Marriage

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Ruach composes the perfect score
Yashua's fiancee at Jacob's well
Shades of Ziporah, Rebecca before
but this soul bears the mark of sheol
Sychar, bride-to-be, cursed by God's law *

Like Hosea's wife, she's a bit cheap
Plundered by five ravaging kings
who swept her over thresholds, asleep
In dark diaspora a slavebell rings
Hope eclipsed for Israel's lost sheep?

He sees her shackled-up with Rome
murderous, pompous, live-in threat
John's two-horned beast, despite Jerome
Defilement is not done with her yet
Herod's temple will soon be a dome

At first she resists the Lord's release
Offers him water, requests He tell
why Yahudah became the golden fleece
Meshiach reveals His living well
the only true source of lasting peace

Saved by AlefTav and graceful intent
Her soul will never go thirsty again
She'll be presented childlike, innocent
when the Bridegroom returns to reign
and leads His remnant to contentment

She rushes off, plants El-Shaddai in town
Witnesses for fallow folk, aglow
Reaps His first harvest, pre-ascention renown
from ripe fields; whiteness for her trousseau
Brightness, faith-filled, gems for His crown


* Sychar, apart from being the Samaritan town Jesus visited, is Hebrew for drunken, lying, debauchery

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