Movie: Quentin Tarantino: A revenge-fantasy movie on the culture-cutting theme of slavery in 'Django Unchained'

In the much reviewed new movie 'Django Unchained,' directed by violence-prone Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds  here), this movie is styled a "slave-era spaghetti western" and "a plaftorm for a bloody, profanely comic-pop entertainment" over one of the most important reviews to date, by Erin Aubry Kaplan.  I can't recommend strongly enuff that your read Kaplan's offering.in the Los Angeles Times (Dec28,2k12).  The movie was released June 12,2k12, and is now being assessed in the turn-of-the-year surveys that will dominate much entertainment news reporting until after the New Year.

In the meantime, shift your gaze from critique of the director, especially on racial grounds, to a critique of the very prominent black actors among the stars — like Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, and Samuel K. Jackson.

Shay Riley's blog, Booker Rising, reports:

"Instead of just at white director Quentin Tarantino, asserts [Constructive Feedback,] the conservative blogger in Georgia:

If Spike Lee was serious, he would channel his anger over 'Django Unchained' towards Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson [black actors in the Tarantino-directed film — refWrite]. While Spike Lee engages in yet another battle with yet another peer movie director — his arguments fail to capture the real issue with the projection of 'Black history' as a 'Spaghetti Western'.  IF 'Django Unchained' was a 'Minstrel Show' — Spike Lee would be fighting against the producer but giving the actors 'in Blackface' a pass.  It is only the fact that he has a good relationship with Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington that he has EXCLUDED them from his attacks per their participation in the production.

Constructive Feedback "continues his commentary about racism chasing:

There is no question that Black Progressive operatives [like Lee] understand the ramifications of their criticism of fellow Blacks in good standing [Foxx, Washington, but Jackson not included?].  It is easier for [Black Progressives like Lee] to express rank 'intellectual dishonesty' by targeting their words at a 'White director' — giving the 'Black supporting actors' the ability to claim 'This is a debate between Lee and Tarentino, not with me'."

Of course, so far as I know director Tarantino isn't debating anything with director Lee.  This is a debate between Lee and Foxx, Washington, and Jackson, if it is any debate at all.  Rather, its most probably a debate between Spike Lee and Spike Lee.

The brilliant Mr Lee, outstanding director himself, is simply itching for his periodic debate with yet another White director.  Lee has developed a line about White directors who produce movies with Black themes and using/casting/hiring Black actors for said movies because their excellence as performers calls them to this production.  On the issue he puts forward once again, the venerable Mr Lee has worked himself into something of a corner, but he can't pull back (as in "pull his punches") from making his now pro forma (or formula) critique, because the actors have clout and respect from black movie-goers; and the film, tho very tarantino in its stylistics, is one where director and actors seem to have developed a symbiotic relationship with one another for the purposes of the film which centers around a credible black protagonist in a historical depiction of America's old West.  Just on the plot level alone, the work that Tarantino and script writers have invested in the motivation of Mr. Foxx's lead character establishes both his historical likelihood and his crediblity, the more fortuitous feature of the story-line is that of his white mentor.  I for one don't find the friendship that emerges as incredible, but some Black critics may do so, of course.  Yet, by this time in the story, even they may let their defenses down, based on the likeability and solidarity-evoking strength of character played by Jamie Foxx.

— Moviethink, refWrite Backpage movies newspotter, analyst, columnist

'Django' an unsettling experience for many blacks

Plot Summary:  Set in th South two years before the USA Civil War, Django Unchained stars Academy-Award-winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal hjistory with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Cristoph Waltz).  Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers and only Django can lead him to his bounty.  The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles dead or alive.  Success leads Schultz to free Django, though the two men choose not to go ther separate ways.  Instead, Schultz seeks out the South's most wanted criminals with Django by his side.  Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago.  [Her character's very name seems a trivialization of her personhood, as I grew up on the comic strip with the same designation.]  Django's and Schultz'e search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Leonardo di Captrio), the proprietor of 'Candyland,' an infamous plantation where slaves are groomed by trainer Ace Woody (Kurt Russell) to battle each other for sport.  Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stepen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candie's trusted house slave.  Their moves are marked, and a treacherous organization closes in on them.  If Django and Schultz are to escape with Broomhilda, they must choose between independence and solidarity, between sacrifice and survival. — Trailer Addict 

YouTube (Dec28,2k12)  4,141,938 hits to date, a very busy webpage.





