filthyrags

Kol tachath dek

(All the same)

 

Ken Pullen  –  copyright 2011

 

Hebrew is presented in transliteration form

Scripture appears in Italics from the King James Version

 

 

 

O heavenly Father, that you would rip apart

the heavens

that the mountains might melt and flow

with your presence

for our wayward

sinful hearts

O Lord, Jehovah Elyon

shine Thy righteous light in my spirit

leading me where to go

forsaking this lust-filled flesh

caught in the snare

of the lies, sweet words, distractions

caught in the air

like flies to flypaper

do the words come

from man

from woman

few adding up to any real sum

most equal to already chewed gum

stuck somewhere thought hidden

 

 

 

 

O Lord, Jehovah Elyon

may my spirit

my mind

my heart

grow closer to Thee

from this ghastly, foul

sin plagued world of liars

I flee

drawing each moment

each day

closer to Thee

 

 

 

 

Kol tachath dek

all the same

one

and

all

the

same

no matter their refrain

 

 

 

 

Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens,

that thou wouldest come down,

that the mountains might flow down

at thy presence,

As when the melting fire burneth,

the fire causeth the waters to boil,

to make

thy name

known

to thine adversaries,

that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

When thou didst

terrible things

which we looked not for,

thou camest

down,

the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

For

since the beginning

of the world

men have not heard,

nor perceived by the ear,

neither hath the eye seen,

O God,

beside thee,

what he hath prepared for him

that waiteth for him.

Thou meetest him

that rejoiceth

and worketh

righteousness,

those that remember

thee in thy ways:

behold,

thou art wroth;

for we have sinned:

in those is continuance,

and we shall be saved.

But we are all as an unclean thing,

and

all

our

righteousnesses

are as filthy rags;

and we all do fade as a leaf;

and our iniquties,

like the wind,

have taken us away.

And there is none that calleth upon thy name,

that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee:

for thou hast consumed us,

because of our iniquities.

But now,

O Lord,

thou art our Father;

we are the clay,

and thou our potter;

and we all are the work of thy hand.

 

 

 

 

Kol tachath dek

all the same

we are all the same

all the same

in need

for all live in times where we fail to heed

the Word

rather

enveloped in the flesh

the here and always distracting now

of this world

 

 

 

 

O Lord,

I pray upon bent knees

the pure spirit you see

before you

for Lord I adore you

ask in repentant heart

to be drawn closer to Thee

from this vile world my focus be shaken

to sin

I would not be taken

doing that which I should not do

not doing that which I should do

may my heart

my mind

my spirit

my soul

my life

be lived

tsedaqah

if even if filthy rags

before thy throne

tsadaq

my desire

as Thy will

Thy Word

Thy Truth

lifts me higher

closer to Thee

from this world to end

lost in sin

lies

deception

do I yearn to flee!

 

 

 

 

Is there one whose words

are true?

Who knows the meaning of follow through?

Are our lips nothing but reeds

a quiver

devoid

unable

any truth to deliver?

Kol tachath dek

all the same

we

are

all

the

same

we are all as an unclean thing

and all our righteousnesses

are

as filthy rages

for we do fade as a leaf

and our sin

our lies

our delusion

our selfishness

our fleshly desires

our illusion

our iniquities

like the wind

have taken us away…