{"id":2655,"date":"2023-11-23T03:04:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T03:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2023-11-23T03:09:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T03:09:36","slug":"evensong-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 59"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Here\u2019s another psalm about young David being pursued by King Saul\u2019s men. They want to kill him, but he sees himself as special \u2014 don\u2019t we too? \u2014 and he expects his god to keep them from doing what they want to do.

\u201cDo not slay them,\u201d David tells YHWH, \u201clest my people forget.\u201d Instead, he orders his lord most high to \u201cscatter them \u2026 [a]nd bring them down\u201d basically for the way they speak. But come on. Isn’t that what anti-Semites seek?

\u201cFor the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, \/ let them even be taken in their pride, \/ And for the cursing and lying which they speak,\u201d David spells out. So this guy hates bigmouths and liars? What is that all about?

Isn\u2019t this the same future ruler who later gets in trouble for lying (in more ways than one) and for getting the old man of the girl he laid erased? Then why doesn’t David himself get scattered and laid low? Dave just gets chased.

I hope you read that right \u2014 chased, not chaste, because David certainly wasn\u2019t the latter. But he was certainly special. He was a man after YHWH\u2019s own heart, or so say another king\u2019s men. And that\u2019s the heart of the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s another psalm about young David being pursued by King Saul\u2019s men. They want to kill him, but he sees himself as special \u2014 don\u2019t we too? \u2014 and he expects his god to keep them from doing what they want to do. \u201cDo not slay them,\u201d David tells YHWH, \u201clest my people forget.\u201d Instead, … Continue reading EVENSONG 59<\/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-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","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=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2657,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}