{"id":2754,"date":"2024-01-03T23:11:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T23:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2024-01-03T23:11:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T23:11:50","slug":"evensong-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2754","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 89"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is a long, bootlicking psalm written by a young guy named Ethan the Ezrahite. Basically, he was to his king what MAGA pundits and plotters are to their preferred president: a propagandist.

According to Wikipedia \u2014 the last word on all things, until the article\u2019s next edit \u2014 Ethan was \u201ca boy at King David\u2019s court well known for his wisdom.\u201d Well, he knew how to shovel shit, anyway.

In a nutshell, Ethan\u2019s 52 verses claim that all-powerful YHWH chose David and his descendants to rule Israel forevermore, and that anyone who opposes David\u2019s reign also opposes YAH\u2019s will.

And so, erudite little Ethan wants to know why YHWH won\u2019t just smack David\u2019s enemies down. \u201cHow long, Lord?\u201d Ethan poses. \u201cWill You hide Yourself forever? \/ Will Your wrath burn like fire?\u201d

There are so many contentions in this screed that I could jump on, but the worst idea deals with why YHWH ever chose David to be king. Spoiler alert: Little David rocked big ol\u2019 Goliath\u2019s world.

\u201cI have given help to one who is mighty,\u201d says Lord YHWH. \u201cI have exalted one chosen from the people.\u201d (That\u2019s \u201cfrom,\u201d not \u201cby,\u201d in case you were thinking that YAH might advocate democracy.)

So, might does make right? Is that our lesson here? I mean, I\u2019m not a policy geek like Ethan the Ezrahite, but didn\u2019t YAH also say, \u201cThe meek shall inherit the earth\u201d and \u201cTurn the other cheek\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a long, bootlicking psalm written by a young guy named Ethan the Ezrahite. Basically, he was to his king what MAGA pundits and plotters are to their preferred president: a propagandist. According to Wikipedia \u2014 the last word on all things, until the article\u2019s next edit \u2014 Ethan was \u201ca boy at King … Continue reading EVENSONG 89<\/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-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","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=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2755,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}