JEREMIAH
PEACE WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE

JEREMIAH
PEACE WHEN THERE IS NO PEACE

[INTRO — RAP]

The weeping seer stood there / priests sold peace through the courts [6/6]
Temple smoke veiled the theft / widows starved by the doors [6/6]
Judah sang while blood ran / God heard lies in their praise [6/6]
The prophet raised the word / flame burned under their floor [6/6]

[VERSE]

They cried, temple of God / then stole homes from the weak [6/6]
Stone walls became their shield / sin sat safe in the seat [6/6]
Men bowed down to the house / not to God who dwelt there [6/6]
Shrines made guilt feel secure / judgement stood at the gate [6/6]

Strangers were pushed from land / orphans got sold for bread [6/6]
Widows were stripped by law / courts made the rich look clean [6/6]
Innocent blood stained streets / kings called the slaughter peace [6/6]
God marked each drop and name / none slipped past His decree [6/6]

Hands stole then came to pray / mouths lied beneath the smoke [6/6]
Men killed, then sang to God / lust hid beneath the robe [6/6]
Baal sat near the throne / priests mixed truth with the lie [6/6]
God called the whole thing fraud / flame watched under the floor [6/6]

Topheth burned through the night / young ones went through the flame [6/6]
Drums drowned cries from the pit / priests called the horror faith [6/6]
Now kids get sold for gain / wars burn beds into ash [6/6]
Markets consume the child / then call the profit growth [6/6]

Prophets said peace, peace, peace / no peace lived in the land [6/6]
Greed lined the priestly robe / lies made the people safe [6/6]
Each healed wounds with soft words / none cut rot from the bone [6/6]
God said storm from the north / would tear peace from the throne [6/6]

Scribes bent law with false pens / truth got sold by the page [6/6]
Hearts turned hard as the clay / pots broke under the hand [6/6]
Birds knew seasons and paths / men would not turn from sin [6/6]
Tears ran down through the seer / truth lay banned in the land [6/6]

Church cries temple today / brands bar doors to the poor [6/6]
Stage lights bury the wound / smoke makes the pulpit pure [6/6]
Wounds get pushed from the frame / wealth buys seats by the throne [6/6]
God hears cash and the cries / flame will test every stone [6/6]

Homes join house unto house / rent eats wages of weak [6/6]
Courts serve papers at dawn / kids watch the bailiff speak [6/6]
Banks name hunger a choice / firms call eviction clean [6/6]
God sees the keys change hands / God breaks the cold machine [6/6]

False tongues said all was well / God says wounds must be faced [6/6]
North wind entered the gate / horse hooves struck through the night [6/6]
Walls that sheltered their lies / fell at the break of light [6/6]
Temple trust burned to ash / kings lost crowns in the flame [6/6]

Peace got sold as a mask / God stripped masks from the name [6/6]
Now the same Judge draws near / towers trust in their height [6/6]
Markets preach peace to world / graves keep books through the night [6/6]
Christ may return at dawn / death may call you by noon [6/6]

Soon you will meet the King / mercy stands open now [6/6]
One hundred years from now / most will lie in the ground [6/6]
Few will still carry breath / all will hear the last sound [6/6]
No chart cancels the grave / no view softens the throne [6/6]

Day of the Lord is near / each soul answers alone [6/6]
Branch grows from David’s line / justice sits on His throne [6/6]
Christ is the righteous Lord / His law will live in hearts [6/6]
No stone can save from sin / God writes truth in the soul [6/6]

New bond sealed by His blood / mercy makes crushed hearts whole [6/6]
Christ bore curse on the wood / blood paid law with His life [6/6]
Priests condemned the true Priest / nails held the Prince of peace [6/6]
Stone closed over His breath / dawn gave breath to the King [6/6]

Scarred flesh rose up alive / death lost keys and its sting [6/6]
Christ comes clothed in the cloud / eyes burn bright through the lie [6/6]
Kings lose speech at His face / proud hearts beg rocks to hide [6/6]
City comes down from God / tears leave the Bride’s face now [6/6]

Peace will be flesh and fact / Christ makes the whole world right [6/6]
Leave the temple of self / tear gods out of your phone [6/6]
Break with the lie called peace / kneel to the Branch as King [6/6]
Trust in the Lamb’s own blood / God carves law in the heart [6/6]

[OUTRO — PRAYER]

Lord, break false peace in me / search each room of my heart [6/6]
Teach me to guard the weak / keep me from pride and bribes [6/6]
Write law deep in my heart / keep my lamp lit for Christ [6/6]
Come, Branch, and reign as King / drive false peace from the heart [6/6]