The Psalm of Rafah

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Today's podcast takes up the text of Psalm 94, which is a stunning evocation of the moment facing Israel right now and the threat to its enemies—not from Israel itself but from the God of Israel. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some bring champagne, some die of furs.
0:14.0	A-a-furs.
0:15.0	No way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best Magazine Daily Podcast.
0:27.0	Today is Thursday, May 23rd, 2024.
0:31.0	I am John Pughts's the editor of Commentary magazine. Again, we are taping this
0:37.1	podcast on Wednesday night, May 22nd, so there may be some day confusions as we speak.
0:46.7	Just please bear with us.
0:48.2	We'll be back on our morning taping schedule next week. And by we I mean executive editor, Abe Greenwald, hi Abe.
0:56.0	Hi, Abe.
0:57.0	Hi, John. Media commentary columnist Christine, Christine, and Christine's colleague at the American Enterprise Institute
1:04.7	AEOI's director of domestic policy studies and our Washington commentary
1:09.6	columnist Matthew Cottonetti. Hi Matt. Hi John. I want to begin by reading two people
1:17.8	from one of the oldest texts in the Western world. Psalm 94, this is the King James version of Psalm 94.
1:28.0	I'm going to read it and then I'm going to tell you why I'm reading it.
1:31.0	Oh Lord to whom vengeance belongs, O Lord to whom vengeance belongs show thyself.
1:38.0	Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth. render a reward to the proud long, how long shall the wicked,
1:46.7	how long shall the wicked triumph, how long shall they utter and speak hard things and all the workers of iniquity boast of themselves.
1:56.8	They break in pieces thy people, oh Lord, and afflict thine heritage.
2:02.1	They slay the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherless,
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