Episode 172: Like the horn of a unicorn

Psalms 90-106 (Book IV)

Three score years and ten

90 ¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten.

Trample the dragon

91 ¹ Whoever lives in God's secret place will live in God's shadow.

³ He'll keep you safe from dreadful diseases.

¹⁰ Nothing bad will ever happen to you.

^11-12 God's angels will protect you from dashing your foot against a stone.

¹³ You’ll walk on the lion and adder and trample the dragon under your feet.

They shall be fat

92 ⁵ Oh God, your thoughts are very deep.

⁶ Brutish men and fools don't understand them.

⁷ Just when everything is going well for the wicked, they will be destroyed forever.

⁹ Your enemies will scatter and die, God.

¹⁰ But you will exalt my horn like the horn of a unicorn.

¹² Righteous people will flourish.

¹⁴ They will have children at an old age and will be fat.

The earth doesn't move

93 ¹ The world is fixed in its place. It cannot move.

⁴ God is stronger than the noisy waves of the sea.

The God of vengeance

94 ¹ Show yourself, Oh God of vengeance.

²³ God will cut them off.

King of the gods

95 ² Make a joyful noise to God with psalms.

³ God is the king of the gods.

Fear God (more than the other gods)

96 ¹ Sing a new song to God.

⁴ Fear god more than all the other gods.

¹⁰ Tell the heathen that God reigns and the earth doesn't move.

Ye gods!

97 ² God is surrounded by clouds and darkness.

³ A fire goes before him, burning his enemies to death.

⁵ The hills melt in God's presence.

⁷ All you gods should worship him.

⁹ Oh God, you are high above the earth. You are higher than all the other gods.

Let the floods clap their hands

98 ¹ God's right hand and holy arm have gotten him a victory.

⁸ Let the floods clap their hands.

Between the cherubim

99 ¹ God reigns. He sits between the cherubim.

⁶ God spoke to Moses, Aaron, and Samuel in a cloudy pillar.

⁸ Oh God, you forgave them, but you took vengeance on their inventions.

A joyful noise

100 ¹ Make a joyful noise to God.

I will destroy all the wicked

101 ² I'll behave in a perfect way and walk with a perfect heart

³ I'll see no wicked thing. I hate the work of those who turn aside.

⁴ I won't know any wicked people.

⁸ I'll destroy all the wicked people in the land.

I've eaten ashes

102 ¹ Don't hide your face from me, God, when I'm in trouble.

² Listen to me and answer me quickly.

³ My bones burn, and I forget to eat.

⁵ I groan so much that my bones stick to my skin.

^6-7 I'm like a pelican, an owl, or a sparrow

⁸ My enemies insult me all the time.

⁹ I've eaten ashes.

¹⁰ You've lifted me up and thrown me down.

¹⁴ Your servants take pleasure in stones and dust.

²⁵ You laid the foundations of the earth.

²⁶ Heaven and earth will perish, but you will live forever.

He satisfies my mouth

103 ² God heals all my diseases

⁵ And satisfies my mouth with good things.

¹⁴ He remembers that we are dust.

He provides prey for the lions

104 ¹ God stretched out the heavens like a curtain.

⁵ He laid the foundations of the earth, so it could never be moved.

⁶ The waters covered the mountains.

¹⁵ God made wine to make people happy.

²¹ And he provides prey for the lions.

²⁴ God made all creatures just the way they are.

He killed their fig trees

105 ¹⁶ God sent a famine on Egypt.

²⁹ He turned their waters into blood.

³⁰ He covered their land in frogs.

³¹ He plagued them with flies and lice.

³² He smashed them with hail and burned them with fire.

³³ He killed their fig trees.

³⁴ He sent locusts and caterpillars.

³⁶ He killed all their firstborn sons.

⁴⁰ He fed the Israelites with quails and bread from heaven.

⁴¹ He gave them water from a rock.

⁴⁴ And he gave them the land that belonged to heathens.

They went a whoring with their own inventions

106 ¹ Praise God because he's good and merciful.

¹¹ He drowned the Egyptian army.

¹² So the Israelites believed God's words and praised him.

¹³ But then they forgot about him.

¹⁴ And lusted exceedingly in the wilderness.

¹⁶ They envied Moses and Aaron (the saint of God).

¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed Dathan, Abiram, and their associates.

¹⁸ And a fire burned up the wicked.

¹⁹ They made a golden calf in Horeb.

²⁸ They had sex with the women of Moab,

²⁹ causing God to send a plague on the Israelites, killing 24,000,

³⁰ before it was finally stopped by Phinehas.

³¹ This act has been and will always be considered righteous by everyone.

³⁹ Thus they were defiled by their own works and went a whoring with their own inventions.

⁴⁰ So God became angry with them and gave them to people who hated them.