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Salvation History
For You have delivered my soul from death, indeed my feet from stumbling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living. Psalm 56:13 NASB From death – Was David saved? He certainly thinks so. In fact, he notes that as a result of being saved from death, he has the…
Jesus Wept
You have taken account of my wanderings; put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your book? Psalm 56:8 NASB My tears – “How difficult it is to expose our heart’s core, our heart of hearts to anyone, even to God. So it is with God. He will not expose us to that…
Hebrew Umbrellas
When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You. Psalm 56:3 NASB I will put my trust – Hebrew is a sparse language. One word may be called into service in many different ways. For example, you know that shema means both “to hear” and “to obey.” This is a small umbrella compared…
The Big Squeeze
Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me; fighting all day long he oppresses me. Psalm 56:1 NASB He oppresses me – Are you oppressed? Before you say, “Not at all,” consider the Hebrew word lahats. It is a picture of being squeezed into a space too small to fit. Balaam’s…
Washing the Dishes
He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces, and He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; for the Lord has spoken. Isaiah 25:8 NASB Wipe tears away – The verb maha(h) occurs thirty-tree times in the Tanakh. It is…
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