Sep 22, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
You have given a banner to those who fear You, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. That Your beloved may be delivered, save with Your right hand, and hear me. (Psalm 60:4-5) In the previous devotion, we addressed the belief that the words of this...
Sep 21, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
You have made the earth tremble; You have broken it. Heal its breaches, for it is shaking. (Psalm 60:2) Rabbinical commentators recommend that, with these words, David is referring to much more than just events that occurred in his day. They believe that David was...
Sep 20, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
O God, You have cast us off; You have broken us down; You have been displeased. Oh, restore us again! (Psalm 60:1) The tradition connected to this psalm says that David’s lament at the outset was in response to a military incursion launched by Hadadezer of Syria...
Sep 19, 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) When is it appropriate to make war...
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...
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