After I posted last week on a solar metaphor for God, I looked back at my own metrical versification of Psalm 84 and discovered that I too had paraphrased this text, eliminating the reference to the sun, but following through on its meaning:
Better by far one day to be
within your courts than live to see
a thousand years while elsewhere dwelling.
The threshold of your house, O Lord,
is vastly thus to be preferred
to where the wicked make their dwelling.
For God the LORD, our source of life,
will be our shield amid the strife.
I am currently exploring publication options for my English-language Genevan Psalter collection.
2 comments:
Hi David I don’t know if it is directly relevant to your question but my monograph on sun worship in ancient Israel might be helpful; it discusses Ps 84 briefly. It’s called Yahweh and the Sun
Sounds interesting.
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