If nations shared and truly cared that all folks get along,
We’d live unscared and even dare to help make others strong.
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But woe to us, it is not thus. Alas, we fuss and fight.
Our glory’s spent. It’s evident that something isn’t right.
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We fear each other and ascribe ill will to everyone.
Our lack of trust finds nothing just as governing is done.
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If not by drought, then it’s by flood that harvests are destroyed.
The forecasts of new normalcy demonstrably are void.
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“This, too, will pass.” It cannot last. The hard thing’s getting through.
A generation yet to come will have a better view.
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Photo: State Library of New South Wales, CC BY-SA 3.0 AU via Wikimedia Commons
Source: Leviticus 26:14-20
Text: David Alexander, 2021 CC BY-SA NC 4.0
Tune: Armenia , Public Domain
Score: https://www.smallchurchmusic.com/2014/Score/AllPraiseTo-Armenia.pdf
Audio: www.smallchurchmusic.com Used by Permission
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