Tune: Cwm Rhondda
('Guide me, O thou great Jehovah')
Isaiah 35 v.1-10
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The wilderness and desert place
Shall be glad, sadness no trace
Desert shall rejoice and blossom
As the rose and be fulsome
Abundantly blossom, rejoice
Singing, and the LORD's praise voice
Singing, and the LORD's praise voice
Strengthen weak hands, firm feeble knees
When the LORD comes, seen be these
Say to them of fearful heart here
Be strong, fear not, the LORD near
Even God will come with vengeance
To enemies recompence
To enemies recompence
But salvation to His people
Wonders, signs, miracles all
Then eyes of blind shall be opened
Ears of deaf hear tunes that blend
The lame shall then leap as the deer
And tongue of dumb sing, praise here
And tongue of dumb sing, prasie here
For in wilderness waters shall
Become a pool, and so tell
Thirsty land shall become refreshed
With springs of water be blessed
Where was barren and desolate
Grass, reeds, rushes now do sate
Grass, reeds, rushes now do sate
A way of holiness be there
No evil, sin in it share
But redeemed, ransomed of the LORD
Shall walk therein, that His word
Shall return to Zion's city
Songs and lasting joys there be
Songs and lasting joys there be
They shall obtain joy and gladness
For the LORD He shall them bless
Shall restore, bring back to own land
His people by His good hand
And sorrow and sighing shall flee
Away, there His presence free
Away, there His presence free
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Author:
orchidee (
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- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.7.8.7.8.7. metre.
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Good one Orchi.
Thanks Gold.
it feels write .. it feels like I've been here before .. but then thats reincarnation for ya .......... one Isiah than the other, might just mean an eyebrow has been raised .. so nowt to worry about .......... N 🙂
Thanks Neville. Well, yes, some recurring themes it seems - them deserts being changed into rivers, and the rivers into dry ground, etc. They asked me 'Why ya taking ya swimming costume on your trip to the desert?'
Guide me oh great jehova!... but does a guide arrive at all.... is the guide from within..... yes of course it is the spirit within...... so god is within us..... i rest my case......
No bible required, no churches required, no men dressed up in expensive finery required, no falseness required, no pretentious rhetoric required.
Well, yes, there is that as a truth. A little boy or girl said in church: 'Mummy/Daddy, why are those men wearing long dresses?' I don't take much notice of it msyelf, though it's ritual and tradition, a lot of it. I siad that last bit, not the little boy/girl!
LOL orchidee, I noticed you sidestepped around the main point in the first paragraph of my comment. It's becoming apparent that is the christian way ..... avoid awkward truths eh?
With an attempt to reply to the first bit - Yes, it's true, the spirit within as our guide. A verse says 'No longer will they say to each other "Know the Lord", for they will all know Me, from the greatest to the least'. Though that does not mean Christians never have need of taching or learning from one another. I see it as meaning that we don't have to go via 'intermediaries' to get to God. We don't HAVE to go via ordained priests, for example, though they have their place and vocation too.
Didn't answer it at all.
Wot bit have I left out? I will attempt to rpely again, if I can. Fido knows all anyway!
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