neged

  • Summation

    I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies, for all my ways are before You.  Psalm 119:168  NASB All my ways – “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”  The Yogi Berra quote is just about what it means when the psalmist writes kōl-derākăy’ (“all my paths”).  Since the map he follows is written…

  • Imperfect

    For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.  For I admit my guilt; I am full of anxiety because of my sin.  Psalm 38:17-18  NASB Continually before – Pay attention!  The Hebrew words translated “continually before” are negdi tāmîd.  The root of negdi is neged.  Why is this important?  Because in the very next sentence,…