Shepherd’s lament

Lyrics

** **Verse 1**
*He counted every star beneath the moonlit sky,*
*Ninety-nine were resting, but one had wandered by.*
*A whisper in the darkness, a tear He couldn’t hide—*
*The ache of one lost lamb cut deeper than the night.*

**Chorus**
*Oh, the hurt of the missing, the weight of the cross,*
*The storm in His heart for one sheep who was lost.*
*But the joy of the finding, the dawn after rain—*
*A love that won’t let go, calling every name.*

**Verse 2**
*Through thorns that tore His hands and valleys cold and steep,*
*He climbed the rocks of sorrow where shadows clawed His feet.*
*The scars He bore would light the path, the price He’d pay to seek—*
*A single fragile heartbeat, a voice too faint to speak.*

**Chorus**
*Oh, the hurt of the missing, the weight of the cross,*
*The storm in His heart for one sheep who was lost.*
*But the joy of the finding, the dawn after rain—*
*A love that won’t let go, calling every name.*

**Bridge**
*“Little lamb, I see you trembling, tangled in the fray,*
*My arms are here to hold you—I’ll never walk away.”*
*He lifted every burden, the wounds became the way,*
*To carry home the broken in mercy’s sweet embrace.*

**Verse 3**
*The night sighed into morning, the trembling soul restored,*
*He washed away the echoes of battles it had borne.*
*The heavens rang with whispers, “Rejoice! The lost is found!”*
*A love that crossed eternity to mend what fear had drowned.*

**Chorus**
*Oh, the hurt of the missing, the weight of the cross,*
*The storm in His heart for one sheep who was lost.*
*But the joy of the finding, the dawn after rain—*
*A love that won’t let go, calling every name.*

**Outro**
*So when you feel the shadows, remember how He stays—*
*The Shepherd of the wandering, the Guardian of grace.*
*For every soul that’s lifted, the heavens shout again:*
*“The lost is now forever safe in the arms of the Friend.”*