Lament
by Evangeline Paterson
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- Weep, weep for those
- Who do the work of the Lord
- With a high look
- And a proud heart.
- Their voice is lifted up
- In the streets, and their cry is heard.
- The bruised reed they break
- By their great strength, and the smoking flax
- They trample.
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- Weep not for the quenched
- (For their God will hear their cry
- And the Lord will come to save them)
- But weep, weep for the quenchers
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- For when the Day of the Lord
- Is come, and the vales sing
- And the hills clap their hands
- And the light shines
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- Then their eyes shall be opened
- On a waste place,
- Smouldering,
- The smoke of the flax bitter
- In their nostrils,
- Their feet pierced
- By broken reed-stems . . .
- Wood, hay, and stubble,
- And no grass springing.
- And all the birds flown.
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- Weep, weep for those
- Who have made a desert
- In the name of the Lord.
5 comments:
Wow. This leaves me speechless, with many thoughts and feelings. Thank you for sharing this. I will be keeping it.
It was at the back of a book I read last week and I thought it was very powerful. I love all your blogging of late!
whew! good stuff. makes you think, huh...
and how is all your reading going? i bought a cute little pad of paper at target the other day that is numbered and has a box to check it off and thought to myself, "self, this should help us get more organized!" we'll see...it's my "be-more-like-stephanie-cherry-project." teehee. everyone could use a little more cherry in their lives.
ps: i just bought family driven faith because you recommended it and i love voddie. maybe by next year i'll have read it.
I think I read 3 books just last week!
You will love Family Driven Faith. It really helped me focus on teaching Laomai to worship.
I hope you are doing well. love ya!
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