Psalm 53 sung in
Aramaic by Georgian monk and assistant for Pope Francis. This is
stunning. Some recordings of this have over 3 million views or audits. This was performed back in 2016, but I offer it up here for Easter 2020 during this abominable COVID-19, government lockdown. Slate explains that
The [holy] performance in this video features the choir of the Georgian Orthodox Church, and took place in the Church of St. Simon the Tanner in Tbilisi, Georgia, when Pope Francis visited Sept. 30. While there, he offered a plea for peace for the persecuted and the victims of war—in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere.
The choir was made up of people from Syrian and Iraqi families and was led by their Friar Seraphim. It’s the well-known Psalm 53, “Our Father,” but sung in Aramaic.
Here is Psalm 53. Biblical verses, if nothing else, have the power to humble man. I don't like it. LOL.
53 The fool hath said in his
heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity:
there is none that doeth good.
2 God looked down from heaven
upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that
did seek God.
3 Every one of them is gone
back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not
one.
4 Have the workers of
iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not
called upon God.
5 There were they in great fear,
where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth
against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
6 Oh that the salvation of
Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people,
Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
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