My soul waits in silence for God alone; from Him comes my salvation. Psalm 62:1 NASB Waits in/ comes – Because I typically place the text under investigation in italics, you are not able to see that “waits in” and “comes” are actually in italics in the NASB translation. This indicates that these words are not in the original. …
My soul waits in silence for God only; from Him is my salvation. Psalm 62:1 NASB Silence – Are you able to deal with silence? Can you actually sit perfectly still, calm your mind, stop the distractions on the outside and the inside, and hear the God of silence? Or do you find that as soon as you…
For God alone my soul waits in silence, from Him comes my salvation. Psalm 62:1 ESV (English text) Comes – I think it’s important to recognize how the very structure of our language subtly alters how we understand the text. The fact is that Hebrew doesn’t even work like English or any of the Indo-European…
For God alone my soul waits in silence, from Him comes my salvation. Psalm 62:1 ESV (English text) Silence – “Silent night, holy night. All is calm. All is bright.” These familiar lines demonstrate the time when silence is good. But the Hebrew word dumiyyah can also be used in a negative sense. For example,…
For God alone my soul waits in silence, from Him comes my salvation. Psalm 62:1 ESV (English text) Alone – What does it mean to wait on God alone? We probably think this means that we are waiting for God and no one else. He must answer. No one else will do. That’s at least…
