A Week of Psalms in New York - Psalm 30 at the World Trade Centre

Psalm 30 is the song of thanksgiving of someone who has survived a terrible crisis, the nature of which is ambiguous but clearly perilous; the psalmist states that their foes were rejoicing over them, that they were in the "Pit".

A Week of Psalms in New York - Psalm 82 at the United Nations

The United Nations General Assembly, New York

This psalm tells us that we “are gods, children of the Most High.” Jesus used the words of this Psalm to rebut the accusations of blasphemy made against him by the Jewish leadership. If we are all children of the most high, how can it be blasphemous to say Jesus is the Son of God?