{"id":2848,"date":"2024-02-09T00:25:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T00:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2024-02-10T14:03:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T14:03:46","slug":"evensong-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2848","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 115"},"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\/02\/PSX_20240208_192435-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240208_192435-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240208_192435-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240208_192435-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240208_192435-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240208_192435-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240208_192435.jpg 2044w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the strangest psalm I\u2019ve read so far \u2014 comparing Old Hebrew YHWH to the idols worshiped by everyone else in that ancient world back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These other gods are described as statues of \u201csilver and gold, \/ The work of men\u2019s hands,\u201d without the senses whose organs this psalmist lists in detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThose who make them are like them,\u201d quips the poet. \u201cSo is everyone who trusts in them\u201d \u2014 that is, with no sense at all, the wry writer must mean to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut our Lord is in heaven,\u201d the psalmist adds. \u201cHe does whatever He pleases.\u201d Now, I\u2019m not sure if that remark refers to YHWH\u2019s independence or person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is the writer saying that YAH does have a working mouth, eyes, ears, nose, hands, feet, and throat? Is His body like that of an earthly man? And if so, why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the strangest psalm I\u2019ve read so far \u2014 comparing Old Hebrew YHWH to the idols worshiped by everyone else in that ancient world back then. These other gods are described as statues of \u201csilver and gold, \/ The work of men\u2019s hands,\u201d without the senses whose organs this psalmist lists in detail. \u201cThose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 115<\/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-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","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=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2849,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}