Beyond the idealization of
humans is the idealization of the society of humans as a society of
'law and order' and beyond that idealization is the ideal of
justice as exemplified by equity. The Psalmist in his moments of
idealization does justice to both of these concepts in his songs of
law and equity. Indeed Psalm 119 could be paraphrased in a volume
of its own.
Psalm #35
(
Sung to lawyers )
Counsel, plead my cause.
Defender,
stand up for me,
fight for me my fight.
Take hold of shield
and buckler,
Draw out the spear, stop the way.
Psalm #54
( a supplication)
Save me by thy name
judge me by thy
mighty power
give ear to my words.
For strangers rise against
me
and oppressors seek my soul.
Psalm #142
(song of
entrapment)
Walking very straight
But the D. A. sets a
trap.
Get me out of jail.
Cause I'm feeling very low
get
someone to go my bail.
Psalm #28
( the oracles song
)
Holy oracle
hear thou my supplication
when I lift my
hands.
If thou be silent to me
down I go, into the
pit.
Psalm #79
(a song of clemency)
Scorned and
derided,
a reproach to our neighbors,
by thy great
power
save us, sighing prisoners,
we who are about to
die.
Psalm 119
(for law and order)
Strangers on
the earth
lost like bottles in the smoke,
help us find our
way.
If we only keep the law,
we shall walk at
liberty.
Psalm #5
(for more law and order)
Abhor
deceivers
whose throats are as yawning graves
whose hearts,
fatal chasms.
Led in paths of righteousness,
the way, thy
way, will be straight
Psalm #119
(for law
students)
Open eyed at night
meditating all the
day,
how I love the law.
Tis a lamp unto my feet
and a
light unto my path.
Psalm #94
( Kingsfields
song)
Understand, ye fools
He that teacheth man
knowledge
Possesses knowledge.
He that shapes the ear can
hear
He that forms the eye, can see.
Psalm #82
(a song of
equity)
Judge not unjustly.
Protect the poor, the
orphans,
the ill, the needy.
Deliver them, defend
them,
You, their Gods, are but men.
Psalm #9
(a song
for Reaganomics)
Sinking in the pit,
tangled in the webs
they weave,
Nations are human.
But the poor shan't be
forgot,
their hopes not lost forever.
Psalm #113
( a song
of equal rights)
Out of the dunghill
out of the dust, the
needy
are met with princes.
The barren woman keeps
house,
joyful mother of children.
Psalm #136
(a song of
mercy)
The sun rules by day,
for mercy ever
endures;
the stars, moon by night;
for mercy ever
endures,
mercy endures forever.