Babangida and his Illusions 

Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh,
Frankfurt
 

Thieves can only rule a nation of idiots. This is a very hard talk. But it is a sublime truth. Plato, the ancient philosophical celebrity, who authored the Republic, was on record as saying that the only requirement for evil to triumph in any circumstance, is for good men to do nothing. Good men graduate into idiocy, when they succumb to timidity or blackmail, which emasculates them into acquiescence, while their commonweal is raped and plundered, by heartless buccaneers. Their foolery is consolidated when they are weak-kneed in proffering stubborn response to the rise and germination of misrule.  

Among idiots, greed and mercenary considerations blinds the resolve. Greed converts reason to jelly; and their poverty dehumanizes them into making themselves dogs for the sake of bones. It is based on this that one would not stick his head out to challenge anyone, who makes bold to say that Nigeria has a large collection of emasculated idiots in her population. If the obverse obtains, why is Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, not yet cooling his feet at a maximum security facility? Why is Chris Ubah not in jail for his atrocious criminality? Why is Babangida still a celebrity and midget conquistador enjoying some baronial privileges? Why was Chris Ubah crowned a trustee of the ruling party in Nigeria, and the party still retains relevance in the political equations of the country? 

Scandalous abominations and scoundrels like IBB are symptoms of a failed nation. The factors and elements that conspired to place them at the pedestals of opportunities to plot against the country, and succeed; can only be found in a State that has lost the ontological reasons for its existence. The Nigerian state is a contraption constructed for the greatest inconvenience of its people. The eternal bickering among the ethnic nationalities, who are simply strange bedfellows; actively, but politely nursing mutual platonic hatred of each other, waters the ground for the germination of morally defunct individuals and their apparatchiks; who hijack the State, and deploy it to the service of their demeaned concept of avarice and self-worship. IBB remains a sad reminder of the trouble with Nigeria as Achebe eloquently visualized it 

Just like the evolution of every social cancer, the abomination of military desolations in Nigeria, originated from the decayed humus of a State that possessed only magnitude without direction. While the politicians were busy outdoing themselves in bread and butter politics of the first and second republics respectively; abandoning the ship of state to the capricious whims of rogues; military opportunists were gathering their aces. As politicians became petty; law and order became politicized. Nigerians became victims of a lecherous elitist class of rent-seekers, who control the politic and the economy. The economy at their hands vacillated dangerous between anaemia and coma, thanks to their enthusiastic patronage of kleptomania. Okotie Eboh and Umaru Dikko are some unforgettable motifs of those times. These guys were logos of corruption and criminal vanity.   

As political decency and due process took flight from our land, the stage was set for uncertainties. A whole range of armed characters seized the opportunity to shoot and slaughter their way into the new non-political order, which politicians’ pyramids of stupidities released as an avalanche that would swallow accountability and good sense. Among these military thugs were a fox and a buffoon. They both succeeded in running Nigeria for sometime. In-between them, Nigeria was ran aground in the sandbanks of official corruption, poverty and underdevelopment. One stole enough to construct a fifty-room fortress in Minna, to wall off all askance directed at his audacious criminality. The other stole enough, but died atop imported women of easy virtue. Both of them never wanted to leave power. They wanted to die there. One was forced to step aside and bid his time for re-emergence. The other not only wanted to die in office, he schemed to perpetuate himself there. And he actually died in office; maybe at a corner couch, while perspiring atop women imported for his pleasure at our expense. 

Abacha was a first class fool. This most unworthy of leaders left his inglorious paws on our firmament. He hated Nigeria so much that he passed a vote of no confidence on made-in-Nigeria harlots; preferring to patronize imported prostitutes. He passed a vote of no-confidence on Nigerian made Ashawos. That is why they have to import Ashawo from India to satisfy his crude tastes.

Many ancient moons ago, St. Augustine of Africa wrote: What is a state without justice but a band of robbers! One may not be wrong to conjecture that Augustine may have taken a prophetical peep into Africa’s tomorrow, and saw Nigeria; a kingdom of wasted opportunities. From Independence till today, Nigeria has been hijacked by a coalition of gangsters. This is an alliance of thieves, who are hell bent on embezzling Nigeria out of existence. Although this has been the case, no other era witnessed the kind of executive banditry, inaugurated and actively promoted by Ibrahim Babangida.  

