Every one of the criminals whose pictures illustrate this song thought he or she was going to get away with it. Every one of them rode high for a little while. But not a one of them escaped. And where man’s justice fails, God’s takes over.
Johnny Cash repented and completely changed his life. His old mug shot’s in there, too.
God’s Gonna Cut You Down–it’s a warning.
Wow! Hair-raising rendition — not the least of which is that oncoming dust storm at the beginning and the end, which seems to apply the “gonna cut you down” to (gulp) our whole Sodom-and-Gomorrah culture.
This song is about individuals who fear neither God nor man. Want of fear is the beginning of folly.
See also Psalm 10. And Psalm 37.
Needed this