{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day","title":"Psalm Chapter 37","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":302,"description":"Psalm 37: The Patience of the RighteousThis is a psalm for everyone who has ever watched a scoundrel prosper and felt their stomach tighten with something uncomfortably close to envy. David, who was old when he wrote it, does not offer pious theory but the testimony of a long life: \"I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.\" The counsel is deceptively simple — fret not, trust, delight, commit, rest, wait — and every verb is harder than it sounds, because each one requires the surrender of that most cherished human possession: the right to manage outcomes. \"The meek shall inherit the earth,\" David promises, and we nod and wonder if we believe it. But notice the image tucked into the middle: \"I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not.\" The tree that looked so permanent could not even be found. Meanwhile, the steps of the good man — not his leaps, not his grand achievements, but his ordinary steps — are ordered by the Lord. God is apparently as interested in the direction of our Tuesday as in the fate of empires.00:00 Fret Not, Trust and Delight01:00 The Meek Shall Inherit02:00 The Sword Turned Inward03:00 Steps Ordered by the Lord04:00 The Green Bay Tree That Vanished","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/C2WseAXS5mwLSdrov_M_2jK4yq73Ie3qsXM5YHymD9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYTI4/MzVhZWJjYTI1MDMy/ODg4MTI5NzlhMDg5/NmY2ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}