Apocryphal Winds

Part 1. Journey to kadesh

Riding forth through the arnon crossing
Under cloud by day and with fire by night
The sons of horeb descend
To their father's lord-sworn lands

Decimating the armies of the amorites and bashan kings
Marching on from the seir to the land of moab

Their name feared by all nations
Awakening to anguish and bread
From the city of the ravine to gilead
Delivered by God to their blood drenched hands

Yet they forsake, the God that favoured them
Scorning the rock of his salvation
Espousing the ways of aberration
Idolizing the soothsayer and the golden demon

Part 2. The God of wrath

Of the God that begot you, you are unmindful
And forgotten the lord that fathered you
He will spurn and hide his face from you
Generations and children of no fate

A fire has kindled his anger and wrath
Burning to the pits of the lowest hell
Consuming the earth with hatred and spite
For the iniquities, that the prophets foretell

Ingrates, a nation void of counsel
No compassion, truth or wisdom
Had they been wise, they would understand
That this is their latter end

I will heap disasters on them
And they shall be wasted with hunger
Devoured by pestilence
Milled by bitter destruction

I will send them the gnarling teeth of beasts
The poison of the serpent's dust
I will unleash untold terror and crush
The hearts and minds of all, old, virgin and young

Ingrates, a nation void of counsel
No compassion, truth or wisdom
Had they been wise, they would understand
That this is their latter end

Part 3. The dawn of retribution

I will make my arrows drunk with blood
My sword shall devour flesh
Stained with the blood of the slain and my captives
And the heads of my adversaries

Vengeance is mine, and recompense
I will gouge the eyes of my enemies
And repay those who hate me
For I will avenge the blood of my servants

Now see that I, I am he
And there is no God beside me
I kill and I make alive
I wound and I heal

Nor is there any who can escape my hand
Let all the angels worship me
For I reign over the heavens and earth
I live forever