Your burning anger has passed over me; Your terrors have destroyed me. Psalm 88:16 NASB Destroyed – Not just any trauma. No, this is trauma of a special kind: bi·ʿûṯ. “events that cause fear and destruction or death, with some focus on the wrath of the punisher.”[1] What is the result? ṣāmat The word ṣāmat occurs…
I sought the Lord, and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. Psalm 34:4 NASB Fears – Have any of your really bad dreams turned out to be real? Do you sometimes feel as if you are living in a nightmare? Even a cursory look at human history will convince you that…
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 Terrors – What does Asaph have to do with the prayer of Jabez? You will have to read both in Hebrew to know the…
