Sunday Inspiration

R evered by three major religions, as well as others, the Hebrew Testament of the Bible is rich with imagery.  And it contains many lessons for our times, no matter one's religion or lack thereof.

I believe the Psalm quoted below has a bearing on our times, especially in the U.S., but in many other places as well.  If I may be permitted one comment of interpretation.   Where are we, perhaps, guilty of boasting?

Psalm 75

We give thanks to you, God,

we give thanks as we invoke your name,

as we recount your marvels.

'At the moment I decide

I will dispense strict justice;

the earth shall quake and all its inhabitants,

it is I who poised its columns.

'I said to the boastful:  Enough of boasting!

and to the wicked:  How dare you raise your horn,

how dare you raise your horn like that,

how dare you speak so boldly!'

Not from the east, nor from the west,

not from the desert, nor from the mountains,

but from God the judgment comes,

lowering one, raising another.

Yahweh is holding a cup 

of frothing wine, heavily drugged;

he pours it out, they drain it to the dregs,

all drink of it, the wicked of the earth.

But I will never stop proclaiming the God of Jacob

or playing in his honor;

I will cut off the horns of all the wicked

and raise the horns of the virtuous.  

-- Jerusalem Bible