Wednesday Bible Study: The show is about nothing

The next three psalms are just not very interesting. The first amounts to a curse against the singer ' s unspecified and undescribed enemies, who he is confident God will shoot with an arrow. The second is a standard song of praise, giving God credit for nature and what it offers. The third is more praise for God and a pledge to keep on worshiping and sacrificing. There isn ' t much to say about these, except that they seem to fulfill the function that songs do today in religious services, to remind people of what they are supposed to believe and deepen their investment. Of course these beliefs are contradictory -- God will punish the wicked but also forgive our sins.To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.64 Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint;    preserve my life from dread of the enemy,2 hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,    from the scheming of evildoers,3 who whet their tongues like swords,    who aim bitter words like arrows,4 shooting from ambush at the blameless,    shooting at him suddenly and without fear.5 They hold fast to their evil purpose;    they talk of laying snares secretly,thinking, “Who can see us?[a]6     Who can search out our crimes?[b]We have thought out a cunningly conceived plot. ”    For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep!7 But God will shoot his arrow at...
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