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Acqua in Bocca

My mouth is filled with Your praise and with Your glory all day long.  Psalm 71:8  NASB Filled – You don’t really speak a language until you speak its idioms.  If I say, “Cut to the chase” or “He kicked the bucket,” you won’t have any idea what I mean if you simply translate the phrases word…
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Along the Road

I have become a marvel to many, for You are my strong refuge.  Psalm 71:7  NASB Marvel – You didn’t intend to become a celebrity.  You thought you’d just go about your life and mind your own business.  But things happen.  People see what you’ve done.  They hear about your choices.  They recognize your face.  Suddenly, you’re…
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A Sacrificial Life

I have leaned on you since my birth; You are He who took me from my mother’s womb; my praise is continually of You.  Psalm 71:6  NASB Leaned on – The Hebrew word tāmak means “to grasp.”  The word sāʿad means “to sustain.”  Neither one is used in this verse, but it’s important to see the difference.  Here the word…
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Confident Assurance before Melanchthon

For You are my hope; Lord God, You are my confidence from my youth.  Psalm 71:5  NASB My confidence – The NASB translation of Hebrew 11:1 is “ Now faith is the certainty of things [a]hoped for, a [b]proof of things not seen” (online version), but in the 1995 edition, the verse reads “ Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”  You…
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Heaven Can Wait

Save me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the wrongdoer and the ruthless,  Psalm 71:4  NASB Save me – The first thing we should notice in the Hebrew text is that the call of the poet isn’t the first thing in the Hebrew text.  The first thing is the…
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