This song is based on a verse in Isaiah, "A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth." Isaiah 42:3[KJV]
And knowing matt he also probaly took some of it from the puritan writer Richard Sibbes with his book The Bruised Reed... which I believe talks about the the suffering of a christian using the metaphor of the Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax.
This song is based on a verse in Isaiah, "A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth." Isaiah 42:3[KJV]
And knowing matt he also probaly took some of it from the puritan writer Richard Sibbes with his book The Bruised Reed... which I believe talks about the the suffering of a christian using the metaphor of the Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax.