The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back. Psalm 114:3 NASB Turned back – Biblical cartoon animation. That’s what I imagine when I read a verse like this. Why? Because the verbs associated with these descriptions of the crossing of the Sea of Reeds and the Jordan are emotional and personal, as if the Sea and…
“He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.” Deuteronomy 32:10 NASB Encircled– What good is a fence in the wilderness if it isn’t closed around the camp! Just so, if God doesn’t surround…
“How long will you go here and there, O faithless daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth—a woman will encompass a man.” Jeremiah 31:22 NASB Encompass – I don’t like this choice of translation for the Hebrew tesovav (from the root sabab). “Encompass” makes it sound like a woman…
The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me. Psalm 18:5 NASB Cords/surrounded – What are the cords of Sheol? How will we know what to do to avoid them unless we understand what they are? Perhaps we can begin by discovering what they are not. First, the cords of Sheol are…
