Ben's Songs

This song is a setting of a verse of Psalm and also a video game meme.

The verse is Psalms 51:12, לֵב טָהוֹר בְּרָא-לִי אֱלֹהִים וְרוּחַ נָכוֹן חַדֵּשׁ בְּקִרְבִּי: lev tahor b'ra li, elohim, v'ru'ach nachon chadesh b'kirbi (create for me a pure heart, O G-d, and renew within me a right spirit).  Why is this a video game meme?  Because the Hebrew word for "within me" is also the name of Nintendo character Kirby — and the Hebrew word for "spirit" also means "wind" or "breath", which is Kirby's main form of attack/interaction.

The meme image (below) was made first, and shows Kirby performing his iconic inhale attack, captioned with the verse in Hebrew.  But then I thought, why not set this verse to music from one of Kirby's games?

lyrics from Psalm 51:12, trad. Hebrew
ttto: "Cloud Stage" from Kirby's Adventure by Hirokazu Ando

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