The Slippery Slope

I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes forever, even to the end.  Psalm 119:112  NASB Inclined – How many times have you heard a warning about “the slippery slope”?  It usually concerns some action you’re about to take that will inevitably lead to more bad things.  The idea is that a small change causes other small…

Make Your Choice

Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry!  Psalm 88:2  NASB Incline – “The 215 occurrences of this verb, excluding derivatives, are translated some thirty-five different ways in the KJV alone. The ASV and RSV add other renderings to this wide range of English expressions.”[1]  That’s not very comforting, is it?  If…

Make Your Choice

Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry!  Psalm 88:2  NASB Incline – “The 215 occurrences of this verb, excluding derivatives, are translated some thirty-five different ways in the KJV alone. The ASV and RSV add other renderings to this wide range of English expressions.”[1]  That’s not very comforting, is it?  If…

The God of Long Ears

Incline Your ear, O Lord, and answer me for I am afflicted and needy. Psalm 86:1 NASB Incline – English translators have a tough time with the Hebrew verb nāṭâ. “The 215 occurrences of this verb, excluding derivatives, are translated some thirty-five different ways in the KJV alone. The ASV and RSV add other renderings…

Fish and Snakes – Rewind

I waited, waited for YHWH; And He inclined to me, and heard my cry. Psalm 40:2 (Hebrew Text) Inclined – Natah.  Nun-Tet-Hey.  That’s how you spell this Hebrew verb.  The picture?  What is revealed (what comes) from life surrounded.  Actually, the pictures are fish darting through water (life activity) and a snake coiled around something (surround).  OK?  So, consider this imagery and…

Fish and Snakes

I waited, waited for YHWH; And He inclined to me, and heard my cry. Psalm 40:2 (Hebrew Text) Inclined – Natah.  Nun-Tet-Hey.  That’s how you spell this Hebrew verb.  The picture?  What is revealed (what comes) from life surrounded.  Actually, the pictures are fish darting through water (life activity) and a snake coiled around something…