Saturday 23 May 2015

Psalm 68 God vs his enemies

Psalm 68

This Psalm is another of David's and is a song.

I'm not too sure what to make of this Psalm where it talks about God arising and scattering the wicked who melt like wax (presumably like the Nazis at the end of the first Indiana Jones movie) 
While the righteous are glad, happy and joyful - personally I don't think I would be totally comfortable or happy while people (albeit unpleasant) are melting like wax.

The next section describes God as a father to the fatherless, defender of widows, he gives the lonely families and leads out prisoners with singing. These are all admirable things in my humble opinion!

Verses 7-10 talk a lot about about rain when God went out before his people - in that case Manchester must be full of the wrathful marching out of God!

The Psalm is quite long and talks about God moving on behalf of Israel and subduing other nations, but the Psalm ends with an invitation for all kingdoms and nations to sing praises to God.

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