In the day that thou eatest thou shalt surely die,
This answers your question, why, O why?
Rest-home and prison, and the battle-cry,
In the day that thou eatest, thou shalt surely die.

The storm and the tempest, the gunman nearby,
To God’s burning wrath, they all testify;
Disease and the battle, with eloquence cry,
In the day that thou eatest, thou shalt surely die.

A sign of salvation, to God glorify,
Christ comes for his own, for them to die;
A sin-ravaged world, in which all men must die,
For in the day that thou atest, thou most surely did die.

(Tune: None)
(© James R Hamilton, written 3rd, June, 2010)