Ibrahim Babangida is a feudal-minded thief, who genuflects subserviently only at the altars of his avarice and fears. He single-handedly created a cult of rent-seekers, whose atrocious greed, consolidated indolence and baronial privileges affronts every ethical tradition. These guys were too compromised by their avarice to think development. Selfishness is the summary of tunnel vision. It can never reason outside the dark grottos of its malodorous ego. So these selfish men never considered Nigeria and her development in their equation. All they considered was their profit and pockets. Every social good could be sacrificed to attain this narrow and highly polarized vision of reality entertained by these leeches, hatched and nourished by IBB’s own selfish agenda. 

Babangida is not an ordinary thief. He is a thief with an attitude. He wears this attitude fearlessly because those we empowered to call such crooks to book are crooks in his league. Some of them he created from virtual nothingness, and gave them some corrupt relevance, in his economy of Machiavellian mediocrity. Some of them pre-dated him in their congenital sycophancy. Babangida ran a government modelled after the oldest recipe of treachery known to crime.  

Among criminals, greed is the lowest common factor. And to keep a vice-like grip on a community of crooks, all one needs is the Machiavellian blueprint, in its rawest form. Some people and organizations have succeeded in downloading Machiavelli’s theoretics into political praxis. But IBB remains one of its crudest apostles. To this end, Babangida succeeded in siring a sect of trans-ethnic thieves across Nigeria, that have continued to wield unmerited pockets of influence, predicated on the power of stolen wealth; shorn off the Nigerian people, at IBB’s discretionary silence and mutually beneficial corruption. 

Under an arrangement created by him, IBB invested in corruption. He corrupted those who are corruptible; purchased those who are purchasable; blackmailed, jailed and terminated those who dared disagree with his excesses. He is a past master in art of patronage, nepotism and systematic looting of public funds. Babangida is a class act in peddling a strange family of deceit. He sugar-coats and advertises his roguery and crookedness with a toothy smile; just like a Mafiosi, who is capable of shot-gunning the Pope, and reciting his rosary beads at the same time.  Framing up his opponents was elevated into the fine art of governance. The murder of critics inaugurated during his tenure, was honed to razor sharpness under his randy accomplice, Sanni Abacha. Tai Solarin will forever regret accepting the Greek gift of heading the People’s Bank, from IBB.  

Babangida dishes out a brand of influence peddling, and intimidation, to tie corrupt goons to his apron strings, like every puppet master would. And these are the people well corrupted that whenever the case against IBB raises some cacophonous disagreement with everything they have forced themselves to believe against their consciences, they are the first to go launder their dirty consciences in public, trying to spray some literal deodorants, on IBB, whom every Nigeria knows to be a piece of undeodorized dogshit. 

Some of the clusters of untruths he masterfully releases to the reading public through his paid image launderers are that Obasanjo’s failures are provenance that he is a credible alternative. But stripping down these layers of accreted falsehoods, one sees a drowning man, who knows, and is increasingly being unsettled that Nigerians are now asking questions, without fear or favour. He is a frightened man, who is afraid of confronting his day of reckoning to the Nigerian people. He is kicking, clawing and deploying every possible weapon in his arsenal of cant to escape justice, which is slowly but steadily approaching his robber-baronial firmament. 

Babangida wants to rule us and bring us felicity. That is what he believes. I resist the temptation to speculate on his intentions. I only critique his history. But I would not say he is lying, because the actualization of his intention lies in a future that is a festival of uncertainties. And pontificating ex cathedra on the future would be symptomatic of capital ignorance. The past told us that Babangida is a liar with a compromised reputation. So, if we believe his good intention, then we can as well believe a professional criminal who has a variety of reasons to lie. 

IBB is a dangerous species of rogue. He mixes unscrupulous cunning with a decisive brutality. In him is a crosspollination of horrific treachery and glamorous deceptiveness. Babangida is a connoisseur of conspiracy, score-settling and blackmail. Many of those called IBB boys are those he corrupted and eternally blackmails to tow the lines he lays out for them like some Pavlovian canines.  

