What Only God Can Do (1)

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Were You, O Yah, to watch for wrongs, Master, who could endure?  For forgiveness is Yours, so that You may be feared. Psalm 130:3-4 Robert Alter Forgiveness – “I’m sorry.  Please forgive me.”  How often those words are offered to another person!  And rightly so.  We all make mistakes and we all need forgiveness.  But Hebrew…

Allocution

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?  But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared.  Psalm 130:3-4 NASB Feared– Let’s fix this translation. Yes, the word is yārēʾ and it can be translated “fear” but is that what the psalmist is really saying?  Is he saying that because YHVH overlooks our guilt…