{"id":2669,"date":"2023-11-28T22:04:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:05:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:05:02","slug":"evensong-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 63"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1025\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20200627_1343063603-1025x714.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20200627_1343063603-1025x714.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20200627_1343063603-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20200627_1343063603-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20200627_1343063603-1536x1070.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_20200627_1343063603-2048x1427.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this psalm, young David is wandering in the wilderness, still on the run from King Saul\u2019s men. With his life in the balance, David yearns for YHWH\u2019s protection like a cool drink of water in the desert. \u201cMy soul thirsts for You,\u201d says the warrior-poet and future king. \u201cMy flesh longs for You.\u201d<br><br>Good God Almighty, what a pickup line! And have you seen his sculpture in Florence? Jeez, I wonder if David used that come-on later to get Bathsheba into bed (or maybe \u201cHey, baby, how you doin\u2019?\u201d is all any king needs to say). Anyway, much of the imagery in this psalm is like that.<br><br>David is \u201csatisfied as with marrow and fatness\u201d (he likes a little meat on their lovely bones). He praises them \u201cwith joyful lips\u201d (any mention of lip-smacking joy is always hot). And he thinks of them \u201con my bed \u2026 in the night watches\u201d (the they\/them\/theirs can be either singular or plural).<br><br>But wouldn\u2019t you know it, right when young Dave\u2019s nocturnal meditations start getting good, he remembers the king\u2019s men on his tail, and he goes off half-cocked, saying he wishes they\u2019d all be ripped to pieces by jackals. He ends with something like, \u201cLiars, liars, pants on fire.\u201d Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this psalm, young David is wandering in the wilderness, still on the run from King Saul\u2019s men. With his life in the balance, David yearns for YHWH\u2019s protection like a cool drink of water in the desert. \u201cMy soul thirsts for You,\u201d says the warrior-poet and future king. \u201cMy flesh longs for You.\u201d Good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2669\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 63<\/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-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","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=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}