Here is the second of this year's Horror Stories of the Bible. This year, the theme is revenge, and today's tale is an examination of a particular piece of revenge poetry and what we should do with it.
This macabre ode calls for rejoicing at the deaths of infants and leads many to wonder if the LORD is a bloodthirsty God who encourages the destruction of the innocent to balance some cosmic scale of injustice and pain. Is that a good, healthy, healing practice for God's children, or not?
To find out, you need to listen.