Today’s Word
Life’s Accidents
How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? Psalm 62:3 ESV A man – Ah, so we are confronted with the problem of evil. God is in charge, but men suffer horribly. God is sovereign but men still murder. God has control but the…
One Verse Too Many
How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? Psalm 62:3 ESV Attack – The Hebrew word tehotetu is a hapax legomenon, i.e., this is its only occurrence in the Tanakh. What does it mean? Take a guess. NIV – assault. NASB – assail. ESV…
Hebrew Rock and Roll
He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. Psalm 62:2 ESV Greatly shaken – David would have liked Isaiah. They often think the same way. Isaiah 24:19-20 uses this same Hebrew word, mot, to describe the kingdoms of the earth as if they were drunken men, reeling…
The Hardness of God
He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. Psalm 62:2 ESV My rock – Other human beings may idolize the Man of Steel, but David looks to the God of Rock. The Hebrew text (as you must have guessed by now) does not contain the verb “is.” …
Play Station
For God alone my soul waits in silence, from Him comes my salvation. Psalm 62:1 ESV (English text) Comes – I think it’s important to recognize how the very structure of our language subtly alters how we understand the text. The fact is that Hebrew doesn’t even work like English or any of the Indo-European…
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