This version of the Bible integrates the Psalms chronologically into the text which has really given me deeper insight into David's poetic heart in contrast to his brutal action as a warrior. Now we come to a group of psalms written by David and the various people he named to lead Israel in song and music. The psalms are organized by topics. The first is "Psalms of the Troubled Soul."
The tenor of the first psalms presented here illustrate man's deep need for justice and fairness in a world that seems unfairly in the control of the wicked. We troubles our souls is the absence of justice in the world. We all want fairness and justice in the world. It upsets us to see the powerful take advantage of the weak. We want fairness and justice. But what fairness or justice is there in the fact that we were born in America or to a loving family? How rare is our good fortune in this world. So. Do we really want fairness and justice? Did David? Truly? The man who took a man's wife and then his life -- does he want fairness? These psalms cry out for fairness, for God's hand to be on the wicked...but do we see the wicked as He sees the wicked? Doe he distinguish them differently than we?
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