Psalm 90

Kip Fox: Hey everybody, welcome back to the Lutheran Worship Podcast presented by the Center for Worship Leadership at Concordia University Irvine. I am one of your hosts, Kip Fox, the director of the Songwriter Initiative, and joined as always by my good friend and colleague and boss. Isn't that right, Steve? The Reverend Steve Zank, Director of the Center for Worship Leadership. How are you, Steve? Okay, good. Good. Well,

Steve Zank: Yeah, I'm good. Good to see you. Good to be here with with you again today. It's a blast.

Kip Fox: you know what's crazy, Steve, is we're getting a phone call just right off the bat here, and that's so wild.

Steve Zank: Wow. Yeah.

Kip Fox: I don't even know what's happening. We

Steve Zank: Okay.

Kip Fox: just got on here, but who is hello? Who's there? my goodness, it's

Cara Berg: Hey guys I just wanted to I just wanna talk again. Are you guys free? Are you busy?

Kip Fox: it's it's Kara Berg, everybody. Kara, thanks for being here. How are you?

Cara Berg: Hey, let me put you on the screen in front of my face. Yeah, I'm great. Yeah. How are how are you guys?

Kip Fox: Put us on speaker, will you? We're doing well. We are here just continuing our little series here, talking about the songs of the always album by the songwriter initiative. And we've come to our last song that we're gonna talk about, which is a song that you wrote, and we'll get into that in a second. But first let's introduce you. Kara Berg is the director of Worship Arts and Music for Prince of Peace Lutheran Church and School in Fremont, California, which I believe is the currently the fifth largest city in the East Bay. used to be the largest, as far as I remember, back in the 90s, but I think there's been some growth around there. Kara, we are here today to talk about a song that you wrote with me and Dr. Reed Lessing. As a part of our project called the Psalm Library. and we're gonna talk about that in a little bit. But Steve, I want you to tell our friends, because it's been a long time, maybe we've never talked about this on the podcast, and maybe folks are hearing about this for the first time. But obviously, we released this song on the Always album from the Songwriter Initiative in collaboration with the Psalm Library. Steve, tell the folks at home what the Psalm Library is.

Steve Zank: Yeah, the Psalm Library is one of our initiatives at the Center for Worship Leadership. The Center for Worship Leadership is an organization at Concordia University Irvine that does a lot of different things related to worship. the Songwriter Initiative, T S I is a very important initiative, which you may be familiar with now at this point, with the songs that are written, the community that's encouraged there. You heard us talk about WALLI if you've been tracking with us along this podcast, that's another initiative. that we have. It's a gathering initiative. And one of the important ones, one of the early ones we started after Wally probably is a second, was the Psalm Library. And really the intent behind that was to start to pair academic theologians, people who translate Hebrew, you know, at lunch while they're drinking their orange juice. You know, they just love Hebrew. And who could do

Kip Fox: Mm-hmm.

Steve Zank: it really well and actually can give us insights into the text of the Psalms and then pair them with songwriters so that and they work together back and forth. So that the song that comes out of the collaboration is really deeply, deeply, deeply connected to the text in a way beyond just reading the psalm in the English translation. So it really relies a lot on a Hebrew scholar for the Psalms to get into the text and provide a lot of insights that like that we can can't get in English. For the Center for Worship Leadership, one of the key things that we like about the project, besides we always love theologians and songwriters engaging each other, working together, is the idea that it connects us to the ancient church. It connects us all the way back throughout history. The Church of God has sung the Psalms. And even more importantly, it connects us to Christ. And when you look at the New Testament, it's pretty amazing, actually, The old testament book that's quoted by Jesus the most. Do you guys know what it is? Yeah, it's the book of Psalms.

Cara Berg: The psalms

Kip Fox: Gonna guess the Psalms.

Steve Zank: So it's just a an amazing tradition that connects us to Christ. And especially those in the modern aesthetic who sing a lot of more modern music have less access to psalm settings than those that do traditional aesthetic worship. And so the Psalm Library is our initiative that's really trying to help get get Psalms the diet of the Psalms, the breadth of the Psalms into the hands of the church, especially those doing w work with a modern aesthetic. So Kip, that's kind of the background for the Psalm Library.

Kip Fox: Thank you, Steve. Yeah, so if you want to see our back catalog of Psalm Library songs, just search for the Psalm Library on any of your streaming platforms and you will see gosh, I think we've got nine or ten psalms to this point and we'll continue to work on that project.

