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<h2>GOD&#8217;S WORD IS LIKE A FLAMING SWORD</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;His Word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones.&#8221; Jeremiah 20:9</h3></p>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_w_i_winkworth_c.jpg" alt="Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="115.333333333333" height="196.666666666667"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_g_a_garve_cb.html" target="_blank">Carl Bernhard Garve</a>, 1825; translated from German to English by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_i_winkworth_c.html" target="_blank">Catherine Winkworth</a>, 1855, alt.</p>
<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;Old 107th,&#8221; composed or adapted by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_b_o_bourgeois_l.html" target="_blank">Louis Bourgeois</a>, 1543 (as in the <em>Scottish Psalter</em>, 1635) </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_o_l_old107th.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>&#8220;Kingsfold,&#8221; English melody; arranged by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_i_williams_rv.html" target="_blank">Ralph Vaughan Williams</a>, 1906 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_k_kingsfld.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
<li>&#8220;Vox Delicti,&#8221; <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_d_y_dykes_jb.html" target="_blank">John Bacchus Dykes</a>, 1868 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_v_o_voxdilec.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>God&#8217;s Word is like a flaming sword,<br>
A wedge that cleaves the stone;<br>
Keen as a fire, so burns His Word,<br>
And pierces flesh and bone.<br>
Let it go forth o&#8217;er all the earth<br>
To cleanse our hearts within,<br>
To show God&#8217;s power in Satan&#8217;s hour<br>
And break the might of sin.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s Word, a wondrous guiding star,<br>
On pilgrim hearts does rise,<br>
Leads those to God who dwell afar,<br>
And makes the simple wise.<br>
Let not its light e&#8217;er sink in night,<br>
But in each spirit shine,<br>
That none may miss heaven&#8217;s final bliss,<br>
Led by God&#8217;s light divine.</p>
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