{"id":49,"date":"2025-03-26T18:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/?p=49"},"modified":"2025-04-01T18:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:52:16","slug":"through-the-darkness-we-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Through the Darkness, We Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unleash the raw power of faith with Through the Darkness, We Wait\u2014a Christian rock anthem that confronts life&#8217;s toughest struggles. Inspired by the biblical book of Jeremiah 12, this song is a battle cry for believers grappling with doubt, injustice, and the hope found in God\u2019s promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Through the Darkness, We Wait | The Brutal Truth of Faith | Christian Rock That Will Shake You\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QCU9aWl4qtw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1 You are righteous, LORD,<br>when I contend with you;<br>yet I would like to plead a case with you.<br>Why does the way of the wicked prosper?<br>Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?<br>2 You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root.<br>They grow. Yes, they produce fruit.<br>You are near in their mouth,<br>and far from their heart.<br>3 But you, LORD, know me.<br>You see me, and test my heart toward you.<br>Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,<br>and prepare them for the day of slaughter.<br>4 How long will the land mourn,<br>and the herbs of the whole country wither?<br>Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein,<br>the animals and birds are consumed;<br>because they said,<br>\u201cHe won\u2019t see our latter end.\u201d<br>5 \u201cIf you have run with the footmen,<br>and they have wearied you,<br>then how can you contend with horses?<br>Though in a land of peace you are secure,<br>yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?<br>6 For even your brothers, and the house of your father,<br>even they have dealt treacherously with you!<br>Even they have cried aloud after you!<br>Don\u2019t believe them,<br>though they speak beautiful words to you.<br>7 \u201cI have forsaken my house.<br>I have cast off my heritage.<br>I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.<br>8 My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest.<br>She has uttered her voice against me.<br>Therefore I have hated her.<br>9 Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey?<br>Are the birds of prey against her all around?<br>Go, assemble all the animals of the field.<br>Bring them to devour.<br>10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard.<br>They have trodden my portion under foot.<br>They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.<br>11 They have made it a desolation.<br>It mourns to me, being desolate.<br>The whole land is made desolate,<br>because no one cares.<br>12 Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness;<br>for the sword of the LORD devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land.<br>No flesh has peace.<br>13 They have sown wheat,<br>and have reaped thorns.<br>They have exhausted themselves,<br>and profit nothing.<br>You will be ashamed of your fruits,<br>because of the LORD\u2019s fierce anger.\u201d<br>14 The LORD says, \u201cConcerning all my evil neighbors,<br>who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit:<br>Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land,<br>and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.<br>15 It will happen that after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them.<br>I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.<br>16 It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people,<br>to swear by my name, \u2018As the LORD lives;\u2019 even as they taught my people to swear by Baal,<br>then they will be built up in the middle of my people.<br>17 But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation,<br>plucking up and destroying it,\u201d says the LORD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unleash the raw power of faith with Through the Darkness, We Wait\u2014a Christian rock anthem that confronts life&#8217;s toughest struggles. 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