I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me. Psalm 119:93 NASB Revived – The Hebrew verb ḥāyâ has a wide range of meanings: “live, have life, remain alive, sustain life, live prosperously, live forever. Also be quickened, revive from sickness, discouragement, or even death.”[1] As if that weren’t enough, there are…
I shall delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word. Psalm 119:16 NASB Not forget – Victor Hamilton’s remark in TWOT is crucial. We have the tendency to think of “forget” as a mental lapse, but he makes it quite clear that this is not the biblical usage. šākaḥ is an action verb. Forgetting is…
Abandoned among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You no longer remember, and they are cut off from Your hand. Psalm 88:5 NASB No longer remember – zākar. What an important Hebrew verb! Zākar means “to remember,” but the same consonants in noun form also mean “male.” It seems to me that…
Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me. John 14:6 NASB Truth – The apostolic writings have been handed down to us in Greek. Of course, the writers were Jews so their Greek was really Jewish-Greek, what we call koine Greek. That means we…
As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our wrongdoings from us. Psalm 103:12 NASB Removed – Humanity has come face to face with a new god, an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent god of eternal examination, a god that never forgets the worst things about you and provides the whole world…
They quickly forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, but craved intensely in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. Psalm 106:13-14 NASB 1995 Quickly forgot – māhar šokḥu reads the Hebrew text, but it is hyperbole. Clearly Israel didn’t forget the works of YHVH overnight. It took decades for the…
Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, Philippians 3:13b NIV Forgetting what is behind – Isn’t it nice to know that Paul was so focused, so spiritual, that he could forget everything that was in the past and just concentrate on what would be in the future? Don’t you wish you had such…
Abandoned among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You no longer remember, and they are cut off from Your hand. Psalm 88:5 NASB No longer remember – zākar. What an important Hebrew verb! Zākar means “to remember,” but the same consonants in noun form also mean “male.” It seems to me that…
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.” Genesis 41:51 NASB God has made me forget– One of the peculiarities of the Joseph account is how infrequently God is mentioned. Joseph doesn’t pray to God before interpreting visions. He doesn’t mention God during his captivity. He…
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.” Genesis 41:51 NASB Forget– Do you appreciate how self-contradictory Joseph’s action is? Joseph wants to forget all the troubles of his past, particularly those troubles with his family (including his father) that led to his slavery in Egypt. So…
