Refuge of the Poor, Prayer of the Righteous and the Simple Ones, Protected by G-d - Psalms Chapter 14 - Tehilim Poetry
While thinking of a concept for this weeks piece, I decided to try my hand at another Tehilim Poem. Since we are holding at Chapter 14, this is the one I am writing about. In this chapter, the verse that stuck out to me was this one. "עֲצַת־עָנִ֥י תָבִ֑ישׁוּ כִּ֖י יְ-הֹ-וָ֣-ה מַחְסֵֽהוּ", which translates to, "You put to shame the counsel of the poor, for the L-rd is his refuge." The way I orriginally understood that, is that Hashem is the One who protects and shields the poor, downtrodden person from evil, shame, and hardship. With this idea in mind, I wrote a poem out and was about to share it, when I decided to take a checkup and make sure I understood the words correctly as I felt I had not truthfully understood the verse properly. I reached out to a very dear and beloved subscriber, and I was told that, while my understanding was correct, many commentaries and translations understand the verse to mean that, Israel, or the Jewish People, are called "עני...