That Your beloved may be delivered, save with Your right hand, and answer us! Psalm 60:5 NASB Save – YHVH saves those He loves. “Your beloved” is yedideka. TWOT’s analysis is worth reviewing: This noun is primarily employed to describe the nation of Israel (or Judah) and individuals as those who are greatly loved by…
You have given a banner to those who fear You, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. Psalm 60:4 NASB Given a banner – The Hebrew word nes means a flag, a standard (as in military combat) or a banner. In ancient times, factions involved in wars flew banners to identify themselves….
You have made Your people experience hardship; You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger. Psalm 60:3 NASB Experience Hardship – When the Tanakh uses the verb ra’a in the Hiphil tense, the idea is to be caused to see, to make one feel or know. God makes His people feel. He…
You have made the land quake, You have split it open; heal its breaches, for it totters. Psalm 60:2 NASB Heal its breaches – Sticking with the military context of verse 1, the ESV translates repah as “repair.” The walls have fallen. Lord, repair them. But the word is primarily about healing and is applied…
And again the displeasure of YHVH burned against Yisra’el, and moved Dawid against them to say, “Go, number Yisra’el and Yehudah.” 2 Shemu’el 24:1 ISR Moved – Could any story in Scripture be stranger than this one? First, it appears in the wrong place. Chapter 23 tells us “these are the last words of David,”…
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 NASB Prepared beforehand – Please, no “predestination” theology here. What God has prepared beforehand (Greek proetoimasen) is “good works.” God has a plan(s) that include becoming like Him in all…
O God, You have rejected us. You have broken us; You have been angry; O, restore us. Psalm 60:1 [English] NASB Angry – Emotionally-charged breathing. That’s the metaphorical intention of the use of ‘ap, the Hebrew word associated with nostril or nose. Hebrew is an intensely tactile language, employing dozens of idioms and metaphors from…
O God, You have rejected us. You have broken us; You have been angry; O, restore us. Psalm 60:1 [English] NASB God – Primary position means primary emphasis. When a Hebrew author wants to put an exclamation point behind a thought, he moves the word to the first position in sentence. David puts the word…
For the choir director; according to Shushan Eduth. A Mikhtam of David, to teach; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. Psalm 60:1-2 [Hebrew text] NASB translation Shushan Eduth – A mikhtam is, ah, no one quite knows for sure. The…
Most of you either know my dear friend Bob Gorelik or you know his work. Some of you have had the pleasure of being with Bob in Israel. Today Bob and I are sharing at a conference in St. Joseph, MO. When we met yesterday for the first time since the Israel trip in May,…
