In the video, I set 'homework' to go find Jeduthun. The character Jeduthun appears in 1 Chronicles 16 and 25, and he was assigned to lead the worship 'band' when the Israelites brought the ark back to Jerusalem.
I thought about this with regard to the general text of Psalm 39. David starts off in vs. 1 by saying, in essence, that he must watch himself: "I said, “I will guard my ways; That I may not sin with my tongue"" (NASB). David knows that he should 'keep a clean sheet' (to use a soccer term). But even when he was silent, 'my sorrow was stirred' (vs. 2, KJV); despite his 'moral compass' (my term), he still had to appeal to God to '“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry' (vs. 12, KJV).
My point is that if David wrote this 'for Jeduthun', he wrote it when the ark was returned to Jerusalem. On the one hand, the ark's return would be joyous. On the other, the faithful David would now be acutely aware of God's presence i.e. He was present with the Israelites in the ark. As verse 1-3 states, it's not enough to just be aware of one's good morals. You have to repent to an ever-present God.
The lesson: 'knowing' morality is not the same as openly professing repentance #KevinShort #PsalmADay #ComfortingWords
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