Deliverance Desirings 2

orchidee



Fits tune: Wiltshire [Smart]

('Through all the changing scenes of life')

Psalm 79 v.8 - 13

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O Lord, remember not our sins

Nor those of kiths or kins

Let your tender mercies help soon

Us, we to you attune

 

For we very low are brought

Help us, you we have sought

You the God of our salvation

To all and each nation

 

Help us for your glory, us aid

Then we be not afraid

Deliver us, our sins forgive

That we through you may live

 

Let sighing of the prisoner

Come before you, and stir

Yourself, your great power it show

That they your grace may know

 

Render to enemies righteously

Their reproach, so it be

For they have you reproached, O Lord

And not believed your word

 

So will we, sheep of your pasture

Give you thanks e'er, concur

To show your praise, and thus your song

Generations prolong

 

 

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: July 11th, 2017 08:30
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 86 86 metre (Common Metre = CM). I'm repeating myself with some poem titles! They're not the same poems though - don't think so. No.1 is different. And not an intentional series either. The original Psalm is called a 'lamenting' Psalm.
  • Category: Spiritual
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Comments4

  • BRIAN & ANGELA

    Thanks STEVE ~ I LOVE COVENTRY CATHEDRAL ~ very inspirational in so many ways. The hymn they are singing is very apposite for todays climate ~ Pray for Theresa May that GOD will grant her the gift of WISDOM & KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING ~ Amen. Thanks for your Poem based on a great PSALM. I love your medieval style of writing ~ it is RHYME LED (hymns must rhyme !) You therefor adopt a Germanic Grammar with the verbs at the end of the line. That is is why Grman jokes always fall flat ~ the tale is in the sting ! Check lines 1 & 2 (V 2) lines 3 & 4 (V 3) lines 3 & 4 (V 4) etc. Yoiur Poems read as if they were written by John Bunyan ~ perhaps that is intentional ! Thanks for sharing ~ BRIAN As I have been so so analytical with your Poem please reciprocate by adding a CITY (and I will add a Picture) to my latest FUSION ~ Thanks B.

    • orchidee

      Thanks B. I don't know any German jokes! heehee. It just that I shuffle some lines around, often to make them rhyme. I do some where not every line rhymes. There's a bit of 'damnation' in that Psalm, wishing horrible things on enemies. Erm, I left that bit out.
      I've read 'Pilgrim's Progress' by John Bunyan, and there's his: 'He who would valiant be' - hobgoblins, etc.

    • Fay Slimm.

      A verse filled with faith deserving a loud Amen. Thanks for this lovely read Steve.

      • orchidee

        Thanks F. As I say, it's not a particularly 'lovely' Psalm in places. It calls down vengeance on enemies. Though it's tit-for-tat, as the people were mistreated badly.

      • Michael Edwards

        Wiltshire - was chatting to neighbour in my village who breeds Wiltshire sheep - a little known breed that sheds its fleece each spring and saves on not having to be shorn. Sorry - a useless bit of info if you don't already know about the breed and nothing to do with another super piece of work.

        • orchidee

          Thanks M. Well, it may be relevant. I\'ve not looked into the origin of the tune name, except that \'Smart\' is the surname of the composer of that particular version of the tune name of \'Wiltshire\'. And sheep get a look-in in the Bible more than once. People are called sheep there too, as in my last verse!

        • Goldfinch60

          Amen, Orchi, Amen.

          • orchidee

            Thanks G/F.



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