A Time To Every Purpose Under Heaven

by Jim Fitzpatrick

Title

A Time To Every Purpose Under Heaven

Artist

Jim Fitzpatrick

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Photograph - Color Photography Digitally Altered

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This is my altered photography where I've added a quote from Pete Seeger's famous song "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)" from the 1960's.. The lyrics are actually taken almost verbatim from the Book of Ecclesiastes found in the King James Version of the Bible. The sequence of the words were however rearranged for the song.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, a time to reap that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
The Biblical text posits there being a time and place for all things: laughter and sorrow, healing and killing, war and peace, and so on. The lines are open to myriad interpretations, but as a song they are commonly performed as a plea for world peace, with an emphasis on the closing line: "a time for peace, I swear it's not too late." This line and the title phrase "Turn! Turn! Turn!" are the only parts of the lyric written by Seeger.

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November 27th, 2015

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