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Leviathan (Psalm 74)

from Remember Our Frame by Tarblossom

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O God, why have you cast us off?
Is it for evermore?
Against your pasture-sheep why does
Your anger smoke so sore?

O call to your remembrance
Your congregation,
Which you have purchased of old;
Still think the same upon:

The rod of your inheritance,
Which you redeemed have
This Zion hill, wherein you had
Your dwelling in times past.

To these long desolations
Your feet lift, do not tarry;
For all the ills your foes have done
Within your sanctuary.

Amidst your congregations
Your enemies do roar:
Their ensigns they set up for signs
Of triumph you before.

They fired have your sanctuary,
And have defiled the same,
By casting down unto the ground
The place where dwelled your name.

Thus said they in their hearts, Let us
Destroy them out of hand:
They burnt up all the gatherings
Of God within the land.

Our signs we do not now behold;
There is not us among
A prophet more, nor any one
That knows the time how long.

How long, Lord, shall the enemy
Thus in reproach exclaim?
And shall the adversary thus
Always blaspheme your name?

Your hand, even your right hand of might,
Why do you thus draw back?
O from your bosom pluck it out
For our deliverance sake.

Now you, O God, arise and plead
The cause that is your own:
Remember how you are reproached
Still by the foolish one.

O let not those that be oppressed
Return again with shame:
Let those that poor and needy are
Give praise unto thy name.

For certainly God is my King,
Even from the times of old,
Working in midst of all the earth
Salvation manifold.

The sea, by your great power, to part
Asunder you did make;
And you the dragons' heads, O Lord,
Within the waters brake.

Leviathan's head your heel did break
In pieces, and did give
It to be meat unto the folk
In wilderness that live.

You split the fountain and the flood,
Which did with streams abound:
You dried the mighty waters up
Unto the very ground.

Have for your covenant regard;
For earth's dark places be
Full of the habitations of
Such horrid cruelty.

Do not forget the voice of those
Who are you enemies:
Of those the tumult ever grows
That do against you rise.

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from Remember Our Frame, released February 17, 2021

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Tarblossom Turin, Italy

Tarblossom is the musical project of Jonathan Kleis, an electro-roots rock that mixes the fire of an Old Testament prophet with the fury of a Flannery O'Connor story. The inspiration behind Tarblossom can be found in the earthy grit of old-time Americana, the swampy spank of Delta bottleneck, and the pulsing ambience of modern electronica as a contemporary setting for ancient texts. ... more

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