— Moviethink, refWrite Backpage movies newspotter, analyst, columnist

'Django' an unsettling experience for many blacks

Another retro update (Jan2,2k13)

Pastor Matt Blog (Dec29,2k12)

Well before Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained hit theaters it generated a lot of controversy.  Even though actors, agents and studio execs are supposed to keep high level scripts under wraps, Tarantino’s screenplay had all of Hollywood buzzing about the degree of violence and the frequent use of the “N” word.  How did it all turn out? Is it just a shockfest? A corny homage to spaghetti westerns? Actually, it is easily Tarantino’s finest film since Pulp Fiction and perhaps the best movie of the year.

The story is set in the south two years before the Civil War.  Dr. King Schultz (played brilliantly with an ironic innocent glee by Christoph Waltz) is a German dentist turned bounty hunter who needs a recently sold slave, Django (portrayed by Jamie Foxx in an Oscar worthy performance), to identify three outlaws–the Brittle Brothers.  After freeing Django, locating the Brittles on a Tennessee farm and battling a band of masked white supremacists, Schultz asks the recently freed slave to be his partner.  Django agrees, with the proviso that they free his wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), from Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), a plantation owner who delights in “mandingo fighting” where slaves battle to the death.  Schultz concocts a plan to infiltrate the plantation to find and free Broomhilda by posing as a wealthy degenerate who wants to purchase a champion fighter.  All goes well until Candie’s trusted house slave, Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), begins to suspect that Schultz and Django are up to something.  I couldn’t reveal anymore without dropping serious spoilers but let’s just say it gets bloody.

The movie is nothing short of a masterpiece: The acting rivals Lincoln for the best ensemble performance of the year and although it is close to three hours in length, the pace is crisp.  My only criticisms are that Tarantino’s cameo is distracting as are some of the songs chosen for the soundtrack (Jim Croce?) but these are minor flaws in an otherwise near perfect film.

But what is a Christian to make of the graphic violence, brief nudity and strong language? Given the setting and message of the film, I believe they are warranted.  Now, before you yank my evangelical card, please hear me out.

First of all, the free use of the “N” word, the brief nudity (related to the torture and humiliation of slaves) and some of the violence highlights the brutality of the pre-Civil War South in the same way the graphic depictions of the holocaust by Spielberg inSchinder’s List underscored the barbarity of the Nazis.  The inspired authors of Scripture also use graphic depictions of depravity to make their point–read about the rape, murder and mutilation of the concubine in Judges 19.

Second, the violence is part of the theme of justice that pervades the story.

I am preparing to teach a class at a local church on apologetics and the Christian worldview.  One of the arguments for the existence of God is the inherent human desire for justice even for complete strangers.  In the end, Django Unchained is about justice.  In fact, the overall trajectory of the film is injustice, death, resurrection and justice.  Sound familiar?

When justice comes it is brutal but have you read the Book of Revelation? When ultimate justice comes to our world it will not be pretty!

With those with eyes to see and ears to hear, Django Unchained is actually a powerful movie about depravity, resurrection and justice that echoes Scripture.

I give it an A+ and highly recommend it for those who have the stomach for it.

Music: Steve Rae Vaughan in concert: Montreux Switzerland (complete live performance)

Here's one of our favourites, Stevie Rae Vaughan, at Montreux, Switzerland, live, this time complete.
1 and 1/2 hours.  He's dressed in full ceremonial regalia.

— Musikos, refWrite Backpage music newspotter, analyst, columnist



YouTube (Dec27,2k12)

Music: Movie soundtrack song by Frank Ocean: Django Unchained

Here's the singing sensation Frank Ocean from the soundtrack of the movie sensation Django Unchained.

— Musikos, refWrite Backpage music newspotter, analyst, colmnist


YouTube (Dec27,2k12) Audio only!