Patriotic shame burns me up, whenever I am faced by the fact that Nigeria once had an IBB and an Abacha as leaders. It is really an indictment on our collective honour. Nigerians slumbered in timidity. We sacrificed vigilance, which is the price of liberty to our postural apathy, when men like IBB rode roughshod over our dreams and bestrode our land. 

But my greatest fear is that we seemed to have learnt nothing from history. That is why we are making an extra effort to repeat it, a la Santayana. We seemed to be amply endowed with some historical amnesia that wipes our memories blank of the atrocities splashed across it by those who stole our trust and raped our resolve. The intention of campaigning, let alone wanting to rule Nigeria again is one of the greatest insults on our collective sense of honour. IBB saw Nigeria a nation caught in turbulence; instead of helping her out of her predicament, took advantage of her and raped her for his own illicit and lewd pleasures. I wonder how this man could sleep at night, when he has the blood of so many people on his hands. Macbeth murdered sleep and married insomnia. I know the same lots holds abundant promise for this destroyer of Nigeria. 

Babangida has questions to answer to the Nigerian people. His government must tell us what happened to the cream of young Nigerian army officers, who died in a plane crash that reeks more of a government-executed hit, than anything else. He should be made to answer for the blood of Maman Vatsa. At least, he should come out with his own side of the story. If he feels he has innocence on his side, let him submit himself to probe, and see if the stones on his feet will not rise to strike him dead.  

Ibrahim Babangida is today a rich man. He should tell Nigerians how he came about his wealth. He should tell us the inheritance bequeathed to him that yielded that kind of stupendous wealth. Or he should tell us the software he discovered or contrivance he invented that blessed him with that kind of holding and wealth. By the last count Ibrahim Babangida retired as a military officer and a head of State of Nigeria. Calculating his salary for 25 years supposing he has been a general for 25 years, which is a factual impossibility; will not approximate to making him a millionaire. Adding that to his salary as Head of State and deducting expenses, one then sees that there is no way this guy could ever finance a 50 room mansion with the state of the art security gadgets on his earnings. So, who financed his becoming a millionaire? Did he win a lottery? The answer is no! This man became rich by stealing Nigerian people’s money. Every other explanation is factually deficient. I hope his cheerleaders would take not.

Babangida should be man enough to answer to the accusations laid against him by facts on the ground. Any attempt to divert attention from the abomination of desolations this man heaped on our land, is an invitation to future disaster. His cheerleaders should be made to realise that in the temple of truth, sycophants are pedestrians before facts. IBB should keep on deluding himself. Nigerians are angry with him and his likes. The floodgates would be breached one day. And not all his stolen wealth would be able to save him from the avalanche of torrential anger and frustrations, which his robberies helped to create. The day is around the corner.

Robot  Villager

# 1 Babangida and his Illusions ...Read the full article. Posted by Robot| 18.10.2006 06:43

ula-lisa  Villager

# 2 Humpfff! ...breath in... breath out.... Posted by ula-lisa| 18.10.2006 09:34

Oghre  Villager

# 3 No one will be so daft to be “man enough to answer to any accusation laid out against him” it is a matter for the people, the constitution and law of the nation to bring such criminality to justice. Nigerians may say they “are angry with him” but what are they doing about it, does Babangida have 140 million soldiers guarding him? Who is he, is he not one man? The Nigerian mentality means people like IBB are idolised, he is a role model for many Nigerians, so why should they see him as a threat to national security, why should they make efforts to bring him to book? There are many Nigerians who spoke out against IBB for years, many of these are now sycophants after they got political appointments, yeye grants and money and so that was the end of their beef with him. Today there is a new breed of foot soldiers trying to get him elected, for some reason the man is never short of support in a country that claims to hate him and his ilk. There are people who suffered under the man one way or the other in the past but are actually campaigning for him to come back and make life even more difficult for them. Why do we like to suffer so much? Why did it take Mamman Vatsa’s wife this long to speak out? This woman suffered for over a decade but decided to cry foul in 2006 and seek justice only after a few people cajoled? Nigerians are a unique race of people (even among the black race), let me say that if apartheid happened in Nigeria rather than South Africa, we will still be under Apartheid today, we are a nation of weaklings, a people who keep quiet and suffer simply because of the fear of death. Not many Nigerians can be taken seriously, some write from the comfort of their American bedrooms but will never have the balls to do anything concrete about their “beliefs”. The likes of IBB know this! Writing constantly about this people if anything seems to help their popularity rating more than anything else, millions of negative press and bad mouthing of IBB has not reduced his millions, he is still one of the richest man in the country after looting the nations treasury, the man refused to honour summons to many forums constituted by the laws of Nigeria and yet Nigerians still allow him to get away with it. Belgore, the chief justice in one his speeches decided to pour encomium on a man like IBB that he should use his office to haunt. IBB still gets national awards in a government that the EFCC is a part of, what does that tell you? We need a revolution, without one we are doomed. I don’t see a hope in sight. Posted by Oghre| 18.10.2006 10:24

