I decided that I wanted to write a song about the Bible verse, “the lion will lie down with the lamb.” It turns out that this is one of those things everyone thinks is in the Bible but its not. The closest thing to this is in the eleventh chapter of the book of Isaiah. In verse 6 it says,
“The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
and a little child will lead them.”
I didn’t let this discourage me from going ahead and writing a song about this passage of prophesy about a coming Messiah. I wanted to stick with the original groupings of animals in the verses. I decided that whenever I performed this song, I would emphasize the fact that this is different from what everyone thinks is in the Bible. I think it helps people pay more attention to what the scripture and ultimately what the song has to say.