A hymn for today

[chrishansenhome]

...got this in Integrity Lightspeed, and wanted to share.

O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM

O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie!
A wall is laid where tourists stayed,
And people can't go by.
And in thy dark streets shineth
No cheerful Christmas light;
The grief and fears of five sad years
Are met in thee tonight.

How silently, how silently
The world regards it all,
As now thy heart is torn apart
By Israel's ghetto wall.
They terrorise a people -
A war crime and a sin;
Their winding "fence" can make no sense;
Revenge can still get in.

O ye who now rule Bethlehem,
Cast down the iron cage,
The walls of hate that separate
And harden and enrage;
The land grab and apartheid -
This violence must cease,
If there's to be a land that's free,
A Bethlehem at peace.