Singer: @shiels3
Sweet Beaulah Land
Verse 1
I'm kind of homesick for a country
To which I've never been before
No sad goodbyes will there be spoken
For time won't matter anymore
Ref:
Beulah Land I'm longing for you
And some day on thee I'll stand
There my home shall be eternal
Beulah Land, sweet Beulah Land
Verse 2
I'm looking now, just across the river
To where my faith, shall end in sight
There's just a few more days to labor
Then I will take my heavenly flight
Songwriter: Squire Parsons
Sweet Beulah Land lyrics © Capitol Christian Music Group, Capitol CMG Publishing
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Mahal na Beaulah
Translated by Zeres Shiela Vitto
Accompaniment: https://youtu.be/I1uWMY3YTNU
Verse 1
Akó ay medyo nasasabík sa bayan
Na hindi ko pa napupuntahán
Doo’y di mabábanggit ang mapangláw na paalam
Pagkat ang panaho’y di na mahalagá
Refrain:
O, Beulah, ako’y nanánabík sa iyó
At balang araw ako ay tatayô d’yan
Kung saan manínirahan magpakailanmán
O, Beulah, magandang Beulah
Verse 2
Ako’y nakatingín sa kabilâ ng ilog
Kung saan ang pananalig ko’y makikita
Konting panahón na lang na maghihirap
Tapos akoy maglálakbáy patungo dyan
Refrain
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We live by faith and not by sight. When we reach Beulah land, our faith—the essence of things not seen—will be realized or seen. Right now we are looking at it (the antitypical heavenly Canaan) from across the river.
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Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. Isaiah 62:4.
If we are faithful and obedient, God will delight in us, and bless us as His own chosen peculiar people.—Testimonies for the Church 2:693.
The Lord has joined His people to Himself by a solemn covenant, He promising to be their God, and they pledging themselves to be His, and His alone. He declares, “I will betroth thee unto Me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto Me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies.” And again, “I am married unto you.” And Paul employs the same figure in the New Testament when he says, “I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.”—The Great Controversy, 381.
“You shall be my ‘Delight,’ your land shall be my ‘wedded wife,’ for the Eternal takes delight in you, and your land shall again be married. As a young man weds a maiden, so your Founder marries you, and as a bridegroom thrills to his bride, so shall your God thrill to you.” Isaiah 62:4-5, Moffatt. . RRe 40.1-RRe 40.4
