Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Numbers 1:1 NASB In the wilderness– ye’dibber’ YHVH el moshe bemidbar. Where did this conversation occur? Bemidbar—in the wilderness. That setting…
OK! Life is really chaotic right now. We need something calming. If I had the time, I would go back to this place and just listen to the wind moving through the deep. It would be enough for the day.
“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10 NASB Uphold– We are back to intensive interpretation. “Surely,” (ʾap) is a word of force. We saw it in the first…
“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10 NASB Help– The verb is an old friend, in fact, so old that it takes us back to the first “helper.”…
“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10 NASB Strengthen– This verb, ʾāmēṣ, is a Pi’el perfect. That means in this case it is an intensive, active,…
“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10 NASB Anxiously look about– The Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains offers the following: שָׁתַע(šā·ṯǎʿ): v.— LN 25.251–25.269 (qal) be…
“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10 NASB With you– It’s important to know that God has not given up on us. “I am with you,”…
“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10 NASB Fear– Actually, I’m not afraid in the usual sense of the word. I’m not even afraid to die. …
“Yield now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.” Job 22:21 NASB Yield– “God is pure gold” speaks. Oh, that’s the meaning of the name Eliphaz. So you would expect his words to reflect his name, right? Everything he says must be pure gold dripping from the mouth of heaven. And stripped…
