Today’s Word
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Who redeems your life from the pit, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion; Psalm 103:4 NASB Redeems – Who redeems your life from the pit? David frames it as a statement, but perhaps we should begin with a question. Who does this? According to David’s psalm, YHVH is the redeemer. Of course, Trinitarians will…
Breaking the Boxes
Who pardons all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases; Psalm 103:3 NASB Iniquities – Bent over! That’s what we were before pardon and healing. In fact, Yeshua recognizes the connection in his encounter with the woman suffering from scoliosis. He responds to those who raised objections to his act of healing by trying the…
Conditional Remembering
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits; Psalm 103:2 NASB Forget none – David repeats the opening (and unusual) rhetorical phrase. We have explored its importance. Now David adds an additional, explanatory thought. Ve’al-tishkehi kol-gemoolav. When we explore this addition, we must remember that Hebrew poetry rhymes ideas, not phonemes….
The Genesis of Psalms
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Psalm 103:1 NASB Within me – What is within? The immediate temptation is to answer with a Greek worldview. What is within in my spirit. But how would we answer this question as a Hebrew? First, we would look…
Whose Halachah?
And a man was there whose hand was withered. And they questioned Jesus, asking, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might accuse Him. Matthew 12:10 NASB Is it lawful – Sometimes you can’t understand the text of the gospels without first understanding the context of the rabbis. This is one of…
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