Baalam's Oracles - Series (3)

orchidee



Tune: Duke Street

('Fight the good fight')

Numbers 24 v.5-9

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How goodly are your tents, Israel

And your tabernacles, we tell

As the valleys are they spread forth

They shall extend east, west, south, north

 

And as gardens by river's side

And as trees planted they reside

Planted by the LORD they sure be

As aloes* and cedars, see (*a-o-lees)

 

He shall the water then pour out

Of his* buckets, without a doubt (*i.e Israel)

And his descendants they shall be

In many waters prosperously

 

And his king shall too higher be

Than was Agag, king of old he

His kingdom shall be exalted

The LORD God led them and them fed

 

God did bring them from Egypt's land

Delivered them by His strong hand

Israel has strength as unicorn* (*e.g. rhino)

Enemies shall be broken, torn

 

For Israel is as great lion

Who shall then rouse him, any one?

Blesséd are they that do you  bless

Cursed who curses you, we confess

 

 

 

 

 

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: March 21st, 2019 03:15
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.8.8.8. metre.
  • Category: Spiritual
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Comments3

  • Nicholas Browning

    That final stanza is killer man. Seriously, really nice.
    Oh, and the descriptions of simple nature in this are pretty cool too.
    Alrighty, joke time!
    Ah Hah! I've got ya' now, furball! You might know Fibonacci sequences, but you don't know how to read a compass! (pretty good, right?)
    I enjoyed the read, Steve.

    • orchidee

      Thanks N. I dunno what aloes (a-o-lees) are exactly! All I know is 'aloes' is 3 syllables, and not 2. lol.

    • Goldfinch60

      Good one Orchi. Glad that you are using your Wedding tunes again. How is KP, why did she not go to court? Was it you that stopped her?

      • orchidee

        Thanks Gold. Ah yes, that well-known Wedding tune - well, it was for me anyway. I stooped her, yes, but only to save her even more publicity. She gets worse.

      • Michael Edwards

        I got aloes in the conservatory and a couple of oracles just like Ballam.

        • orchidee

          Thanks M. Opps, it's Balaam - adjusting typo - as in Baa-lambs! Or Bay-Lamb. Ohh just thought of that - appropriate. You got any bay leaves?

          • Michael Edwards

            Has Balaam got them too?

            I've got a bay bush about 5 feet high in a large pot outside on the patio. we use the leaves all the time and often small branches tied round a joint as it cooks - you get the smell throughout the house and it flavours the meat a treat.

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