Lilies of the Covenant (Part Ii)
“We will clear the ground of all rubble. We will plow the earth and break up her
clods, so that the vine will take deep root and flourish throughout the land. The
hills will be covered with its shade; even the mountains with he mighty cedars
will be shadowed under its branches, sending out its boughs to the sea of reeds
and its shoots to the Euphrates. May her hedges never be hewn again, and let
her boundary lines fall for us in pleasant places. May her walls never be broken
through, so that boars from the forest and all the wild creatures may not pluck its
tender grapes.”
“Watch over this vine you will plant with your right hand, and so shall
our sons be ...well nurtured. They shall blossom like the lily, and our daughters
shall be like corner stones, like beautifully carved pillars adorning a palace with
their capitals cast as trumpets in the shape of lilies. So shall they be in rows
when the city is rebuilt. Our garners shall be full, and our vats shall overflow with
the fat of the land. There will be no more breaching of the walls within our gates,
and our fortunes will not go into captivity again.”
And when the entire host of people had shouted, “Amen!” it rained a great
rain, the former and the latter rain together, and singing and dancing
accompanied the sounds of land and sky. The wilderness was turned into pools
of water and parched ground into water springs; so their thirst was quenched
with wines and their hunger filled with grapes, and their captives were brought
again to tend their own vineyards in the land where trumpets are heard one
more; the straight trumpets are seen arrayed by the palace in the beautiful city,
and there they celebrate God, for the seed and fruit both sown and reaped in just
one day.
A Scripture Compilation
Copyright © Leon Stacey | Year Posted 2006
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