Psalm 83
https://youtu.be/JyA__WiZgTE Poor Bishop Hooper
Biblical scholar Michael Fox has what you might call a typical 20th century Jewish background. At the beginning of that century his grandfather had a narrow escape from the pogroms in Russia that killed thousands of Jews. Thus, Fox was born in the U.S.A. and escaped the reach of Nazi power in the 1940s. Fox has written a commentary on the book of Esther in which he reflects on what that story means to him in light of the history of his family and his people. He comments that God seems to be hidden in the Esther story, as God has been ‘so often, so inexplicably, so unforgivably, throughout history.’ [1]
‘God, don’t shut me out;
don’t give me the silent treatment, O God.’ [MESSAGE]
Our psalmist is struggling with the silence of God. . . . . . .