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*'''v.7.''' עוּרָה – "Wake up" implies th … </br>*'''v.7.''' עוּרָה – "Wake up" implies that God is sleeping and thus draws on the motif of the sleeping warrior (cf. Ps. 78:65-66).</br>*'''vv.7-14.''' Yahweh is a righteous judge (v.12, שֹׁפֵט). Rising up (v.7a), he decrees judgment (v.7c) and presides over the "assembly of peoples" (vv.8-9a). His judgment is upright, upholding the righteous (vv.9, 10b) and putting an end to wickedness (v.10a). This judicial imagery (vv.7-12) is blended with battle imagery (vv.11-14), as the Judge takes up sword and bow against the wicked. The two metaphorical schemas (Yahweh as Judge; Yahweh as Warrior) are intrinsically related: Israel's pre-monarchical judges (שֹׁפְטִים) were political/military leaders who enacted משׁפט on the battlefield (e.g., Jdg. 2:9-10) as well as in the courtroom (e.g., Jdg. 3:5). In Israel, "the civil officer (the שׁפט) had the executive as well as judicial powers. He also executed or caused to be executed judicial decisions."'"`UNIQ--ref-00000E90-QINU`"' Thus, in the book of Judges, שֹׁפֵט is practically synonymous with מוֹשִׁיעַ (Jdg. 2:16; 3:9, 15; etc.). This is the case also in Psalm 7: '''מ֝וֹשִׁ֗יעַ '''יִשְׁרֵי־לֵֽב (v.11b) / אֱ֭לֹהִים '''שׁוֹפֵ֣ט''' צַדִּ֑יק (v.12a).</br></br>:The target domain for Yahweh's warring against the wicked is the dynamistic process described in vv.15-17. "One must observe the juxtaposition of the description of Yahweh as warrior (vss. 13f.) with that of the dynamistic process (vss.15-17). This very juxtaposition implies that the dynamistic process, though expressed in impersonal terms, is in reality the outward form which Yahweh’s warfare takes. Yahweh the warrior, cartying out his legal sentence, masquerades, as it were, in the dynamic. The omission of specific mention of him has a particular intention: it highlights the inevitability, equivalence, orderedness and even mysteriousness of the process; it stresses that such perversions of order as underlie this text boomerang upon the perpetrator."'"`UNIQ--ref-00000E91-QINU`"'</br>on the perpetrator."'"`UNIQ--ref-00000E91-QINU`"'
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