Unlike the other psalmists, my boy Asaph doesn’t mind writing dialogue for YHWH. No, he won’t say his name — it’s too sacred — but he’ll put words in YAH’s mouth. I noticed that fact back in the 50th Psalm, although Asaph made YHWH sound like a big, bad bully, and turned my opinion of them both due south.
That’s how it is with YHWH or Jehovah. He’s angry and jealous. He demands that all his followers obey rules (or not) and that they sacrifice living things and their own lives to Him, if He so chooses. He says, “Thou shalt not kill,” but forgives murder, even genocide, if his followers are devout or overly zealous.
Asaph warns us that “God is the Judge: / He puts down one / And exalts another. / For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, / And the wine is red; / It is fully mixed, and He pours it out; / Surely its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth / Drain and drink down.” Drunk we become. Then our time’s up. And we’re dead.