Song
Lyrics
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Biblical
Reference
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My
heart is filled with grief when I remember
How they've taken our foreparents from their
homeland |
Lamentations
1:1-3 - How doth the city sit
solitary,
that was full of people! how is she become as a
widow!
she that was great among the nations, and
princess
among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
She
weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on
her
cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to
comfort
her: all her friends have dealt treacherously
with her,
they are become her enemies. Judah is gone into
captivity because of affliction, and because of
great
servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she
findeth
no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between
the
straits.
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Shipped to
every corner of this earth
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Isaiah
11:12 - And he shall set up an
ensign for the
nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of
Israel,
and gather together the dispersed of Judah from
the
four corners of the earth.
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Bound in
shackles and chain like their beast
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Mark
5:4 - Because that he had been
often bound with
fetters and chains, and the chains had been
plucked
asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces:
neither could any man tame him.
Luke 8:29 - (For
he had commanded the unclean spirit
to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had
caught
him: and he was kept bound with chains and in
fetters;
and he brake the bands, and was driven of the
devil
into the wilderness.)
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They would be
spanked with many strikes by the master
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Acts
16:23 - And when they had laid
many stripes upon
them, they cast them into prison, charging the
jailor
to keep them safely:
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If they should
ever not do just what they're told
It really grieves my heart to see
It's pure brutality
Whenever I recall my history
It grieves my heart, you see
How they've treated our foreparents
In the days of slavery
Slavery and brutality
That's all they give me
That's all they give me
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