by Chaim & Laura | Dec 19, 2013 | Devotionals
Isaiah 55:8: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.” The word for thought here is not sh’ar as it is in Proverbs 23:7: Here the word is chashav. Sh’ar has the idea of thinking to make a decision; this thinking...
by Chaim & Laura | Dec 18, 2013 | Devotionals
Isaiah 54:11: “O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.” We need to keep in mind that Hebrew is constantly drawing a picture for us. Here the nation of...
by Chaim & Laura | Dec 17, 2013 | Devotionals
Isaiah 62:5a “For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry Thee: The word for marry here is baal, yeah the same word that is used for a false god. What could the sages be thinking when they used the same word for marriage that is used for a...
by Chaim & Laura | Dec 16, 2013 | Devotionals
Isaiah 51:13, 17. “And forgettest the Lord they maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy and where is the fury of the...
by Chaim & Laura | Dec 15, 2013 | Devotionals
Ecclesiastes 4:5: “The fool folded his hands together and eats his own flesh.” It seems most commentaries tend to agree that the writer is basically saying that there are people who feel the world owes them a living. They sit back in their laziness and eat their own...
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