Steve Zank: we've had a lot of really great theologians partner with us. I think I'd like a Tim Sileska, who wrote the CPH commentary on the Psalms. I think it's the first half of the Psalms. here are Paul Elliott here at Concordia University, Irvine, Reed Lessing, Mike Mittendorf,

Kip Fox: Mike Mittendorf. Mike Mittendorf.

Steve Zank: CG Armstrong, many excellent scholars have helped join us in this

Kip Fox: Yeah.

Steve Zank: project.

Kip Fox: It's been awesome. So today we're gonna be talking about Psalm ninety, which is the most recent Psalm Library project. I'm gonna start by reading the psalm from the ESV translation, and then we're gonna play the song. and the I'll read the psalm and then we'll play the song and we'll talk about, as we always do, the prompt, the process, the prose, the production, and the practical application. Okay? Let me read Psalm ninety for you guys. Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. You return man to dust, and say, Return, O children of man, for a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. You sweep them away as with a flood. They are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning. In the morning it flourishes and is renewed, in the evening it fades and withers. For we are brought to an end by your anger. By your wrath we are dismayed. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. For all our days pass away under your wrath. We bring our years to an end and We bring our years to an end like a sigh. The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty, yet their span is but toil and trouble. They are soon gone and we fly away. Who considers the power of your anger and your wrath according to the fear of you? So teach us to number our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom. Return, O Lord, how long? Have pity on your servants. Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil. Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children. Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and establish the work of our hands upon us. Yes, establish the work of our hands. Psalm ninety. Let's listen to the Psalm Library setting. Psalm ninety. Lord, satisfy me.

Psalm 90 FINAL 2: you Lord, satisfy me in the morning You kept me safe through the night I'm waking up to everlasting love Lord, satisfy me in the morning For this day, all my days Are a part of your great plan And the work Lord, all comes from You So establish the work of my hands Lord, satisfy me in the morning I will rejoice and be glad You are in my home I've never been alone Lord, satisfy me in the morning For this day All my days Are a part of Your Lord, it all comes from You So establish the work of my hand Lord, satisfy me in the morning Lord make me humble and wise Let your children see the way you care for me Lord satisfy me in the morning

Kip Fox: All right. So that was Psalm ninety. Lord satisfy me. we wanna start with the prompt and in this case, the way that we do this is that I will generally reach out to some different writers about working on the Psalm Library project. And in this case I reached out to Kara and I approached Kara to work on this, asking her if there was a psalm that had been on her mind, on her heart, a psalm that she had been meditating on in particular, or one that she had always wanted to write a song about. And Kara, I believe you immediately knew Psalm 90, but tell us about me asking and you sort of diving into that.

Cara Berg: Well, I'll back up a little bit. I called you one time and

Kip Fox: Okay.

Cara Berg: asked, can I write a psalm with you? A psalm song

Kip Fox: okay.

Cara Berg: with you. And you said, No, no, not right now. But it was it was more like a not not not yet, because there was other stuff in the hopper. And so

Kip Fox: Yeah.

Cara Berg: it was great. I think you you contacted me last summer. And we were headed out to a mission trip and I said, I will contact you when I get back and I'll let you know what I'm thinking about. So I had two psalms in mine. but what's really neat that we landed on Psalm ninety is because I I had had kind of worked on it a little bit before and it had a little something. and I I don't know. It's I was kind of shy about sharing it with you, but it ended up being the psalm without hearing it, that was the psalm you were like, I'd rather work on Psalm 90 than my other suggestion, which was Psalm 88, which is like the most depressing psalm in the whole Psalm catalog.

Kip Fox: Mm-hmm.

Cara Berg: So

Steve Zank: Mm.

Cara Berg: so I'm glad we landed on Psalm 90. It's been really, really awesome process.

Kip Fox: Yeah, and I remember you had that first line, Lord Satisfy Me in the morning. And and I really liked that. And so we we took it from there. So this song really did s I think start from that first line and really wanted to sort of honor that that idea that was already in your head. But of course, like we always do, as we move into the process here, you and I wrote this with Dr. Reed Lessing. we contacted him. And Dr. Dr. Lessing is, just so you know, is the chair of Old Testament Studies, the pre-seminary director, and the director of the Center for Biblical Studies at Concordia, St. Paul. And he's also written several Old Testament commentaries for CPH and has worked with us on a psalm library project in the past, which was Psalm 16 Resurrection Day. And so as we had that starting line that Kara had had been ruminating around in her head, and I thought was a really good starting place, of course we went to Dr. Lessing and asked him to exegute Psalm ninety, and he gave us eight beautiful pages of of study on Psalm ninety, which was really cool and again, really honored to be able to get to read through that and to receive that as just a lay person, if you will. And so, yeah, please.

