by Chaim & Laura | Jan 7, 2015 | Devotionals
Psalms 118:10: “All nations compassed me about, but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.” The letter Beth can be used as a preposition for in, on or with. No English translation I know will render the Beth in this passage as with. However, the Jewish...
by Chaim & Laura | Jan 4, 2015 | Devotionals
Psalms 112:9-10: “He hath given freely to the poor; His mercies endures forever; His horn will be exalted in honor. The wicked will see it and be vexed; he will gnash his teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.” There is an old...
by Chaim & Laura | Jan 3, 2015 | Devotionals
Matthew 5:29, “And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast [it] from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into hell.” I remember hearing this verse read as a...
by Chaim & Laura | Jan 3, 2015 | Devotionals
Isaiah 29:13, “Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me…” I once taught drama in a high school and I would always tell my acting students that...
by Chaim & Laura | Jan 2, 2015 | Devotionals
Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?” The word used here for deceitful is very curious. It is the ‘aqov. It comes from the same root where we get the word Jacob which means to grab by the...
by Laura | Jan 1, 2015 | Devotionals
Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end (aharit אחרית) from the beginning, And from ancient times (qadam קדם )things which have not been done, Saying, ‘My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’. End “Aharit”: To go...
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