Lift up your feet to eternal heights. Lift them up the times you said to us (Deuteronomy 16:16) three times a year, they are the pilgrimage festivals. Cry out in your appointed times. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said (Isaiah 66:6) "A voice of uproar from the city, a voice from the Temple, the voice of the Lord, who gives retribution to His enemies."

And what is the meaning of "Maktarag" (a name mentioned in the verse)? The voice of the Lord pays back His enemies. They would mark them with signs. They would say on a certain day, "We will conquer them," take arrows and make signs with them.

They would descend to the north and go to the south, and to the four winds of the world, and they would fall in the south, and they knew that they had conquered with their hands, as it is said (Ezekiel 21:26), "So that every sign may be given it its due." Woe to the one who makes signs. Even so, they did not hold God in high regard and said (Deuteronomy 32:27), "Our own hand has prevailed, not the Lord's." All this they would do, for if they could have dug through the heavens and gone up high, they would have done so....