Jeff Kyser Poet Free verse

A Proverb and a Byword

Walk before me now,
    keeping my commands,
    my statutes and my rules:
    your throne shall be forever.

But if you turn aside,
    go serving other gods,
    then I will cut you off,
    and cast you from my sight,
    and all will be astonished,
    and everyone will hiss,
    why has the LORD done this?

And Israel will be
    a proverb and a byword
    abandoning the LORD
    who brought them out of Egypt,
    served other gods instead.

Blessing and protection,
    severance and rejection,
    carrot and a stick;
    which one will you pick?

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musings on 1 Kings 9:1-9

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