Jacob Wrestling the Angel Song · Until the Break of Day | Natan Or

Alone at the river Jabbok, the night before he meets his brother Esau, Jacob wrestles with a mysterious man until the break of day. He will not let go until he is blessed, and at sunrise he walks on, limping, with a new name: Israel. A song from THE TURN: Bible stories told from the inside, in the moment everything changes. Genesis 32:22–32 LYRICS Sent them all across the river, every child and every sheep, now the water's cold and silver and the night is wide and deep. Tomorrow there's a brother with four hundred at his side, and tonight there is no other, only me, and nowhere to hide. Then a hand out of the darkness grips my shoulder, grips my soul, I don't know who I am fighting, but I know I can't let go. Until the break of day, I'm holding on, I'm holding on, until the break of day, until the shadows all are gone. You can wound me, you can shake me, but you will not walk away, I won't let you go until you bless me, until the break of day. Hour by hour in the dust, neither one of us will bend, all the years I walked in exile wrestle with me to the end. Then a touch upon my hip like a fire through the bone, and I'm trembling, and I'm breaking, but I'm holding on alone. Now the eastern sky is turning, and you whisper: Let me go. But I don't care how it's burning, I am never letting go. Until the break of day, I'm holding on, I'm holding on, until the break of day, until the shadows all are gone. You can wound me, you can shake me, but you will not walk away, I won't let you go until you bless me, until the break of day. And you ask me for my name, and I give it like a vow, then you tell me: Not the same, you are Israel now. It's the break of day, the sun is rising on my face, it's the break of day, I have seen God face to face. You have touched me, you have named me, and I'm limping on my way, but I'm blessed, I'm blessed, I'm Israel, at the break of day. It's the break of day, the sun is rising on my face, it's the break of day, I have seen God face to face. You have touched me, you have named me, and I'm limping on my way, but I'm blessed, I'm blessed, I'm Israel, at the break of day. Limping into morning, limping toward my brother, limping into morning, and I'm not afraid. Natan Or · Bible Stories in Song #BibleSong #JacobWrestlingTheAngel #Genesis32 #BibleStories #HebrewBible #NatanOr