The Bible Study Podcast, episode 396. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the book of Psalms with Psalm 60.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We continue on with the study of the

Book of Psalms with Psalm 60 today, and this is another Psalm of David, to the tune of the lily of the

covenant. Now, I don't know that tune. I don't think we know that anymore. And it says that it was for

teaching, and it was for when he fought Aram Nahariam and Aram Zubba, and when

Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edamites in the valley of salt. And it goes like this.

You have rejected us, God, and burst upon us. You have been angry, now restore us. You have shaken the land and

torn it open, mend its fractures for its quaking. You have shown your people desperate times.

You have given us wine that makes us stagger. But for those who fear you, you have raised

a banner to be unfurled against the bow. There is so often this theme

in scriptures, both in Psalms, and I'm reading some of the minor prophets now, for instance, the

prophet Joel. And the second chapter of Joel has the same sort of theme of that Israel has

displeased God, that all these bad things are going to happen, but then

that God will restore them. And so some of those well-known verses we have from Joel, for instance,

of in those days your young men will see visions and your old men will dream dreams, comes at

the end of a set of rather calamitous verses.

And that's kind of the same theme that we have here from David, that God has rejected Israel and yet now looks forward to the restoration of Israel.

This is the relationship we see between God and his people in the Old Testament especially.

But I think it's true today, too, is that God desires to be with his people in the Old Testament especially. But I think it's true today, too, is that God

desires to be with his people. God desires for Israel to turn around and to come to him, that God

desires to be their God in the way of the First Covenant, in the way that they promised each other

that they would be faithful.

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