Today we begin worship with:
You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
“Perfect peace” is literally “peace peace”. Repeated words are an ancient form of highlighter. This passage is very much about peace, but a peace that is happening on a very dark day.
For he has humbled
the inhabitants of the height,
the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
casts it to the dust.
God in His sovereignty is executing judgement and we are told to temporarily hide.
Come, my people, enter your chambers,
and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
until the fury has passed by.
But look where! It is not somewhere made by us that might fail.
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
“We have a strong city;
he sets up salvation
as walls and bulwarks.
No comments:
Post a Comment