Kebra Nagast

But what God hateth is, augury by birds, idolatry, and enquiry of witches, and 1 and the divination, magic, and flies, and 'akarino, animal that hath been torn, and the dead body of a beast, and theft, and oppression, and fornication, and envy, fraud, drink and drunkenness, false swearing [against] neighbours, and the bearing of false testimony tion of the Son. and [against] neighbours. " All these things which God hateth they do. And because of them that God hath taken the Tabernacle of His Covenant away from us and hath given it to the people who do His Will and His Law, and His Ordinance. He hath turned His face from us and hath made His face to shine upon them. He hath despised us and hath loved them. He hath shown mercy unto them and hath blotted us out, because He hath taken away the Tabernacle of His Covenant from us. For He hath sworn an oath by Himself that He will not abrogate winter and summer, seed time and harvest, fruit and work, sun and moon, as long as Zion is on the earth, and that He will not in wrath destroy heaven and earth, either by flood or fire, and that He will not blot out it is man, and beast, and reptiles and creeping things, but will show mercy to the work of His hands, and will mulAnd when tiply His mercy on what He hath formed. God taketh away the Tabernacle of His Covenant He will destroy the heavens, and the earth, and all His work and this day hath God despised us and taken from us the Tabernacle of His Law." And whilst Solomon was saying these things he ceased not to weep, and the tears ran down his cheeks continually. And the Spirit of Prophecy answered and said unto " him, Why art thou thus sorrowful ? For this hath happened by the Will of God. And [Zion] hath not been given to an alien, but to thy firstborn son who shall ; 1 Probably a corruption of the name Ekron (2 Kings i, 2), the city- god of which was Baal-zebub. 94