Tune: Corpus Christi
('Jesus, in thy dear Sacrament')
Genesis 16 v.6-14
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Lord, hear us now, we ask today
And even every day
Thorough night watch is keep
Guard us your sheep
Hear night and day, we pray
Help us to listen unto you
With us your grace endue
Speak your message clear
Cause us to hear
Obey with godly fear
For you did unto Hagar hark
Her situation stark
Sarah cast her out
Without a doubt
Her state abandoned, dark
Yet you Lord, found her, desert land
Where she escaped the hand
Of her stern mistress
Who caused distress
To her, no more did bless
You promises to Hagar gave
You did vist and save
She woudl bear a son
Ishmael the one
'God shall hear', it be done
And well nearby, she did then name
Beer-la-hai-roi, the same
"The well of Him, he
The God, He be
Who does live and see me"
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: August 7th, 2023 02:18
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.6.5.4.6. A repeat, I think. I got cut off with the poem I originally had for today.
- Category: Spiritual
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Doh! My original poem was due to have 'persevere' in the title. I didn't persevere in re-typing the 8 verses of it! It's plan B today.
your authors note suggests some kind of divine intervention if you ask me ..
Well, the tune name was going to be 'Engelberg'. Maybe I would have crooned like Engelbert Humperdinck. Who could bear that from me?! lol.
Nicely written. I'm just going through the old testament at the moment. I never realised how much murder and adultery was in it!
Thanks SC. Phew, yes, some ghastly things in it. A nice chapter somewhere is where 70 are beheaded, and their heads put in two baskets. I'm gonna be sick! lol.
Even some Psalms get ghastly - end of Psalm 137, wishes that Israel's enemy Babylon's little children be 'dashed against stones', i.e. child murder. But a commentary says that is what Babylon did to Israel's children, so tit-for-tat.
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Kp is marrying another did you know? 🤣
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