Discovery Box| (0.43780435616438) | (Psa 119:119) |
2 sn As he explains in the next verse, the psalmist’s fear of judgment motivates him to obey God’s rules. |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Psa 119:130) |
1 tn Heb “the doorway of your words gives light.” God’s “words” refer here to the instructions in his law (see vv. 9, 57). |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Psa 123:1) |
1 sn Psalm 123. The psalmist, speaking for God’s people, acknowledges his dependence on God in the midst of a crisis. |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Psa 135:18) |
1 sn Because the idols are lifeless, they cannot help their worshipers in times of crisis. Consequently the worshipers end up as dead as the gods in which they trust. |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Psa 139:17) |
2 tn Heb “how vast are their heads.” Here the Hebrew word “head” is used of the “sum total” of God’s knowledge of the psalmist. |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Psa 140:1) |
1 sn Psalm 140. The psalmist asks God to deliver him from his deadly enemies, calls judgment down upon them, and affirms his confidence in God’s justice. |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Pro 10:29) |
1 sn The “way of the |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Pro 11:24) |
2 tn Heb “increases.” The verb means that he grows even more wealthy. This is a paradox: Generosity determines prosperity in God’s economy. |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Pro 13:22) |
2 sn In ancient Israel the idea of leaving an inheritance was a sign of God’s blessing; blessings extended to the righteous and not the sinners. |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Pro 15:3) |
2 tn The form צֹפוֹת (tsofot, “watching”) is a feminine plural participle agreeing with “eyes.” God’s watching eyes comfort good people but convict evil. |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Pro 16:33) |
3 sn The point concerns seeking God’s will through the practice. The |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Pro 18:10) |
4 sn The metaphor of “running” to the |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Isa 2:3) |
2 tn Heb “his ways.” In this context God’s “ways” are the standards of moral conduct he decrees that people should live by. |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Isa 33:11) |
2 sn The hostile nations’ plans to destroy God’s people will come to nothing; their hostility will end up being self-destructive. |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Isa 36:18) |
1 tn Heb “Have the gods of the nations rescued, each his land, from the hand of the king of Assyria?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not!” |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Isa 37:12) |
2 tn Heb “Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed rescue them – Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who are in Telassar?” |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Isa 57:11) |
3 sn God’s patience with sinful Israel has caused them to think that they can sin with impunity and suffer no consequences. |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Jer 3:2) |
3 tn Heb “You sat for them [the lovers, i.e., the foreign gods] beside the road like an Arab in the desert.” |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Jer 15:19) |
3 sn For the classic statement of the prophet as God’s “mouth/mouthpiece,” = “spokesman,” see Exod 4:15-16; 7:1-2. |
| (0.43780435616438) | (Jer 21:5) |
1 tn Heb “with outstretched hand and with strong arm.” These are, of course, figurative of God’s power and might. He does not literally have hands and arms. |
