A child sits in a wheelchair in an IDP camp set up at Nairobi's Mathare slum, Kenya, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008.

O God the Holy Ghost, Perfecter of the Elect, Have Mercy on us.

Both at Mari and in Assyria, the prophetic demands for cultic perfection and social justice were theologically based on the divinely sanctioned position of the king between the gods and his people. Therefore, the criticism of the prophets should not be bagatellized, even though it may appear to us as pedantic or indifferent from the ethical point of view.²⁶

"They're another reason why I've got to get my girl and start instanter.