Day 112 (Psalm 6, 8-10, 14, 16, 19, 21) - Year 8

Tara-Leigh Cobble· Host0:00

[upbeat music] Hey, Bible readers. I'm Tara-Leigh Cobble, and I'm your host for The Bible Recap. You may wonder why we're hitting so many days of just Psalms lately. We're reading chronologically, so while we're at this point in history, we'll often be reading the psalm David wrote in response to his current life events. David wrote approximately half of the Psalms, so we'll hit a lot of them here, but since there are 150 of them, we'll still have others sprinkled throughout our writing until we wrap up the Old Testament. So let's jump into Psalm 6 first. David is troubled, and it sounds like he's saying God doesn't even notice. David is also using poetic imagery and hyperbole to make a point about how he feels. When we relate to his feelings or his language, it's easy to latch onto his poems, and then before we know it, we've built our theology on poetic imagery and hyperbole, so we have to ask a lot of questions of the text. First, we have to look at it in its literary context, his poetry, and then we also have to look at it in its historical context, much like we had to do with all the laws God gave the Israelites that seemed so foreign to us. We also have to look at its theological context by measuring it against the rest of scripture. So let's look at another place Psalm 6 can be confusing. In verse five, David seems to fear that his sin and eventual death will separate him from God. That sets this psalm against the rest of the Bible's teachings on this topic, so what do we do with it? What we know about this period of time in ancient Judaism is that God