Herod's Action

Composer: Roger D. Linder
Roger D. Linder: 40 Days: Nativity to Presentation
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Herod
Can't abide this aberration
Lose my focus on the nation
Full of righteous indignation
I must hatch another plan

We must kill the little children
Don't care if there are a million
Let the streets run with vermilion
Mow them down where they now stand

Find the helpless, find the weak
Slaughter innocents, those we seek
Use the news from what we've learned
Let no stone be left unturned

Arm yourselves with sword and sharp blade
Let them weep for those we have slayed
Those who flee, set up a blockade
Let no one escape my wrath

Off to Bethlehem and quickly
Don't spare healthy or the sickly
I will check, don't try to trick me
Make it flow, a real bloodbath

Kill the boys but spare the girls
Let them hold their precious pearls
Shed no tears for those who die
I shall not weep at their goodbye
Commentary
Matthew 2: 16-18 - When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

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