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  • Double Time

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Trouble and anguish have come upon me, yet Your commandments are my delight.  Psalm 119:143  NASB Trouble and anguish – Sometimes English has difficulty capturing the full range of Hebrew even if multiple words are used.  ḥesed is an example.  But sometimes that fact that Hebrew uses one word when English requires more than one is just as…

  • The Mother Syndrome

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    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,…