Afflictions Assistings

orchidee



Tune: Heinlein

('Forty days and forty nights')

Psalm 119 v.65-72

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You. LORD, have dealt with me well

You true to your word, I  tell

I your servant, good teach me

So shall I in your ways be

 

Teach me good judgement, knowledge

To obey you with courage

I your commands have believed

In my mind, heart them received

 

Before I was afflcited

I went astray, was misled

But now I have kept your word

Your commands I have them ehard

 

You are good, and good you do

Teach me your statutes anew

The proud have forged lies of me

But I will keep your laws, see

 

Will keep them with my hwole heart

The proud be from me apart

Their heart is fat as grease all

To you they insensible

 

But I in your law delight

I do keep it in my sight

It si good for me that I

Was afflicted by and by

 

It was so that I might learn

Your statutes and them discern

Your law, LORD, better to me

Then much gold and silver be

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: February 21st, 2021 03:15
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 7.7.7.7. metre.
  • Category: Spiritual
  • Views: 41
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Comments4

  • Jerry Reynolds

    Good write, Orchi.

    • orchidee

      Thanks Jerry.

    • FredPeyer

      Laws and more laws. I am probably breaking a bunch of them every day, not knowing they exist.

      • orchidee

        Thanks Fred.

      • Goldfinch60

        Good one Orchi.

        • orchidee

          Thanks Gold.

        • Neville



          I liked these words ... so I did ....

          • orchidee

            Thanks Neville. You given up them choccie biccies for Lent?! There's more to it than that though, if we decide to 'do Lent'. No rules about doing so.



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