How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and yet You do not listen? I scream “outrage” to You, and You do not rescue! Habakkuk 1:2 Robert Alter Outrage – Taken directly from the Psalms, the prophet Habakkuk applies David’s words to his circumstances. We might do exactly the same. “How long?” That’s the real…
I had an insightful conversation with my son Michael on ZOOM. During the conversation we talked about the unrest in the USA and the violence perpetrated on citizens. It reminded me of the prophet Habakkuk’s cry. So I offer you something I wrote some years ago for your consideration. Note especially the citation from Rollo…
How long, O Lord, will I call for help, and You will not hear? I cry out to You, “Violence!” Yet You do not save. Habakkuk 1:2 ANSB Violence! – You know the aphorism. “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” It seems that two thousand seven hundred years haven’t made much…
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. Proverbs 10:11 NASB Violence – The world with God’s present sovereignty is a very violent place. Imagine what it would be like without His sovereignty! If the world as we know it is under the final sovereignty…
David went out to meet them, and said to them, “If you come peacefully to me to help me, my heart shall be united with you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look on it and decide.” 1 Chronicles…
Many years ago Rollo May examined a connection between obscenity and violence. In Power and Innocence, he argued that violence progresses through several other mediums before it erupts in physical force. One of these mediums is language. The disintegration of the meaning of words is a step on the pathway to violence. There is a…
