A few verses of Psalm 91 get left out of the psalmody for Sunday, but two verses of Psalm 91 never appear in the Revised Common Lectionary.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only look with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.
I suppose the lectionary committee was reluctant to call upon God that the wicked would be destroyed, but I wonder if they were also reluctant to hear the promise about thousands falling but it not coming near us. In our world of chaos and confusion, where death seems to stalk unexpectedly in worship places and stadiums and schools and concerts, that may be a difficult versse to hear. BUt it may make it all the more important to cling to. In the midst of mindless pain and hurting, we still trust that God in Jesus has done something about it and is doing something about it. God will not leave us defenseless forever and the wicked will not always win the day.
| Image: | Guardian Angel, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56823 [retrieved March 15, 2019]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonsplatz_22.JPG. |
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