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Justice Will Roll Down
Several years ago, while at lunch with a team of folks from International Justice Mission, we had a conversation about church music, and how the catalog of hymns most American churches use is devoid of songs about justice. The team urged us to write some modern hymns about justice. Since then, social justice has become a buzz word in evangelicalism and politics, but it is not a new idea to Christiandom. You don’t have to look far into scripture to find these themes, and the lyric from the chorus is pulled from Amos 5:24 and was often quoted by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in speeches and sermons.
Lyrics
Oh my love, you have grown so cold
To the world outside, to the house next door
She who has been loved much, has so much to give
Mercy is the fragrance, of the broken
CH: Justice will roll down, oh justice will roll down
From high upon those mountains with a mighty river sound
It will roll down
It will roll down
Oh my child, I will be your light
In your secret pain, in the dark of night
No enemy, no conqueror, will steal your life from me
I am your salvation, and your victory.
Repeat Chorus
Soon oh soon, when the trumpet sounds
every knee shall bend, every heart will pound
i have made a new world, where the servant is the King
oppression will be over, and the slave set free
Repeat Chorus
words and music by SANDRA MCCRACKEN © 2010 DRINK YOUR TEA MUSIC (ASCAP), admin. by SIMPLEVILLE MUSIC, inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