Sports: Football USA pro: Tebow under lash of intemperate journos tongue

There's a football journo out there whose main suit is character assassination.  He seems to have a certain proprietorial attitude toward the New York Jets, but that doesn't mean he shows any respect for the coach, Rex Ryan.  I'm trying to figure out whether it's really coach Ryan or woud-be quarterback Tim Tebow toward whom journo Peter Schwartz has a deep-seated pathological hatred.  My guess is that it's Tebow — how else do you get this kind of rhetoric — "bizarre," "phony," "utter nonsense," "a bad apple in the locker room," "horrible practice player," "not a very good quarterback," "broken ribs" even gets thrown into the mix, with the Jets "all he's been is a loser and a phony."  Maybe Tebow isn't suitable for the Jets, but I doubt that the fuming Schwartz woud know how to go about finding why.  It does seem Tebow has curdled since he first came to the team, with all his baggage of being a hotshot player elsewhere and his notoreity for his evangelical witness.  Gads!, doesn't that alone set him up as a potential critic of other players' religions or none?  There's something sociologically consequential if you parachute into a new team with that kind of trumpet blasting.  There was already a team there, a set of interhuman relations in place in all there complexity, rivaliries in abundance, friendships, and lines of trust.  If only it coud be sociographed, eh?  Sociology aside, I suspect that there's a real psychodrama happening on the Jets team.  And then there's the sideshow of Schwartz the Journo playing out his own deep hostilities from the sidelines, when he shoud get to the bottom of the matter or shut up, woudn't you think?

— Sportikos, refWrite Backpage sports newspotter, analyst, columnist


CBS New York (Dec26,2k12)

Schwartz: Tebow Turned

Out To Be A Phony

December 24, 2012 9:51 AM

(credit: David Welker/Getty Images)

by Peter Schwartz

I could sense something was strange during training camp up in Cortland. Even other reporters talked about it as well. With every media session involving Tim Tebow that came and went, there was something bizarre about our chats with the Jets’ new backup quarterback.

He really sounded like a phony.

And now it’s obvious that the first impressions of Tebow were correct.

It should not come as a surprise that reports indicate that Tebow opted out of the wildcat package for Sunday’s game against the Chargers when he was told that Greg McElroy would get the start over him. Tebow’s “I’ll do whatever I can to help the team” pledge from the day that the Jets acquired him turned out to be nothing but utter nonsense.

Tebow is not the good teammate that we all thought he was and now it seems as if reports about him being a bad apple in the locker room are true. What does it say about someone, who has captivated the world with his religious faith, doesn’t want to be a part of the game plan to help his team win?

My thought had always been that the Jets didn’t handle this whole Tebow thing very well. Why would you trade a 4th round pick for someone, tell the world about your grand master plan for him, and then hardly ever use him?

It’s simple. Leaks from the organization indicate that Tebow is a horrible practice player. My guess is that the Jets took one look at Tebow during off-season workouts, then another in training camp, and then came to the decision that they made a horrible mistake. They could have just been happy with Drew Stanton as the backup. And, as we saw on Sunday with his 42 yard pass to Clyde Gates, Jeremy Kerley could have been the wildcat quarterback from the get-go.

Rex Ryan was clearly not willing to give this guy any extensive playing time because he knew that Tebow wasn’t a very good quarterback. Ryan’s mistake was not having the onions to make him inactive, especially when he had broken ribs and in the games following Greg McElroy’s heroics against the Cardinals.

This is why some people feel that Ryan is not head coaching material. He’s too loyal to his players and maybe he’s just too nice of a guy.

But this blog is not intended to be a rip job on Ryan. It’s to show that Tebow just might not be this great guy and football player that everybody thinks he is. The worst thing that you can do as a teammate is to not be there for your teammates. So if it’s true that he didn’t want to play on Sunday because he was angry about not starting, then that is inexcusable. Let’s not discount how charitable Tebow has been, especially with children, and how important he has been for those who also follow in his faith, but we’re talking about a football player here.

He’s a football player with a huge national following and someone who has been a winner in high school, college, and one magical year in the NFL with the Broncos.

But now, it’s very apparent that since coming to the Jets, all he’s been is a loser and a phony
.

Sports: Basketball USA pro: Christmas Day game sees Lakers squeeze past Knicks

NY's Knicks can't hold back LA's Lakers who win by 6 points in hard fawt fray.  Final score at bottom ...



Bleacher Report (Dec25,2k12)

Preview

by Alec Nathan 

In traditional National Basketball Association fashion, the New York Knicks (20-7) will travel to Tinseltown to square off with the Los Angeles Lakers (13-14) on Christmas Day.

