Muziekvideo: Een lied voor Jeruzalemdag

Vandaag, 15 mei, is het Jeruzalemdag, de dag waarop in 1967 Samaria, Judea en Oost-Jeruzalem, waarin de Oude Stad ligt, werden bevrijd van de Jordaanse bezetting, die 19 jaar had geduurd. Oost en West Jeruzalem werden op die dag weer herenigd.

We vieren dit met deze medley van Hebreeuwse en Engelse liederen over Jeruzalem, waaronder gedeelten van het bekende Yeroesjalayim Sjel Zahav, Jeruzalem van Goud.

De begeleidende tekst van deze ontroerende video:

The stones cry out with echoes from a thousand years of pain
Every exile wore the scars but still called out Your Name
Every hidden candle burned like a lion in the freezing night
Every soul kept crawling back toward Zion’s holy light

יְרוּשָׁלַיִם שֶׁל זָהָב (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav)
וְשֶׁל נְחוֹשֶׁת וְשֶׁל אוֹר (Ve-shel Nechoshet Ve-shel Or)
Jerusalem of gold and of copper and of light
The world may rage like restless oceans
But G-d, Your covenant still burns like fire (Genesis 17:7)
For You gathered us from every nation (Isaiah 43:5–6)
And carried us home on eagle’s wings (Exodus 19:4)
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם שֶׁל זָהָב (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav)
וְשֶׁל נְחוֹשֶׁת וְשֶׁל אוֹר (Ve-shel Nechoshet Ve-shel Or)
Jerusalem of gold and of copper and of light

There are soldiers crying at the Western Wall
Holding rifles and the Book of Psalms
Young faces learning what courage costs
Yet still they dance beneath Jerusalem skies

Before the sunrise crowned the hills of Zion bright
A mother whispered prayers for peace through darkest nights
Her children wrapped in blue and white stood unafraid
While heaven watched the promise G-d Himself had made

יְרוּשָׁלַיִם שֶׁל זָהָב (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav)
וְשֶׁל נְחוֹשֶׁת וְשֶׁל אוֹר (Ve-shel Nechoshet Ve-shel Or)
Jerusalem of gold and of copper and of light

Old men still kiss the fading photographs
Of streets they prayed to see again
And now the sound of Hebrew fills the air
Like dry bones rising from the earth (Ezekiel 37:1–14)

The olive trees bend in the evening wind
As if they know the King of David is near
And every shattered heart in Israel
Still beats with songs too holy to explain

יְרוּשָׁלַיִם שֶׁל זָהָב (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav)
וְשֶׁל נְחוֹשֶׁת וְשֶׁל אוֹר (Ve-shel Nechoshet Ve-shel Or)
Jerusalem of gold and of copper and of light
Tonight the stars above Zion softly shine
Like ancient promises still alive through time (Genesis 15:5)
And from the hills, a shofar calls us home again
Calling every wandering soul back home to G-d
Amen Amen