Psalm 136
This is possibly a marching song - the kind of thing where the leader shouts out a call and everybody chips in with the response.
This is also fairly common in sea shanties as they encourage a group to cohere as they overcome hard work and difficulties.
This one is God centered though - with a refrain "His Love endures for ever"
Give thanks to the LORD for he is good - join in with the refrain!
Give thanks to the God of gods-
Give thanks to the Lord of lords-
I'm going to edit a bit - if you want the original, look it up!
Who does great wonders,
Made the heavens and the earth
Liberated his people from Egypt
Parted the Red sea
And so on and so forth.
In the Jewish Passover service there is a prayer called "Dayenu" which could be translated "That would have been enough", in which the blessings of God are piled up with after each blessing the people declare "THAT would have been enough"
One thing about the blessings of God is that God is just not finished yet - that would have been enough but God still wants to pour out more blessings.
I really need to say far more often "Dayenu" with wonder at the blessings of God, and "His love endures forever"
This is possibly a marching song - the kind of thing where the leader shouts out a call and everybody chips in with the response.
This is also fairly common in sea shanties as they encourage a group to cohere as they overcome hard work and difficulties.
This one is God centered though - with a refrain "His Love endures for ever"
Give thanks to the LORD for he is good - join in with the refrain!
Give thanks to the God of gods-
Give thanks to the Lord of lords-
I'm going to edit a bit - if you want the original, look it up!
Who does great wonders,
Made the heavens and the earth
Liberated his people from Egypt
Parted the Red sea
And so on and so forth.
In the Jewish Passover service there is a prayer called "Dayenu" which could be translated "That would have been enough", in which the blessings of God are piled up with after each blessing the people declare "THAT would have been enough"
One thing about the blessings of God is that God is just not finished yet - that would have been enough but God still wants to pour out more blessings.
I really need to say far more often "Dayenu" with wonder at the blessings of God, and "His love endures forever"
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