A helpful tongue

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series]

A heart with righteous truth well fed,
a tuned and well-trained tongue
that by that nourished heart is led
will benefit someone.

How good to hear a timely word
to calm or cheer or guide:
rejoice, remembering treasures heard
when wisdom was applied.

But those who only feed on trash
have speech that twists what’s right
– deceives, diverts to cause a crash
polluting peace with blight.

“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver” Proberbs 25:11

Tune: CM

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