ithinkbetter  Villager

# 4 Ogbunwezeh: vow..chineke...first and foremost, congratulation for your masterful command of queen's own english and unique combination coupled with good composition of highly academical worded terminology, which, in its entire context convey and transmit depth in rendition and interpretation of the momentary circumstantial state of nigerian state/nationhood...thanks! how i wish, i could lay my hands on ibb's neck and the rest of them like orji kalu, udenwa, i would simply strangulate them for once and for all...! Posted by ithinkbetter| 18.10.2006 11:30

truthsayer33  Villager

# 5 'logos of corruption and criminal vanity'..........if only words could damage psycopaths! Posted by truthsayer33| 18.10.2006 12:04

Onos  Villager

# 6 Nigerians are a unique race of people (even among the black race), let me say that if apartheid happened in Nigeria rather than South Africa, we will still be under Apartheid today, we are a nation of weaklings, a people who keep quiet and suffer simply because of the fear of death. Oghre: Ah! Na today you know dat one? In fact, if Nigerians were African Americans, we would still be riding in the back of buses today. Abeg go the Main Square make you read wetin your people dey talk about Victor Okonkwo, that humble young man that was wasted by the Nigerian police. That was a brave young man who fought for his rights; but go to that thread and read what your compatriots are saying. As for IBB, dat one na no brainer. Nigerians are just waiting for him to die of natural courses first before thumping their chests and shouting Halleluia! The collective, unspoken and accepted form of justice for past despots & thieves is not in the type you get in courts. God dey! God dey! Posted by Onos| 18.10.2006 12:37

Auspicious  Villager

# 7 =Onos;134841>Oghre: Abeg go the Main Square make you read wetin your people dey talk about Victor Okonkwo, that humble young man that was wasted by the Nigerian police. That was a brave young man who fought for his rights; but go to that thread and read what your compatriots are saying. Aw, Onooos! Why now, why?!! Nobody said it is not right to fight for your right. I think you misunderstood some of us on that thread. What "we was" saying was that, there was a possibility that Victor Okonkwo (bless him) might have thrown safety to the wind by allowing his position as a huge-framed Presidential bodyguard (attached to the State Security Service) get to his head. The natural instinct of any right-thinking lover of freedom with a sense of self-worth is to demand for his right and not to cowar in trepidation. But he was a man in a position to excersice some modicum of patience - if only to come back and to make those who may have cheated him pay dearly for their intransigence. And that is that. I don't want to deviate from the original line of discuss of Mr. Ogbunwezeh's superb and highly hilarious article on Ibrahim of Minna, alias Gap-Teeth. I think we should just call him "Ibrahim the Thief". That works better doesn't it folks? Check this out: Villager A: "Blah-blah-blah..yadi-yada Ibrahim" Villager B: "Huh? Which Ibrahim?" Villager A: "Ibrahim the Thief" Villager B: "Oh, him! *Hisss!*" :D Auspicious. Posted by Auspicious| 18.10.2006 13:13

