Psalm #2
(a song of arms control)
Why do the nations
so fiercly rage together
imagine vain
things.
Break them with rods of iron.
Smash them like a potters
pot.
Psalm #2
(righteous indignation)
Man
plots, Kings conspire
Regents, Rulers, counsel take
gainst the week,
the meek.
Iron bonds - break asunder
Dash em, smash em, rage,
thunder.
Psalm #3
(an exultation of
paranoia)
All are against me!
Thousands are set around
me!
Lord, how they increase!
Smite my foes upon the cheek.
Bust
the bastards in the teeth.
Psalm #10
( a song for
guerillas)
He sits in ambush,
hiding in the
villages.
Stealthy, watchful eyes
like lions in the
thicket
Snatching, catching innocents.
Psalm #14
(a song of rage)
The fool in his heart
cries; no sin, no
soul, no God!
Foolish, filthy folk;
confounding plans of the
poor,
eating people just like bread.
Psalm #18
(a song for warriors)
I stand on the heights,
my arms
bending bows of brass,
my hands trained for war.
Alone, I attack a
troop,
By God, I can leap high walls.
Psalm #20
(a competition of boasts)
You boast
chariots
and boast of fearsome horses.
We boast of our God.
We
shout for glory, triumph;
wave our banners - for God's
sake.
Psalm #50
( The Superbowl
song)
Hey there all ye Saints
Come, march in and join my
team.
Everything is mine.
Tribes and fowls and beasts are
mine,
and, oh yes, the World is mine.
Psalm #60
(a song of patriotism)
Fling out the banner
let it float,
skyward, seaward
soaring high and wide.
Sunlight strikes it's
shining folds,
symbols of our love and pride.
Psalm
#64
(a song of the CIA)
A diligent search
Searching out
iniquities
laying privy snares
that they may shoot in secret
at
the heart of the perfect.
Psalm #70
(a battle
hymn)
They who say aha,
let them say aha, aha,
ha, aha
aha.
Shame on them that seek my soul.
Confound them that want me
hurt.
Psalm #72
(a song of Beirut)
A
handfull of corn
flung on top of the mountains
and the fruit
thereof
shall shake, shake like Lebanon.
City folk shall grow like
grass.
Psalm #76
( a song of victory)
Broken the arrows,
the bow, the shield and the sword.
Broken the
battle.
Warrior, chariot, horse
are cast into a dead
sleep.
Psalm #78
(a song of exodus)
Moses smote the rock
loosed the waters, manna, dusts,
flies, frogs,
locusts, lusts
first borns smitten, seas splitten
floods, bloods -
then the Lord awoke.
Psalm #83
(an ageless song)
The confederates
have
taken crafty counsel
against Israel.
They have said, Come, cut them
off
that their name will be no more.
Psalm #105
(a little history)
Seeds of Abraham,
Jacob, Joseph,
Israel,
captives in Egypt.
Moses, Aaron show their stuff
Egypt's
glad when they depart.
Psalm #135
(a song of the
other guy)
Idols of heathen
Silver, gold, silver and
gold.
They have speechless mouths,
ears they have that do not
hear,
eyes they have that do not weep.
Psalm
#115
(a song of the other Gods)
Idols are silver,
silver
and gold, works of man.
They have mouths, eyes, ears;
but talk not,
walk not, touch not,
see not, hear not, no can smell.
Psalm #118
( an excuse for mayhem)
All of the
nations
compassed me about like bees
I will destroy them.
In the
name of God I fight,
in the Lord's name, I destroy.
Psalm # 120
(a song for draft dodgers)
I, I am for
peace,
but, woe is me, when I speak,
they, they are for
war.
Tarrying in Meshech, and,
dwelling too long in
Kedar.
Psalm #124
( a song of freedom)
Our soul is set free
as a bird out of the snare,
the snare of
fowlers.
We are not prey to their teeth.
The snare is broken, we
escape.
Psalm #140
(More paranoia)
Tongues like a serpent,
adders poison in their lips,
snares are set
for me.
Save me from these violent men
cast them onto burning
coals.
Psalm #149
( a two edged song)
Let saints be joyful.
Let them sing upon their beds.
Let them sing
and dance.
Let high praises be in their mouth
and a two edged sword
in their hands.
Psalm # 132
(a song for
monarchs)
Remember David.
He keepeth his covenents.
His
horn shall bud
and the fruit of his body
will be set upon the
throne.