The unfortunate should be helped. Very often with a little help a lot of good people can be assisted. Sometimes people need a lot of assistance. It is usually worthwhile assisting them. Life is a like a turning wheel. A person in his own life can be down and later on come up and vice versa. Or it happens with his descendants. Or it happened with his forebears. Perhaps your forefathers were in trouble and somebody helped them? Now it is your turn. Or it may be your turn sometime in the future with you or your offspring to be helped? Our leaders should also seek to help the weak and oppressed. It is obvious that people should be helped primarily to help themselves and this should always be the emphasis. The Rabbis said that the highest degree of charity was to assist another to become self-supporting. With they who cannot do anything for themselves we should have compassion. Even with those who will not do anything for themselves we should not hurry to condemn. They should not be exploited or abused. Our leaders have a responsibility to assist the oppressed and the sick. The "oppressed" include the victims of crime. Our leaders have an obligation to eliminate or at least reduce the crime rate. Ezekiel is peaking here to the leaders but the point holds with everyone. We should be nice to others and helpful and not the opposite. If we have authority or influence we should use it positively and have a good eye. Everyone can encounter troubles and we all need help in some way or other at some time or other. So too, should we help others when we can, to the degree we are able.

Without proper leadership society disintegrates. The Israelites and Judaeans sinned because of bad leadership and were consequently scattered and became a prey to others wqho tok advantage of their vulnerability.

The Children of Israel will return to the Land of Israel.

>> EVEN MY SERVANT DAVID <>: There are differences of opinion as to what is meant by "David" in this verse and others like it. Does it mean a resurrected King David? A descendant of David? A reincarnation of David? It definitely means someone of the Davidic family. Miracles have happened in the past. Miracles will happen in the future. According to the simple rational every day meaning the intention is to someone descended from King David who will be like King David.

<<CAUSE THE EVIL BEASTS TO CEASE>>: There is also a controversy as to whether this is to be taken literally. Will there be a change in nature? Or is it figurative and mean that human beings who act like beasts will change their ways? Incidentally in ancient times the whole area of Greater Israel (from the Nile to the Euphrates and including Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon) had great forests and savannah type fertile plains much of which was sparsely populated. Herds of wild beasts such as lions, elephants, giant wild bulls known today as aurochs, and a type of untamable wild donkey with a vicious bite, roamed the area. At ones stage there were also many reptiles including poisonous snakes in the area. Things have changed since.   Thanks to the Romans, Byzantines, Turks and especially the Arabs much of the land has been turned into a desert.

The land is potentially very fertile and only needs regular water supply and some attention to make it bloom.

<<TREE OF THE FIELD SHALL YIELD HER FRUIT>>: This has begun to happen in a small way in the land of Israel. The boundaries of Jewish settlement in Israel are known as "The Green Line". Where Jews live you find some vegetation, some greenery. Where Arabs dominate the land is mostly bare although Israeli example and Israeli instruction and encouragement has here and there led the Arabs to improve their agricultural practices.
<<THEY SHALL BE SAFE IN THEIR LAND>>: Jews who live in Israel often feel a sense of security and belonging despite the fact that Arab terrorists frequently try and kill them and the Arabs in general are hostile. An Arab can more or less walk freely in any area of Jewish settlement. Arab womenfolk and family groups frequently come to the Jewish areas to shop and enjoy themselves in the friendly civilized atmosphere. A Jew who wanders into an Arab area runs the risk of being lynched. At the least the chances are quite high that he will be abused, physically threatened, have stones thrown at him and probably be physically assaulted. I am speaking of Arab areas under Israeli control. In Arab areas under Arab control he runs the risk of being shot on sight no questions asked or tortured before being murdered.

This is at least partly referring to Judah. Judah in exile was a prey to all kinds of lowlife elements who periodically carried out pogroms on Jewish settlements. Often with the support of the ruling authorities and aristocracy the rabble would descend on Jewish homes and kill, rape, maim, and rob. Things like this happened all over Europe wherever Jews were settled. In recent times it happened a lot in Russia, the Ukraine, Poland, and Rumania. The people who carried out such deeds really deserve to be called "THE BEAST OF THE LAND". All things considered, since Brit-Am began its activity of promoting
Brit-Am knowledge we were usually treated well. People supported us, expressed some interest, or politely disagreed and mentioned their reservations or lack of interest. Here and there we encountered unworthy opposition. Lies were told about us, quotations that we never made and beliefs that we did not have imputed to our name, insults were thrown in our direction, threats made, and so on. Usually the lower the standard our opponents went down to the more they exposed their own true base selves.
There is a saying that when the dogs bark it is a sign that the carriages are moving forward.

<<NEITHER BEAR THE SHAME OF THE HEATHEN>>: Jews were often persecuted and forced to live with stereotyped images of themselves. These stereotypes often reflected the nature of the heathens who created them. The Jews had to bear "the shame of the heathen". Even now the Islam religious instructors all over the world describe the Jews as apes and monkeys and as a people to be despised. The Jews of the world hardly number the population of a few large Islamic cities yet in terms of positive contribution to civilization they are equal to the whole of Islam multiplied thousands of times over, and much more. "Apes and monkeys" is a description the Islamic leaders apparently created subconsciously as pertinent to themselves. These people hate and despise themselves but cannot live with it so they cast their shame on what they feel to be the weakest object around, on the Jews. The Arabs always were and still are the greatest slave-traders in the world. The black people of Sudan are being killed and enslaved and greatly abused in every imaginable way. The culprits are Arabs and Muslims. Arab women are not happy. Many commit suicide. OK enough of this. The point has been made and the facts are well-known.

<<ARE MY PEOPLE>>: The Jewish people are the People of God. The Lost Ten
Tribes also belong to this category. The Lost Ten Tribes did not bear any
shame though the lack of knowledge of their true identity is a loss to the
potential of self-fulfillment which is one of the basic instincts of life.