{"id":2699,"date":"2023-12-12T23:24:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T23:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2023-12-12T23:24:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T23:24:40","slug":"evensong-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2699","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 73"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1025\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231212_182321-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231212_182321-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231212_182321-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231212_182321-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231212_182321-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231212_182321-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231212_182321-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This psalm was written by Asaph, who was either a temple musician or songwriter for the house band. He\u2019s credited with writing a dozen psalms, which back in the old days would have been an album\u2019s worth of songs, six tunes per side. So far I like Asaph. As for King David, I have qualms.<br><br>Asaph must have been a bass player. Aren\u2019t they always the easiest-going ones, standing off to the side as they lay down their funky grooves? Or maybe he was a drummer, perched up on his trap set\u2019s throne in back, watching for a signal from the lead singer, the dude with all the moves.<br><br>In this psalm (and in his first hit that debuted at No. 50), Asaph notices that bad people seem to thrive in life, while good people seem to suffer more. He doesn\u2019t understand why YHWH allows this to be, until one day this sideman lays down his ax (or his sticks) and knocks on YAH\u2019s door.<br><br>He slips into \u201cthe sanctuary of God\u201d and \u2014 BAM! \u2014 he\u2019s hit between the eyes with the power of the universe whose nature from him had always been hid. In its most fearsome aspect \u2014 as the great YHWH \u2014 the iSoul says, \u201cI\u2019ll make things right. All you gotta do is sing a mean tune, kid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This psalm was written by Asaph, who was either a temple musician or songwriter for the house band. He\u2019s credited with writing a dozen psalms, which back in the old days would have been an album\u2019s worth of songs, six tunes per side. So far I like Asaph. As for King David, I have qualms. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2699\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 73<\/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-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","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=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}