Auspicious  Villager

# 8 Booooooy! Do I enjoy Frank Ogbunwenzeh's writing or what! Where are Yetty and Katampe? Come on down with your dictionaries and diaries, and let us take a highly entertaining walk down Ogbunwenzeh's latest treatise on Ibrahim the Theif, aka Gap-Teeth of Minna! Your dictionaries are for the words, obviously, and your diaries are to record for future use, the Art of deconstructing and destroying beasts of no nations by word of mouth alone - as used by Mr. Ogbunwenzeh. But don't get carried away with the humor and excitement of Ogbunwenzeh's lambast of Ibrahim. He also yapped you and I and every other Nigerian out there who sat idle while opportunists who have no business directing anyone's affairs - much less managing affairs of whole nations - run roughshod over us all. I mean, think about it; what special qualifications does Segun Obasanjo have to rule Nigeria? Yes, he's an Army Mecho..and? Alright a famous congo-shiner with a thousand and one wives..and? He is just someone who stumbled on power..so even if he gets a good lawyer like our Villager Tosonyo tommorow, he can prove that he didn't do anything wrong because power was "forced" on him twice! Err..except that he tried to tweak the Constitution of the Federal Republic to his advantage so he could stay longer. Still you really can't tell with these lawyers. They are something else! Abi, Soul Sista? Tosonyo? No be true I yarn? Anyhow, this author is FIRE and Ibrahim is his victim! But keep the Extinguisher, we'd rather this one burn. TruthSayer was saying something up there that caught Auspicious' attention. He left the end of the statement hanging and ideas kept flowing through my mind of available choices of cliches that will be a fitting end to his statement. "If only words could damage psychopats (like Ibrahim)...", said TruthSayer and Auspicious thought-up the following as suggestions for a good closure: "...Ibrahim the thief will be an imbecile dancing naked on the street" "...Ibrahim will be admitted to 'Aro Mental Hospital' in Lagos this evening" "...Ibrahim the thief will shoot himself in the head or set himself ablaze" "...Ibrahim will simply explode into pieces and scatter around..like a bomb was planted in his guts" "etc, etc, etc" Anyways..here goes my favorite lines from Franklyn Ogbuwenzeh's latest piece. Plus I scored them on a scale of 9-10. Yes, I think they were THAT good!: * Among id(iots), greed and mercenary considerations blinds the resolve. Greed converts reason to jelly; and their poverty dehumanizes them into making themselves dogs for the sake of bones. It is based on this that one would not stick his head out to challenge anyone, who makes bold to say that Nigeria has a large collection of emasculated id(diots) in her population. If the obverse obtains, why is Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, not yet cooling his feet at a maximum security facility? Auspygrade: 9.50 * The Nigerian state is a contraption constructed for the greatest inconvenience of its people. The eternal bickering among the ethnic nationalities, who are simply strange bedfellows; actively, but politely nursing mutual platonic hatred of each other, waters the ground for the germination of morally defunct individuals and their apparatchiks; who hijack the State, and deploy it to the service of their demeaned concept of avarice and self-worship. Auspigrade: 10.00 (Bullseye) *Just like the evolution of every social cancer, the abomination of military desolations in Nigeria, originated from the decayed humus of a State that possessed only magnitude without direction. Auspigrade: 9.95 (Decayed-Humus Funny!) * The economy at their hands vacillated dangerous between anaemia and coma, thanks to their enthusiastic patronage of kleptomania. Okotie Eboh and Umaru Dikko are some unforgettable motifs of those times. These guys were logos of corruption and criminal vanity. Auspigrade: 9.95 (Umaruously Funny!) * Among these military thugs were a fox and a buffoon. They both succeeded in running Nigeria for sometime. In-between them, Nigeria was ran aground in the sandbanks of official corruption, poverty and underdevelopment. One stole enough to construct a fifty-room fortress in Minna, to wall off all askance directed at his audacious criminality. The other stole enough, but died atop imported women of easy virtue. Auspigrade: 9.45 (Foxibuffoonously Funny!) * Abacha was a first class fool. This most unworthy of leaders left his inglorious paws on our firmament. He hated Nigeria so much that he passed a vote of no confidence on made-in-Nigeria harlots; preferring to patronize imported prostitutes. (Auspigrade 9.97: Prostitutiously Funny!!!) * Ibrahim Babangida is a feudal-minded thief, who genuflects subserviently only at the altars of his avarice and fears. He single-handedly created a cult of rent-seekers, whose atrocious greed, consolidated indolence and baronial privileges affronts every ethical tradition. Auspigrade: 9.0 (Brahimly Funny) * Babangida is not an ordinary thief. He is a thief with an attitude. (Ah, wey GirlwifanAttitude?!) He wears this attitude fearlessly because those we empowered to call such crooks to book are crooks in his league. Some of them he created from virtual nothingness, and gave them some corrupt relevance, in his economy of Machiavellian mediocrity. Some of them pre-dated him in their congenital sycophancy. Babangida ran a government modelled after the oldest recipe of treachery known to crime. Auspicious: 9.5 (Attitudinal Hilarity!) * Babangida is a class act in peddling a strange family of deceit. He sugar-coats and advertises his roguery and crookedness with a toothy smile; just like a Mafiosi, who is capable of shot-gunning the Pope, and reciting his rosary beads at the same time. Framing up his opponents was elevated into the fine art of governance. The murder of critics inaugurated during his tenure, was honed to razor sharpness under his randy accomplice, Sanni Abacha. Auspigrade: 9.45 (Dangerously Funny) * Babangida wants to rule us and bring us felicity. That is what he believes. I resist the temptation to speculate on his intentions. I only critique his history. But I would not say he is lying, because the actualization of his intention lies in a future that is a festival of uncertainties. And pontificating ex cathedra on the future would be symptomatic of capital ignorance. The past told us that Babangida is a liar with a compromised reputation. So, if we believe his good intention, then we can as well believe a professional criminal who has a variety of reasons to lie. Auspigrade: 9.98 (O'jare Funny!) *Patriotic shame burns me up, whenever I am faced by the fact that Nigeria once had an IBB and an Abacha as leaders....But my greatest fear is that we seemed to have learnt nothing from history. That is why we are making an extra effort to repeat it, a la Santayana. We seemed to be amply endowed with some historical amnesia that wipes our memories blank of the atrocities splashed across it by those who stole our trust and raped our resolve. The intention of campaigning, let alone wanting to rule Nigeria again is one of the greatest insults on our collective sense of honour. Auspigrade: 9.98 (BitterTruth Funny!) * His cheerleaders should be made to realise that in the temple of truth, sycophants are pedestrians before facts. Auspigrade: 9.5 (Oro-p'esi-je/word-chop-response Funny!) Mr. Ogbunwenzeh! I throway salute to you. Na you suppose dey fore-front of the Campaign Against Babangida army. I heard there's a website for them. Try THIS. More oyel to ya elbow o'jare. Maybe we should start looking forward to one like this on Obasanjo too? Or maybe that is not important sha - as he is on his way out anyways. Na those wey dey threaten us for future we suppose nip for bud. Back to the trenches.. Auspicious. Posted by Auspicious| 18.10.2006 15:48

