Category: Psalms

• July 30, 2024

  Psalm 20: Jesus The Answer, The Right Hand, The Messiah, The Name, The Saviour.

  1: To the chief, a melody of David   Yehoweh answers you in a day of trouble. He makes you inaccessible. (His) Name is God of the Heel/Deceiver (sinner, down-&-outer). 2: He sends you help from a ‘Holy’ (kodesh) and sustains you from Droughty-Hill (Zion). 3: He remembers all your gifts and your whole burnt…
• July 9, 2024

  Psalm 46: Yehoweh-of-Parliaments-With-Us

  1: To the head of the choir master family, to the sons of bald men (Korah). A melody for young women. Our God for us is a retreat and strength, a very much found help (Ezra) in distress. 2: And so we fear not even if earth is made to change  and the mountains totter…
• March 19, 2024

  Psalm 27 (the sacrifice song of joy on Yom Thruah)

    1: To David. Yehoweh my light and my salvation (va- Ishi). Whom am I fearing? Yehoweh my life’s stronghold. Whom am I dreading? 2: Flesh- eating Wickedness-makers coming against me? Opposing narrow-minded? Them? They tottered and fell. 3: if an encampment (Makneh) encamps (thikneh) against me, my heart does not fear. If a battle…
• March 5, 2024

  Psalm 51’s stanzas of poetry

  1: A melody for David’s chief musician when Prophet Nathan is to go to him after he had gone (Ba) to Bath-Sheba. Be compassionate to me, Lord. Like/for the sake of your loving kindness (khesedhekha),  Like /for the sake of your great encompassing motherly sustenance (womb-ness – rakhamekha), Wipe out my transgressions (Peshayi). 2: Cause…
• December 19, 2023

  Psalm 90 – ‘thousand years vs 70 years’, shoov (turn around) song of Moses at his second retirement

  1: Dwelling place Yehovah, You were ours in a generation and a generation 2: Before mountains were born and the earth and world danced – From everlasting to everlasting (are) You, God. 3: You caused man to turn around to contrition/destruction, saying, Turn around sons of adam 4: For a thousand years in your eyes…
• December 10, 2023

  Psalm 62

  The Akh-Ulkha poem 1: To the head of the choir master family. A melody of David. Surely (Akh) to God my soul (is in) silence. From Him (is) my Jesus. 2: Surely He is my rock and my Jesus, my security – I will not be greatly shaken. 3: How long will you yell at…