Middle English, from Old English psealm, from Late Latin psalmus, from Greek psalmos, literally, twanging of a harp, from psallein to pluck, play a stringed instrument First Known Use before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above Time Traveler The first known use of psalm was bef...
Oh, when the saints : a consideration of the meaning of Psalm 50.Van WijkBos, Johanna W H
160 The entirety of Your word is truth (Psalm 119:160,NKJV throughout, unless otherwise noted). 14 Depart from evil and do good. (Psalm 34:14) 7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh will of t...
has been theorized about. Some scholars say the header of Psalm 34 contains an error. Others think that editors substituted a relatively unknown name (Achish) for a better known one (Abimelech). But the majority of scholars believe that Abimelech was not really a personal name but rather a...
The Psalmist wrote, “Be still, and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world” (Psalm 46:10). The context of this verse makes its message all the more fascinating and appropriate for our times. What
Hate is the absence of love, and not the presence of something else. The purpose of evil is not to combat whatever is good but to destroy whatever is destructible. As the Psalmist said: "Evil will slay the wicked" (Psalm 34:21). Through Jeremiah, God said: "When they ask you, "...
Jesus’ cry of the Psalm would have been of a suffering Savior facing death for the most noble cause. This was different than most people’s notion of God. For them, God was unkillable. Here, God has become truly vulnerable for the sake of his creation and now the moment of deat...
“Jacob’s Ladder”), wrestling with the angel of God until he received God’s blessing, and receiving the new name “Israel” from the Lord, which means “contender, fighter” or “God prevails.” Jacob was also the father of the twelve sons from whom the twelve tribes of Israel ...
For example, in an acrostic psalm like Psalm 119 each verse of a stanza begins with the same letter of the Hebrew alphabet, with the psalm proceeding through the alphabet in twenty-two stanzas. This cannot be reproduced exactly in English, which has a very different alphabet of twenty-six ...
33 Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear. 34 “For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says [Psalm 110:1] himself: ‘The Lord said to my Lord,...