WORD STUDY – INTO THE PIT יורדי בור

Psalms 28:1 “Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.”   Like them that go down into the pit. Many commentators feel that this is just a poetic expression for death. In...

WORD STUDY – TO GO AND RETURN אלכ אשׁובה

   Hosea 5:15;  “I will go and return to my place until they acknowledge their offence and seek my face, in their affliction they will seek me early.”   I counted up the number of times that God said in the Old Testament, in one form or another, that He would not...

WORD STUDY – INHABIT ETERNITY שׁככ עד

   (NOTE, PLEASE READ THE STORY, MY TEARS, FOUND ON JOTS AND TITLES TO HELP FURTHER EXPLAIN THIS STUDY). Isaiah 57:15: “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabited eternity…” I was reading an article published by Vanderbilt University regarding the Large...

WORD STUDY – THE COLOR BLUE – MAYIM מימ

Isaiah 30:20: “And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, your teachers be hidden no more, but thine eyes shall see they teachers:”   Today my study partner and I were debating the color blue.  She insisted that the color...

WORD STUDY – O SPARE ME שׁעה

  Psalms 39:13: “O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.”   This is a very curious verse.  What is the Psalmist saying when he asks God to spare him so he can recover strength before he is no more.  All commentators agree...

WORD STUDY – I WILL SING אשׁירה

Psalms 104:33: “I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.”   Mark 5:30:  “And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my...