{"id":1453,"date":"2012-03-11T08:28:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T12:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2012-03-13T08:35:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T12:35:22","slug":"psalm-123-lord-have-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1453","title":{"rendered":"(Psalm 123) Lord, have mercy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The psalmist certainly knows that the Lord is merciful.\u00a0 And yet there is a felt-need to cry out for His mercy.\u00a0 The psalmist was very much aware of his own sinfulness.\u00a0 In fact, it was because he was aware\u00a0of the Lord&#8217;s mercy <em>and<\/em> of his own sinfulness that he cried out so earnestly.<\/p>\n<p>Merciful God, have mercy on me a sinner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us! The psalmist certainly knows that the Lord is merciful.\u00a0 And yet there is a felt-need to cry out for His mercy.\u00a0 The psalmist was very much aware of his own sinfulness.\u00a0 In fact, it was because he was aware\u00a0of the Lord&#8217;s mercy and of his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1453\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Psalm 123) Lord, have mercy!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}