How can you not love this uplifting, soul-stirring, take-on-the-world promise? “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” But there’s actually more encouragement in this verse than you might think at first. You see, Paul wrote these words while...
yet in distant lands they will remember me; they will bear their children and return. 10I will bring them back from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria. To the land of Gilead and to Lebanon I will bring them, until no room is found for them. ...
Other versions take מְזִמּוֹת (mezimmot) in a good sense, but antithetical parallelism is unwarranted here. Proverbs 14:18 tc G. R. Driver proposed reading the verb as “are adorned” from a supposed verb חָלָה (khalah) derived from the noun ח...