From my Journal entry on
January 24, 2016
Worship: The Joy of the Lord by The Destinysong Project. Music and Lyrics by Michael Burwell; Broken Hallelujah by the Afters
The Joy of the Lord
Lyrics: There don’t appear to be lyrics on-line for this song
"Broken Hallelujah"
I can barely stand right now.
Everything is crashing down,
And I wonder where you are.
I try to find the words to pray.
I don't always know what to say,
But you're the one that can hear my heart.
Even though I don't know what your plan is,
I know you make beauty from these ashes.
I've seen joy and I've seen pain.
On my knees, I call your name.
Here's my broken hallelujah.
With nothing left to hold onto,
I raise these empty hands to you.
Here's my broken, here's my broken,
Hallelujah [x3]
(Here's my broken)
Hallelujah
You know the things that have brought me here.
You know the story of every tear.
'Cause you've been here from the very start.
Even though I don't know what your plan is,
I know you make beauty from these ashes.
I've seen joy and I've seen pain.
On my knees, I call your name.
Here's my broken Hallelujah.
With nothing left to hold onto,
I raise these empty hands to you.
Here's my broken, here's my broken,
Hallelujah [x3]
(Here's my broken)
Hallelujah
When all is taken away, don't let my heart be changed.
Let me always sing Hallelujah
And when I feel afraid, don't let my hope be erased
Let me always sing (let me always sing),
Let my always sing,
Hallelujah [x3]
(Let my always sing)
Hallelujah
(Let my always sing)
Hallelujah
Here's my broken,
Here's my broken,
Hallelujah [x3]
Here's my broken,
Here's my broken,
Hallelujah [x4]
Everything is crashing down,
And I wonder where you are.
I try to find the words to pray.
I don't always know what to say,
But you're the one that can hear my heart.
Even though I don't know what your plan is,
I know you make beauty from these ashes.
I've seen joy and I've seen pain.
On my knees, I call your name.
Here's my broken hallelujah.
With nothing left to hold onto,
I raise these empty hands to you.
Here's my broken, here's my broken,
Hallelujah [x3]
(Here's my broken)
Hallelujah
You know the things that have brought me here.
You know the story of every tear.
'Cause you've been here from the very start.
Even though I don't know what your plan is,
I know you make beauty from these ashes.
I've seen joy and I've seen pain.
On my knees, I call your name.
Here's my broken Hallelujah.
With nothing left to hold onto,
I raise these empty hands to you.
Here's my broken, here's my broken,
Hallelujah [x3]
(Here's my broken)
Hallelujah
When all is taken away, don't let my heart be changed.
Let me always sing Hallelujah
And when I feel afraid, don't let my hope be erased
Let me always sing (let me always sing),
Let my always sing,
Hallelujah [x3]
(Let my always sing)
Hallelujah
(Let my always sing)
Hallelujah
Here's my broken,
Here's my broken,
Hallelujah [x3]
Here's my broken,
Here's my broken,
Hallelujah [x4]
Video: https://youtu.be/Fo3DudOzV4k
Witness:
Another long time between journal entries. Lately, I have been so tired that I fall asleep in the evening when I attempt to sit down to journal. I end up laying down and listening to music or a message instead because my eyelids are too heavy and I am forced to just lay down and rest before work. Sleep for the last week has been horrible. I may get only 2 to 5 hours actual sleep. Taking sleep medications don’t work for me. Taking natural substances like melatonin don’t help much either. Lord, please grant me rest so I can work for Your kingdom and Your glory. Amen!
WORD:
Ps 24:6
Such is the generation of those who seek him,
who seek your face, O God of Jacob.b Selah
NIV
24:6 b Two Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac (see also Septuagint); most Hebrew manuscripts face, Jacob
NIV
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Ps 24:6
This is the generation of those who seek Him,
Who seek Your face — even Jacob. Selah.
NASU
Such is the character of those who seek him,
of Ya‘akov, who seeks your face. (Selah)
CJB
This [is] a generation of those seeking Him. Seeking Thy face, O Jacob!
YLT
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Selah
Before I move on to the next section, I must pause (pun intended) and speak about the word “Selah”.
What does this word mean? Why do we find it after some Psalms and a few verses in Habakkuk? Who knows is my answer. After viewing all the material I could get a hold on, it seems there is a long history of discussion on its meaning among scholar’s, but no definitive answers.
Some say it is meant as a notation to pause and think about it. Others think it is a pause in singing and a time for a musical interlude. Many include both concepts. Others think it comes from a word meaning “to lift up” so it is a musical notation to raise the voice or the music of the key. Ancient Rabbinical writers translated it “forever” while some later divines thought it was similar to “amen”.
Here is a sampling of some articles on the word. I have left out the longest article I read on the word from McClintock and Strong’s Encyclopedia (a massive 10 volumes and 2 supplements work written in the 19th century by John McClintock and Dr. James Strong – this can be accessed for free on-line under the name Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature)
OT:5542 celah —
to lift up, to exalt; Selah, a technical musical term probably showing accentuation, pause, interruption
(from The Online Bible Thayer's Greek Lexicon and Brown Driver & Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, Copyright © 1993, Woodside Bible Fellowship, Ontario, Canada. Licensed from the Institute for Creation Research.)
