The problem of "neighborliness" was acute in Judaism because of the people's self-consciousness of being the chosen people (Gen 12:1-3;15:1-6;17:1-8), sealed in the rite of circumcision (17:9-14). Election set Israel apart, made the people particularly loyal to their own kind (cf...
遵行耶和华律法者大有福祉 - 行为完全,遵行耶和华律法的,这人便为有福! 遵守他的法度,一心寻求他的,这人便为有福! 这人不做非义的事,但遵行他的道。 耶和华啊,你曾将你的训词吩咐我们,为要我们殷勤遵守。
The thousand-year period is not literal, just like the thousand in the following verse is not literal either: “For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills.” Psalm 50:10 The word thousand in these instances means many or a great amount. The cattle on the th...
The Psalms of lament, which include Psalm 69 above, always have a moment where the voice of the psalm turns the corner. Note the last verse, which has jumped ahead in the psalm a fair amount: I will praise the name of God… the Lord hears the poor…” God hears us, and our lament...
Shannan Martin:Psalm 27:13is such a hopeful, beautiful verse. “Yet I am confident I will see the Lord’s goodness while I am here in the land of the living.” This is our promise that wherever we are, God is already vibrantly alive and at work. As we pay attention t...
What I find lovely about this construction, literarily, is how one can use it to measure the space between saying and being, or one could say “word”-ing and “create”-ing. The repetitions and graduated iterations of the phrases describe potential geometries of the relationship between words...