Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth intended to quote Holy Scripture when speaking about a mission to rescue an American pilot in Iran, but instead quoted the film "Pulp Fiction".
Still from the film "Pulp Fiction"
In a prayer delivered by Hegseth during a Pentagon prayer service on Wednesday, he recited a fictional biblical verse from Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film "Pulp Fiction," Variety reports. It was an altered version of Ezekiel 25:17, which Samuel L. Jackson's character recites in the film before shooting a man.
Hegseth told those present that this prayer was read by members of the combat search and rescue (CSAR) mission "Sandy 1" in Iran. "They call it CSAR 25:17, which I assume is supposed to reflect Ezekiel 25:17," the Pentagon chief said.
Calling on everyone to pray with him, Hegseth read the following: "The path of the righteous aviator is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of society and duty, shepherds the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother, and you will know my callsign is Sandy 1 when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Amen."
What Hegseth read was almost verbatim the phrase uttered by Jules Winnfield, the hitman played by Jackson in "Pulp Fiction."
The actual passage from Ezekiel 25:17 in the King James Bible, which is a declaration of divine vengeance upon the Philistines, reads: "And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them."
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Дарэчы, тут, у Хэгсэта, не блытаніна, а наўмыснае скажэньне, якое лепш перадае сэнс ягонага выказваньня й удакладняе яго.