The Lakers enter Tuesday's showdown having won four straight games, three of which were on the road. In fact, the Lakers' last loss came at the hands of the Knicks nearly two weeks ago in a 116-107 defeat at Madison Square Garden.

If the last meeting meeting between these two teams was any indication, then we're in for a Christmas Day shootout.

Kobe Bryant (29.7 points per game) and Carmelo Anthony (28.3 points per game) are first and second in the NBA in scoring, while the Lakers (fifth) and Knicks (sixth) both hover around the top five in the NBA in team scoring.

With high-powered offenses on both sides, Tuesday's matinee may come down to team defense, where the Knicks hold an advantage of their Western Conference counterparts.

Mike Woodson's bunch currently ranks 12th in the NBA in team defense, allowing96.5 points per game and just 95.7 points over their last three contests.

The Lakers, on the other hand, rank 22nd in the NBA in team defense, surrendering 99.9 points per game to opponents and a rather concerning 104.3 over their last three games.

The silver lining in all of this is that Mike D'Antoni's squad has held opponents to a healthier 96.1 points per game at home this season.

Keep it locked here on Bleacher Report throughout the day as the Knicks and Lakers get set to tip things off at 3 p.m. ET on ABC.

Half-time:  by Mike Prada Dec25, 4:11 pm

SB Nation (Dec25,2k12)

Metta World Peace scored 16 second-quarter points to lead the Lakers to a two-point halftime lead over the Knicks.

The second quarter of the Christmas Day showdown between the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers was much more ragged than the first. At the half, the Lakers emerged with a lead thanks to the exploits of Metta World Peace. World Peace scored 16 second-quarter points and the Lakers are in front, 51-49.

World Peace was indeed the offensive star for the Lakers. He hit three-pointers off pindown screens offensively and locked down Carmelo Anthony well defensively. Anthony has 10 points in the half, but has shot just 4-of-11 from the field, and his first two field goals came with Darius Morris guarding him.

Kobe Bryant added 15 first-half points for the Lakers, but 13 of those came in the first quarter.

e and has hit both difficult and easy shots.

J.R. Smith was the man who truly got it going for the Knicks in that second quarter. He has 14 points on 6-of-9 shooting at halftime and has hit both difficult and easy shots.

Yahoo!Sports (Dec26,2k12)

Final Score

Los Angeles Lakers 100 

beat New York Knicks 94

Music: Hymn: O Holy Night by Choirs, King's College, Cambridge

A delight to be able to send this your way this Christmas Day ....

— Musikos, refWrite Backpage music newspotting analyist colomnist


YouTube (Dec25,2k12)

Below is a Sony restriction on Canadian sites.  But click the purple button to watch
on YouTube ...

Christmas greetings: Feliz Natal: A toast to John Calvin!

Hat Tip to Leonardo Ramos



YouTube (Dec25,2k12)

Music: Christmas time: U2 singing 'Christmas Baby please come home'

Hat Tip to Hesed Jack Dosejo Alvarez



YouTube (Dec25.2l12)

Video: Christmas Story: as told and enacted by kids in New Zealand

Hat Tip to Byron Borger


YouTube (Dec25,2k12)

Music: Sarah McLachlan: Greensleeves — What child is this?

Another traditional Christmas time song that I haven't heard anywhere this season.  But then I don't get out much.

— Muskikos, refWrite Backpage music newspotter, analyst, columnist



YouTube (Dec25,2k12)

Music: Jars of Clay: Drummer Boy

Hat Tip to Hesed Jack Dosejo Alvarez, Philippines



YouTube (Dec25,2k12)

Poem: “Descending Theology: Christ Human” Mary Karr, Poetry Magazine, December 2001: via Alissa Wilkinson (Dec23,2k12) and The reformational Daily (Dec25,2k12)

“

   Such a short voyage for a god

and you arrived in animal form so as not
   
  to scorch us with your glory

Your mask was an infant’s head on a limp stalk,
   
  sticky eyes smeared blind,

limbs rendered useless in swaddle.
   
  You came among beasts

as one, came into our care or its lack, came crying
   
  as we all do, because the human frame

is a crucifix, each skeleton borne a lifetime.
   
  Any wanting soul lain

prostrate on a floor to receive the poured sunlight
   
  might — if still enough,

feel your cross buried in the flesh.
   
