“[The book] explained how to practice meditation by quieting the mind and entering the Divine Silence in order to enter the divine peace and calm and restore our souls.”[4] This meditation book also resonates with the New Age teaching that God is within: “There is a spark of the Di...
Jeremiah 29:23tnIt is commonly assumed that this word is explained by the two verbal actions that follow. The word (נְבָלָה,nevalah) is rather commonly used of sins of unchastity (cf., e.g.,Gen 34:7;Judg 19:23;2 Sam 13:12), which would fit the reference to ...
Jeremiah 32:15 sn The significance of the symbolic act performed by Jeremiah, as explained here, was a further promise (see the “again” statements in 31:4, 5, 23 and the “no longer” statements in 31:12, 29, 34, 40) of future restoration beyond the destruction implied in vv. 3-...
--The meaning of the symbolic act, which has its parallel in the girdle of Jeremiah 13:1-7, in the potter's vessel of Jeremiah 19:10, and in the yokes of Jeremiah 27:2, is explained in the following verse. The parchment roll by itself might have floated, and been picked up and ...
Isaiah 40:4; Habakkuk 2:4, Hebrew; Psalm 131:2, Hebrew), and desperately wicked, or rather, desperately sick (see Jeremiah 15:18, where it is explained by the words, "which refuseth to be healed"). The Septuagint reads this verse differently, "The heart is deep above all things, ...
My minstrel enthusiasm was explained by this, that after long wandering I had met the first Ukraine soul. Notwithstanding that, Hela withdraws her feet from my hands and hurries away. I see her bare shoulders during the twinkle of an eye, and her neck, which reminds me of Psyche in the...
The “and” (ו, vav) is to be explained here according to BDB 252 s.v. וַ 1.a. The focus of the address that follows is on the women. See the translator’s note on the next verse. Jeremiah 44:25 tn Or “You and your wives.” The text and referent here are uncertain...
Jeremiah 26:19tnThis Hebrew idiom (חָלָה פָּנִים,khalah panim) is often explained in terms of “stroking” or “patting the face” of someone, seeking to gain his favor. It is never used in a literal sense and is found in contexts of prayer (Exod 32...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version“Return, faithless people,” declares the LORD, “for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.New Living Translation“Return home, you wayward children,” says the LORD, “for ...
For the purpose of completing the enumeration, it is further added, "all the towns of the land of Moab, those which are far off (i.e., those which are situated towards the frontier) and those which are near" (i.e., the towns of the interior, as Kimchi has already explained). ...