Isaiah 51:1: “Harken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord, look unto the rock from whence you were hewn, and to the hole of the pit, when you are digged.” “If you want to know faith and be attached to this righteousness, do not look at it directly
Psalms 28:1 “Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.” Like them that go down into the pit. Many commentators feel that this is just a poetic expression for death. In
Psalms 95:8 “Harden not your heart as in the day of provocation (Meribah), and as in the day of temptation (Massah) in the wilderness.” There is a very interesting poetic device used in this Psalm. The writer is using proper names from an actual place and using the meaning behind those proper name to
Matthew 16:18: “And I say unto you, thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church.” Someone asked me a question about the word for church in the Aramaic. The word in the Greek is ekklesia which is a legal word and simply means the called out. Jesus most likely spoke these
Psalms 28:1 “Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.” The word for pit is bore in Hebrew which could mean a well, a prison, or a crypt. A prison is
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: Psalms 88:1 (verse 1 in the Hebrew text) “A song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Herman the Ezrahite.” I often challenge my Hebrew students to pick out any passage in the Old Testament, no matter
