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  Bono's Bible | Biblical Allusions in U2 Songs

BEAUTIFUL DAY

The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
But there's no room
No space to rent in this town
He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. Isaiah 53:2 NIV
 
Jesus: "Behold, there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away." Mark 4:3-8 KJV
You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace
One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend. Proverbs 22:11 NIV
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8 NKJV
You love this town even if it doesn't ring true
Jesus: "A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home." Matthew 13:57 NIV
Touch me, take me to that other place
Jesus: "Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have." Luke 24:39 NIV
 
Jesus said: “My kingdom is not of this world.... But now my kingdom is from another place.” John 18:36 NIV
Teach me, I know I'm not a hopeless case
Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Psalm 25:4 NIV
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Guide me in your truth and teach me. Psalm 25:5 NIV
 
Teach me your way, Lord. Psalm 27:11 NIV
 
Teach me, Lord, the way of your decrees, that I may follow to the end. Psalm 119:33 NIV

I’m written off as a lost cause, one more statistic, a hopeless case. Abandoned as already dead.... I’m a black hole in oblivion. You’ve dropped me into a bottomless pit, sunk me in a pitch-black abyss. Psalm 88:1-9 MSG
See the bird with a leaf in ​her mouth
Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. Genesis 8:11 NKJV
After the flood all the colours came out
Then God said to Noah... "Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.... This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth." Genesis 9:8-13 NIV
What you don't have you don't need it now
You don't need it now
You don't need it now
Jesus looked him hard in the eyeーand loved him! He said, "There's one thing left: Go sell whatever you own and give it to the poor. All your wealth will then be heavenly wealth. And come follow me." Mark 10:21 MSG
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