Playing with the Text

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord, let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.Psalm 95:1  NASB Shout joyfully– Put on a happy face.  That seems to be the intention here, so the translators offer a positive rendering of the verb by adding “joyfully.” The actual Hebrew is simply the verb rūaʿ, which can mean…

An Apple a Day

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Shout joyfully to God, all the earth; Psalm 66:1 NASB Shout joyfully – Don’t you just want to scream? The world is such a mess. Tragedy surrounds us on all sides. Nothing seems fair. Even our best days are tinged with past sorrows. Wouldn’t it help to just yell? To howl towards heaven? Ah, that’s…