O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord, let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.Psalm 95:1 NASB Shout joyfully– Put on a happy face. That seems to be the intention here, so the translators offer a positive rendering of the verb by adding “joyfully.” The actual Hebrew is simply the verb rūaʿ, which can mean…
Sing the glory of His name; make His praise glorious. Psalm 66:2 NASB Sing the glory – Are you finished shouting (Psalm 66:1)? Great! Got that one out, didn’t you? Now pick up an instrument and play. Oh, it could be your voice, of course, but the verb is equally at home with playing an instrument. So,…
The often-repeated truism about marriage is the once the honeymoon is over, life comes back to normal and the bloom is off the romance. There is good reason behind this expectation. The romance of courtship fades under the pressures of jobs, house, friends, children, etc. We stop putting our best selves forward. The mysterious beckoning…
