136, that ‘his love endures for ever’; continue with 137, which dates the collection; and move on into a set of David psalms, taken perhaps from a much older collection, which in a different sense do not date at all. For here once more, in their opening number 138, and indeed at its climax, is the same old truth which by its very nature is always new: ‘His love endures for ever.’ Words like omniscience and omnipresence can be a useful shorthand for stating facts about God. With regard to