SELAH
Seventy-one times in the Psalms, three times in Habakkuk. From
shelah
, "rest." A music mark denoting a pause, during which the singers ceased to sing and only the instruments were heard. Septuagint diapsalma, a break in the psalm introduced where the sense requires a rest. It is a call to calm reflection on the preceding words. Hence, in Ps 9:16 it follows
higgaion
, "meditation." The selah reminds us that the psalm requires a peaceful and meditative soul which can apprehend what the Holy Spirit propounds. Thus, it is most suggestive, and far from being, as Smith's Bible Dictionary alleges of this sense, "superfluous." Delitsseh takes it from
saalal
("to lift up," a musical forte, the piano singing then ceasing, and the instruments alone playing with execution an interlude after sentences of peculiar importance, so as to emphasize them.
(from Fausset's Bible Dictionary, Electronic Database Copyright © 1998, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Psalms 3:2
Ver. 2, 4, 8. Selah. Much has been written on this word, and still its meaning does not appear to be wholly determined. It is rendered in the Targum or Chaldee paraphrase, lealmin, for ever, or to eternity. In the Latin Vulgate, it is omitted, as if it were no part of the text. In the Septuagint, it is rendered Dia/yalma, supposed to refer to some variation or modulation of the voice in singing. Schleusner, Lex. The word occurs seventy-three times in the Psalms, and three times in the book of Habakkuk (Hab 3:3,9,13). It is never translated in our version, but in all these places the original word Selah is retained. It occurs only in poetry, and is supposed to have had some reference to the singing or cantillation of the poetry, and to be probably a musical term. In general, also, it indicates a pause in the sense, as well as in the musical performance. Gesenius (Lex.) supposes that the most probable meaning of this musical term or note is silence or pause, and that its use was, in chanting the words of the Psalm, to direct the singer to be silent, to pause a little, while the instruments played an interlude or harmony. Perhaps this is all that can now be known of the meaning of the word, and this is enough to satisfy every reasonable enquiry. It is probable, if this was the use of the term, that it would commonly correspond with the sense of the passage, and be inserted where the sense made a pause suitable; and this will doubtless be found usually to be the fact. But anyone acquainted at all with the character of musical notation, will perceive at once that we are not to suppose that this would be invariably or necessarily the fact, for the musical pauses by no means always correspond with pauses in the sense. This word, therefore, can furnish very little assistance in determining the meaning of the passages where it is found. Ewald supposes, differing from this view, that it rather indicates that in the places where it occurs the voice is to be raised, and that it is synonymous with up, higher, loud, or distinct, from sal, salal, to ascend. Those who are disposed to enquire further respecting its meaning, and the uses of musical pauses in general, may be referred to Ugolin, "Thesau. Antiq. Sacr.," tom. xxii.
(from The Treasury of David, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2005, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Okay, that’s enough. There sure is a lot written on that which can’t be determined. However, purely from a subjective standpoint, I like how Spurgeon handles it, so I will conclude with this note:
Psalms 3:2
Selah. This is a musical pause; the precise meaning of which is not known. Some think it simply a rest, a pause in the music; others say it means, "Lift up the strain — sing more loudly — pitch the tune upon a higher key — there is nobler matter to come, therefore retune your harps." Harp-strings soon get out of order and need to be screwed up again to their proper tightness, and certainly our heart-strings are evermore getting out of tune, Let "Selah" teach us to pray
"O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound."
At least we may learn that wherever we see "Selah," we should look upon it as a note of observation. Let us read the passage which precedes and succeeds it with greater earnestness, for surely there is always something excellent where we are required to rest and pause and meditate, or when we are required to lift up our hearts in grateful song. "SELAH."
(from The Treasury of David, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2005, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
… and a song by… you guessed it… Selah
Before the throne of God above
I have a strong, a perfect plea
A great high Priest whose Name is Love
Who ever lives and pleads for me
My name is graven on His hands
My name is written on His heart
I know that while in heaven He stands
No tongue can bid me thence depart
No tongue can bid me thence depart
When Satan tempts me to despair
And tells me of the guilt within
Upward I look and see Him there
Who made an end to all my sin
Because the sinless Savior died
My sinful soul is counted free
For God the just is satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me
To look on Him and pardon me
Behold Him there the risen Lamb
My perfect spotless righteousness
The great unchangeable I am
The King of glory and of grace
One with Himself I cannot die
My soul is purchased by His blood
My life is hid with Christ on high
With Christ my Savior and my God!
With Christ my Savior and my God!
One with Himself I cannot die
My soul is purchased by His blood
My life is hid with Christ on high
With Christ my Savior and my God!
With Christ my Savior and my God!
I have a strong, a perfect plea
A great high Priest whose Name is Love
Who ever lives and pleads for me
My name is graven on His hands
My name is written on His heart
I know that while in heaven He stands
No tongue can bid me thence depart
No tongue can bid me thence depart
When Satan tempts me to despair
And tells me of the guilt within
Upward I look and see Him there
Who made an end to all my sin
Because the sinless Savior died
My sinful soul is counted free
For God the just is satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me
To look on Him and pardon me
Behold Him there the risen Lamb
My perfect spotless righteousness
The great unchangeable I am
The King of glory and of grace
One with Himself I cannot die
My soul is purchased by His blood
My life is hid with Christ on high
With Christ my Savior and my God!
With Christ my Savior and my God!
One with Himself I cannot die
My soul is purchased by His blood
My life is hid with Christ on high
With Christ my Savior and my God!
With Christ my Savior and my God!
Songwriters: DP
Before The Throne Of God Above lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Come O’ people of the Lord
Come to the Bible and be blest
Drink deeply of His Word
Drink and find peace and rest
SELAH
And when you read His Word
And pause in a heavenly rest
You will find a truth to be heard
You will be filled and be blest
SELAH
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