Psalm 119 Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Psalm 119 is a great acrostic poem, the longest psalm and also the longest chapter in the Bible. The 22 stanzas each consist of 8 lines, each line starting with the same letter of the Hebrew alphabet, each stanza having a different start letter. It is an epic …
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Psalm 119 Psalm 119 is a great acrostic poem, the longest psalm and also the longest chapter in the Bible. The 22 stanzas each consist of 8 lines each line starting with the same letter of the Hebrew alpabet, each stanza having a different start letter. It is an epic love song for God's law. …
Let God turn your mess into something beautiful — Psalm 145
Psalms of David This is the last of the psalms attributed to David in the fifth book of Psalms and David's last psalm in the psalter as a whole. It has two poetic forms, an acrostic poem, each verse beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet and each of those verses is in …
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What is man? — Psalm 144
Psalms of David "What is man?" asks David in Psalm 8. There he was looking at the magnificence of the night sky and wondering how humans could be important to God when we are so small in relation to the size of the universe and concluded that human greatness can only come from God. Here …
Teach me, Lead me — Psalm 143
Psalms of David There are different ways of learning. This psalm mentions two of them, Teach me and Lead me. These line up with the last two phrases in a saying by Benjamin Franklin. Only thousands of years earlier. The books of Psalms are roughly themed like this: Book 1: Psalms 1 - 41: God …
Run for your life — Psalm 142
Psalms of David In this Psalm, David prays to God twice, with a different result each time. The books of Psalms are roughly themed like this: Book 1: Psalms 1 - 41: God is beside us.Book 2: Psalms 42 - 72: God goes before usBook 3: Psalms 73 - 89: God is all around us.Book …
I only have eyes for you — Psalm 141
Psalms of David "I only have eyes for you," as well as being a popular song written in 1934, with several cover versions, including one by Art Garfunkel which reaced number 1 in the UK charts in 1975. The phrase is a possible interpretation of the Hebrew translated as "my eyes are towards you" in …
Flattery may harm us as much as lies — Psalm 140
Psalms of David We are back in lament teritory. These last two years of Covid-19 restrictions, if you include the period of aproaching storm before it got here, has been a time where nearly everyone has been lamenting their lack of freedom, many having lost families and friends, knowing people with long covid, or having …
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Adam says — Psalm 139
Psalms of David One of the first things I do when looking at a passage from the Old Testament is to check Jewish sources, they have had these scriptures longer than we have. A Rabbinic take is that Psalm 139 is by Adam in theme although the words are David's. The question asked here is, …
Another Exodus – Psalm 106
The 4th book of Psalms Hallelujah One teaching method used by Jesus in his ministry is the chiasm, a series of statements that are then repeated and developed in reverse order. An early one comes in Genesis 9:6 in the ESV because unlike the KJV and others it follows the word order of the Hebrew …
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