Lamentations 3:17 Meaning and Commentary Lamentations 3:17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace From the time the city was besieged by the Chaldeans, and now the people was carried captive; who could
Singing Jeremiah: Music and Meaning in Holy Week "The Lamentations of Zeno" by German novelist Ilija Trojanow is deftly translated into English for an appreciative American readership by Philip Boehm. The Lamentations of Zeno Frankly, anyone who has tried, failed and wants to try again will ben...
This is what the LORD says: “Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.King James BibleThus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine ...
The NaPoWriMo site challenge for Day 1: Pick a word from a given list . Then write a poem titled either “A [your word]” or “The [your word]” in which you explore the meaning of the word, or some memory you have of it, as if you were writing an illustrative/alternative defin...
We see this all the time in the world when words are used in ways that twist the meaning into something completely different. We have to guard against hearing our own vocabulary of faith being used in ways that seek to lead to a very different conclusion than obedience and faithfulness to ...
15The joy of our hearts has ceased. Our dancing has turned into mourning. 16The crown has fallen off our head. Woe to us, because we have sinned! 17Our heart is sick over this. Over these things our eyes have grown dim— 18over Mount Zion, which is devastated, so that jackals prowl...
/ We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,Lamentations 3:24“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”Jeremiah 17:7But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence...
Lamentations 2:17 Meaning and Commentary Lamentations 2:17 The Lord hath done [that] which he had devised It was not so much the Chaldeans that did it, though they ascribed it to themselves; but it was the Lord's doing, and what he had deliberately thought of, purposed and designed wi...
This very love of God is indispensable for life's existence and humanity's salvation. Let's take a deeper look at the meaning of each word and how it relates to us personally. “The Lord is gracious and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. The Lord is good to ...
I think Barnes’ Commentary is worth quoting at length here on the meaning of “he is guilty of all” in James 2:10 that explicitly defends differences of sin in the face of this verse: He is guilty of violating the law as a whole, or of violating the law of God as such; he has...