Ruth (Acoustic Version)

Ruth - an original by Jonny Wong

Lyrics:

Verse 1
Here lies one dead husband, two dead sons, and three women
Here they’re weeping through the night, go back my daughters see my plight,
One returns but the other stays, loyal, kind, and burden laid.
Naomi, don’t make me leave, I am coming back with thee.

Chorus
Where you go, I will go,
Where you stay, I will stay,
And your people shall be as my own,
And your God shall be the One I know.
Call me Mara, that’s what I see, the LORD, he has dealt bitterly,
I was full and now empty, yet the harvest comes to me.
Ruth she goes, gleans what she can, Boaz seems a worthy man,
And his eye catches her way, favours found, she’s asked to stay.

Verse 2
“I’ve been told of your loving way,
May the Lord for your troubles repay,
Pray that all the rewards he will bring
As you take refuge under his wings”

Verse 3
Naomi she plots and plans, for the sake of her daughters hand,
Go on to the threshing floor, and then he will tell you more, Silently she creeps to be, moving near to his feet,
And in the night the shock was his, oh, what could come of this.

Verse 4
“Who are you?” “I am Ruth,
Spread your wings as a redeemer does”,
“Oh my daughter your kindness is good,
I will do as you say, tomorrow”

Bridge
Another to redeem the land, gives it up just as He planned,
The sandals taken off to him,
Boaz takes his newfound kin, Boaz with her wife so mild, and the two they bear a child,
Naomi’s no longer sad, now she has this little lad,
All the women, they lift their voice,
Bless the Lord in his sovereign choice, a redeemer has come to this day,
All the sorrow is taken away,

Verse 5
Line of Judah, to David the one,
Pointing to the resurrected Son,
Oh, Redeemer, blessed be your name,
As you took all our guilt and our shame.

Performed by Jonny Wong
Produced by Bethan Williams