In it,
the psalmist says to God, «For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.»
If we judge the children of Israel, whom
the psalmist says had hard hearts, we also must judge the apostles.
The Psalmist says, «Where can I go from your Spirit?
As
the Psalmist says, «The heavens are the Lord's heavens, but the earth He has given to the sons of men.
In Psalm 80,
the psalmist says to God:
Many modern people like to say that Psalm 14 and 53 are condemning atheists when
the Psalmist says, «The fool has said in his heart, «There is no God.
Either way, note what
the Psalmist says about these people.
As
the Psalmist says in a beautiful litany celebrating God's connection to all the life he has made and sustains:
The OT
Psalmist says God will «shelter us under his wings.»
As
the Psalmist says, «The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked» (Ps.
Of God, who is from time indefinite to time indefinite,
the psalmist says: «For a thousand years are in your eyes but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch during the night.»
I mean, look what
the Psalmist says next.
«When I look at your heavens,»
the psalmist says, «the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are you human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?»
«Deep calls out to deep» as
the Psalmist says (Psalm 42:7, TNIV).
The Psalmist said, «Delight in the Lord, and He will give you the longings of your heart.»
The Psalmist say's, «the earth and all it's fullness are the lords.»
It is as though one quoted
the Psalmist saying «There is no God».
Not exact matches
The
psalmist had the right order when he
said, «I have set the Lord always before me.»
But a Christian reading of process - philosophy could very well make its own the words of the
Psalmist, «God maketh even the wrath of man» — and the maladjustment and failure in nature too, we might add — «to turn to his praise» — which is to
say, to be mysteriously transmuted into opportunities and occasions for the realization of possible goods.
Well, the
Psalmist here
says that it would be better to pick the volunteer position in church!
It is not easy to
say with the
psalmist:
He felt himself reeling within, as the
Psalmist had
said, his soul «melted because of trouble, at wit's end.»
And suppose we no longer can
say with the
psalmist, «Return, O Lord!
«The righteous man is like a tree,»
says the
Psalmist, because he knows where his treasure is.
Of course the Christians already had in their Old Testament affirmations concerning the work of God's spirit from creation onward and sometimes acknowledged this, as in the Letter to the Hebrews where it is explicitly
said that it is the Holy Spirit which has inspired the
Psalmist (Heb.
God is not delighted with sacrifices and offerings,
says the
Psalmist, but with a broken and contrite spirit (Psalm 51:16 - 17).
He knew as a
Psalmist had written: «If I
say, «Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,» even the darkness is not dark to you (0 God); the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.»
«My soul thirsts for God, for the living God,»
says the
psalmist (Ps.
«The Law is my delight,»
said the
Psalmist.
The
Psalmist is not
saying that these people can never do any good whatsoever at all.
No, the
Psalmist specifically
says that they have become this way.
As I might
say at my «website,» Christians don't read theology because... the
psalmist doesn't
say «The Lord is my Shepherd, in him I shall not miscalculate the size of his dominion.»