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…
The arrogant utterly deride me, yet I do not turn aside from Your Law. Psalm 119:51 NASB Utterly deride – How do you handle insults? How do you react to blame? What does it feel like when someone shows contempt toward you? What happens when someone mocks you? All of these questions seem to be front and center…
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…
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…
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…
“Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease. Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you…
For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been. 1 Kings 11:4 NASB Turned – Solomon was an addict. That’s pretty much the only explanation that makes any sense…
The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. Genesis 2:8 NASB Planted – YHVH planted a Garden. The verb is nata (to plant, to fix, to establish). In Hebrew agricultural life, this verb is very common. But when it is used to…
