Aleph . . . Hey Psalm 119:1-40 The Acrostic Thus Far It’s easy to not see the forest for the trees. We’ve been looking closely at the trees for forty verses, and we’ve discovered amazing things. The details of word choice, the interesting and commanding twists in grammar, the skill of the poet to create…
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout all generations. [b]The Lord is faithful in His words, and holy in all His works. Psalm 145:13 NASB [b] – Did you notice the footnote in this verse? Ah, maybe your Bible doesn’t have such a footnote. Maybe your Bible translates verse 13 like this: Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,…
For David. To You, O LORD, I lift up my heart. Psalm 25:1 Robert Alter translation To You – Lamentations and Psalms use a form of poetry called acrostic. In poems of this type, each new line begins with the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In this psalm, every letter is represented except the…
