Monday, January 17, 2011

Psalms 73-150

The Facts (Chapter number: Verse)

Psalms 73 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 74 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 75 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 76 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 77 - No mention of any women.

78:63 - "Fire devoured their young men, and their girls had no marriage song."

Psalms 79 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 80 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 81 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 82 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 83 - No mention of any women.

84:3 - "Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your alters, O Lord of hosts, my King and God."

Psalms 85 - No mention of any women.

86:16 - "Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant; save the child of the serving girl."

Psalms 87 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 88 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 89 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 90 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 91 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 92 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 93 - No mention of any women.

94:6 - "They kill the widow and the stranger, they murder the orphan."

Psalms 95 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 96 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 97 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 98 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 99 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 100 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 101 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 102 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 103 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 104 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 105 - No mention of any women.

106:37-38 - "They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Caanan."

Psalms 107 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 108 - No mention of any women.

109:9 - "May his children be orphans, and his wife a widow."
109:14 - "May the iniquity of his father be remembered before the Lord, and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out."

Psalms 110 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 111 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 112 - No mention of any women.

113:9 - ""He gives the barren women a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!"

Psalms 114 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 115 - No mention of any women.

116:16 - "O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the child of your servant girl."

Psalms 117 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 118 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 119 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 120 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 121 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 122 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 123 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 124 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 125 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 126 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 127 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 128 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 129 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 130 - No mention of any women.

131:2 - "But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me."

Psalms 132 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 133 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 134 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 135 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 136 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 137 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 138 - No mention of any women.

139:13 - "For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb."

Psalms 140 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 141 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 142 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 143 - No mention of any women.

144:12 - "May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars, cut for the building of a palace."

Psalms 145 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 146 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 147 - No mention of any women.

148:11-12 - "Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth! Young men and women alike, old and young together!"

Psalms 149 - No mention of any women.

Psalms 150 - No mention of any women.


My Comments

Okay, that was entirely too long. I originally planned on just typing up the Psalms that mentioned women and not bothering to write up the chapters that didn't mention any women, but I wanted people to see just how ridiculous it all is. When all the chapters missing women are just laid out like that you can see just how devoid of women the Bible really is. I'm just glad it's over. Below are my reactions to the small amount of verses that had women. The number refers to the Psalm, not the verse, since no Psalm had anymore than one or two verses about women in it.

78: Gotta love how a punishment equal to being set on fire is to not get married. A great example of how women's sole purpose in life is to marry a man (in order to have more male children). If she cannot even do that she might as well be dead.

84: Holy shit even female animals can't get away from the women = mothers theme in these Psalms. What the hell?

86: He asks for her child to be saved but not the serving girl herself? Classy. Did he just not have enough time to ask for her to be saved specifically? That would be hard to believe since most of these have been prayers by David. So I guess he just doesn't give a shit about her since he obviously has the time to pray about everything else under the sun.

113: This is true except when God decides that women should BE barren when they were previously able to bear children. So, you know, why praise him for giving barren women children when he is just as likely to turn around and make her barren again (ie. Rebekah and Leah).

139: Seriously, does the Bible have to try and take anything a woman can do away from her? Women can give birth, and apparently because men cannot they have to do everything in their power to take that away from her. So God is the only that creates the child inside her womb. This basically leaves the woman as just a glorified baby holder. The man provides the seed and God makes the actual baby, so what exactly does the woman do here? Oh how I long for the pagan and goddess based religions that actually had a respect for a woman's ability to create life. Instead we get this bullshit that does it's best to devalue a woman's role in creating life. I throw my hands up in frustration! Ugh!

144: What does this even mean? :\

Holy crap! Now finally we can move on to something new!

Wednesday: Proverbs

2 comments:

  1. 86:16 - "Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant; save the child of the serving girl."

    116:16 - "O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the child of your servant girl."

    I thought these two related, and took from it that he prayed only for himself. His mother is mentioned only to show his lowly status.

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  2. I did think of that as well. I may have to go back and see if those two Psalms were "authored" by the same guy (probably King David). It does add another level of it being selfish if it is the same guy speaking, but it's still kind of dismissive of the mother either way. 'Cause who cares if the mother is saved or taken care of as long as her male child lives on after her. Hell, women have died in child birth and been told to be happy about this because at least they managed to have a male child and weren't COMPLETELY useless. -_-

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