WORD STUDY – MERCY – חסד

  Psalms 51:1 “To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my...

WORD STUDY – SLOW TO ANGER – אפימ ארכ

Psalms 103:8: “The LORD [is] merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.”   For me to the best place to start in my study on the passage is on this matter of God being slow to anger. If you have been following my blog you know that an angry God...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – COMING FULL CIRCLE

  Psalms 138:8: “The Lord will perfect that which concerns me, thy mercy O Lord endures forever. Forsake not the works of thine own hands.”   “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”   Charles Dickens   “A Tale of Two Cities.”   Charles...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?

  Deuteronomy  7:12: “Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he swore unto thy fathers:”   Every promise in the book is mine Every...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – GOD LONGS TO SHARE HIS HEART

Psalms 23:2,6:  “ He makes me lie down in green pastures…Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”   Practically every English translation will translate that last phrase as I will dwell...