The Old Covenant

Genesis: creation

Exodus: evacuation

Leviticus: the rules

Numbers: the population

Of a nation wandering

To a destined destination

And then Deuteronomy:

Moses’ final explanation

They finally made it

To the Promised Land of Canaan

Joshua warned

Of the coming devastation

If they didn’t lay

Down their arms

And bow down to Yahweh’s nation

God would bring down

Jericho’s walls in seven days then

The time of Judges follows after

A cycle of tears and laughter

They would turn from the Lord

And then repent after disaster

We then read of Ruth

The fruit of whose womb comes a line

That goes through King David

All the way to Jesus Christ

And then the Books of Samuel

We read about King Saul

His rise and fall until

A new king Is installed

A shepherd boy who sings psalms

A man after God’s own heart

Who can bring down a giant

With the flick of a sling shot

And then we got

                  the Books of Kings

And King David’s son’s influence

Solomon’s known for wisdom

It’s like reading the Temple’s blueprints

We then read the Chronicles

And some of this is repeated

We got endless genealogies

and the Philistines are defeated

(Honestly you almost

don’t even need to read it)

Then Ezra Nehemiah

A return from the exile

And then the Book of Esther

And the Persian Empire

And then the Book of Job

A tale as old as time

Will man turn from the Lord

When things are no longer fine?

Is Job only faithful?

‘cause of what God gave him

With enough pain inflicted

Will he then become unfaithful?

The moral: it’s not for us to know

Or understand God’s behavior

All we know is He’s in control

And He wants to be our Savior

And then back to King David

When we sing the book of Psalms

Calling on the Lord

Until everything’s resolved

Then we turn to Proverbs

And learn of rights and wrongs

Ecclesiastes seems pointless

And then the mystic song of songs

After comes the Prophets

Their words hold so much weight

They speak for God so well

That what they tell us is our fate

Isaiah’s suffering servant

Jeremiah’s cov-e-nant

Lamentations then Ezekiel

And Daniel’s son of man

In the Lion’s Den

With the writing on the wall

Like Jeremiah said God knew

Us before we were formed

Then we read Hosea

Joel Amos Obadiah

Then Jonah and the Whale

Micah’s Bethlehem Messiah

Nahum Habbakkuk Zephaniah

And don’t forget Haggai

Then we read Zachariah

And we end with Malachi

We read of a messenger

Sent before the Lord

A voice in the wilderness

Speaking of a new accord