We read our Bibles well, discerning good and ill,
we see the Pharisees at fault,
we read Your words with skill.
And yet we never know
the wrong we class as right,
the way we justify ourselves,
make out that black is white.
Verses 2-3 follow
Tune: ICH HALTE TREULICH STILL; ISHMAEL
Metre: DSM
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 6/8/2012 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk.
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