Today’s Word

Make Your Choice

Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry!  Psalm 88:2  NASB Incline – “The 215 occurrences of this verb, excluding derivatives, are translated some thirty-five different ways in the KJV alone. The ASV and RSV add other renderings to this wide range of English expressions.”[1]  That’s not very comforting, is it?  If…
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Coming and Going

Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry!  Psalm 88:2  NASB Let . . . come before You – The first thing you should notice is the change in syntax.  In Hebrew the verb comes first.  So, it reads, “Let come before You my prayer.”  The action is the important thing.  What…
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Answer the Phone

Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and in the night before You.  Psalm 88:1 (English)  NASB Cried out – “The phone’s ringing.  Answer it!”  Do you find it difficult not to answer a call?  Are you annoyed with people who just let the phone ring but don’t pick up?  For decades…
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Tears on Your Shoulder

Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and in the night before You.  Psalm 88:1 (English)  NASB Lord, the God – Make sure you realize why both of these words are found at the beginning of this poem.  YHVH, of course, and ʾĕlōhîm.  Today we consider both of these as designations of…
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Sing It Again

A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the music director; according to Mahalath Leannoth. A [a]Maskil of Heman [b]the Ezrahite.  Psalm 88:1 (Hebrew) Music director – Of course you know that many of the psalms (mizmôt) are really lyrics for songs.  No news there.  But some of these songs are particularly interesting—and troubling.  This…
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