"Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever./The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted."
Quality of this generation is mentioned in the next verse. The wicked and adulterous generation. Jesus gave us an example,, "A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign."(Matt.16:4). In our time all we need look on the business section of news media and see how the bulls and bears run amok on Wall street. So much so stock prices become a sign for Wall street traders to to bet on the politics of the nation. It just shows the wicked generations place their soul on such signs that has no foundation on truth. Meme stock of Trump's social media company hits all time high or plunges without the company generating any worthwhile revenue. It is how the ungodly bring down the millions whose sweat and blood for making a seasonable living for themselves and their families are put to serious risk. We are witnesses to global economic meltdown in our own generation. Yet such signs are laughed off by those business czars whose compulsive risk-taking bodes no good. It is no wonder. The wicked are looked up to as men with bold vision and their wealth as a virtue. The vilest men may even write the art of the deal and make bid for more glory.
The psalm begins with a cry,"Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men./They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak."
"Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?" ( 12:1-4).
"Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast."(Is.26:20). "For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him."(v.5)
"Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever./The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted."
Quality of this generation is mentioned in the next verse. The wicked and adulterous generation. Jesus gave us an example,, "A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign."(Matt.16:4). In our time all we need look on the business section of news media and see how the bulls and bears run amok on Wall street. So much so stock prices become a sign for Wall street traders to to bet on the politics of the nation. It just shows the wicked generations place their soul on such signs that has no foundation on truth. Meme stock of Trump's social media company hits all time high or plunges without the company generating any worthwhile revenue. It is how the ungodly bring down the millions whose sweat and blood for making a seasonable living for themselves and their families are put to serious risk. We are witnesses to global economic meltdown in our own generation. Yet such signs are laughed off by those business czars whose compulsive risk-taking bodes no good. It is no wonder. The wicked are looked up to as men with bold vision and their wealth as a virtue. The vilest men may even write the art of the deal and make bid for more glory.
The psalm begins with a cry,"Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men./They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak."
"Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?" ( 12:1-4).
"Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast."(Is.26:20). "For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him."(v.5)
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