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Vengan, Oh Casa de Jacob


My second foray into the Reina-Valera Bible brought me to one of the most famous prophecies in all of the Hebrew Scriptures, Isaiah's "swords into ploughshares" vision--surely a message of perennial importance as we seek the Kingdom of God. Verse 5 makes a fantastic refrain, as it happens, and so that's how it's deployed here.

Unlike my still-un-notated solo pass at En Dios Está, this one was scheduled for the fall (specifically the birthday of my son, whom you can hear singing along in the choruses if you listen closely). That meant writing harmonies for the chorus, and teaching the church choir to pronounce some Spanish words that are pretty tricky to non-speakers. I think they were pretty relieved that I sang the verses by myself :)