Today’s Word
Moses in the Wilderness
And do not take out utterly from my mouth a word of truth, because I hoped for Your words. Psalm 119:43 Chabad Utterly – The English seems a little jilted, doesn’t it? We just don’t speak this way. The NASB offers little more: “And do not take the word of truth utterly out of my…
Past Is Present
And I shall answer a word to those who disgrace me, for I trusted in Your word. Psalm 119:42 Chabad Shall answer a word – Are you ready to reread the text in vav-conversive? As you can see in the translation of Chabad, this verb (ʿānâ) is treated as a future tense, that is, “I…
Vav – Some Hebrew Magic (2)
May Your favor also come to me, Lord, Your salvation according to Your [o]word; Psalm 119:41 NASB Also come to me – וִֽיבֹאֻ֣נִי Oh my, what a lot is packed into such a small word! We’ve explored the oddity of “come” and “go.” We’ve noticed the shift in tense from future to past. We’ve looked at the jussive “wish.” …
Vav – Some Hebrew Magic (1)
May Your favor also come to me, Lord, Your salvation according to Your [o]word; Psalm 119:41 NASB Also come to me – Here’s the vav section of our acrostic. Notice the first word of the first line – וִֽיבֹאֻ֣נִי. You’ll see the vav but you might not know how it works. Let me explain. Vav has two functions. As…
Forest and Trees
Aleph . . . Hey Psalm 119:1-40 The Acrostic Thus Far It’s easy to not see the forest for the trees. We’ve been looking closely at the trees for forty verses, and we’ve discovered amazing things. The details of word choice, the interesting and commanding twists in grammar, the skill of the poet to create…
Shame on You
Take away my disgrace which I dread, for Your judgments are good. Psalm 119:39 NASB Disgrace – by now we’ve learned that shame in the ancient Semitic world is not an inner psychological state. It is public disgrace. Now we need to know what “disgrace” means in this ancient world. The word is ḥerpâ. In…
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