Steve Zank: Can I can I ask a question about that, Kip? 'Cause I I'm always fascinated by as in the process of it. You get all this really interesting theological insight, insight of to the psalm and its structure. what stood out to you guys in your in your first read of Reed's work?

Kip Fox: You know, one a couple of things. One of the things that he he talks about Psalm ninety verse twelve through fifteen, that section, and talks about the lines, Lord satisfy us in the morning, which is was our starting point. And it was just really cool because he gave us this context thing. When did God save his people from their long night in Egypt? Exodus fourteen twenty-seven says, In the morning. Psalm thirty verse five says, Weeping endures for a night, joy comes in the morning. When does God deliver us from the long nights of life? Lamentations three twenty-three says his mercies are new every morning. So just a beautiful strength of of and a strengthening of kind of what we wanted to say and why we were saying it, a depth to it. also in like s for Psalm ninety one through six, Reed had broken down the Psalm into sections and he talks

Cara Berg: Mm-hmm.

Kip Fox: about God being everlasting. And you'll hear in that verse one of ours that we are waking up to everlasting love.

Steve Zank: Yeah, yeah.

Kip Fox: And again that's in that's in the psalm, but drawing out these themes for us, I mean, and that's just a couple of examples where really just adding to the the depth of what we're trying to write and helping us make those connections is really cool.

Cara Berg: It was helpful to go back to as well as we were writing and and kind of like is is this aligning, are we matching

Kip Fox: Yeah.

Cara Berg: up with you know with Dr. Lessing's work and it was affirming too and he's such a great writer.

Steve Zank: Yeah.

Cara Berg: It was a really it's eight pages, but it was like enjoyable and and easy

Steve Zank: Yeah.

Cara Berg: to read.

Kip Fox: Yeah.

Steve Zank: Yeah, like like like if he had said the satisfy me in the morning section is is not a big deal in this psalm, you'd be like, no you'd probably change course. But the fact

Kip Fox: Right. Right. Yeah.

Steve Zank: that he's like, actually you're onto something here, that was really an encouragement, especially knowing someone like Doctor Lessing who's bringing in his knowledge of the scriptures and like you said, putting out all the other places and it actually sounds like an important biblical theme that you're drawing upon there. So

Kip Fox: Mm.

Steve Zank: Yeah, thanks for that little detour.

Kip Fox: Yeah. Yeah, and I think especially with that that section as well, and I think you can tell from the production and and just the way the song was written, I we felt like it this would be a nice change of pace of a song that that is kind of a morning song, that is light hearted

Steve Zank: Yeah.

Kip Fox: and gentle and is a is sort of a waking up to the promises of God. And so for that to be affirmed in in Dr. Lessing's work really helped us solidify that idea and and sort of carry it through. so as we kinda dive in then to the prose, which really I just by that I mean lyrics, but it it works well with the alliteration. Starting from the end, you'll kind of s you can kind of see through the verses that we sort of have in verse to verse we go. Verse one is is a reflecting on keeping us safe through the night, and God's everlasting love. Then verse two is a rejoicing, and verse three is a responding. And so we kind of as we I think we we moved through that somewhat intentionally, but definitely once we got to the end and went back to kind of see where things were, we w we wanted to have this again as a morning song have a bit of a rhythm to it and a flow to it. Is that is that true, Kara?

Cara Berg: Yeah, I'm picking up what you're throwing down. And the each verse, we liked the idea. It worked out well to sandwich it with the Lord satisfy me in the morning. And

Kip Fox: Yeah, yeah.

Cara Berg: I really resonated. I mean, that was part of my original idea. And I I like it a lot. and I appreciate that Dr. Lessing threw in a lot of other scriptural ties to this song, but one I always think of is you know, the key. to contentment. Paul says in in Philippians 4, 11, that the secret to being content in all circumstances is Jesus Christ who strengthens me. And so that we that we say, Lord Jesus Christ,

Steve Zank: Yeah.

Cara Berg: be the source of my contentedness throughout today. Let

Steve Zank: Yeah.

