How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? Psalm 62:3 ESV Attack – The Hebrew word tehotetu is a hapax legomenon, i.e., this is its only occurrence in the Tanakh. What does it mean? Take a guess. NIV – assault. NASB – assail. ESV…
How long will you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? Psalm 62:3 ESV How long – Three thousand years and counting. That’s how long. Does that seem possible? Does it seem reasonable? David asks the perrenial human question. How long do we have to wait, Lord? Lifetime after…
He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. Psalm 62:2 ESV Greatly shaken – David would have liked Isaiah. They often think the same way. Isaiah 24:19-20 uses this same Hebrew word, mot, to describe the kingdoms of the earth as if they were drunken men, reeling…
He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. Psalm 62:2 ESV My rock – Other human beings may idolize the Man of Steel, but David looks to the God of Rock. The Hebrew text (as you must have guessed by now) does not contain the verb “is.” …
For God alone my soul waits in silence, from Him comes my salvation. Psalm 62:1 ESV (English text) Comes – I think it’s important to recognize how the very structure of our language subtly alters how we understand the text. The fact is that Hebrew doesn’t even work like English or any of the Indo-European…
For God alone my soul waits in silence, from Him comes my salvation. Psalm 62:1 ESV (English text) Silence – “Silent night, holy night. All is calm. All is bright.” These familiar lines demonstrate the time when silence is good. But the Hebrew word dumiyyah can also be used in a negative sense. For example,…
Now I praise you because you remember me in everything, and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you. 1 Corinthians 11:2 NASB Traditions – Now that we have some justification for understanding paradoseis as the oral Torah, we might ask, “What practices could Paul have been speaking about?” Paul doesn’t…
Now I praise you because you remember me in everything, and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you. 1 Corinthians 11:2 NASB Traditions – Do you find Paul’s praise a bit misplaced? After all, he’s writing to the Corinthians! These are the people whose orderliness in worship is a mess,…
For God alone my soul waits in silence, from Him comes my salvation. Psalm 62:1 ESV (English text) Alone – What does it mean to wait on God alone? We probably think this means that we are waiting for God and no one else. He must answer. No one else will do. That’s at least…
To the choirmaster. According to Jeduthun. A psalm of David. Psalm 62:1 (Hebrew Text) Jeduthun – Most translations of the psalms put the “introduction” of the text in tiny letters or completely ignore these “preliminary” words. This is not the case in the Hebrew text. The introduction is an essential part of knowing what the…
