Why Psalm 115?
Psalm 115 is the chapter that calls out silver and gold idols for having mouths that can’t speak, eyes that can’t see, ears that can’t hear, and hands that can’t feel. It says the people who build their lives around those things end up just like them.
Psalm 115 is the chapter that calls out silver and gold idols for having mouths that can’t speak, eyes that can’t see, ears that can’t hear, and hands that can’t feel. It says the people who build their lives around those things end up just like them.
Rue and all of her friends were those people, worshipping the wrong things until it was too late. And it’s no coincidence that’s the chapter Rue saw in her final death dream, with her mom reading it to herself. Alamo Brown had her killed with fentanyl.
Levinson didn’t pick a random psalm. He picked the one that opens with “Not to us, Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory.” Sam Levinson is telling you exactly where he thinks the glory belongs, and exactly who he thinks the eyes weak with sorrow are mourning.
And then he shows you what he means. The show closes with Ali praying over a meal: “Father, I pray today for those whose eyes have grown weak with sorrow, whose soul and body are weighed down by grief, and whose strength is failing. Lord, pour out your mercy upon them. Let your face shine upon them, and save them in your unfailing love. Thank you, Rue. Let her memory be a blessing.”
Season 3 of Euphoria was a call to give up false Gods, and look to higher principles.