Cara Berg: it be centered on you. I need that every morning. So it it like I mean we get to share this with people, but I really I really needed this song.

Kip Fox: Yeah.

Cara Berg: and it I needed it to say that a lot.

Kip Fox: Yeah, I love that, Kara. So let's let's walk through those verses just piece by piece. Verse one, I'm not gonna read it all, but we we essentially say, You kept me safe through the night, which to me is a lovely nod to Luther's morning prayer. then we say that I am we say I'm waking up to everlasting love, which r is a reference to Psalm ninety, verse two there. and again strengthened by Dr. Lessing's pointing out this everlasting love in his exegesis. So we start that's

Cara Berg: Yeah, he

Kip Fox: kind of our starting point. Yeah, Kara.

Cara Berg: Yeah, he he talked about Hesed. He he said, you know, we have a lot of other words, but the word Hesed, they're the everlasting or steadfast love of God is is he says there's simply not another English word or phrase that captures the rich meaning that is contained in that Hebrew word. Steadfast

Kip Fox: Yeah.

Cara Berg: love, mercy, loving kindness, graciousness, goodness. They're all valiant attempts, but they fall short. It's like trying to catch the n To trying to catch Niagara Falls in a thimble. Like,

Kip Fox: Yeah.

Cara Berg: wow, the vastness of God's love. So we did our best by saying everlasting love, but it is

Kip Fox: Yeah.

Cara Berg: unimaginable.

Kip Fox: Yeah. Yeah, so that first verse again you're just you're really waking up in reflecting on the steadfast love of God as as you've been kept safe through the night and as you start your day. And then we move into verse two there and we say, I I will rejoice and be glad, which is certainly a common Biblical phrase, but it it's definitely in there in Psalm ninety, verse fifteen. and then we say, You have been my home, I've never been alone. And that is a reference to Psalm 90, verse 1, which says, Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

Cara Berg: Mm-hmm.

Kip Fox: So again, we move from reflecting on that steadfast love and and then we rejoice. and we rejoice because we have never been alone. I'll s I'll go to verse three and then we'll come back to the chorus. Verse three, then, once we've in our song gone through a chorus a couple of times, we come to the end and we ask for God to make us humble and wise, which is a reference to Psalm ninety, verse twelve, which I read before, but I'll read again. so teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. And I feel like Kara for us that was a way especially within the the the meter and the syllables we were working with was a way to say when we said humble and wise, it was really a way to say, Teach us to number our days. To what to to me at least, numbering our days is an a is a act of exercising humility. Right.

Cara Berg: Very good.

Kip Fox: And then The psalmist calls for God to give him wisdom, and then

Cara Berg: Mm-hmm.

Kip Fox: we we move on from there and say, Let your children see the way you care for me. which is a reference to Psalm 90, verse 16. But I just want to say as as a whole, if you say the whole verse together, Lord, satisfy me in the morning. Lord make me humble and wise. Let your children see the way you care for me. I think we wanted to really show well what what does wisdom s look like? Ultimately wisdom looks like f f having a fuller and fuller picture of the way God has cared for us. and so I don't know, that was at least kind of my Yeah, right.

Steve Zank: Yeah, the fool the fool says in his heart, There is no God. And

Cara Berg: Hmm, yeah.

Steve Zank: the wy and the wise one sees God at work and understands his world. Yeah.

Cara Berg: Can I share what Dr. Lessing? I really liked how he described this for that section of the psalm. What is the proper response to human transience, which is the first half of the psalm due to God's anger? Wisdom, which denotes skill in living. Divine wisdom comes by counting our days, along with God's turn from law to gospel Then the pivot, Lord, satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all the days of our lives. I I really like the idea of praying for humility and wisdom, also because it again centers me on the sovereignty of God, that he is the source of all things, that he's in control of all things, that he is the most wise and the and the most powerful and all of that. And I am just, I'm just me, you know.

Kip Fox: Mm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's a and again as as as a morning song, we just felt like that's a beautiful way to a beautiful prayer to start the day, with that perspective and that knowledge and understanding of God's infinite wisdom, his great power and then again his steadfast love for us. So That is I think that's a pretty good deep dive into the pros, if you will. Well, let's move into the production here. So, Steve, you mentioned the flute at the top and Really we we felt like this again, a tender morning song was the idea and so we had great musicians playing on this and we just again wanted to keep it very simple and light. And I had always heard a f a f some kind of a flute happening situation happening.

