Psalm 13:3-4 Consider, answer me, O Lord my God; enlighten my eyes, or I will sleep death, 4 and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken. The first two verses of Psalm 13 express David’s anguish and the recognition that God is in control of his painful circumstances. Now in vv. 3-4 David begins his prayer of petition. He has come to the throne of grac...  Read More

Psalm 13:1-2 For the choir director. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me? This psalm is “for the choir director,” a verbal participle in Hebrew, referring to an overseer of a group of people. In this case ...  Read More

Psalm 32:1-2 How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered! 2 How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit!            We note here three words for sin and three words for forgiveness of those sins. First, David speaks of his “transgression” (Heb. peshah). This term means “going away; departure.” In this context ...  Read More

Psalm 32:8-11 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you. 9 Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check, otherwise they will not come near to you. 10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but he who trusts in the Lord, lovingkindness shall surround him. 1...  Read More

Psalm 32:6-7 Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found; surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him. 7 You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.            “Therefore” is a marker of conclusion, summing up what was previously said. The previous context concerns the blessedness that f...  Read More

Psalm 32:3-5 When I kept silent, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah. 5 I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”; and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah.Reflecting upon his past, David...  Read More

Psalm 32:1-2 A Psalm of David. A Maskil. 1 How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered! 2 How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit!            King David was the king in Israel from 1010 to 970 BC. He was a godly man in that he sought the Lord and followed Him, though not all the time. Though faithful, Davi...  Read More

Ezekiel 39:11 “And I will make a vast graveyard for Gog and his hordes in the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Dead Sea. It will block the way of those who travel there, and they will change the name of the place to the Valley of Gog’s Hordes” (NLT).            In the aftermath of Gog’s defeat, along with his Muslim allies who surrounded Israel from the east, west, and south who will also be d...  Read More

Ezekiel 38:18-19 “…On that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” declares the Lord God, “that My fury will mount up in My anger. 19 In My zeal and in My blazing wrath I declare that on that day there will surely be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.”            According to Ezekiel 38:17, God had spoken of Gog’s future attack on Israel: “Are you the one of whom I spoke in former ...  Read More

Ezekiel 38:1-6 The word of Yahweh came to me saying, 2 “Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him 3 and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. 4 I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your military force, horses a...  Read More

Ezekiel 37:5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones, “Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.”Illustrating His promise to Israel through Ezekiel in chapter 36, God showed Ezekiel in chapter 37 a valley full of dead, dry bones—bodies of the fallen Israelites. Having just revealed that Israel would be restored to her land in blessing under the leadership of her King, God r...  Read More

Ezekiel 36:16-19 The word of the Lord came to [Ezekiel] saying, 17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. 18 Therefore I poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled it with their idols. 19 Also I...  Read More