{"id":2732,"date":"2023-12-27T01:06:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T01:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2023-12-27T01:06:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T01:06:52","slug":"evensong-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2732","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 83"},"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_20231226_154652-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231226_154652-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231226_154652-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231226_154652-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231226_154652-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231226_154652-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231226_154652-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This must be the psalm that modern Israelis read when they\u2019re feeling particularly persecuted \u2014 not one for bedtime or for Sabbath morning, but one for wartime or for mourning of another kind.<br><br>Asaph turns back into a warrior-poet \u2014 regrettable in that this is the last of his 12 psalms \u2014 and he lists Israel\u2019s military victories under YHWH\u2019s command, but none of the defeats YAH allowed.<br><br>Speaking of propaganda, Spurgeon\u2019s commentary on this psalm is helpful for a change, maybe because Christian soldiers like him seem to study war so much more than they promote peace.<br><br>\u201c[Our enemies] have said, \u2018Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, \/ That the name of Israel may be remembered no more,\u2019\u201d was Asaph\u2019s hit song back then, now just a tired old tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This must be the psalm that modern Israelis read when they\u2019re feeling particularly persecuted \u2014 not one for bedtime or for Sabbath morning, but one for wartime or for mourning of another kind. Asaph turns back into a warrior-poet \u2014 regrettable in that this is the last of his 12 psalms \u2014 and he lists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2732\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 83<\/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-2732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732","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=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}