Day 178: April 20, 2026 – Ezekiel 46-48 and Psalms 67-70

I had not really noticed before how so many of the Psalms that we read are really curses against the enemy. We know psalms of praise, and kingly psalms, and psalms about nature, and psalms of lament, but we do have our fair share of psalms which curse the enemies and ask for God’s right hand and judgment to come down swiftly and in a strong fashion. These are not the psalms that we are called to remember and to use for our own good, as in a proof text kind of way, but rather recognize that those who wrote the psalms, like us, are subject to desires and wishes which may not exactly reflect what God would want us to do. This is especially true for us of the new covenant who have been shown a new way in which to live, a way that reflectes the suffering servant of Isaiah in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.