{"id":86702,"date":"2021-01-17T00:12:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T22:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=86702"},"modified":"2021-01-17T00:12:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T22:12:36","slug":"emunah-and-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/emunah-and-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Emunah And Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"86702","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"656","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Remember the covenant\r\n\r\n","content":"<p>89:2 \u201cLet me sing the LORD\u2019s kindness forever. For all generations I shall make known with my mouth Your faithfulness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hebrew word <em>\u2018emunah<\/em>, \u201cfaithfulness,\u201d \u201ctrustworthiness,\u201d \u201cdependability in fulfilling obligations,\u201d is the key word of this psalm, repeated seven times in the poem, with an additional two occurrences in adjectival form. The reiteration of this term also suggests why those scholars who claim that this psalm is an amalgam of three different genres are unconvincing. This is a psalm about God\u2019s pact with the House of David; if one prefers, it is a royal psalm. But it is clearly composed at a moment when the fortunes of the Davidic king have taken a disastrous turn in the face of victorious enemies. (Exactly when that might have been is difficult to determine, though many scholars set this text in the period of the First Commonwealth.) The psalmist insists on his belief in God\u2019s faithfulness to His covenantal commitments in the face of present catastrophes. There is, then, a logical progression in the poem: first, a celebration of God\u2019s cosmic power, by virtue of which He could easily rout all the enemies of the Davidic throne if He chose to do so; then the conditional nature of the covenant, which is contingent on the people\u2019s adherence to God\u2019s laws, and the consequent disaster that has befallen them; and, finally, a plea to God to remember how ephemeral man is and to relent from His seemingly endless wrath against His people and against His anointed king.<\/p>\n<p>From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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