Archive for May, 2008

Psalm 88: the prayer of the depressed

May 28, 2008 at 7:59 am. Filed under Posts.

I could be uncaring and call this psalm “the prayer of the emo kid”, but I have to recognize it for what it is: the uttering of someone in the depths of depression, someone who’s lost all hope and doesn’t see a way out.
The subtitle offers somewhat of a clue, by attributing the psalm to […]

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Psalm 87: it’s all about Zion?

May 17, 2008 at 4:34 pm. Filed under Posts.

This is one of those psalms that can be interpreted in two ways, and only one of those ways makes it look good, biblically speaking. The psalm praises the centricity of Jerusalem with regards to all other nations. In the psalm, Jerusalem is talked about as the “city of God”, with all other cities subservient […]

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