  One has only to surrender,

you preached, open both arms to the inner,
   
  the ever-present embrace,

which props one up, out-reaches every grasp.
   
  It’s in the form imbedded,

love adamant as bone. The miracle’s not just
   
  that you became us, but also

those breathed-in instants allotted to us each
   
  (even poor Brother Judas),

when one relinquishes self and will and want.
   
  Then you’re laid bare in us,

and for some briefly gentle eyeblink
   
we bloom and are you. 

”

Music: Arabic: Kazem Alsaher and the 100 virgins

Bad joke.  Sorry, Kazem.  Lively and wistful music, good mood, and yes lots of lovely women in line.

— Muzikos, refWrite Backpage music newspotting, analyst, columnist

YouTube (Dec24,2k12)

Sports: Gaza athletes: Tumble at the sand bank, then in panic flee still in a good mood because Israeli shells land and befoul the air

YouTube (Dec24,2k12)

Music: Egypt's 2011 Revolution: Ramy Essan in concert Cairo, December 23, 2011

I was blown away by this documentary collage of the music scene in Cairo
during the 2011 revolution, centered in and rippling out from Tahrir Square ...

— Musikos, refWrite Backpage music newspotter, analyst, columnist


France24 (Dec24,2k12)

Egypt:  The songs of Tahrir Square

Music at the heart of the revolution

Visit the various digital sectors of the online page,
if you look, you can't miss it.  

Ramy Essan in concert, Cairo, Dec 23, 2011.

Esquenderella sings a new song, "Safha guedida" (A New Page)

Amir Eid and Hani Adel, "The voice of freedom is calling me"

Mohamed Oussama, "I have seen ..."

Music: Rubem Amorese (lyrics): Psalm 22 in Brasil Portuguese

I found this rendition of the Psalm refreshing, musically, and videographically.

— Musikos, refWrite Backpage music newspotter, analyst, columnist


YouTube (Dec24,2k12)
A rock interpretation 
of Psalm 22 in Brasil Portuguese



Lyrics by Rubem Amorese and Toninho Zemuner
Interpretation musically by André L. Fernandes "Geléia"

Below:  Psalm 22 in English and

Psalm 22^[a]

For the director of music. To the tune of “The Doe of the Morning.” A psalm of David.

¹ My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
    Why are you so far from saving me,
    so far from my cries of anguish?
² My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
    by night, but I find no rest.^[b]

³ Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;
    you are the one Israel praises.^[c]
4 In you our ancestors put their trust;
    they trusted and you delivered them.
⁵ To you they cried out and were saved;
    in you they trusted and were not put to shame.

⁶ But I am a worm and not a man,
    scorned by everyone, despised by the people.
⁷ All who see me mock me;
    they hurl insults, shaking their heads.
⁸ “He trusts in the Lord,” they say,
    “let the Lord rescue him.
Let him deliver him,
    since he delights in him.”

⁹ Yet you brought me out of the womb;
    you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast.
¹⁰ From birth I was cast on you;
    from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

¹¹ Do not be far from me,
    for trouble is near
    and there is no one to help.

¹² Many bulls surround me;
    strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
¹³ Roaring lions that tear their prey
    open their mouths wide against me.
¹⁴ I am poured out like water,
    and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart has turned to wax;
    it has melted within me.
¹⁵ My mouth^[d] is dried up like a potsherd,
    and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;
    you lay me in the dust of death.

¹⁶ Dogs surround me,
    a pack of villains encircles me;
    they pierce^[e] my hands and my feet.
¹⁷ All my bones are on display;
    people stare and gloat over me.
¹⁸ They divide my clothes among them
    and cast lots for my garment.

¹⁹ But you, Lord, do not be far from me.
    You are my strength; come quickly to help me.
²⁰ Deliver me from the sword,
    my precious life from the power of the dogs.
²¹ Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;
    save me from the horns of the wild oxen.

²² I will declare your name to my people;
    in the assembly I will praise you.
²³ You who fear the Lord, praise him!
    All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!
    Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
²⁴ For he has not despised or scorned
    the suffering of the afflicted one;
he has not hidden his face from him
    but has listened to his cry for help.

²⁵ From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;
    before those who fear you^[f] I will fulfill my vows.
²⁶ The poor will eat and be satisfied;
    those who seek the Lord will praise him—
    may your hearts live forever!

