The Sound of Honey

How sweet are Your words to my taste!  Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!  Psalm 119:103  NASB Your words – What do Genesis 1:3, 3:1 and 3:10 have in common with Psalm 119:103?  The answer is ʾāmar, the Hebrew verb for “say, speak, command, promise.”  Of course, there are a lot of other verses that use this…

Promises, Promises

Surely you set them in slippery places; you cast them down into ruin.  How they are brought into desolation in a moment, utterly consumed with terrors!  Psalm 73:18-19  Hebrew World translation Slippery places – How many promises have been made to you that were broken?  In an election year like this one, we will probably…

River Crossing

Their heart is faithless; Now they must bear their guilt.  The LORD will break down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars. Hosea 10:2  NASB Faithless – “Faithless” is a nice abstract noun.  What exactly does it mean?  The NIV gloss “deceitful” isn’t much better.  Both attempts are really paraphrases of the Hebrew word halaq. …