Best Avenging Poems
October 6 Scripture Meditations Based on Luke 18-19
Key Verse – Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR AVENGING ME
Thank You for avenging me, Your own elect by Your grace
In my cry for Your help to protect me with Your truth-brace
Against falsehood that knocks me down from spiritual race…
You alone can sustain me around Your compassionate embrace.
Thank You for avenging me, Your saved child
In my dependence on Your holiness from being abominably wild
Against tendency to become worldly beguiled…
You alone can guard me to avoid the proudly defiled.
Thank You for avenging me, Your transformed creation
In my plea for Your aid toward faithful conversion
Against backsliding-corruption…
You alone can rescue me from transgressions’ destruction.
Thank You for avenging me, Your privileged servant
In my prayer for Your guidance of divine grant
Against defiance that displeases You, my Master-Commandant…
You alone can direct me toward what You perfectly want.
Thank You for avenging me, Your entrusted steward
In my request for Your training of caring regard
Against stubbornness I should ward off though it’s hard…
You alone can mold for faithfulness’ reward.
Thank You for avenging me, Your enlightened student
In my need to learn from Your, indeed heavenly sent
Against failure due to foolishness-ignorance whereto I’m bent…
You alone can teach me with Your truth of no falsity-dent.
Thank You for avenging me, Your earnest believer
In my supplication for Your increase to my faith as humble receiver
Against doubts and disobedience wrought by evil deceiver…
You alone can instruct me well since You are the supreme law Giver.
October 6, 2022
February 19 Scripture Meditations Based on Judges 5-8
Key Verse – Judges 5:2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR AVENGING ME
Thank You for avenging me by Your mercy
When I willingly offer myself to You thru Your clemency
Keep me trusting You and Your help’s constancy…
You are my Father Who loves me despite my inconsistency.
Thank You for avenging me by Your protection
When I dependently yield myself to You with utmost subjection
Keep me surrendering to You and Your authority’s commission…
You are my Lord Who governs me despite my insubordination.
Thank You for avenging me by Your deliverance
When I wholly lay myself to You along Your assurance
Keep me seeking You and Your favour’s appearance…
You are my Guide Who leads me despite my ignorance.
Thank You for avenging me by Your security
When I joyfully entrust myself to You midst inability
Keep me hiding in You and Your certainty…
You are my Shield Who defends me despite my vulnerability.
Thank You for avenging me by Your might
When I earnestly give myself to You with delight
Keep me abiding in You and in Your light…
You are my Strength Who empowers me despite my carnal blight.
Thank You for avenging me by Your defense
When I completely submit myself to You devoid of any pretense
Keep me staying in You and in Your presence…
You are my Life Who upholds me despite my offense.
February 19, 2022
The Lord is a jealous and avenging God
coming with vengeance full of wrath
for all His enemies He will defeat
with His mighty hand from His path
This is a God of awesome power
who delays His anger so very slow
for He stands upon the clouded dust
watching the storms hit a striking blow
Almighty God reveals His authority
standing high over every high hill
uttering forcefully a voice of thunder
makes His enemies sit really still
All the waters are dried up
under God's spell making it so
many are withered by the effect
as God punishes His every foe
This God is the supreme Lord
the mountains so great do quake
all of the earth is set to change
its survival the Lord proves is at stake
(Nahum 1: 1-5 ESV)
1. An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.
2 The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;
the Lord is avenging and wrathful;
the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries
and keeps wrath for his enemies.
3 The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,
and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.
His way is in whirlwind and storm,
and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;
he dries up all the rivers;
Bashan and Carmel wither;
the bloom of Lebanon withers.
5 The mountains quake before him;
the hills melt;
the earth heaves before him,
the world and all who dwell in it.
My stupidity echoes
my soul raped
Death I've long ago
escaped.
I linger in loneliness
it surrounds me
Darkness above
embarking storms flee
Yet I still linger
here raging my anger
Leaping and lapping
at lives dangers.
It's calling me
from winds afar
It beckons me
from listless lost star.
I surrender
unto my lost revenge
Yet loves arrows
deny me even to avenge
Linda Terrell
November 2009
Taking a walk, easy for some,
But not for me, I couldn’t do it
Thinking of the words,
Why did I leave them,
I am consumed.
There is no hope for me.
The constant haunting,
Nagging, pushing out of turn
I have to have them
They are all I have left.
Oh my sweet wonderful love
Of my life,
Where are you, take me away from here,
Thy blazing blade, tearing, cutting,
Gnawing, at consequences, of my life.
The torment so majestic, so horrid,
Overwhelming tyranny of my soul.
Vermin waiting for burdens to unfold,
Their appetites enveloping
Waiting for their nourishment,
Quell them I know not how.
Solitary doom upon me.
My words surround me now,
I am protected at last.
Nothing can break down the barriers,
That protect me.
Wrought words,
A pleasant feeling of weariness abounds me.
I can sleep now,
I have made it through another night.
EXHALE