that they will recognize false idolatry, the Fall of all men.
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John 3:16-18 (King James Version)
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
יוחנן 3:16-18 (קינג ג 'יימס גירסה)
16For אלוהים כל כך אהב את העולם, כי הוא נתן לו רק begotten בנו, כי כל מי believeth בו לא אמור להתקלקל, אבל יש עולם החיים.
17For אלוהים לא שלחה את בנו אל העולם לגנות את העולם, אבל זה את העולם דרך אותו עלול להיות נשמר.
18He כי believeth עליו הוא לא גינו: אבל הוא לא כי הוא believeth גינו כבר, כי הוא לא האמין hath את שמו של begotten רק בנו של אלוהים.
Isaiah 9:1-7 (King James Version)
Isaiah 9
1Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
3Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
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