I Am Sure This Jesus Will Not Do.

When first I let these devils in
in dark pretense to chastity
Blaspheming LOVE
Blaspheming thee
thence rose secret adulteries
and thence did covet also rise
My sin Thou hast forgiven me
Can Thou forgive my blasphemy?
Can Thou return to this dark hell
And in my burning bosom dwell?
And can Thoust die while I may live?
And can Thoust pity and forgive?
Then rolled the shadowy man away
from the limbs of Jesus
to make them his prey
An ever devouring appetite
glittering with festering venoms bright
crying: CRUCIFY THE CAUSE OF THIS DISTRESS
Who don't keep the secrets of holiness!
The mental powers by diseases we bind
But he heals the deaf the dumb and the blind
Whom GOD has lifted for secret ends
He comforts and heals them and calls them friends
But when Jesus was crucified
then was perfected galling pride
in 3 nights he devoured his prey
and still he devours the body of clay
for dust and clay is serpents meat
never made for man to eat ...

seeing this false Christ
in fury and passion
I made my voice heard all over the nation
What are those.....

I am sure this Jesus will not do
either for Englishman or Jew.

~ William Blake
1810 the Rosetti Manuscript

Forty Thousand Headmen

All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’;
anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
~ Matthew 5

Forty thousand headmen
couldn't make me change my mind
If I had to take the choice
between the deafman and the blind
I know just where my feet should go
and that's enough for me
I turned around
and knocked them down
and walked across the sea...

Vous Faites Partie De Moi

As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him in her heart.

When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!”

David said to Michal, “It was before the LORD, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the LORD. I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.”
~ II Samuel 6

Sexy Sadie

The city and all that is in it
are to be devoted to the LORD.
Only Rahab the prostitute
and all who are with her in her house
shall be spared,
because she hid the spies we sent.
~ Joshua 6



Ram the father of Amminadab,
Amminadab the father of Nahshon,
Nahshon the father of Salmon,
Salmon the father of Boaz,
whose mother was Rahab,
Boaz the father of Obed,
whose mother was Ruth,
Obed the father of Jesse,
and Jesse the father of King David.
~ Matthew 1

Keep Yourself Alive

...but all of you who held fast
to the LORD your GOD
are still alive today.
~ Deuteronomy 4

Let Me Entertain You

Then the king returned to his palace
and spent the night without eating
and without any entertainment
being brought to him.
And he could not sleep.
~ Daniel 6

The Order of Death

Therefore hear the word of the LORD,
you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death,
with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement.
When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by,
it cannot touch us,
for we have made a lie our refuge
and falsehood our hiding place.”
So this is what the Sovereign LORD says:
“See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation;
the one who relies on it
will never be stricken with panic.
I will make justice the measuring line
and righteousness the plumb line;
hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie,
and water will overflow your hiding place.
Your covenant with death will be annulled;
your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand.
When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by,
you will be beaten down by it.
As often as it comes it will carry you away;
morning after morning, by day and by night,
it will sweep through.”
The understanding of this message
will bring sheer terror.
~ Isaiah 28

Egyptian Fantasy

This is what the LORD says:
The allies of Egypt will fall
and her proud strength will fail.
From Migdol to Aswan
they will fall by the sword within her,
declares the Sovereign LORD.
They will be desolate among desolate lands,
and their cities will lie among ruined cities.
Then they will know that I am the LORD,
when I set fire to Egypt
and all her helpers are crushed.
On that day messengers will go out from me
in ships to frighten Cush out of her complacency.
Anguish will take hold of them
on the day of Egypt’s doom,
for it is sure to come.
~ Ezekiel 30

Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers

No Time To Live

For the day is near,
the day of the LORD is near...
a day of clouds,
a time of doom for the nations.
~ Ezekiel 30

As time begins to burn itself upon me
And the days are growing very short
People try their hardest to reject me
But in a way, their conscience won't be caught

Something's happening to me day by day
My pebble on the beach is getting washed away
Given everything that was mine to give
Now I'll turn around and find
that there's no time to live

So often, I have seen that big wheel of fortune
Spinning for the man, who holds the ace
There's many that would change their places for him
But none of them have ever seen his lonely face

Something is happening to me day by day
My pebble on the beach is getting washed away
Given everything that was mine to give
And now I'll turn around and find
that there's no time to live

Too Fortiche.

Woe to those
who are wise in their own eyes
and clever in their own sight.
~ Isaiah 5