The mystery of God is romance to his bride
Why wickedness goes on we’ll know in his good time
Our God’s forgiving but his canvas hasn’t dried
Though God’s redeeming us the man is adding lines
Foundations of the earth are shaken under Christ
he’s letting people work condemning their own lives
When judgement seems to stall enough to make you cry
right up against the wall, right up against his side
When you pass through the waters
I will be with you
and through the rivers
they shall not overflow you
We drove our cars through towns and loaded up our tanks
We’d see the rain come down and we would all give thanks
The rich had made these towns like moneymaking forts
but they’ll be taken down by One who saves the poor
The flood down by the stream’s a flood of mud and blood
a flood to end some dreams, the flood from up above
as Pharoah sees some live and Egypt’s souls look on
a land that was destroyed, a people judged by God
When you pass through the waters
I will be with you
and through the rivers
they shall not overflow you
when you walk in the fire
you shall not be burned
and shall not the flame kindle on you
God levelled a new path for anger and a plague
He wouldn’t keep things back but rained and rained for days
Oh, Ephraim, stay safe! though armed with your strong bows
You people, keep God’s way, it’s God’s one Son, you know
He’s Death and comes to town, and lets it shower down
We’re going to go now! and know how we’ll get out
My friends, we know this much: eleven, we’ll have lunch
It’s good, I have a hunch, but hoods might all get stuck
When you pass through the waters
I will be with you
and through the rivers
they shall not overflow you
when you walk in the fire
you shall not be burned
and shall not the flame kindle on you
For I am Jehovah your God
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior
The town is down below in narrowminded pain
As Pharoah took God’s blows we’re browning in the rain
The thief is here to steal and rob and plunder all
God’s rich beyond belief, the God who’s Lord of lords
The muddy stream’s not blood, a judgment, nonetheless
The flooded stream’s enough to wonder of such tests
The frogs and gnats and flies and waters of pure blood
were brought to them by Christ because he is the Judge
When you pass through the waters
I will be with you
and through the rivers
they shall not overflow you
when you walk in the fire
you shall not be burned
and shall not the flame kindle on you
For I am Jehovah your God
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior
I gave Egypt for your atonement
Ethiopia and Seba instead of you
Everyone who is called by my name
I have created him for my glory
I have formed him, yea, I have made him