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Tobiah and Sanballat? · Backward Mutters Poetry Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: You are listening to the Backward Mutters Poetry Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Randy Edwards.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: This poem is based on Nehemiah chapter 4 and gets its inspiration from two great
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  SPEAKER_00: villains in the Old Testament,
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  SPEAKER_00: Tobiah the Ammonite and Sanballat.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then it takes us forward into Luke chapter 18 where Jesus tells a parable to
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  SPEAKER_00: some who we read trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others.
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  SPEAKER_00: This poem is titled Tobiah and Sanballat.
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  SPEAKER_00: San Balat,
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  SPEAKER_00: you stinky polecat,
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  SPEAKER_00: you heavy-handed fat-headed rat,
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  SPEAKER_00: you poser,
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  SPEAKER_00: you loser,
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  SPEAKER_00: you boozer dingbat,
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  SPEAKER_00: tally these up in your clay ledger mat,
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  SPEAKER_00: suck on them eggs,
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  SPEAKER_00: you viper's diplomat,
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  SPEAKER_00: and stash them in your skanky velvet hat,
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  SPEAKER_00: you blithering boob of a bureaucrat.
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  SPEAKER_00: What you think about that, San Balat?
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  SPEAKER_00: tobiah the ammonite you parasite you feast on misfortune you buggy blight on
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  SPEAKER_00: humanity doing good only for spite you imagine others success as a slight as if it
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  SPEAKER_00: were all about you amorite you are as alive as a barrow-white what you love are the
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  SPEAKER_00: deeds which you do at night which you always do when you get lit get tight
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  SPEAKER_00: But one day you'll be drug out into the light and you will fall, fall so far from your great height.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll say it again, bruh, if you like.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tobiah the Ammonite.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you,
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  SPEAKER_00: God,
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  SPEAKER_00: that I am not like them who use people,
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  SPEAKER_00: do with them all they can,
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  SPEAKER_00: evildoers,
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  SPEAKER_00: not just every now and then.
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  SPEAKER_00: But me, I have given a tenth of every yen I've made, given time and time again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, how I thank you that I'm not like those men.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, how many times must I forgive a debt?
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  SPEAKER_00: He answered in a parable with a gospel net,
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  SPEAKER_00: caught me in a trap,
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  SPEAKER_00: and that trap upset my truce with resentment and regret,
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  SPEAKER_00: my long record of all I was owed,
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  SPEAKER_00: kept a list from A to Z,
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  SPEAKER_00: an alphabet of wounds which chained me so I'd never forget,
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  SPEAKER_00: to which I'm still chained and still not free from yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who will rescue me from where I'm at?
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  SPEAKER_00: From being a Tobiah, a Sanballat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Would he give what I deserve, give tit for tat, pay me out, squash me like some pesky gnat?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or would he in love take the blow,
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  SPEAKER_00: be spat upon,
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  SPEAKER_00: scorned,
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  SPEAKER_00: become sin,
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  SPEAKER_00: be a doormat,
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  SPEAKER_00: become for me Tobiah and Sanballat?