{"id":2917,"date":"2024-03-08T23:25:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T23:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2024-03-08T23:26:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T23:26:04","slug":"evensong-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2917","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 136"},"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\/03\/IMG_20220212_1800333342-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20220212_1800333342-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20220212_1800333342-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20220212_1800333342-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20220212_1800333342-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20220212_1800333342-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20220212_1800333342-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s another copycat psalm, this one repeating whole lines from yesterday\u2019s song. The big difference is that it\u2019s a call and response, with a line that loses its meaning through repetition.<br><br>This psalm recounts YHWH\u2019s triumphs on behalf of His people: Creation, the Exodus, military victories over Pharaoh of Egypt, King Sihon of the Amorites and King Og of Bashan (no joke).<br><br>And then there\u2019s the line about YHWH that\u2019s repeated over and over and over again: \u201cFor His mercy endures forever.\u201d But what does that line mean? Would Pharaoh, Sihon and Og agree?<br><br>What, then, is mercy \u201c[t]o Him who made great lights \u2026 [t]he sun to rule by day \u2026 [t]he moon and stars to rule by night\u201d? After all, day and night are relative depending on where you stand.<br><br>Repeatedly, David\u2019s psalms have shown that YAH was merciful only to David himself, mooning over the liar, rapist, murderer and king when He should have been more like the merciless sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s another copycat psalm, this one repeating whole lines from yesterday\u2019s song. The big difference is that it\u2019s a call and response, with a line that loses its meaning through repetition. This psalm recounts YHWH\u2019s triumphs on behalf of His people: Creation, the Exodus, military victories over Pharaoh of Egypt, King Sihon of the Amorites &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2917\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 136<\/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-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","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=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2918,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/2918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}