Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5
Ethan the Ezrahite writes from inside the exile. The first thirty-seven verses celebrate the Davidic covenant in the most effusive language in the Psalter: I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant: I will establish your seed forever and build your throne for all generations. The faithful witness in the sky: the moon as the permanent sign of the promise's permanence. Your seed I will establish forever. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Then verse 38: but now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. The crown thrown to the ground. The throne overturned. The enemies exulting. The Davidic king humiliated before the nations.
And then verse 49: the question that drives the whole second half: LORD, where are your former chesed, which by your emunah you swore to David? The question holds both words, chesed and emunah, the covenant love and the covenant faithfulness, and asks: where are they now?
The psalm does not answer the question. It ends in doxology, blessed be the LORD forever, amen and amen, but the question is still in the air. Thread 3 is what Psalm 89 requires: a future Son of David whose resurrection and enthronement will answer verse 49. The question is honest. The covenant is real. The apparent failure is real. And the only resolution is the empty tomb and the ascension and the one who sits at the right hand until his enemies are made his footstool.
Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses: Psalm 89 is the OT's most anguished wrestling with the Davidic covenant; verses 1-37 celebrate the unconditional promise and verses 38-51 confront its apparent failure; the psalm ends without resolution, which is the most honest ending possible.
אַיֵּה חֲסָדֶיךָ הָרִאשֹׁנִים אֲדֹנָי אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ לְדָוִד בֶּאֱמוּנָתֶךָ (ayyeh chasadekha ha-rishonim Adonai asher nishbata le-David be-emunatekha): LORD where are thy former lovingkindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth: ayyeh (where is, the single-word question of lament; the same word Job asks in Job 35:10; the question of the person who knows what was promised and cannot see it); nishbata (you swore, Niphal perfect of shava, to swear; the divine oath is the ground of the appeal; the psalmist is holding God to his own sworn word)
threads t1 · t2 · t3 · see 2 Samuel 7:12-16 · Acts 2:30-36 · Revelation 5:5