When there was any special outpouring of praise in the temple, there would almost always be a performance of vows. Both depended on some deliverance or favour having been granted. Parallel Commentaries ... HebrewFor the choirmaster.לַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ (lam·naṣ·...
We worship to express praise for who God is, to exalt Him, and to give thanks to Jesus. We worship to thank God the Father and Jesus, for all He has done for us, with grateful hearts. We worship to draw near to the living God, to spend time in His presence. We worship to exper...
That is why instead of creating stones and inanimate objects to worship Him, He gave human beings a choice in the matter. When they engage in thankfulness, worship and praise, God is pleased, and the end result is that His blessings are poured out upon them in tangible ways, including spi...
The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang. He is good; his love endures forever. Then the temple of the Lord was filled with ...
The LORD took The Prophet Ezekiel to the Temple, and showed him how the activities of idolatry, had made His Presence go far from the Temple. “Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north,...
We have desecrated the temple with our own bare hands! We have committed two sins before God, forsaking Him – the fountain of living waters, and digging cisterns for ourselves, broken cisterns that hold no water. We have chosen to dig for our own water, when Christ the living waters, ...
“. Each scene is a collection of individual numbers or “movements” which take the form ofrecitatives,ariasand choruses.There are two instrumental numbers, the openingSinfony[n 3]in the style of aFrench overture, and thepastoralPifa, often called the “pastoral symphony”...