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Sunday, October 30, 2005

cherokee 23rd psalm

I saw this recently on the Internet. Supposedly, this is the 23rd Psalm translated into Cherokee and then back into English. I haven't been able to verify it, but regardless it provides an interesting new perspective:

Update 12-19-05: The origin of this appears to be Kiowa, not Cherokee.

The Great Father above a shepherd Chief is. I am His and with Him I want not. He throws out to me a rope and the name of the rope is love and He draws me to where the grass is green and the water not dangerous, and I eat and lie down and am satisfied. Sometimes my heart is very weak and falls down but he lifts me up again and draws me into a good road. His name is WONDERFUL.

Sometime, it may be very soon, it may be a long, long time, He will draw me into a valley. It is dark there, but I'll be afraid not, for it is in between those mountains that the Shepherd Chief will meet me and the hunger that I have in my heart all through this life will be satisfied.

Sometimes He makes the love rope into a whip, but afterwards he gives me a staff to lean upon. He spreads a table before me with all kinds of foods. He puts His hand upon my head and all the "tired" is gone. My cup He fills till it runs over. What I tell is true. I lie not. These roads that are "away ahead" will stay with me through this life and after; and afterwards I will go to live in the Big Tepee and sit down with the SHEPHERD CHIEF forever.

3 Comments:

At 11/02/2005 2:58 PM, Anonymous Land Shark said...

I wonder who owns that moon!

 
At 12/10/2005 10:53 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cherokee's didn't live in teepees, so that should be the first clue that it is not accurate.

 
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