Psalms 149:3: “Let them praise His name in the dance, let them sing praises unto Him with the timbre and the harp. Do you ever go through a period of time when you feel like old Job. Just one messenger after another keeps coming to your door with some more bad news.
Ecclesiastes 2:16: “For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool forever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.” “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” The Wasteland T.S. Eliot
Psalms 149:5: “Let the saints be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud upon their beds.” “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene II “Politics makes strange bedfellows.” Charles Dudley Warner The Psalm tells us to sing aloud upon our beds. This does not have
II Chronicles: 33:12: “And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,” This morning I was reading in the Talmud Sanhedrin 101 a-b. Just to digress, I once paid a visit to a pastor friend of mine in his
Exodus 40:35: “And Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting, for the cloud rested (shakhan) upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle.” Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting because of the Shekhinah glory. The Talmud and other Jewish literature are filled with references to the
Psalm 51:4: “Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, [and] be clear when thou judgest.” There is no guessing as to who or what this Psalm is addressing. We are told right in verse two that
Deuteronomy 30:2-3: “And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and they children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and
Jeremiah 31:20: “[Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.” Most Christian commentators will say that God uses the name Ephraim
Leviticus 6:2: “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This [is] the law of the burnt offering: It [is] the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.” I can see it now, I will have a
Judges 6:15-16: “And he said unto him: ‘Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I serve Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh and I am the least in my father’s house. And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one
