Wednesday Bible Study: God is bad(ass)

Psalms 75 and 76 are classified as songs of praise, but what they are praising is not goodness or wisdom, but sheer power. And they use some weird metaphors. Psalm 75 appears to refer to a day of judgment, an idea which appears rather vaguely in the Tanakh but which is more central to Christianity. Note that the idea in Judaism of the coming of the Messiah and restoration of the kingdom is quite different. However, they have become conflated in the current political alliance between fundamentalist Jews and Evangelical Christians. One of the other would be really disappointed should it ever come to pass. (Again, " Do Not Destroy " is the [weird] name of a tune.)Note in Psalm 76 that Salem and Zion are just different names for Jerusalem. The psalm refers to some obscure event or events, which the writer doesn ' t bother to specify, but it seems to refer to a plague. At least that ' s my guess.To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.75 We give thanks to thee, O God; we give thanks;    we call on thy name and recount[a] thy wondrous deeds.2 At the set time which I appoint    I will judge with equity.3 When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants,    it is I who keep steady its pillars.Selah4 I say to the boastful, “Do not boast,”    and to the wicked, “Do not lift up your horn;5 do not lift up your horn on high,    ...
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