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Psalm 89:38-40
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 89:38-40
New Catholic Bible
38 It will endure forever like the moon,
a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah
39 [a]But now you have spurned and rejected him,
you have become filled with wrath against your anointed one.[b]
40 You have repudiated your covenant with your servant
and dishonored his crown in the dust.
Footnotes
- Psalm 89:39 Seemingly, God has renounced his covenant. The temple is sacked, the village ruined, the kingship laid open to scorn, contrary to the word given to David. It is of little import as to why such an evil has occurred; the important thing is that God seems inconsistent.
- Psalm 89:39 The actions recounted here (repudiating a covenant, casting a crown in the dust, and destroying fortifications) are ordinarily attributed to Israel’s enemies. Here, however, they are attributed to the Lord himself, who is seen as repudiating the provisional covenant he had made with his people.
