Judgment Equals Deliverance - Fare Thee Well

Public Domain Marcello Venusti - http://capodimonte.spmn.remuna.org

"From heaven you pronounced judgment;

the earth was afraid and was still;

When God rose up to judgment

and to save all the oppressed of the earth."

-Psalm 76:8-9

The words, "From heaven" ring in my ears today.

Then, the word, "you" followed by "pronounced."

What was pronounced from such a lofty place by the One who alone, can finally pronounce anything at all?

Judgment.

What is that anyway?

It is the last word.

It is the final evaluation.

It is ultimate in correctness, spiritual, social, intellectual, political, moral, ethical, theoretical, and actual. It is truth.

God pronounces truth.

It come with clarity, charity, and connectivity across the spectrum of knowledge.

But what the psalmist celebrates here that it comes to save the oppressed. It pronounces deliverance for all the oppressed of the earth.

Judgment for the oppressed, downtrodden, disenfranchised, dispossessed, and disinherited of the earth is pronounced "deliverance."