Devotional Genesis 32:7

Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar; Genesis 32:7: “And Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed:” There is a remez here.  Why does this verse appear repetitious?  He was afraid and distressed.  Does not being afraid and distressed mean the same thing?  (For the sake of my...

Devotional Isaiah 7:11

Good Evening Yamon Ki Yesepar; Isaiah 7:11: “Ask of thee a sign of the Lord they God; ask it either in the depth,  or in the height above?” God spoke to Ahaz through His prophet saying: “Ask.”  The Hebrew word is she’ol which means to consult, interrogate.  This is...

Devotional Isaiah 54:11

Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar; Isaiah 54:11: “O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.” We need to keep in mind that Hebrew is constantly drawing a picture for...

Devotional Luke 23:31

Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar; Luke 23:31: “For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry tree.?” This is an example of a verse which is unintelligible in the Greek in which it was preserved, but it makes perfect sense when translated into...

Devotional Isaiah 63:9

Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar; Isaiah 63:9: “In all their affliction he afflicted…” Here is something I have never understood about the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia or the Kittle which is the standard Masoric text used by our Western Christian translators.   For you...