{"id":2929,"date":"2024-03-14T23:06:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2024-03-14T23:06:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:06:47","slug":"evensong-140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2929","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 140"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The politics of an Old Hebrew tribal king must have been pure hell \u2014 or pure Sheol, rather. So, maybe things haven\u2019t changed all that much. Here, again, David is whining about his enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first line is all he needs to say (for the umpteenth time): \u201cDeliver me, O Lord, from evil men.\u201d But he takes 12 more verses to bitch and moan about the bad things being done to him by foes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowadays we all know that bigmouthed bigots who lie, cheat, steal, rape and pillage their tribes make the best kings \u2014 or so say eight out of 10 of our psalm-singing brethren. Oh, God help us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But do those folks really believe what they claim? I don\u2019t think so. In yesterday\u2019s psalm, the singer-songwriter begged YHWH to get rid of his wicked opponents because they \u201ctake Your name in vain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now it\u2019s all in good fun, like the corrupt carnival barker who said (four years ago in Greenville, N.C.): \u201cIf you don\u2019t support me, you\u2019re going to be so goddamn poor you\u2019re not going to believe it.\u201d Say what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll just let today\u2019s psalmist \u2014 presumably David himself \u2014 close with these lines: \u201cLet not a slanderer be established in the earth; \/ Let evil hunt the violent man to overthrow him.\u201d Yes, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The politics of an Old Hebrew tribal king must have been pure hell \u2014 or pure Sheol, rather. So, maybe things haven\u2019t changed all that much. Here, again, David is whining about his enemies. The first line is all he needs to say (for the umpteenth time): \u201cDeliver me, O Lord, from evil men.\u201d But … Continue reading EVENSONG 140<\/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-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","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=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}