The penknife in Jeremiah becomes the central picture. The song asks YAHUAH to cut pride, lies, and show from the person, while keeping human scissors away from the Book.
Scripture connections: Jeremiah 36:23-24; Deuteronomy 4:2; Deuteronomy 12:32; Matthew 15:3,6,9; Revelation 22:18-19
Lyrics
Two hands at the table
Both hiding the blade
One cuts the command
One cuts up the place
One calls it dead
One redraws the page
Same wounded scroll
Different hand
Same rage
We The Assembly
Read it slow
Put the Blade Down
Barak YAHUAH
Put the blade down
Let the Book be whole
No scissors in hand
When He wrote the scroll
One side cut it out
One side moved the goal
Same old blade
On the same wounded scroll
Put the blade down
Let the writing breathe
Truth don't need your knife
Just because it makes you grieve
Yahsharal
Let the whole Book speak
Put the blade down
Get low on your knees
King by the fire
With the winter wind close
Scroll in the room
And the Word exposed
Three or four leaves
Then the knife came out
Cut what corrected
Burned what spoke loud
No fear in the chamber
No garments torn
Truth hit the palace
But the heart stayed worn
That ain't just history
That's us in the room
When the line gets heavy
And it cuts too soon
If the sentence hurts
Let the sentence end
Don't trim YAHUAH
Just to comfort your friends
Jeremiah chapter thirty six verses twenty three through twenty four
When Jehudi had read three or four leaves
He cut it with the penknife
And cast it into the fire
Until all the roll was consumed
Yet they were not afraid
Nor rent their garments
Put the blade down
Let the Book be whole
No scissors in hand
When He wrote the scroll
One side cut it out
One side moved the goal
Same old blade
On the same wounded scroll
Steeple said Torah got nailed and erased
Then sold us a day that the Book never placed
We woke up mad
Saw the lie in the room
Then some grabbed blades
Under feast-day moons
If He chose the place
We don't move the pin
If He locked the gate
We don't force our way in
That's not anti-Torah
That's trembling straight
You don't love the feast
If you counterfeit the plate
They cut commands
We can't cut constraints
No private altar
With a righteous paint
Whole Book people
Gotta hold whole weight
No edited worship
At a Qodesh gate
Deuteronomy chapter four verse two
Ye shall not add unto the Word which I command you
Neither shall ye diminish ought from it
That ye may keep the commandments of YAHUAH your ALUAH
Deuteronomy chapter twelve verse thirty two
What thing soever I command you
Observe to do it
Thou shalt not add thereto
Nor diminish from it
Put the blade down
Let the Book be whole
No scissors in hand
When He wrote the scroll
One side cut it out
One side moved the goal
Same old blade
On the same wounded scroll
Tradition can smile
While it murders the text
Emotion can quote
While it skips what is next
One says law dead
One says move the frame
Both need mercy
And the fear of His Name
YAHUSHA did not free us to revise
He rebuked tradition
With fire in His eyes
He did and taught
What the Father commands
No freestyle scroll
In unauthorized hands
Renewed heart don't mean
New scissors get passed
It means hard hearts break
When the Word hits at last
Write it in us
Make the old stone roll
Cut my pride
But don't let me cut the scroll
Matthew chapter fifteen verses three six and nine
Why do ye also transgress the commandment of ALUAH by your tradition
Thus have ye made the commandment of ALUAH of none effect by your tradition
But in vain they do worship me
Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men
Put the blade down
Let the writing breathe
Truth ain't cruel
When it makes us grieve
Cut my pride
Cut my lie
Cut my show
But don't let me
Take scissors to the scroll
Let the witness speak
Heal the heart
That edits when it's weak
Cut my pride
Cut my lie
Cut my show
But don't let me
Take scissors to the scroll
Put the Blade Down
Read the scroll
Say whole Book
Say no scissors
Yahsharal
Put the blade down
Barak YAHUAH
Rumamu YAHUAH
We The Assembly
Revelation chapter twenty two verses eighteen through nineteen
If any man shall add unto these things
ALUAH shall add unto him the plagues written in this book
And if any man shall take away from the words of this prophecy
ALUAH shall take away his part from the book of life
Put the blade down
Let the Book be whole
No scissors in hand
When He wrote the scroll
One side cut it out
One side moved the goal
Same old blade
On the same wounded scroll
Put the blade down
Let the writing breathe
Truth don't need your knife
Just because it makes you grieve
Yahsharal
Let the whole Book speak
Put the blade down
Get low on your knees
The opposite of church error
Is not emotional Torah
It is whole Book obedience
No scissors
YAHUAH
We The Assembly
Put the Blade Down