Since the singular form predominates in these verses, it has been retained in the translation.Psalm 10:3 tn Heb“the wicked [one] boasts on account of the desire of his appetite.” The translation assumes that the preposition עַל (ʿal) introduces the reason why the wicked boasts...
so you summoned against me terrors on every side.In the day of the Lord’s anger no one escaped or survived;those I cared for and reared my enemy has destroyed.” Footnotes Lamentations 2:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the ...
More nonsense verses. I never believed this verse even years ago before the desecration of all bibles. Everything about this scripture story is pish posh. The couple donated money but not enough so God slaughtered them right then and there? No I am not buying it. Furthermore now it reads ...
One of the benefits of trusting the King James Bible: it changes your attitude. When the Bible story is challenged, instead of succumbing to whatever newest attack is waged against it, the Bible believer then delves more deeply into the exact words of the scripture, believing that the answer...
The first Methodist liturgical book, The Sunday Service of the Methodists, employs verses from the Apocrypha, such as in the Eucharistic liturgy. The Protestant Apocrypha contains three books (1 Esdras, 2 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh) that are accepted by many Eastern Orthodox Churches ...
Well, those verses in the gospels are warning from the Lord Jesus Christ. So is Jesus a fearmonger? Is Jesus lying? Is Jesus trying to scare people from growing up? It is not surprising as many so called Christians, especially those brained washed Bible college and seminary graduates and ...
DKL talked about thatherea while back, and I got curious and went to the NRSV to read Isaiah 53. I had mixed feelings- the NSRV made a lot of verses clearer, while the KJV language seemed more moving in some instances. I’m going to use them side by side from now on, for that...
Proverbs 30:15 sn The next two verses describe insatiable things, things that are problematic to normal life. The meaning of v. 15a and its relationship to 15b is debated. But the “leech” seems to have been selected to begin the section because it was symbolic of greed—it sucks blood...
Psalm 119:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, the stanzas of which begin with successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet; moreover, the verses of each stanza begin with the same letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Psalm 119:33 Or follow it for its reward Psalm 119:37 Two manuscripts of the Mas...
The acrostic pattern does not appear in chapter 5, but its influence is felt in that it has 22 verses, the same as the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet. For further study on Hebrew acrostics, see W. M. Soll, “Babylonian and Biblical Acrostics,” Bib 69 (1988): 305-23; ...