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They Have Not Prevailed
Today’s poem is inspired by a song found in a collection of songs which were sung by pilgrims as they traveled from their homes to worship at the Temple in Jerusalem. The collector and organizer of the book of the psalms titles each of these fifteen psalms “songs of ascent” because in traveling to Jerusalem, you are ascending not only the Judean highlands, but you are climbing Mount Zion. This is why when a person going to Jerusalem, even if they are traveling from the north in Galilee, is said to be “going up to Jerusalem.”
The Songs of Ascent contain the themes of pilgrimage: what inspires…
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