Psalm 83/84, Vale of Tears and the Bekaa Valley
Because I’m really sad, yesterday I emailed some online news website because it was still representing the Book of Psalms in the Irish Bog as being open on the Psalm that refers to the wiping out of Israel instead of the Psalm that refers to the ‘Vale of Tears’.
This was at least 24 hours after the National Museum of Ireland clarified that the newly discovered Psalter follows the Psalm numbering of the Vulgate version of the bible rather than the much later King James.
Or, one man’s Psalm 83 is another man’s Psalm 84, if you like. Kind of like terrorists and soldiers.
And then I joked that their article could still be relevant to the current war if they equated the Vale of Tears (or Valley of Weeping) with the Bekaa Valley. I can’t remember that website (or be bothered to search through my cache) to see if they have made that connection - so no link - but Arutz Sheva - Israel National News have made that connection, and doubtless many others.
This is more Monthy Python than Nostradamus. It would be really funny if the National Museum of Ireland now said, Oh sorry, did we say Psalm 83 meaning 84? We meant to say 84 meaning 85. But then Arutz Sheva, and everybody else who wants to, would just again proclaim, it’s a sign!. The world is mad.
See Also:
• The Irish Book of Bog
• Psalm 83, Israel and the Irish Bog Book
• Photos of Ancient Psalms Book
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And those in it will use any means possible to claim the moral high ground, and I include both Israel and Hezbollah, Syria and Iran in that. Sad indeed
There is connection between the the Bekaa Valley and Vale (or Valley) of tears. The original Hebrew for Vale of tears is Emek HaBakah. The literal translation is Valley of crying. Of course Vale of tears sounds better in english. I believe that the Bekaa Valley was the original place of those who worshipped the cananite diety Baal. In the eyes the Israelites such worship was sad indeed.