Songs of the Heart : Understanding the Book of PsalmsSarna, Nahum M
passages from the Psalms or from the Sermon on the Mount, the parables, the thirteenth chapter of Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians, are sure of permanency in literature no matter what may be anyone’s opinion of their religious content. Nobility of conception is very apt to tend tow...
Happiness without the joy of the Lord is most likely an instrument void of Psalms, Hymns and spiritual songs. You can’t have one without the others for the love of God.What’s wrong the world? We are all born and raised here in it. The confidence in its ability to adjust and surviv...
Understanding the Hebrew Bible one Word at a time. Revisiting Ra’ah: The SHEPHERD Dec 15, 2024hebrewwordlessons This week I tidied up an old posting on the Hebrew word for shepherd. Check it out below: RA'AH Shepherd is a prominent theme in both the the Tanakh (Old Testament) and the...
repeated again later in verses 44 & 45: “And He (Jesus) said unto them, These [are] the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and [in] the prophets, and [in] the psalms, concerning...
In the psalms it talks about the same things. Psalm 40:2 “He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.” We are literally in the mud and mire of our bodies. (notice the word Mary/Miriam/Myra in...
In fact Augustine gives this point special emphasis by quoting from theBook of Psalms(69.22): “bend their backs always,” a phrase that he interprets, unaccountably, as a message to future Christians from the ancient Jews concerning how they should treat their own Jewish descendants who would...
Though Jesus did not proclaim publically that he was the Messiah or Christ until the end of his ministry, during his trial this interchange took place: "The high priest said to him, 'I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.' ...
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might underst...
This prayer and the following prayer on trees and animals are taken from Siddur Tifereth Jehudah[Prayer Book of the Beauty of Judah], ed. A Hyman Charlap (New York: Hebrew Publishing Co., 1912), p. 125. All quotations from the Psalms are from The Psalmstrans. Peter Levi (London: Pe...