Steve Zank: Is that because of Bambi? Like where did that start? Like the idea that flutes are the sound of the morning. Am I misremembering that? Is it the bird? Yeah. Nice.

Kip Fox: I think doo doo doo doo yeah, you know, exactly. It comes from

Cara Berg: Sounds like a bird. Yeah, it sounds like a bird.

Kip Fox: many, you know, great composers of of years and y yonder past. I don't know what that means. using flutes using

Steve Zank: Yeah. No, it means yonder past yeah.

Kip Fox: flutes to denote mourning, okay?

Steve Zank: Yeah. It's like a c a pretty strong cultural symbol. Like when I hear flutes, I actually do think mourning. Yeah. Yeah.

Kip Fox: okay, good. Well there you go. so yeah, that's production. Let's move into the practical, okay?

Steve Zank: Wait, all we're getting is the flutes? That's it? That's all?

Kip Fox: Yeah, the flutes. Well, I mean there were there was k yeah, go ahead, Kara.

Cara Berg: We also we should talk about the chorus.

Kip Fox: did we skip the chorus? Yeah, we did. Okay, let's go back to the chorus.

Cara Berg: We did. Should have spoken up some.

Kip Fox: Yeah, the whole point, the whole kind of the w after Lord satisfies in the morning, as I said in the beginning, we we really wanted to talk about establishing the work of our hands and 'cause it's just that was a beautiful prayer, and a beautiful supplication, if you will. Kara, tell us about the chorus.

Cara Berg: The chorus was a big lift from you. And it's a really fun to write with you, Kip, because you're just really good at this. And you what you do well is taking our conversation and coming back later and saying, I think, I think this is what we want to say. What do you think of this? And the idea that in our vocations as in particular you know, for me, you you were very thoughtful of what I do and like, see, like does this resonate with the kind of the messaging that you need in the morning? It's like, yes, I need to be centered on that. And and I I do believe that the text for the chorus could apply to anyone, any morning of of of any day that they get to to live and breathe is that we would want to use this day to honor the Lord, to serve the Lord, to glorify the Lord, to enjoy the blessings that the Lord has given us. And that anything that we would do would be in accordance with his will and that he would use it and establish it and make it make it prosper. So you

Kip Fox: Yeah.

Cara Berg: you brought that chorus and I just loved it. It was it was perfect.

Kip Fox: Awesome. Yeah, we just, you know, as as we had talked and and were writing, we really wanted to again take that focus of our of our work and place it in God's hands and and help that be gosh, just a really uplifting way to start each day with placing all of our work in God's hands. So thanks, Kara. I appreciate that. Now that we've gone back to the course, let's jump forward to practical application. Where do we see this fitting? In a service, in a school, in a children's ministry, in a nursing home? Where do we see this song working well?

Cara Berg: I I think you could use it in a church service and I have. you could teach it to kids. I think it's really singable.

Steve Zank: Where do you where'd you put it in a church service, Kara? Where'd you find a good spot in your experience?

Cara Berg: I used it as gathering music in the in the like a pre prelude of sorts. Yeah. and for children, you know, the recorded version is in my range, which I have a child's range. so kids could do it. The text isn't hard, it's not it doesn't have a crazy any vocal jumps or anything like that. And I think people could make this their alarm clock song.

Steve Zank: Mm-hmm.

Cara Berg: You probably know this, but you can on your iPhone or your Android, you can select a song from your like music app. It's got to be on your phone and you can

Kip Fox: Yep.

Cara Berg: make it be your alarm clock song instead of alarm clock sound. So just imagine waking up to that in the morning and having that be, you know Something subtle and sweet that sets your day right versus like yeah. So

Kip Fox: Love it. Yeah, I think the use in worship s certainly it it seems like somewhat of a a way to start. and oftentimes in many contemporary contexts we're starting with a real energizing tune. But I think man, what a cool changeup and what a beautiful way to start your service. Or again, put it on your ringtone. Whatever you think. Steve, what do you think?

Steve Zank: Yeah. No, I I I love what you said, Kip. It's there's there's a sense that people feel a pressure that they need to start the service with a really strong celebratory tone song. Like, you know, if you're a contemporary, you've got a drum set and the bass really going after it. If you're in a traditional, you your organs and get all the stops pulled, you know, but

Kip Fox: Yeah.

