I hurried and did not delay to keep Your commandments. Psalm 119:60 NASB Hurried/ delay – If you were offered personal advice from someone you absolutely trusted, someone you knew loved you completely, would you take your time getting to the meeting? The psalmist wouldn’t. He employs two verbs in order to emphasize the urgency…
He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces, and He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; for the Lord has spoken. Isaiah 25:8 NASB Wipe tears away – The verb maha(h) occurs thirty-tree times in the Tanakh. It is…
Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loving kindness; according to the multitude of your mercies blot out my transgressions. Psalm 51:3 Hebrew World Blot out – Technology has changed our conception of forgiveness. In a world where we can simply backspace or press the spell-check button, we don’t think of any word…
