SOME SAT IN DARKNESS by C McGinnis

SOME SAT IN DARKNESS AND GLOOM SO DEEP
THEIR HEARTS WERE HARD AND THEY DID WEEP
PRISONERS THEY WERE CHAINED TO THEIR LIFE
THEY CRIED TO GOD TO RELIEVE THEIR STRIFE

HE SAW THEIR PAIN AND HEARD THEIR PLEA
HE DELIVERED THEM OUT OF AGONY
HE BROUGHT THEM FROM DARKNESS INTO THE LIGHT
HE SHOWED THEM HOW TO LIVE LIFE RIGHT

SOME IN DESERT SANDS WANDERED WITHOUT CARE
SEARCHING FOR A CITY LOOKING EVERYWHERE
THEY DID HUNGER AND THIRST IN THEIR OWN WAY
BUT NOT AFTER GOD, THEIR LIVES EBBED AWAY

THEY CRIED TO THE LORD IN THEIR DISTRESS
HE BROUGHT THEM OUT OF THE WILDERNESS
WATER AND FOOD HE PROVIDED THE WEAK
IN EXCHANGE FOR THEM HIS NAME TO SPEAK

LET THEM GIVE THANKS. GOD'S LOVE WON'T FAIL
HIS WONDERFUL DEEDS TO MAN PREVAIL
FOR THE WISE THESE WORDS DO HEED
CONSIDER GOD'S LOVE IN ALL YOU NEED.

(From Psalm 107)