Poetic Aspects

I was mute and silent, I refrained even from good, and my sorrow grew worse;  Psalm 39:2  NASB Refrained– David feels as if his voice is tied down.  He wants to say something in the face of this evil, but he doesn’t know how. As a result, something even more debilitating happens.  He discovers that when he doesn’t speak up…

The Sin of Noah

I was mute and silent, I refrained even from good, and my sorrow grew worse.   My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned;  Psalm 39:2-3a  NASB Refrained– A short while ago we examined these verses. We concluded that David’s experience of deliberate silence caused emotional and physical separation from others and from himself.  Based on the…