Revisiting that Irish Psalm book - Psalm 83 and the plight of Israel

A follow-up to yesterday's story about an ancient Irish Psalm book being found last week in a bog ... open to Psalm 83. A couple people made some comments that I found interesting:

Michael Austen: The psalm it was open to gives me a pretty eerie feeling.

MVH: Wow, I read this story yesterday and I immediately looked up Psalm 83.

I'll tell you, there are no coincidences with God. The most chilling parts for me were in the second and third stanzas:

Ps 83:3-4 "They are laying plans against your people, conspriring against those you cherish; they say, "Come, let us annihilate them as a nation, the name of Israel shall be remembered no more!" [my emphasis]

Verses 5, 6 "They conspire with a single mind, they conclude an alliance against you, the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites . . ."

V[erse] 8 ". . . even Assyria has joined them . . ."

Verse 18 is also telling, "Let them know that you alone bear the name of Yahweh, Most High over all the earth."

Just read the whole thing!

I'd agree - kind of eerie. Well, at the very least, Psalm 83 reminds us that Israel has been going through this kind of treatment from the surrounding nations for quite some time...

Update: Curt Jester takes a look at the "bogging" phenomenon.