{"id":2622,"date":"2023-11-10T03:28:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T03:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2023-11-10T03:28:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T03:28:52","slug":"evensong-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2622","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 50"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After reading this psalm several times, it hit me: These are the literal words of YHWH, the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I mean, his speech is presented in quotation marks, from verse 5 to verse 23 at the very end of the psalm. This isn\u2019t some disembodied voice in a primordial garden; or from a burning bush; or from the midst of a whirlwind. This is a fiery god who has a lot to say.

I wonder how this psalmist decided it was OK to put so many words in the Mighty One\u2019s mouth.

His first topic is the blood sacrifice, specifically burnt offerings \u2014 and he\u2019s talking animals here, not humans. Let\u2019s see now. He lists bulls and goats, in particular, but he also says he owns all the animals on earth \u2014 all the cattle, birds and wild beasts \u2014 and so this kind of offering is not accepted unless the penitent also gives thanks and begs for pardon. Roast beast isn\u2019t enough.

I wonder why burning another being\u2019s flesh and drinking its blood was ever seen as an offering.

YHWH goes on to say he lets wicked people make meaningless sacrifices all the time, and that they are as bad as thieves, adulterers, liars, and slanderers \u2014 you know, all the rotten, stinking things that even hypocritical leaders seem to get away with doing. Their followers just hold their noses. \u201cI will rebuke you,\u201d YHWH finally tells them, \u201cand set [things straight] before your eyes.\u201d

I wonder why YHWH had those laws \u2014 eat this, drink that \u2014 but wasn\u2019t quick to enforce them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading this psalm several times, it hit me: These are the literal words of YHWH, the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I mean, his speech is presented in quotation marks, from verse 5 to verse 23 at the very end of the psalm. This isn\u2019t some disembodied voice in a primordial garden; or … Continue reading EVENSONG 50<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}