{"id":2946,"date":"2024-03-22T11:45:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T11:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2024-03-22T11:50:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T11:50:35","slug":"evensong-146","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2946","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 146"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"749\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20221106_1118214664-749x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20221106_1118214664-749x1024.jpg 749w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20221106_1118214664-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20221106_1118214664-768x1050.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20221106_1118214664-1123x1536.jpg 1123w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20221106_1118214664-1498x2048.jpg 1498w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20221106_1118214664-scaled.jpg 1872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is another psalm that covers the same ground, using recognizable lines from earlier psalms or familiar material from other parts of the Old Testament. But at this point, I won\u2019t worry about it.<br><br>Still, \u201cDo not put your trust in princes, \/ Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. \/ His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; \/ In that very day his plans perish.\u201d It sounds quite familiar, huh?<br><br>But that isn\u2019t anywhere else in the Hebrew Bible \u2014 or is it? Well, in Isaiah and Ecclesiastes, I\u2019m guessing, also in the Gospels for sure, at least the one that refers to Yeshua ben Yosef as \u201cson of man.\u201d<br><br>And then there\u2019s this verse: \u201cThe Lord watches over the strangers; \/ He relieves the fatherless and widow; \/ But the way of the wicked He turns upside down.\u201d Weren\u2019t those Yeshua\u2019s words?<br><br>Actually, the reason I noticed those passages, in particular, was because they made me wonder if folks who read the Bible literally these days still believe what those verses say. Well, do they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another psalm that covers the same ground, using recognizable lines from earlier psalms or familiar material from other parts of the Old Testament. But at this point, I won\u2019t worry about it. Still, \u201cDo not put your trust in princes, \/ Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2946\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 146<\/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-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946","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=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}