Yehoshua Shim'onai Poems

Tetelestai! For it's already done
Praise and glory be to the Holy One
The enemy's already trampled on
And triumphantly doomed to destruction.
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Where have you gotten your timeless love?
Where’s the source of your love which’s true?
Where does it descend from like a dove
And spring from which’s like water so blue?
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My Lord is a man of war
and the Giver of peace
For He made war to deliver me
from evil
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'Di sa tayo'ng umibig
'Di tayo'ng nag-alay -
Una'ng Dios sa pag-ibig,
Buhay n'ya'y kanyang bigay!
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O Lord of the Highest, search upon the depths of our hearts
And reveal all the foolishness of our own ways
Show us the senselessness and arrogance in us
And may our hearts be broken before you.
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In Your presence, Lord,
I can't lift my heart,
and my soul's humble
before Your glory;
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A love for the self
is that which hath brought
condemnation unto men;
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Once a pastor became bitter with God,
And had stumbled in his faith with the Lord
For ev’rything in the sky fell in him
And evry’thing seems so heavy for him.
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Come with me, my love, my spouse; come with me;
Come with me to our chamber so that we
May fill it with love and intimacy
And enrich it with our sweet company.
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This is not my end
-this is my eternity;
This is not my loss
but my gain in the Lord;
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