²⁷ All the ends of the earth
    will remember and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
    will bow down before him,
²⁸ for dominion belongs to the Lord
    and he rules over the nations.

²⁹ All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;
    all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—
    those who cannot keep themselves alive.
³⁰ Posterity will serve him;
    future generations will be told about the Lord.
³¹ They will proclaim his righteousness,
    declaring to a people yet unborn:
    He has done it!

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 22:1 In Hebrew texts 22:1-31 is numbered 22:2-32.
2. Psalm 22:2 Or night, and am not silent
3. Psalm 22:3 Or Yet you are holy, / enthroned on the praises of Israel
4. Psalm 22:15 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text strength
5. Psalm 22:16 Dead Sea Scrolls and some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text me, / like a lion
6. Psalm 22:25 Hebrew him

Holy Bible: Portuguese Translation

 

Salmmo 22

¹Deus meu, Deus meu, por que me desamparaste? por que estás afastado de me auxiliar, e das palavras do meu bramido?    ²Deus meu, eu clamo de dia, porém tu não me ouves; também de noite, mas não acho sossego.    ³Contudo tu és santo, entronizado sobre os louvores de Israel.    ⁴Em ti confiaram nossos pais; confiaram, e tu os livraste.    ⁵A ti clamaram, e foram salvos; em ti confiaram, e não foram confundidos.   ⁶Mas eu sou verme, e não homem; opróbrio dos homens e desprezado do povo.    ⁷Todos os que me vêem zombam de mim, arreganham os beiços e meneiam a cabeça, dizendo:    ⁸Confiou no Senhor; que ele o livre; que ele o salve, pois que nele tem prazer.    ⁹Mas tu és o que me tiraste da madre; o que me preservaste, estando eu ainda aos seios de minha mãe.    ¹⁰Nos teus braços fui lançado desde a madre; tu és o meu Deus desde o ventre de minha mãe.    ¹¹Não te alongues de mim, pois a angústia está perto, e não há quem acuda.    ¹²Muitos touros me cercam; fortes touros de Basã me rodeiam.    ¹³Abrem contra mim sua boca, como um leão que despedaça e que ruge.    ¹⁴Como água me derramei, e todos os meus ossos se desconjuntaram; o meu coração é como cera, derreteu-se no meio das minhas entranhas.    ¹⁵A minha força secou-se como um caco e a língua se me pega ao paladar; tu me puseste no pó da morte.    ¹⁶Pois cães me rodeiam; um ajuntamento de malfeitores me cerca; transpassaram-me as mãos e os pés.    ¹⁷Posso contar todos os meus ossos. Eles me olham e ficam a mirar-me.   ¹⁸Repartem entre si as minhas vestes, e sobre a minha túnica lançam sortes.    ¹⁹Mas tu, Senhor, não te alongues de mim; força minha, apressa-te em socorrer-me.    ²⁰Livra-me da espada, e a minha vida do poder do cão.    ²¹Salva-me da boca do leão, sim, livra-me dos chifres do boi selvagem.    ²²Então anunciarei o teu nome aos meus irmãos; louvar-te-ei no meio da congregação.    ²³Vós, que temeis ao Senhor, louvai-o; todos vós, filhos de Jacó, glorificai-o; temei-o todos vós, descendência de Israel.    ²⁴Porque não desprezou nem abominou a aflição do aflito, nem dele escondeu o seu rosto; antes, quando ele clamou, o ouviu.    ²⁵De ti vem o meu louvor na grande congregação; pagarei os meus votos perante os que o temem.    ²⁶Os mansos comerão e se fartarão; louvarão ao Senhor os que o buscam. Que o vosso coração viva eternamente!    ²⁷Todos os limites da terra se lembrarão e se converterão ao Senhor, e diante dele adorarão todas as famílias das nações.   ²⁸Porque o domínio é do Senhor, e ele reina sobre as nações.    ²⁹Todos os grandes da terra comerão e adorarão, e todos os que descem ao pó se prostrarão perante ele, os que não podem reter a sua vida.    ³⁰A posteridade o servirá; falar-se-á do Senhor à geração vindoura.   ³¹Chegarão e anunciarão a justiça dele; a um povo que há de nascer contarão o que ele fez.