Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O America: Fallen, no more to rise, is the bald eagle; forsaken on her land, with no one to raise her up. For thus says the Lord GOD: The city that marched out in pre-emptive war shall be mired in an endless quagmire. The city that caused tens of thousands to die so that she may control the world's oil supply shall reap burning oil wells. For thus says the LORD to Washington: Seek me and live.

Ah, you that turn justice to vile pollution, and bring righteousness to naught! The one who formed the universe, and brings light into dark corners, who calls forth the hurricane and the tsunami, the LORD is his name, who makes destruction flash out against your great works, so that destruction comes upon your self-pride.

They hate the one who clamors for change in your streets, and they abhor the one who speaks the truth. Therefore since you trample on the poor and elderly and take from them their health insurance, you have built portfolios of great wealth, but you shall not live off their dividends. Since you waste my planet and take your children's inheritance, you have built giant corporations, but you shall not enjoy their earnings.

For I know how great is your greed, and how unethical are your dealings-- you who afflict the honest folks, who take a bribe, and push aside the homeless in the streets.

Therefore the prudent will keep silent in such a time; for it is an evil time. Oh, America, it is time to put prudence aside. Seek truth and not lies, that you may live; Provide for the sick and the poor that you may have health. Care for my little children that you might also receive care in your old age. Perhaps the Lord will be gracious to the remnant of America.

I hate, I despise your holidays, and I take no delight in your national religion. Even though you offer me Ten Commandments on every courthouse lawn, I will not accept your hypocrisy; and the offerings of religiosity I will not look upon.

Take away from me the noise of your claims of goodness; I will not listen to your self-praise. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Did you bring to me peace and love during the more than two hundred years of your expansion, O America?

You take up Wealth as your king, and Military Might as your star-god, and as your protection. These are things that you made for yourselves; therefore I will take you into exile beyond Baghdad, says the LORD, whose name is the God of all his children.

You Americans, who lie on beds of ease, know you not that all empires have passed away and all civilizations have eventually died? Know ye not that the pace of that destruction increases exponentially? Now is the time to rise up and throw off the yoke of sin that has gripped your national psyche, for the Day of the Lord is about to dawn and in it you shall perish like the wind.