Metrical Setting of Psalm 5
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The Fear of God
The Lord is a great God and a great king above all gods (Psalm 95:3). He is great in glory, in power and holiness. He is “the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting…
Metrical Setting of Psalm 4
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Psalm 25: A Complicated Chiasm and an Acrostic
Psalm 25 is an imperfect acrostic. Though it has 22 verses, one for each of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, verses 6, 18 and 22 do not begin with the expected Hebrew letter. It is also a roughly constructed chiasm, and you can see the details of it in the table below. Understanding the…
The Simple, the Fool and the Scoffer
The Lord gave us the book of Proverbs to teach us wisdom. This wisdom is not the wisdom of the world, though we could interpret many proverbs in it, taken apart from chapter 1:1-7, in that way. It is instead the wisdom that begins with the fear of God, and the wisdom that resides in…
Metrical Setting of Psalm 3
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Heaping Coals of Fire
Romans 12:20, a quotation of Proverbs 25:21,22, has occasioned much debate and given rise to multiple interpretations. The problem is that the most natural explanation seems to be that you should do good to your enemies so that they may suffer an increase of punishment from God. But this interpretation contradicts itself. If we perform…
Hearing the Acrostic of Psalm 119
It’s well known, of course, that Psalm 119 is an acrostic or alphabetic psalm. Such acrostics are, to say the least, very difficult to render in a faithful English translation, but it is possible to illustrate the effect in a few stanzas. This can help us to hear a little of the sound of these…
Metrical Setting of Psalm 2
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Proverbs 6:12-19: Speaking Feet
12. A worthless person, a man of iniquity, walking with a crooked mouth, 13. narrowing his eyes, uttering with his feet, teaching with his fingers, 14. perversity in his heart, devising evil continually, sows discord. 15. Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. Suddenly he will be broken, and there will be no remedy. 16. Six…