Today’s Word
The Answer
Yet You are holy, O You are enthroned upon the praises of Israel. Psalm 22:3 Holy – Perhaps this is the wrong word for our inquiry. Perhaps we should have looked at the conjunctive “vav” (a single Hebrew letter attached to the word). It can be translated in a dozen different ways, usually “and,” “but,”…
The Sign of the Afflicted
O my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer; and by night, but I have no rest. Psalm 22:2 Do Not Answer – If you had to boil all of life’s heartaches down to a single characteristic, what would you choose? David provides the Biblical perspective in this Hebrew phrase, lo (not)…
Times Two
My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Psalm 22:1 (English) My God, my God – In the Bible, when God really wants someone’s attention, He calls the name twice. This doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it is critically important. “Abraham, Abraham” (Genesis 22:11), “Samuel, Samuel” (1 Samuel 3:10), “Saul, Saul” (Acts…
Divine Divorce
My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Psalm 22:1 (English) Forsaken – If you want to understand the depth of David’s cry, you must know something about the verb he chooses. ‘Azav has a special history; a history that colors this opening line in lampblack. The first time we see ‘azav in Scripture…
Praise and Worship Songs
For the choir director, upon the hind of the morning. A psalm of David. Psalm 22:1 (Hebrew text) The Hind of the Morning – If you thought the contemporary passion for praise and worship songs started in this generation, then you haven’t read the Psalms. In fact, Moses started the whole genre with his song…
Bad News
O afflicted one, storm-tossed one, and not comforted, behold; I will . . . Isaiah 54:11 Not Comforted – There was a time when God was not comforted. You can read about it in Isaiah 22:4. The Hebrew words lo nuchama (not comforted) describe God’s refusal to accept the bad news of the destruction of…
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