You have come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance and to put my son to death! 1 Kings 17:18 NASB Iniquity – This word, translated “iniquity,” is one of the principal words for sin and evil found in the Old Testament (awon in Hebrew). This word carries the idea of something twisted, something…
I was also blameless with Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. Psalm 18:23 NASB My iniquity – It would be much easier to for David to say that he kept himself “from iniquity.” Then the wickedness would be alien, outside, an enemy at a distance. But David uses the Hebrew ‘awoni, the combination…
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. Psalm 51:5 NASB In iniquity – In Hebrew, hen-be-awwon comes first in the sentence. “Behold-in-iniquity” is the opening cry. English translations regularly transpose this forlorn sound of desperation by placing the verb before it, as if David is concerned with his…
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…
When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.” Genesis 19:15 NASB Punishment – Something happened about the time of the Babylonia captivity. The principal word for “sin” changed. Hatta’t was replaced by…
“Alas, sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, sons who act corruptly!” Isaiah 1:4 NASB Weighed down – What burdens do you carry? Debt? Past mistakes? Children from divorce? Broken contracts? Public shame? Write them down, as painful as it might be. See what a long list you have to carry. Then…
And He will redeem Israel from all his iniquities. Psalm 130:8 NASB His – How will God rescue you? How will you be delivered? Careful, now. Both of these questions already lead you in the wrong direction. Most of the time, we have the answers to the wrong questions. We want to say, “The Lord…
If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? Psalm 130:3 NASB Should mark – I was always afraid of God. I wasn’t Catholic but when it came to guilt, I might as well have been. My childhood was punctuated by constant reminders that God saw everything I did, and as a result,…
You have come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance and to put my son to death! 1 Kings 17:18 NASB Iniquity – This word, translated “iniquity,” is one of the principal words for sin and evil found in the Old Testament (awon in Hebrew). This word carries the idea of something twisted, something…
