Tag: the psalms

In Our Need: Psalm 46

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Take the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.

All of Western civilization–our global, secular civilization–is headed for a train wreck. It cannot keep going the way it’s going. But hear the Scripture:

“Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.” (Psalm 46:2-3)

Rest on the Sabbath day, and refrain from battle: for the battle is the Lord’s.

Just ask Pharaoh, when you find him at the bottom of the sea.

 

 

The World’s Oldest Music

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This is a pagan hymn from about 1400 B.C., produced by an ancient Near Eastern people we call Hurrians. The music score is in cuneiform, preserved on a clay tablet. The instrument on which it is played, here, is a reproduction of a lyre, as reconstructed by archaeologists. If the translation of the tablet is accurate, then we are listening to a piece of music from 3,400 years ago.

Was this similar to the music Saul heard, when David played for him? When David first composed the Psalms, did he set them to music that sounded like this?

It’s possible that what we have here is a true window into the remote past, and a live connection with a portion of the Bible. It may be as close as we can ever come to actually hearing the Psalms as David sang them.

Which is really, really something, when you think about it.