EezeeBee  Villager

# 9 Mr. Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh, How many times did I call you? Once because that is enough! Enough to tell you I completely enjoyed your masterful application of the soundest forms of the English Language in this article with it's rising and falling cadences and all it's alliterative glory. I enjoyed your writing! Posted by EezeeBee| 18.10.2006 16:34

demonteufel  Villager

# 10 =ithinkbetter;134834>Ogbunwezeh: vow..chineke...first and foremost, congratulation for your masterful command of queen's own english and unique combination coupled with good composition of highly academical worded terminology, which, in its entire context convey and transmit depth in rendition and interpretation of the momentary circumstantial state of nigerian state/nationhood...thanks! how i wish, i could lay my hands on ibb's neck and the rest of them like orji kalu, udenwa, i would simply strangulate them for once and for all...! Hallo, Mr. Ithinkbetter, I can feel your pains. Compatriots: The psalm below expresses exactly my state of MIND. Psalms, chapter 74 1 : O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? 2 : Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 3 : Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. 4 : Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. 5 : A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. 6 : But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. 7 : They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. 8 : They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. 9 : We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. 10 : O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? 11 : Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. 12 : For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 : Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 14 : Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 15 : Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. 16 : The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 17 : Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. 18 : Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. 19 : O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. 20 : Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. 21 : O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. 22 : Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. 23 : Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. Posted by demonteufel| 18.10.2006 16:37

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