A Stonebriar Fellowship
We had come to a new year, an occasion for both reflection and anticipation. Dangers lurk globally from our climate to militarism. Political controversy has led to trauma nationally and internationally. I would argue that 2025 holds much promise of the same.
The Psalmists’ Question: Why should the people who oppose God be better off that those who trust Him?
The Psalmists’ Conclusion: They are not. It is a judgment that comes from human myopia and groundless envy.
Ironically, like the Proverbs 31:10-31, this is another example of an artistic literary poem; it is acrostic in form. Each verse begins with a consecutive letter in the Hebrew alphabet. Again, one letter is deleted (nun) which should be after v. 13. Some ancient translations supply what they must have thought was a missing verse, such a 11QPs at Qumran.
Since the literary form is acrostic, it is a wisdom or instructional Psalm, as well as a praise psalm.
