A New Twist on the Ancient Scrolls
Retelling the Bible
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0 Composer: Asaph Singer: Heman Band: The Sons of Merari Instruments: Harps & Lyres Lyrics by King David
1 Please hark to me, El, cosmic king Don't hide in heaven, hear me sing!
2 Visit me and answer me I'm full of anxious energy
3 Devils whisper in my ear Say they're gonna mangle me My foes are out to strangle me Won't let old grudges go
4 My heart is filled with sorrow I'm terrified of dying
5 My hands and knees are trembling I see my fammy crying My severed head go flying
6 I wish I had wings like a dove Then I could fly Far away across the sky
7 Make a nest in the wilderness Imagine that. (Harp Solo 🎻)
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8 I'd have no shelter from the storm! Caves would have to keep me warm It's better here by far Yet storms of foes surround me
9 Confuse them, Don So their storms can't drown me Like a black cloud of crows Their numbers grow In the city they whisper wicked threats Let it come to nothing. Let them all forget
10 Day and night they prowl around the walls Spreading goss at the inns and market stalls
11 Demons of bloodlust are summoned from hell Making hearts with malice swell Spreading through whispers from heart to heart Wishing to tear the king apart
12 If a foreign foe betrayed me, fair and square Or a peer I always hated, yeah I could deal with that I could hate them back
13 But it was Ahitophel My counsellor A man like me Familiar My friend
14 We chatted, drank and ate together Walked to the temple tent together
15 Let death strike them suddenly and swift From doom angels, a macabre gift Absalom, Ahitophel All of their fellow cahooters as well Send them to Sheol, the Jewish hell
16 As for me, I pray to El El Jah will save my soul from hell
17 Morning, noon and night I plead my dire plight El will hear and make it right
18 He saved me from the battles of my past Alas I fear I haven't seen my last
19 El will hear their sinful whispers Wishing for death So give them what they wish for In ways they won't expect Imagine that. (Solo Lyre 🪕) If they changed, he would forgive If they changed, he'd let them live In heaven with him forever But as they never change And don't fear El He may arrange A trip to hell
20 Ahitophel! He stabbed me in the back Took his promise to me back Never take a promise back
21 His words were smooth as butter His heart was sharp as knives Soft oily words he'd utter Sharp like swords for taking lives
22 Betrayal A heavy weight for any man to take Yet Jah is not a man He can carry any weight The world sits in his holy hand Give all your fears and woes to him You pitiful righteous mistreated betrayed He won't let them take your soul to hell Or let them get away, for he is El! From him no one can escape The endless landscape sits in his palm Unless he wills it, no one comes to harm
23 You'll send them all to hell, won't you, El? To the fiery pit of doom, their spirits raze Bloodthirsty knaves won't live out half their days It's true But I, El Jah, will trust in you
