Psalm 51: 13-19.. And the Response?

Then I will teach transgressors your ways,and sinners will return to you.Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,O God of my salvation,and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.O Lord, open my lips,and my mouth will declare your praise.For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;you will not be pleased withContinue reading “Psalm 51: 13-19.. And the Response?”

Psalm 51: 6-12…..What can God do?

Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.Let me hear joy and gladness;let the bones that you have broken rejoice.Hide your face from my sins,and blot out all my iniquities.CreateContinue reading “Psalm 51: 6-12…..What can God do?”

Psalm 51: 1-6….The background to this Psalm is given in great detail!

Have mercy on me, O God,according to your steadfast love;according to your abundant mercyblot out my transgressions.Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,and cleanse me from my sin!For I know my transgressions,and my sin is ever before me.Against you, you only, have I sinnedand done what is evil in your sight,so that you may be justifiedContinue reading “Psalm 51: 1-6….The background to this Psalm is given in great detail!”

Psalm 50: 16-23….to the wicked!

But to the wicked God says:“What right have you to recite my statutesor take my covenant on your lips?For you hate discipline,and you cast my words behind you.If you see a thief, you are pleased with him,and you keep company with adulterers.“You give your mouth free rein for evil,and your tongue frames deceit.You sit andContinue reading “Psalm 50: 16-23….to the wicked!”

Psalms 50: 7-15….Do you think that you feed Me? Spoken to His people

“Hear, O my people, and I will speak;O Israel, I will testify against you.I am God, your God.Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;your burnt offerings are continually before me.I will not accept a bull from your houseor goats from your folds.For every beast of the forest is mine,the cattle on a thousand hills.IContinue reading “Psalms 50: 7-15….Do you think that you feed Me? Spoken to His people”

Psalm 50: 1-6….Listen. Look! What do you hear and see?

The Mighty One, God the LORD,speaks and summons the earthfrom the rising of the sun to its setting.Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,God shines forth.Our God comes; he does not keep silence;before him is a devouring fire,around him a mighty tempest.He calls to the heavens aboveand to the earth, that he may judge hisContinue reading “Psalm 50: 1-6….Listen. Look! What do you hear and see?”

Genesis 45: 10-20….Come, and hurry!

You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children’s children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have. There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, andContinue reading “Genesis 45: 10-20….Come, and hurry!”

Genesis 45: 1-9…..He can hide the truth no longer!

Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, “Make everyone go out from me.” So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it. And Joseph saidContinue reading “Genesis 45: 1-9…..He can hide the truth no longer!”

Genesis 44: 27-34…. The pleading ends!

Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons. One left me, and I said, “Surely he has been torn to pieces,” and I have never seen him since. If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down myContinue reading “Genesis 44: 27-34…. The pleading ends!”

Genesis 44: 18-26….The truth spills out!

Then Judah went up to him and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself. My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’ And we said to myContinue reading “Genesis 44: 18-26….The truth spills out!”