'Pray With Me Please': Pete Hegseth Reads Fake Bible Quote From 'Pulp Fiction' During Pentagon Prayer Service

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Source: MEDIAite

Apr 16th, 2026, 7:40 am


Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth read a fake Bible quote from Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 movie Pulp Fiction during a prayer service at the Pentagon on Wednesday. Discussing the Sandy 1 rescue mission of a downed pilot in Iran this month, Hegseth (as first flagged by A Public Witness, a religion-themed Substack) urged his audience to join him in a prayer, which he claims was delivered at the beginning of the mission.

“This prayer was recited by Sandy 1, which is one of the Sandies, to all Sandies, all those A-10 crews, prior to all CSAR missions, but especially this CSAR mission, which happened in real time,” Hegseth said. “They call it CSAR 25:17, which I think is meant to reflect Ezekiel 25:17.”

He continued:

So the prayer is CSAR 25:17 and it reads, and pray with me please, “The path of the downed 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 camaraderie 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 call sign is Sandy 1 when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Amen.”

While the prayer didn’t sound very much like Ezekiel 25:17, which — in the King James Bible — simply 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,” it did bear a strong resemblance to a fake version of Ezekiel 25:17 quoted by the actor Samuel L. Jackson in Tarantino’s 1994 crime movie Pulp Fiction, just before his character shoots a man to death.

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Charlatans.

[AZLD4Candidate]

1. Blessed are the cheesemakers.

[Ilsa]

10. ...for they shall fortify my non-kosher bacon cheeseburger. nt

[mwmisses4289]

15. 😲

[Jack Valentino]

20. I had a craving recently, and have been making my own bacon cheeseburgers at home...

(that pre-cooked bacon certainly makes it more easily done!)

[Srkdqltr]

2. I've said it before, they are living in a movie. Too many action movies.

[live love laugh]

8. I've seen it as mostly propaganda -- even McConnells pratfalls and glitches

align with their term-limits agenda. It’s all calculated which is why the underestimation of them is dangerous.

[thucythucy]

3. This reminds me of the time Sarah Palin went after Tina Fey

saying Fey was a frustrated unmarried woman without children.

Fey responded that Palin was reacting to her character on the 30 Rock TV show, and not the actual actor herself.

Yup, too many of these folks confuse fiction with reality, that is when they're not busy fabricating "facts" entirely.

[OMGWTF]

12. Remember when VP Dan Quayle wenr after fictional TV character Murphy Brown?

He sent the actress who played Murphy Brown a teddy bear for her fictional single-mom baby, who, IIRC, responded by dumping a truck load of potatoes in his driveway, because Dan Quayle gave bad spelling advice to a kid in a spelling bee and he lost.

[dalton99a]

4. "When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus."

- Turkish proverb

[Norrrm]

5. Hegseth DUI/DEI hire - the minor major

Hegseth DUI/DEI hire - the minor major

[Bayard]

6. The crazy is contagious...

Run away! Run away!

[SamuelAdams]

7. He keeps praying for the same things.

This has been going on since the war began. Why haven't his prayers been answered yet? Do so-called Christians like him ever think about why their prayers aren't answered?

[Shipwack]

14. If you pray hard enough,

you can make water run uphill.

How hard is that?

Hard enough to make water run uphill!

[Grim Chieftain]

9. Oh, you just can't make this stuff up

[Pesky1]

11. Bugs Bunny says

What a maroon!!

[thought crime]

13. Instead of "Amen" at the end, it would have been more appropriate to say, "Howzat?"

He sounds like a member of the Satanist Jimmie Cult from "28 Years Later".

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

16. How long before the Pentagon starts stocking up on Kool-Aid?

[FakeNoose]

19. They really only need one serving of kool-aid

If I were ever in a strategy meeting where someone says "Let us pray," I'd get up and leave.

[mwmisses4289]

17. Somehow it doesn't surprise me he would use a fake quote

from one of the worst and most boring movies ever made.

[Roy Rolling]

18. Genuine Fake Bible Quote

From the book of Samuel.

Samuel L. Jackson.