Psalm 24—Who hoped her way through long years, black and bird boned as the limbs of winter.

The Darkling Psalter is a project to create renditions of the Psalms. Psalms complete: 79/150.

Rendition of Psalm 24

The earth and all its fullness is the Lord’s—
The landed pillars of the deep,
The thrumming, captured seas,
The rivers rising from the holy ground—
All are his.

Who can find a home on your mountain?
Who can stand inside your holy place
With head high and a whole heart?
The one who held the coal and felt the firekiss;
Who greets God in every lesser love;
Who hoped her way through long years,
Black and bird boned as the limbs of winter.
Whose laugh broke in rich beams,
Loud and wild as it would.

Lift up every last lost gate.
Open every angel-hemmed door.
The king of glory is coming in,
The Saturday world in step behind him.

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Catch up With the Darkling Psalter

Psalms: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 29, 31, 32, 34, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 46, 50, 51, 53, 54, 62, 63, 65, 66, 73, 74, 75, 84, 86, 88, 90, 91, 100, 107, 110, 114, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 137, 139, 140, 142, 147, 148.

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