Help And Hope

orchidee



Tune: Duke Street

('Fight the good fight')

Psalm 79 v.9-13 part

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Help us. O God, for you be He

God of our salvation we see

And for your glory, deliver

And on us your graces confer

 

Purge away all our sins, forgive

Christ our atonement, we shall live

For why should our enemies say

Where is their God, where He today?

 

Let cries of prisoners come to

You, and their hope now still renew

Preserve those whose time is at hand

To depart from this earthly land

 

So we your people, we your sheep

Of your pasture, you do us keep

We shall give thanks to you for e'er

Your praise to generations share

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: August 3rd, 2019 01:39
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.8.8.8. metre, to that well know wedding hymn - well, mine anyway, when I married KP - Oh woe, it's a life of torment for me now! heehee.
  • Category: Spiritual
  • Views: 55
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  • Michael Edwards

    When you married KP were you dressed as a peanut? Fine write O.

    • orchidee

      Thanks M. lol.

    • ANGELA & BRIAN

      Thanks UNCLE STEVE ! Great uplift for ME (Brian) this morning (10am) ! and for ME (Angela) this evening (9pm) !! Loved the HYMN & POEM !

      We wrestle not against Flesh & Blood - But against Spiritual Wickedness in Heavenly Places -Yes there is a GOOD FIGHT and we are part of it

      Blessing & Joy to YOU & YOUR Playful PUP !
      Yours ANGELA & BRIAN 🧡💙🧡💙🧡

      • orchidee

        Thanks B&A.

      • Neville

        you can beat an egg etc etc.. buy ya just can't beat a darn good purging
        ~~~
        Nice one Orchidee........... N

        • orchidee

          Thanks N. Yep, get the senna pods out!

        • Fay Slimm.

          Full of good thanks I enjoyed the whole piece dear Orchi.

          • orchidee

            Thanks Fay.

          • FineB

            Hello Orchidee,

            A good write.

            Very inspiring.

            Keep writing FineB

            • orchidee

              Thanks Fine.

            • Goldfinch60

              Good one Orchi, I like the last line of verse two.

              • orchidee

                Thanks Gold. In the Psalm, that line is in the context of the people's enemies gloating and bragging, and saying 'Where is your God now?' I hope you find Him again?(), or He finds you, or both finding each other, as it were.

              • Gary Edward Geraci

                Help and hope in everything we do here to prepare for a good death. Yes, a good death: The line “To depart from this earthly land” should grab us all by the shirt sleeve and orientate us in this exact direction - to start preparing for a good death...

                • orchidee

                  Thanks Gary. The Psalm is in the context of Israel's enemies doing terrible things to them. I might only include the 'good' bits of the Psalms. Though one can hardly make a joyful song out of 'happy is he who dashes your little ones against the stones', as Israel wished on their enemies! Yet it seems that even that was less than what their enemies were doing to them.

                  • Gary Edward Geraci

                    Atheists go to town with that line of the Psalm, Orchidee (...dashes your little ones) - I saw it quoted a few evenings ago watching the new Netflix series “The Family” by the protagonist who was having doubts.

                    • orchidee

                      In some Prayer Books, the 'nasty' bits are put in brackets, tot be optionally sung or said. As if to say 'Oohh, we're a bit embarrassed about those nasty bits'. Yet we know that not every verse of the Psalms is 'meek and mild'.

                      • Gary Edward Geraci

                        Amen brother; and God knows it will all be revealed to us when the time is right. This IS living in faith ....



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