{"id":2791,"date":"2024-01-18T01:55:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T01:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2024-01-18T01:55:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T01:55:56","slug":"evensong-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2791","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 99"},"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\/2024\/01\/PSX_20220808_150507-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20220808_150507-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20220808_150507-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20220808_150507-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20220808_150507-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20220808_150507-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20220808_150507-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After reminding us listeners once again how \u201cgreat and awesome\u201d YHWH is, this psalmist notes that \u201c[t]he King\u2019s strength also loves justice\u201d \u2014 referring literally to David, not figuratively to YAH.<br><br>Further, with a fearsome image of the Ark of the Covenant, the Lord\u2019s mobile home, the psalmist claims that David has \u201cestablished equity; \/ [and] executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.\u201d<br><br>Then he name-drops Moses, Aaron and Samuel as \u201cpriests \u2026 who called upon [YAH\u2019s] name,\u201d and got quick responses because they \u201ckept His testimonies and the ordinance He gave them.\u201d<br><br>Now the clincher \u2014 for me, anyway: \u201cYou were to them God-Who-Forgives, \/ Though You took vengeance on their deeds.\u201d But did YAH actually punish them? And what about David himself?<br><br>Are the people who make laws for everyone else to follow ever punished? Don\u2019t political power and greed \u2014 the green-backed gods \u2014 always have final say on what\u2019s legal and what\u2019s just?<br><br>If they didn\u2019t have the last word, then Moses would have been truly punished for murder; Aaron, for idolatry; Samuel, for genocide; and David, for adultery, murder and psalm-writing that sucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reminding us listeners once again how \u201cgreat and awesome\u201d YHWH is, this psalmist notes that \u201c[t]he King\u2019s strength also loves justice\u201d \u2014 referring literally to David, not figuratively to YAH. Further, with a fearsome image of the Ark of the Covenant, the Lord\u2019s mobile home, the psalmist claims that David has \u201cestablished equity; \/ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2791\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 99<\/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-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","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=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}