Today’s Word
The Long and Winding Road
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His lovingkindness is everlasting. Psalm 118:1 NASB Everlasting – How long will YHVH show hesed toward us? How long will it be before His patience runs out and He gives up on us? David must have asked these questions, especially after his encounter with Nathan….
Grammatical Marvels
Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done, and Your thoughts toward us; there is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of them, they would be too numerous to count. Psalm 40:5 NASB Wonders – “Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge. Doubt comes…
When It’s All Over
The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. Ecclesiastes 12:13 NASB The conclusion – “King Solomon summarizes all his teachings with the words ‘the sum of the matter.’ The word sof is written with an enlarged samech to emphasize the fundamental requirement of…
Untranslatable
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Deuteronomy 6:5 NASB Heart – One of the wonders of Hebrew is that it communicates on multiple levels. This fact is much more than the rabbinic PaRDeS approach. The structure of Hebrew (the way…
Death Wish
Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera the Benjamite, of Bahurim; now it was he who cursed me with a violent curse on the day I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you…
Setting Us Up
Let my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, as the droplets on the fresh grass and as the showers on the herb. Deuteronomy 32:2 NASB Droplets – Moses final song begins with a gentle invocation. “Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak,” he says, as if the words are…
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