a tree, they were as black as they might be)            God
do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?
will return to the house I left."                                  God
        there were three ravens sat on a tree.

Congregation:

By mixing up fair and foul, our evil madness
has turned away our Lord's forgiving thoughts.  Amen.

Leader:

How long, O Lord, must I call for help,
  but you do not listen?
Or cry out to you, "Violence!"
  but you do not save?
Why do you make me look at injustice?
  Why do you tolerate wrong?
Destruction and violence are before me;
  there is strife, and conflict abounds.
Therefore the law is paralyzed
  and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
  so that justice is perverted.

Chorus:

As the rain and the snow come down from Heaven, and
do not return to it without watering the 
earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it
yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater
                                                
As the rain and the snow come down from Heaven, and
they devour widows' houses and for a show make
do not return to it without watering the 
lengthy pray'rs.  Such men will be punished severely.
earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it
                                                                             the sun

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