The Blood of Gibeon

Famine rages David’s land dry

Three years God’s anger why

Gibeonite blood cries from ground

Saul's sins tearing the kingdom down

David prays seeks God’s word

Justice for the slaughter heard

Broken covenant of old

A price in blood must be bold

Blood for blood balance the scales

Lift the curse where justice fails

Seven sons to pay the due

Innocence reclaim anew

Gibeonites demand it be paid

King’s sorrow in the shade

Seven offered from Saul’s kin

Betrayal’s cost to cleanse sin

Rizpah watches night and day

Protecting the bodies where they lay

Her grief a vigil she keeps

To shield the dead no one weeps

Rain finally falls from the sky

Heaven hears the righteous cry

Rizpah’s love and aching soul

Echoes the price of wrong’s toll