GOD THE SAVIOR, GOD THE DESTROYER (4 OF 5)
God the Savior, God the Destroyer (4 of 5)
Series: Nahum: God Has Not Forgotten His People
Wyman Richardson
Nahum 2
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In 1963-64, Bob Dylan wrote his song, ''Seven Curses.'' It is a song about a powerful judge who uses the occasion of a father's crime to commit a crime against the man's daughter. He promises the daughter that her father (who had stolen a horse) will be set free if he, the judge, can have her. She agrees only to discover the next day that the judge had her father killed anyway. As a result, she curses the judge with seven curses.
Old Reilly stole a stallion?But they caught him and they brought him back?And they laid him down on the jailhouse ground?With an iron chain around his neck??Old Reilly's daughter got a message?That her father was goin' to hang?She rode by night and came by morning?With gold and silver in her hand??When the judge he saw Reilly's daughter?His old eyes deepened in his head?Sayin', ''Gold will never free your father?The price, my dear, is you instead''??''Oh I'm as good as dead,'' cried Reilly?''It's only you that he does crave?And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all?Get on your horse and ride away''??''Oh father you will surely die?If I don't take the chance to try?And pay the price and not take your advice?For that reason I will have to stay''??The gallows shadows shook the evening?In the night a hound dog bayed?In the night the grounds were groanin'?In the night the price was paid??The next mornin' she had awoken?To know that the judge had never spoken?She saw that hangin' branch a-bendin'?She saw her father's body broken??These be seven curses on a judge so cruel:?That one doctor will not save him?That two healers will not heal him?That three eyes will not see him??That four ears will not hear him?That five walls will not hide him?That six diggers will not bury him?And that seven deaths shall never kill him
Dylan knew well that seven is a number of completion. His point is clear en ...
Series: Nahum: God Has Not Forgotten His People
Wyman Richardson
Nahum 2
Read Nahum 2
In 1963-64, Bob Dylan wrote his song, ''Seven Curses.'' It is a song about a powerful judge who uses the occasion of a father's crime to commit a crime against the man's daughter. He promises the daughter that her father (who had stolen a horse) will be set free if he, the judge, can have her. She agrees only to discover the next day that the judge had her father killed anyway. As a result, she curses the judge with seven curses.
Old Reilly stole a stallion?But they caught him and they brought him back?And they laid him down on the jailhouse ground?With an iron chain around his neck??Old Reilly's daughter got a message?That her father was goin' to hang?She rode by night and came by morning?With gold and silver in her hand??When the judge he saw Reilly's daughter?His old eyes deepened in his head?Sayin', ''Gold will never free your father?The price, my dear, is you instead''??''Oh I'm as good as dead,'' cried Reilly?''It's only you that he does crave?And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all?Get on your horse and ride away''??''Oh father you will surely die?If I don't take the chance to try?And pay the price and not take your advice?For that reason I will have to stay''??The gallows shadows shook the evening?In the night a hound dog bayed?In the night the grounds were groanin'?In the night the price was paid??The next mornin' she had awoken?To know that the judge had never spoken?She saw that hangin' branch a-bendin'?She saw her father's body broken??These be seven curses on a judge so cruel:?That one doctor will not save him?That two healers will not heal him?That three eyes will not see him??That four ears will not hear him?That five walls will not hide him?That six diggers will not bury him?And that seven deaths shall never kill him
Dylan knew well that seven is a number of completion. His point is clear en ...
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