{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day","title":"Psalm Chapter 138","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":69,"description":"Psalm 138: The God Who Bends Low\nDavid begins with an extravagance that sounds almost impolite — \"I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.\" Not half his heart, not a considered portion, but the whole of it, and in full view of every rival power he can name. There is a boldness here that comes not from confidence in oneself but from having been answered. \"In the day when I cried thou answeredst me,\" he says, and everything else flows from that single remembered rescue. But the line that arrests me is this: \"Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly.\" Here is the essential paradox of the psalms — the Most High who looks down, not with the detached gaze of a monarch surveying his domain, but with the focused attention of someone who has chosen to care. And then the final promise, almost unbearably tender: \"The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me.\" Not what concerns the empire or the cosmos, but what concerns me. Your small, unfinished story is not beneath His notice.\n00:00 Wholehearted Praise Before the Gods\n01:00 The Lord Will Perfect What Concerns Me","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}