Biblical Hebrew Forum

["L.M. Barre" <barre AT c-zone.net>]

Dear List,

How woud folks contextuaize this:

Thus spoke David son of Jesse,
thus spoke the man raised to eminence,
the anointed of the god of Jacob,
the singer of the songs of Israel:


The spirit of Yahweh speaks through me,
his word is on my tongue;
the god of Jacob has spoken,
the rock of Israel has said to me:

"He whose rule is upright on the earth,
who rules in the fear of God,
is like the morning light at sunrise
on a cloudless morning,
making the grass of the earth sparkle after rain."

Yes, my house stands firm with El(ohim).
He has made an eternal covenant with me,
all is in order, well established;
does he not bring to fruition my every victory and desire?

But men of Belial he rejects like thorns,
for these are never taken up in the hand:
no one touches them
except with a pitchfork or spear-shaft,
and then only to burn them to nothing!  

L. M. Barre, Ph.D.

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