Scriptural Poetry

 

$ by Kenneth Hoeck  -- Truth On The Web Ministries

The Watchman's Warning


The Watchman crieth in the streets
The Watchman soundeth the alarm
The Watchman rouseth ye from slumber
The Watchman keepeth ye from harm

Turn ye from your evil ways
The Watchman warned thee why
The Righteous, thou shalt surely live
The Sinner, thou shalt surely die

The Watchman crieth in the streets
The Watchman soundeth the alarm
The Watchman rouseth ye from slumber
The Watchman keepeth ye from harm

If the trumpet ye heed not
And turn thine head away
Thy blood shalt be upon thyself
Ye heard not the Watchman today

The Watchman crieth in the streets
The Watchman soundeth the alarm
The Watchman rouseth ye from slumber
The Watchman keepeth ye from harm

O' Watchman if ye see the sword
As it cometh hard upon the land
And fail to sound the blast to warn
Their blood will be upon thine hand

The Watchman crieth in the streets
The Watchman soundeth the alarm
The Watchman rouseth ye from slumber
The Watchman keepeth ye from harm

If the Righteous fall to sin
before the Judgment Day
His life will be required of him
Since he followed not The Way

The Watchman crieth in the streets
The Watchman soundeth the alarm
The Watchman rouseth ye from slumber
The Watchman keepeth ye from harm

If the Wicked seeth now his sin
And turneth from evil ways
To do whats lawful, just and right
Will be forgiven his sins that day.

The Watchman crieth in the streets
The Watchman soundeth the alarm
The Watchman rouseth ye from slumber
The Watchman keepeth ye from harm



 Copyright ©2007 Kenneth Michael Hoeck


Dedication: Written for the Saints and the Sinners on 01/25/08 Ref: Ezekiel 33

Ezekiel 33:1-20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth. When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it. Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby. But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

       

Sincerely, K. M. Hoeck  – A Poet Servant for God

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