Sep 18, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
To the Chief Musician. Set to “Lily of the Testimony.” A Michtam of David. For teaching. When he fought against Mesopotamia and Syria of Zobah, and Joab returned and killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. (Psalm 60) As the opening says, this psalm was...
Sep 17, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
I will wait for You, O You his Strength; for God is my defense. My God of mercy shall come to meet me. (Psalm 59:9-10) Waiting on God — it’s not always very easy to do. For us, time is always staring at us in the face, prompting consternation which, in...
Sep 16, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Awake to help me, and behold! You therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to punish all the nations. (Psalm 59:5) There is an interesting midrash (commentary) connected to this verse that looks to the future. However, it begins with this thought: when...
Sep 15, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; defend me from those who rise up against me. Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloodthirsty men. (Psalm 59:1) Throughout the Bible we see that when wicked men feel threatened by God’s people, they...
Sep 14, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
To the Chief Musician. Set to “Do Not Destroy.” A Michtam of David when Saul sent men, and they watched the house in order to kill him. (Psalm 59) This the third in the al tashchet “Do Not Destroy” trilogy and, as is indicated in the introduction, it was inspired by...
Sep 13, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked, so that men will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely He is God who judges in the earth.” (Psalm 58:10-11) There is a belief revealed within...
Recent Comments