I'm more spiritual than religious, but...
Sometimes scripture just jumps out on your ass. Case in point:
Save me,         O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
      I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I         am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow         me.
      I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine         eyes fail while I wait for my God.
      They that hate me without a cause are more than         the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me,         being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I         restored that which I took not away.
      O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins         are not hid from thee.
      Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of         hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that         seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of         Israel.
      Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame         hath covered my face.
      I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an         alien unto my mother's children.
      For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and         the reproaches of them that reproached thee are         fallen upon me.
      When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting,         that was to my reproach.
      I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a         proverb to them.
      They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I         was the song of the drunkards.
But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in         an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy         mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink:         let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out         of the deep waters.
      Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let         the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her         mouth upon me.
      Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good:         turn unto me according to the multitude of thy         tender mercies.
      And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am         in trouble: hear me speedily.
      Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me         because of mine enemies.
      Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my         dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
      Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of         heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but         there was none; and for comforters, but I found         none.
      They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my         thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
      Let their table become a snare before them: and         that which should have been for their welfare, let         it become a trap.
      Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not;         and make their loins continually to shake.
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy         wrathful anger take hold of them.
      Let their habitation be desolate; and let none         dwell in their tents.
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten;         and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast         wounded.
      Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them         not come into thy righteousness.
Let them be blotted out of the book of the         living, and not be written with the righteous.
      But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O         God, set me up on high.
      I will praise the name of God with a song, and         will magnify him with thanksgiving.
      This also shall please the Lord better than an ox         or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your         heart shall live that seek God.
      For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not         his prisoners.
      Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas,         and every thing that moveth therein.
For God will save Zion, and will build the cities         of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in         possession.
The seed also of his servants shall inherit it:         and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
   Ya dig?
Don't act like you can't feel me. I ain't the only one. Never have been.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Sixty Nine And I Owe You None
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4 comments:
I hear you. You dig and I get it.
I am so digging this!
Wow, this is just so freaky. I'm just "stumbling" across all sorts of stuff like this right now. Changes are happening. What compelled you to post this?
I'd highly recommend Prayer by Phillip Yancey. A really wonderful book and a great examination of the Psalms in particular.
I HEAR YOU, BRUH!
I feeleth you!
Yep. This is one of those psalms, I bet. There's a LONG stretch of this type of HARD wailing in Psalms. It always ended with a little praise and thanksgiving! THAT'S the takehome message I'm left with, and glad for it!
I feel you... You ain't the only one, and never will be.
Really though.
PSALMS 69! beautiful, poetic prose... thank you for the reminder.
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