Your rulers are rebels and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe and chases after gifts. They do not obtain justice for the orphan, nor does the widow’s case come before them. Isaiah 1:23 NASB Rebels – We have a saying: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” It seems that what Isaiah faced on…
These things I have spoken to you so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world. John 16:33 NASB Tribulation – “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen. Nobody knows but Jesus.” The lyrics of this Negro spiritual could have come from a verse like this one. …
You who have shown me many troubles and distresses will revive me again, and will bring me up again from the depths of the earth. Psalm 71:20 NASB Revive – Don’t jump too quickly to those comforting thoughts about revival. Pay attention to the beginning of this verse. Who is the one who showed the poet’s many troubles…
Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God. 2 Chronicles 33:13 NASB Knew – How many times will you commit the same offense before God turns His back? How terrible must your sins be before God will not forgive? Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai suggested that God might have ordained the terrible sins of David and…
