For my life is exhausted in sorrow and my years in sighing. Through my crime my strength stumbles and my limbs are worn out. Psalm 31:11 (Hebrew Bible) Robert Alter Exhausted in sorrow – an excerpt. When he looked up, Nathan was gone. “Call him back. Call him back.” He almost shouted, but in the…
Because of all my adversaries, I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me. Psalm 31:11 NASB Reproach– Are you the Mary Mallon of sin? Remember her? She was “the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic…
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. Psalm 31:11 Fails – Sin contains its own consequences. There is no separation between the act and the result. Unlike our system of justice, the Hebrew view does not think of…
