All the Day Long

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The well-known chorus of a gospel song says, "This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long. M. Houston, and Erika Moore, The Psalms as Christian Lament: A Historical Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014), 208. At the same time, the tone of the Psalmist wants the exulting and triumphant confidence of the Apostle. We may also be prepared to grant the possibility, as Stewart goes on to claim, that on this reading of the psalm citation’s intended force within Paul’s rhetoric it is capable of functioning “simultaneously” as “an appropriate lamentation of affliction” and as “a declaration of the gospel of the crucified Lord. The book is written in the first person, and details the life of a woman, from childhood to old age; an onlooker at life so much, but heart-wrenchingly human.

Christians are to voice that which creation is unable to articulate—and when that fails, know that the Spirit is able to articulate for us that which we can say neither for ourselves nor for a groaning creation. Paul wants the Christians in Rome to have the right perspective on the circumstances of their daily lives.Joseph Fitzmyer sees the citation’s purpose as being “to show that the tribulations that Christians encounter are what have always characterized God’s people. The Babylonian invasion was not the first time that Israel had experienced the capture and deportation of prisoners (cf. But a conclusion of that sort would require a more careful reading of the way in which the psalm citation contributes to the rhetoric of its new context within Romans 8:31–39 than the proponents of the traditional view generally offer. The contours of the slip-resistant SFC III soles provide traction while cushioning the wearer's feet all day long.

As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.I won't give more details, because the plot meanders quietly, as a life does, and it needs to be read in the same manner. There is a certain historical plausibility, too, about an imagined context of composition for the psalm in which considerations of covenant loyalty have dictated a foreign policy that has exposed the nation to vengeful reprisals from a neighbor, a suzerain-state or an imperial overlord.