Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Psalm 81 is a corporate praise song, but it also has some elements of

prophetic warning. We start out with a call to the musicians to play their

instruments, their harps, and tambourinesines and trumpets, God likes it all.

By the way, trumpets in that day weren't made of brass.

They were made of ram's horns.

You may have seen one, it's called the chauffeur.

The musicians are signaling the beginning of a feast so they can gather all the people together.

The people have come from all over Israel to the religious headquarters of their nation,

just like they do three times a year for these feasts,

because God has commanded them to keep these feasts

as a means of remembering and celebrating all he has done for them.

The lyrics of the song recount God's rescue from Egypt, his provision in the wilderness,

and his command to be faithful to him alone. Then it recounts their rebellion, and it ends with

God imploring his people to repent. We see the words hear and listen repeated three times in

this Psalm. For all the noise God calls them to make with their instruments in the

beginning, he's more concerned with them hearing him and doing what he says.

Psalm 88 was written by a man named Heman and he was in a dark place. We've all been there, right?

He's freely expressing his emotion to God, and what I learned from this

song more than anything is that God can handle our frustrations and questions without being

threatened one bit. First, Timmon starts out by addressing Yalway as the God of my salvation.

So he's marking out that he does have a relationship with God, and he asks for God to be attentive to his prayer.

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