Da Holy One o’ Isr’el
Prior note to reader: “HOI” is Holy One of Israel:
Isaiah 5:24,25
Dey gonna get slapped in de eye
Fo’ despisin’ de HOI!
I’m sayin’ I can tell you why!
Day gonna git spanked, by an’ by!
Da anger o’ da Lord has burnt (25)
His mine ‘gains’ ’em has bin turnt!
Stretched out His han’ an’ struck ’em down.
Now deir corpses in da streets can be foun’.
An’ yet ‘is anger is still not spent.
His hand so stretched out, it’s bent!
Mountains shakin’ and bodies all aroun’.
Trash all over da streets! (25)
Yet His haind is steeil stretched aht
Waitin’ for dem to turn about!
So ‘E’ll reach out t’ dose ot’er nations (26)
Dey can tune to deir very own stations!
So don’ mess wid da HOI,
‘Less you wan’ ‘o git slapped in de eye!
Re-poetized on 1 August, 2022 without reference to previous “poetization.”
(Read with a fine, deep Southern [and hickish] drawl)
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