For the sake of Jacob My servant, and Israel My chosen one, I have also called you by your name; I have given you a title of honor though you have not known Me. I am the Lord, and there is no one else; there is no God except Me. I will arm you, though you have not known Me, Isaiah 45:4-5 NASB Not known Me – Cyrus…
therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. So He drove the man out; . . Genesis 3:23-24a NASB Drove – Did you notice that God’s action of expelling the man from the Garden is repeated. Verse 23 says, “God sent him out,” and then…
And the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind and He said: Who is this who darkens counsel in words without knowledge?” Job 38:1 Robert Alter Darkens counsel – Robert Alter notes that this poetic response is a “manifestation of God’s transcendent power and also an image-for-image response to the death-wish poem that frames Job’s entire…
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. Psalm 139:2 NASB Thought – God knows it all, right? He knows every thought you have, every fleeting desire, every inclination, every unvoiced declaration. We all agree. God knows us—perhaps better than we know ourselves. After all, He is the omniscient external…
The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life. John 12:25 NASB Keep it – Want to know how to get saved? Yeshua gives you the simple answer: hate your life in this world. What? How can the one who embraced…
May Your compassion come to me so that I may live, for Your Law is my delight. Psalm 119:77 NASB Compassion – “Go for it!” Yes, that’s the sense of the “May come to me Your compassion.” You’ll notice I rearranged the syntax to match the Hebrew which begins with yebō’ûnî (from the verb bôʾ. Of course,…
“For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” John 18:37b ESV This purpose – “When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” – Victor E. Frankl. With Frankl’s citation…
Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this purpose I have been born, and for this I have come into the world: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice.” John 18:37 NASB Purpose – [I wrote this just a few…
Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this purpose I have been born, and for this I have come into the world: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice.” John 18:37 NASB Purpose – Well, this word, “purpose,” isn’t actually…
Leave off from man, who has breath in his nostrils. For of what account is he? Isaiah 2:22 Robert Alter Of what – כִּֽי־בַמֶּ֥ה ki-va me(h). Stringing together ki (for, but, thus, because, when, . . .), ba (in, at, with, away from, among, upon . . .), and me(h) (what, which, that, how), the…
