Isaiah 30:10: “Which say to the seers, see not and to the prophets, prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things and prophesy deceit.” The way this is translated only contributes to the arrogance of modern Christians. You read this and you think: “How amazing that people would tell the prophets
Deuteronomy 32:20: “How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?” My brother and I were talking about linguistics and he mentioned a new model in linguistics that was emerging. It is called relevance in translation. I am still trying to figure
Isaiah 28:23: “Give ye ear, hear my voice, hearken and hear my speech.” If you really want to light my boiler fire, just ask: “Well, what is God saying to you about this.” My guaranteed first strike would be: “If I knew what God was saying to me I wouldn’t be sitting here
Isaiah 26:3: “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trust in you.” If you are in the habit of claiming a verse for the New Year, might I suggest a great verse for 2014, it is Isaiah 26:3. Most of us on New Year’s Eve not
Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end (aharit אחרית) from the beginning, And from ancient times (qadam קדם )things which have not been done, Saying, ‘My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’. End “Aharit”: To go after, past, behind, and future are all usages for “aharit”. How can a word mean both past and
Isaiah 9:6: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given and the government will be upon His shoulders.” With the advent of worship teams, church choirs are starting to become an endangered species, if they are not already extinct. That is good and bad in certain ways. For me
Isaiah 6:5: “Then said I, “Woe is me for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips.” I am quite baffled over the first word in the verse which is ’omar and not ‘omer. The word means to speak or say. However, the word ‘omar is spelled with a patah under
Song of Solomon 1:12, “While the king sits at his table, my spikenard sends forth the smell thereof.” Esther 2:12, “Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their
Isaiah 4:6: “And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.” Isaiah was a prophet to the nation of Judah. His prophecies were filled with double meanings and not even he himself knew
Luke 2:8 “And there were shepherds in the same country abiding in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.” I remember as a child in church during Christmas time singing the song, While Shepherds Washed Their Socks By Night and wondering about this. Eventually, I got my words right, but I