Steve Zank: you know, I think there's a way in which worship of any kind does not require you to start with exuberance. It could. But you can also start with something like this, Psalm ninety, Lord Satisfy Me in the morning. And I I love that you mentioned that. And you know, in terms of of use, I I love first and foremost the Psalm library. one of the things I love about it personally is the the devotional use.

Kip Fox: Mm.

Steve Zank: in my own life, in my own kitchen,

Cara Berg: Yeah. Yes.

Steve Zank: in my own home, hearing the s words of the psalm, having my children hear the words of the psalm. And so that's one, you know, I think one really important thing to think about is It's not always just church contexts in terms of the divine service, but there's other other ways to do this, especially scripture songs like this. and I'm using scripture songs loosely as I mentioned earlier. I know it's not a a one-for-one translation. So I think that's a great value. I I think a a playlist with all the Psalm Library songs is is could be really fun. And then

Kip Fox: Yeah.

Steve Zank: the other thing I'll say is I I think in terms of divine service, I really think I I would love to to pair this with when you do Psalm 90 in a service. I think there's

Kip Fox: Mm-hmm.

Steve Zank: a really good opportunity to actually sing the psalm that you're gonna talk and study and not just read it. And that's one

Kip Fox: Yeah.

Steve Zank: thing for the Psalm Library songs that that I love is if we get a chance to read that psalm in the service to then sing the psalm.

Kip Fox: Mm-hmm.

Steve Zank: is a really cool opportunity. And I think that is always a good chance to teach. You could even use this as a as a springboard for preaching. So you could

Cara Berg: Mm-hmm.

Kip Fox: Yeah.

Steve Zank: each as you preach on Psalm 90, you could even engage the song lyrics. That's what

Kip Fox: Mm.

Steve Zank: one of the preachers did at the Wally summit recently is

Cara Berg: Mm-hmm.

Steve Zank: they're preaching on Psalm 16. We sang the Psalm Library Psalm 16 version. The the sermon was was not from this the song text. The sermon was from the Psalmed the psalm text. But the preacher engaged with the text of the song that we produced, Resurrection Day, throughout the sermon as well. And it really I think then people hear that that song based on the psalm at home, they actually begin to think of the sermon. And they remember

Cara Berg: Yeah.

Steve Zank: the application. And there's a really opportunities there for teaching that I think are worth raising up.

Cara Berg: Steve, that's so cool. Because for me, what you just said comes full sort full circle. our our p our senior pastor here, Dr. Tom Zelt, has preached on Psalm 90. I think I have Tally Mark in my Bible. Like,

Steve Zank: Yeah.

Cara Berg: probably probably nine times in the eleven years that I've been here, maybe it's not

Steve Zank: Yeah.

Cara Berg: that much, but he often will use it for a New Year's Eve service. And I That's why I started meditating on this psalm and thinking

Kip Fox: Mm.

Cara Berg: and coming up with a song for it because he had preached on it so much. And I loved, I loved what it said, especially as it wraps up at the end. and we're on I another thing I want to say about the psalms and the psalm libraries and the joy of being able to write them for in our vernacular and and on this side of the resurrection. Because we know that the the wrath you mentioned like not. The full scope of Psalm 90 is in this song. But we know that the wrath of God that is spoken about in the first half of the psalm, because of Jesus Christ we are covered by the blood of the Lamb and we await his second coming. It even says, like, how return, O Lord. Like, I know that there was a captivity moment and the psalms and all of that, but we get to say, okay, return, O Lord. Come back, Jesus. We're ready. So I

Kip Fox: Mm.

Cara Berg: I it's just been such a joy to to be able to have this opportunity to to write with you again, Kip, and to have something beautiful be shared with a lot of people and I hope that it draws them to the text that they open their Bible.

Steve Zank: Yeah. Yeah.

Kip Fox: Awesome. Thank you, Kara. Thank you, Steve. we'll end it there. We've had a great time discussing all of the songs on the Always album. If you want to go check that out, the Songwriter Initiative is what you will search for. check out the album Always, which has nine tracks on it, one of which being Psalm ninety, Lord Satisfy Me. but we hope you had a great time diving into the songs with us. And next time we do another project, which we will be doing, we've got a an advent album coming out with eight tracks coming out in November. So keep an eye out for that. But for now, go listen to Psalm ninety one more time and share it with your friends. Download any of the free resources you want with for Psalm ninety on weaveworship.com, W E A V E Worship dot com. And we will see you next time. Thank you guys.