Defining Moments

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

But I, Lord, have cried out to You for help, and in the morning my prayer comes before You.  Psalm 88:13 Help – English spells it out: “have cried out for help.”  But all of that is really a single Hebrew verb— šāwaʿ.  “The intensity of the action conveyed by šāwaʿ is aptly illustrated by the fact that…

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BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Hear my prayer, Lord!  And let my cry for help come to You.  Psalm 102:1  NASB Cry for help – Isn’t punctuation wonderful?  With these little extra characters in language, we can convey the emotional context of a sentence.  Just imagine what writing would be like without ! or “ ”, or ?  Why, you’d have to…