The Resuwreckers · Amos Unmuted · The Cry To Return

V'lo-Shav'tem Aday

Divine discipline is meant to bring us home, but a hardened heart can resist even mercy.

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V'lo-Shav'tem Aday

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Message

V’lo-Shav’tem Aday is the emotional center of Amos 4. It holds the ache of repeated covenant correction: famine, drought, blight, plague, and loss, all met with stubborn refusal. The references to Bethel and Gilgal expose false worship, while the language about grinding the poor and writing other names beside His reveals spiritual adultery and social injustice as connected sins. This song is not merely about punishment. It is about YHWH’s wounded appeal to a people who keep choosing ritual and appetite over repentance. Its final force comes from the terrifying line that follows repeated refusal: prepare to meet your Elohim.

Song Style

Building 80's style ethereal rock progressing aggressively into a 90 alternative refrain

Lyrics

V’lo-Shav’tem Aday (And You Have Not Returned To Me) Bethel was not the house of my name Yet still you sought me in that place The err’ of Gilgal brought back reproach Further away from the light of my face Refrain Return, come back Home V’lo shav’tem aday So that the world may know V’lo shav’tem aday You draw near full of leaven To a conjuring of your mind Call upon your adulterous god, send down the wine You got a hunger for harlotry, Ye Bashan Kine For upon your heart you’ve written Every other name next to mine Refrain I am lightly esteemed in the eyes of Jeshurun He’s waxing fat and so highly fed For you press your oil out of the needy And grind up the poor to make your bread Refrain The spoils of this world Has made you a selfish tool Now the fire of my jealousy…{dynamic change} It’s coming for you, [Behold the Hook!] For innocent blood [and Your proud look] Hooked like a fish, [in hopes that you learn] With a neck like that [how can you turn?] {Dynamic change} The staff of your bread I break Your teeth be clean and there is nothing to glean [V’lo shav’tem aday] [And you have not returned to me] I withhold the rain Nothing to drink, Nothing to reap [V’lo shav’tem aday] [And you have not returned to me] I send the Egyptian plague Bodies are slain and the smell is insane [V’lo shav’tem aday] [And you have not returned to me] I smite the fruit and the grain The locusts come in on the scorching wind [V’lo shav’tem aday] [And you have not returned to me] [And you have not returned to me] [And you have not returned to me] So will I do unto thee, [For You Have Not Returned to me,] Prepare to meet thy Elohim References:Amos 4, Jeremiah 3:1, John 14:31, John 17:23, Romans 3:19, Hosea 4, Leviticus 26:26, Deuteronomy 32:14-17