From the stocks, Jeremiah God’s servant Prophesied solemn judgement to come: Both the king and officials of Judah Would be captured and exiled to Babylon! In the sight of all eyes they would suffer Then be slain by their enemy’s sword For subverting the kingdom of heaven By inventing the ‘Word of the Lord’. Every […]
As moulding clay in a potter’s hand Is turned and furnished with great skill, Let earthly kingdoms understand They each are subject to God’s will. If before the day of recompense Men’s wicked hearts are truly stirred, For their remorse and penitence The wrath of God will be deferred. Behold you saints of all the […]
An iron pointed pen Will etch God’s judgement cry; Our children will remember then The fires we burned on high. The mountain of Jerusalem Within Earth’s waiting field Will forfeit heaven’s heritage And to it treasures yield! That man who trusts in man Will bear God’s solemn curse Just like a desert shrub he shall […]
No wife, no sons, no daughters shall Be yours within this place, This people will be slaughtered all With terrible disgrace; Don’t mourn their death and dying Nor sing them a lament, By sword or by famine they’ll be struck – The Lord will not relent! The Lord will not relent! Their corpses shall be […]
If Moses and Samuel heaven beseeched Their pleading the Lord would ignore The cities of Judah have idols conceived Protected they shall be no more Let them go! Cast them out! If they ask, let them know….. To death for such as are dammed To the sword for those who are doomed and condemned To […]
See Jerusalem, God’s city, Languishing in grief She from thirst and deprivation Shall find no relief; Lads for nobles from her cisterns Precious water sought, Filled with shame and sore confounded They returned with nought. Barren fields and parched allotments Overwhelmed the land Desperate creatures seeking pasture Nothing found but sand; God within His congregation […]
What has happened to the linen sash I wore in times of old? What has happened to its glory and renown? To the eyes of passing strangers it was lovely to behold Now it’s ruined by deep stains from out the ground. Israel, Israel, To show forth majestic beauty you were called Israel, Israel, By […]
Like a tree firmly planted and deep-rooted, As an olive grove adorned with summer fruit; Many testify of saintliness excited With oratory excellent and altogether sweet Seeds they scatter seem to multiply and prosper Very frequently great happiness they know Why then if with treason they betray their Maker Do they among their brethren in […]
Surely we’ve broken God’s holy covenant Spoken through Moses Deep in earth’s past; Wherefore our nation Now is forsaken Suff’ring the curse of God’s angry blast. Holy allegiance Pledged our obedience Firmly to precepts Wrought by God’s hand; Freed from the furnace Once we were earnest Steadfastly heeding Sinai’s commands. Careless new leaders Daily mislead […]
You practice the ways of the nations around, You lick at their heels in their humanist schools; But they are dull-hearted, their thinking unsound, And so all your children are infidel fools. Idol fabricators, They cannot do evil, they cannot do good; Your holy Creator Will not be honoured with chisel and wood. Resources of […]
A new Psalter for the 21st Century. The Psalms represent the Bible's own library of songs specifically written to be sung as part of private and corporate worship. It is my sincere prayer and desire that this new collection of psalms might serve to refresh, restore, challenge, encourage and edify Christians of all lands, cultures and backgrounds.
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