Wednesday 12 December 2012

Kenya will be rebuilt and Africa shall arise!




3 “I have loved you with an everlasting love;

    I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.

4 I will build you up again,

    and you, Virgin Kenya, will be rebuilt.

Again you will take up your timbrels

    and go out to dance with the joyful.

5 Again you will plant vineyards

    on the hills of the Rift Valley;

the farmers will plant them

    and enjoy their fruit.

6 There will be a day when watchmen cry out

    on the hills of Cherangani,

‘Come, let us go up to Mount Kenya,
 

This is what the Lord says:

 
“Sing with joy for Africa;

    shout for the foremost of the nations.

Make your praises heard, and say,

    ‘Lord, save your people,

    the remnant of Kenya.’

8 See, I will bring them from the land of the north

    and gather them from the ends of the earth.

Among them will be the blind and the lame,

    expectant mothers and women in labor;

    a great throng will return.

9 They will come with weeping;

    they will pray as I bring them back.

I will lead them beside streams of water

    on a level path where they will not stumble,

because I am Africa’s father,

    and Kenya is my firstborn son.

 

10 “Hear the word of the Lord, you nations;

    proclaim it in distant coastlands:

‘He who scattered Africa will gather them

    and will watch over his flock like a shepherd.’

11 For the Lord will deliver Africans

    and redeem them from the hand of those stronger than they.

12 They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Kilimanjaro;

    they will rejoice in the bounty of the Lord—

the grain, the new wine and the olive oil,

    the young of the flocks and herds.

They will be like a well-watered garden,

    and they will sorrow no more.

13 Then young women will dance and be glad,

    young men and old as well.

I will turn their mourning into gladness;

    I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow.

14 I will satisfy the priests with abundance,

    and my people will be filled with my bounty,”

declares the Lord.

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