Ezekiel 18:31 “Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O House of Israel?” The word in Hebrew for cast is shalak which is found in a Hiphal (causative) imperative (command) form. Thus there is
Hosea 7:14: “And they have not cried unto me with their hearts when they howled upon their beds, they assemble themselves for corn and wine and they rebel against me.” How many times have we found ourselves in a real jam and we start to cry to out to God. Often our cry goes
Psalms 13:2, 5: “How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted over me? But I have trusted in your mercy my heart will rejoice in your salvation.” I have to admit I sure can relate to David in the
Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Boy, Jeremiah loved that word deceitful. Here it is again. Only unlike Jeremiah 20:7 where he uses the word patah which is rendered as deceived in many translations but has more of the idea of being seduced or
Psalms 108:1: “O God, my heart is fixed, I will sing and give praise even with my glory.” Ever have one of those times when you carry a burden that just so overwhelms you that you can’t even pray. You try to pray, but it is just such an effort, you feel so
Last week I shared from Psalm 119 (which is arranged in an acrostic style) with a verse that starts with the letter Aleph (א) and this week I’m going to continue with the letter Bet(ב). Psalm 119:10 With all my heart I have sought Thee; Do not let me wander from Thy commandments What’s interesting about this first word with all (בכל) is that though it means
Deuteronomy 8:5, “Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.” During the Spanish American war Captain Gridley mounted the conning tower of his ship and received the order from Admiral Dewey, “You may fire when ready Gridley.” Captain Gridley did not
Ezra 7:10: “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.” You read about Ezra and the word that comes to mind is “fanatic.” This old boy devoted himself to the Word of God. Jewish tradition teaches that
Psalms 17:3 “Thou has proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night.” The above passage was taken from the KJV. It translates the phrase “thou hast visited me in the night” in a perfect tense (completed action). I checked through every translation I could find and practically all of them translate this
Psalms 16:1-2 “Michtam of David. Keep me, O God; for I have taken refuge in Thee. I have said unto the Lord: ‘Thou art my Lord; I have no good but in Thee.’” The word michtam is a transliteration from the Hebrew and literally means from gold or from the hidden. Many commentators simply
