Article March 19, 1977 Issue

Words of Current Interest

Related to the Lesson-Sermon for March 27, 1977, in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE QUARTERLY Subject: Reality

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues (Ps. 55:9)

These words may be regarded as linked to the previous verse. So understood, they become an extension of the prayer for escape (as Gunkel translates) "from the destructive storm of their throats, from the flood of their tongues." The New English Bible gives the translation, "Soon I should find myself a sanctuary from wind and storm, from the blasts of calumny, O Lord, from my enemies' contentious tongues."

That ye may approve things that are excellent (Phil. 1:10)

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