Form: The author, first, calls upon God by His vocative name of Elohim. Second, he makes his complaint known about how the other nations have taken precedence over the Israelites or “the heathen are come into thine inheritance” (KJV). Third, he makes pleas to Yahweh to change their disasters in v. 5-6. Fourth, the author pleas for Yahweh to act on their behalf in v. 9-10. Finally, he ends by giving praise and trust in God to take care of His people in v.13.
v.1— “God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance”—the author specifically uses the Hbr term elohiym as to define God as the Supreme God or Judge. “thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps”—this section is where we can see the lament and wonder of the author as to why Yahweh would allow the other (Gentile) nations destroy His temple. By using the Hbr word tame' (translated in KJV as defiled), meaning to be contaminated, he points out how disrespectful this act of the other nations had toward Yahweh and His people. …show more content…
“meat unto the fowls of the heaven”—heaven, in this instance shamayim, is referring to the sky itself. This is a depiction that Yahweh’s people have been place to the same level as a dead carcass that the birds of the air eat, or as road kill. The author also uses a synonymous parallelism by using “dead bodies of that servants” and “flesh of thy saints,” which are being eaten by birds and ground animals, to signify that the destruction was impartial and of humiliation and insult of not being able to provide proper burial rituals to the people. The same parallelism is used in v. 3 by noting how “blood ran freely,” paralleled with death, and “there was none to bury them,” paralleled with the dead bodies being left so that the birds and ground animals could eat them. v. 4 demonstrated the same humiliation parallel with vs. 2 &
v.1— “God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance”—the author specifically uses the Hbr term elohiym as to define God as the Supreme God or Judge. “thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps”—this section is where we can see the lament and wonder of the author as to why Yahweh would allow the other (Gentile) nations destroy His temple. By using the Hbr word tame' (translated in KJV as defiled), meaning to be contaminated, he points out how disrespectful this act of the other nations had toward Yahweh and His people. …show more content…
“meat unto the fowls of the heaven”—heaven, in this instance shamayim, is referring to the sky itself. This is a depiction that Yahweh’s people have been place to the same level as a dead carcass that the birds of the air eat, or as road kill. The author also uses a synonymous parallelism by using “dead bodies of that servants” and “flesh of thy saints,” which are being eaten by birds and ground animals, to signify that the destruction was impartial and of humiliation and insult of not being able to provide proper burial rituals to the people. The same parallelism is used in v. 3 by noting how “blood ran freely,” paralleled with death, and “there was none to bury them,” paralleled with the dead bodies being left so that the birds and ground animals could eat them. v. 4 demonstrated the same humiliation parallel with vs. 2 &