{"id":2958,"date":"2024-03-27T23:52:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T23:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2024-03-27T23:52:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T23:52:24","slug":"evensong-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2958","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 149"},"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\/20240327_102233-COLLAGE-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240327_102233-COLLAGE-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240327_102233-COLLAGE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240327_102233-COLLAGE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240327_102233-COLLAGE-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240327_102233-COLLAGE-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240327_102233-COLLAGE-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These last few psalms \u2014 this one is next to last, by the way \u2014 are, in literary terms, a hot mess.<br><br>This psalmist says, \u201cSing to the Lord a new song,\u201d and talks about singing and dancing with joy.<br><br>But then he changes horses midstream before going on about \u201cvengeance\u201d and \u201cpunishments.\u201d<br><br>Why go there? \u201cTo bind [other nations\u2019] kings with chains, \/ And their nobles with fetters of iron.\u201d<br><br>Well, why? \u201cTo execute on them the written judgment \u2014 \/ This honor have all [YHWH\u2019s] saints.\u201d<br><br>I guess saints only care about abiding by the rule of law if it involves a king other than their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These last few psalms \u2014 this one is next to last, by the way \u2014 are, in literary terms, a hot mess. This psalmist says, \u201cSing to the Lord a new song,\u201d and talks about singing and dancing with joy. But then he changes horses midstream before going on about \u201cvengeance\u201d and \u201cpunishments.\u201d Why go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2958\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 149<\/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-2958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958","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=2958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2959,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions\/2959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}