2010-06-19 Archive, Poetry, Songs, Jeremiah 31

Poetry - Songs

From Jeremiah 31

The time has come, declares the Lord, / to make a new agreement.
Not like the covenant, before, / with Israel and Judah
Not like the covenant I made / to lead them out of Egypt.
Not like the covenant they broke, / which broke my heart to see it.

But this will be the covenant / I make with them forever:
To put my law within their mind, / and write it on their spirit.
And I alone will be their God, / and they shall be My people.

No longer will they teach again, / each man his brother, saying,
Come, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all, / from least of them to greatest,
Will know me well, declares the Lord / for I will be their father.
And I'll forgive iniquity / and I'll forget their failure.

But this will be the covenant / I make with them forever:
To put my law within their mind, / and write it on their spirit.
And I alone will be their God, / and they shall be My people.

Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun, / to light each day with daylight.
And gives the moon and stars at night, / to brighten night with starlight,
If day and night shall cease to be, / declares the LORD almighty,
Then Israel's seed will cease to be / a nation from before me.

But this will be the covenant / I make with them forever:
To put my law within their mind, / and write it on their spirit.
And I alone will be their God, / and they shall be My people.


From 1 Thess 4:14-18

If we believe that Jesus died / And rose to live again.
Then those who sleep in death, in Christ, / Our God will bring with Him.

The Lord has said that we who live / On earth until He comes
Shall not precede those other ones / who sleep within the tombs.

The Lord Himself will come again / From heaven he'll come down,
And with a shout, archangel's voice, / God's trumpet will resound.

And first the dead in Christ shall rise, / Then we who still are here
Shall be caught up within the clouds / To meet Him in the air.

And thus we shall forever be / with God and with the Lord,
So therefore comfort, all of you, / Each other with these words.