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Jeremiah's scribe wants the spirit that rested on Joshua and Elisha. God answers that a ruined vineyard needs no fence, and prophecy is not for him.
Sanhedrin and priestly watches leave without the Presence. When Zion's children march into captivity, the Divine Presence goes with them.
Jeremiah had said Babylon would rule for seventy years. Belshazzar added up three reigns, decided the time was up, and drank from the Temple cups.
The king of Babylon planned to live inside a cloud above every nation. God answered by driving him down to grass, dew, and the company of beasts.
A planter sets a carob for children he may never meet. Rabbi Yochanan and Honi sleep seventy years and wake into a world that already ate the fruit.
Before the marriage scribe, an orphan freezes when asked her father's name, then points to the guardian who raised her, not the man who only begot her.
For eighteen years a heavenly voice drives the king of Babylon to burn the Temple, and his bone cup and the exiles' empty skins call down judgment.
When Hosea tells God to swap faithless Israel for a better people, God weds him to a harlot and lets him love her children until the words turn back on him.
Resh Lakish looked into the dark verse before the light and saw four empires crouched in the chaos, and the redeemer's spirit hovering above the deep.
Coming down from the palaces, a mystic hears a voice in Aramaic mourn Jerusalem, then God confess He aches to rebuild His burned Temple.
Roman soldiers were hunting Shimon bar Yochai. He stood in the cave mouth forty days and prayed, and on the fortieth night the rock seemed to thin.
God fed Israel honey pressed from bare rock and oil from flint. Then the nations poured a cup, and the wine moved in them like a serpent.
Hananiah promised the exiles would be home in two years. Jeremiah gave him one year to live, and Hananiah's sons hid the body for two days.
Driven into exile by the Dead Sea, the Teacher of Righteousness held the key to Habakkuk. The high priest rode out on the fast day to break him.
God told Baruch the city was already finished. He begged to die first, watched angels bury the vessels, then wrote to the tribes across the river.
They sat with the death penalties written out and picked the heaviest one on purpose, and then the injured party asked to be charged first.
