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About Numbered Notation

Numbered Notation (also called Jianpu, 简谱) writes each melody note as a number from 1 to 7 instead of a note on a staff. The number shows the note's position in the song's scale -- not its exact pitch -- so the same tune looks identical no matter what key it's sung in.

Within one octave, the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 correspond to the familiar do re mi fa sol la ti. A dot above a number raises it an octave higher; a dot below lowers it an octave lower -- no dot means the middle, as-written octave.

A plain number lasts one beat. A dash (-) right after a number holds that same note for one more beat. A line underneath a number shortens it instead -- one line is half a beat, two lines a quarter of a beat. A 0 is a rest: silence for one beat.

The label at the top of the sheet, like "1=C" or "1=Ab", shows which pitch scale degree 1 ("do") is tuned to. A song in a minor key is labeled "6=X" instead -- scale degree 6 ("la") is the true tonic. Chord names printed above the notes (like "C" or "G7") always use their familiar letter names, never numbers.

For example, under a "1=C" heading, the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 sound as C D E F G A B. Under a "1=G" heading, those very same numbers sound as G A B C D E F# instead -- same shape, different key.

In the Clefts of the Rock

Union with Christ Identified with His Death and Resurrection

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1
In the clefts of the rock
I delight to be.
In the covert of the precipice
You would find me.
Lord, conform me now,
Daily to Your death.
Let me see Your countenance,
I am a dove,
In the clefts of the rock.
2
My Beloved responds:
Rise up my love,
My beauty and come away;
The rain is gone.
The winter is past,
The time of singing has come.
Rise up and come away,
You are my dove,
In the clefts of the rock.
3
It’s just so difficult,
In these clefts to remain.
Naught but Your resurrection power
Could me sustain.
Now to Your call I respond,
From introspection to come.
Now and always, my Beloved,
I’d be Your dove,
In the clefts of the Rock.

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Maurice Ward

Columbus, Ohio, United States

May 26, 2021

Christ wants His seeker to remain in the cross, in a crucified condition, continually (Gal. 2:20a; 1 Cor. 15:31; 2 Cor. 4:10-11). However, to remain in the cross is a difficult matter, like entering into the clefts of the rock and the covert of the precipice high in the mountains by a rugged road. In order to empower and encourage His lover to rise up and come away from her low situation in her introspection of the self, Christ empowers her by showing her the power of His resurrection (vv. 8-9a), and He encourages her by the flourishing riches of His resurrection (vv. 11-13). It is by the power of Christ’s resurrection, not by our natural life, that we, the lovers of Christ, determine to take the cross by denying our self (Matt. 16:24). It is also by the power of Christ’s resurrection that we are enabled to be conformed to His death by being one with His cross (Phil. 3:10). The reality of resurrection is the pneumatic Christ (John 11:25), who as the consummated Spirit indwells and is mingled with our regenerated spirit (1 Cor. 6:17 and notes). It is in such a mingled spirit that we participate in and experience the resurrection of Christ, which enables us to be one with the cross to be delivered from the self and to be transformed into a new man in God’s new creation for the fulfillment of God’s economy in the building up of the organic Body of Christ.

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Alberta Valdez

San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines

Apr 15, 2019

It’s just so difficult,
In these clefts to remain.
Naught but Your resurrection power
Could me sustain.

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Creasian Jade Ongcoy

Bangkok, Samut Prakan, Thailand

Nov 12, 2018

Lord, conform me now,
Daily to Your death.
Let me see Your countenance,
I am a dove,
In the clefts of the rock.

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Frank Pytel

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Sep 14, 2014

When the dove needed shelter for herself, she sought out the security of a cave or a cavern (Jer. 48:28). Here in the Song of Solomon, the dove matches and belongs to the unchanging rock that has been opened by cutting. May I live the dove life concealed in the Rock that has been opened through His wounds. In such a delightful union the bride is being adorned and made ready for her husband!

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LorjoneAIgnacio

Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines

Aug 1, 2014

I am a dove in the clefts of the rock.

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