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{{Overview
|Chapter=34
|Verse Count=23
|Memorable Phrase=Taste and see!
|Memorable Icon=noun-taste-3204169.png
|Purpose=To encourage others to fear YHWH.
|Content=Fear YHWH! Because YHWH protects and provides for those who fear him.
|Message=YHWH protects and provides for those who fear him.
|Author=David
|Background Ideas=<ul><li>The appropriate response to YHWH's deliverance is to bless/praise YHWH (cf. Ps. 103).</li>
<li>Lengthening one's days (i.e., living a long time) and seeing "good" is a tremendous blessing (cf. Ex. 20:12; Deut. 5:16, 33; 6:2; 25:15; 1 Kgs. 3:14; cf. Paul Sanders, "A Long Life as a Blessing in the Old Testament and the Ancient Levant," forthcoming).</li>
<li>Fearing YHWH is the key to a long and peaceful life (cf. Deut. 5:33).</li>
<li>The alphabet is a symbol of completeness (cf. Gottwald 1954:23-32; IVP Dictionary, “Acrostic”, Soll Anchor Bible Dictionary; Watson, Classical Hebrew Poetry 2001; Zenger 1993:211). In an acrostic poem, the poet takes a topic (e.g., Torah [Ps. 119], or the virtuous woman [Prov. 31]) and expounds on it completely (from every possible angle), so that the reader walks away with a high-resolution image of the topic (i.e., he/she understands it “from A to Z”).</li></ul>
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|Chapter=34
|Memorable Icon=noun-taste-3204169.png
|Memorable Phrase=Taste and see!
|Purpose=To encourage others to fear YHWH.
|Content=Fear YHWH! Because YHWH protects and provides for those who fear him.
|Message=YHWH protects and provides for those who fear him.
|Author=David
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<ref>The icon for the psalm has a double meaning. On the one hand, it depicts ‘tasting’ (Hebrew: טעם [v. 9]). At the same time, it also looks like someone drooling, just like David drooled when he pretended to be insane (=distorted his discernment [טעם]) before Ambimelek (Ps. 34:1; cf. 1 Sam. 21:14). Thus, the double-meaning of icon reflects the double-meaning of טעם, which is a key word in Psalm 34.</ref>
<ref>The icon for the psalm has a double meaning. On the one hand, it depicts ‘tasting’ (Hebrew: טעם [v. 9]). At the same time, it also looks like someone drooling, just like David drooled when he pretended to be insane (=distorted his discernment [טעם]) before Ambimelek (Ps. 34:1; cf. 1 Sam. 21:14). Thus, the double-meaning of icon reflects the double-meaning of טעם, which is a key word in Psalm 34.</ref>
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Revision as of 14:17, 9 January 2025


"Taste and see!"

Purpose: To encourage others to fear YHWH.

Content: Fear YHWH! Because YHWH protects and provides for those who fear him.

Message: YHWH protects and provides for those who fear him.

Author: David

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Overview

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Translation

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Notes

  1. ↑ The icon for the psalm has a double meaning. On the one hand, it depicts ‘tasting’ (Hebrew: טעם [v. 9]). At the same time, it also looks like someone drooling, just like David drooled when he pretended to be insane (=distorted his discernment [טעם]) before Ambimelek (Ps. 34:1; cf. 1 Sam. 21:14). Thus, the double-meaning of icon reflects the double-meaning of טעם, which is a key word in Psalm 34.