More Missing Verses

This week the Sunday Lectionary according to the Episcopal sect gives each parish a couple of options for the reading from the Psalter.  Psalm 92:1-4,11-14 is one choice. I will present this as another example of how the Sunday Lectionary cleans up many psalms for the Sunday pewsitters so that they don't have to struggle with parts that might make one feel that God punishes the wicked. An imprecatory psalm is thus converted into something something more palatable.  

First, let's read it the way our pewsitters will recite it,

1 It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, *and to sing praises to your Name, O Most High; 

2 To tell of your loving-kindness early in the morning *and of your faithfulness in the night season; 

3 On the psaltery, and on the lyre, *and to the melody of the harp. 

4 For you have made me glad by your acts, O Lord; *and I shout for joy because of the works of your hands. 

11 The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, *and shall spread abroad like a cedar of Lebanon. 

12 Those who are planted in the house of the Lord *shall flourish in the courts of our God; 

13 They shall still bear fruit in old age; *they shall be green and succulent; 

14 That they may show how upright the Lord is, *my Rock, in whom there is no fault.

That is what we would call "Happy Clappy".

Now what was it that the sect chose to hide from its members? Here it is,

5 Lord, how great are your works! *
your thoughts are very deep.

6 The dullard does not know,
nor does the fool understand, *
that though the wicked grow like weeds,
and all the workers of iniquity flourish,

7 They flourish only to be destroyed for ever; *
but you, O Lord, are exalted for evermore.

8 For lo, your enemies, O Lord,
lo, your enemies shall perish, *
and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

9 But my horn you have exalted like the horns of wild bulls; *
I am anointed with fresh oil.

10 My eyes also gloat over my enemies, *
and my ears rejoice to hear the doom of the wicked who rise up against me.

That would be considered hate speech by today's standards. Snowflake pewsitters would melt if they had to speak those words. 

What kind of God is being presented to the average snowflake? One stripped of His power is what they hear about. If that is all they learn, they will be gone when things heat up.