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Hebrews 10:19-25 - 4 October 2009
19 Having, therefore, brothers, confidence unto the entrance/entering of the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 which he has opened for us: a new and living way through the curtain, that is, his flesh, 21 and [having also] a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies having been washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast [to] the confession of the [our?] hope, without wavering, for faithful is the one who promised. 24 And let us consider one another unto [the] encouragement of love and good deeds, 25 not neglecting the assembly of each other, according to the custom of some, but exhorting, and all the more as you see the day approaching.
Hebrews 7:20-28 - 24 August 2009
20 And it was not without an oath! For those who are without an oath became priests, 21 but this one with an oath through what is said to him, ‘The Lord swore and will not change his mind, you are a priest for ever.’ 22 And of a much better covenant Jesus has become a guarantor. 23 And those are many who have become priests, because by death they are prevented from continuing in office, 24 but he, because of his remaining, for ever has a permanent priesthood. 25 Therefore he is able to save to the very end [completely? to the uttermost?] those who draw near through him to God, always living to make intercession for them. 26 For such a High Priest is fitting (?) for us – holy, innocent, pure, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens, 27 who has no need – daily, like [those] High Priests – first for his own sins to offer sacrifices, then for those of the people. For this he did once, offering himself. 28 For the law appoints men as priests, having weakness; the word of the oath, which is after the law, [appoints] a Son, [who has been] perfected for ever.
Hebrews 7:11-19 - 9 August 2009
11 If therefore perfection through the levitical priesthood were possible (for the people on the basis of it were given the law) what further need according to the order of Melchizedek another priest to arise, and not after the order of Aaron to be called? 12 For the priesthood being changed, necessarily of [the] law a change comes. 13 For the one of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, from which no one served at the altar. 14 For it is evident that from Judah our Lord has arisen, in regard to which concerning priests Moses said nothing. 15 And more evident still it is, if according to the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest, 16 who not according to a law of a commandment of [the] flesh has become [a priest], but according to the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is witnessed that ‘You are a priest for ever according to the order of Melchizedek.’ 18 For on the one hand nullification of the foregoing (?) commandment comes about because of its weakness and uselessness 19 (for the law perfected nothing), but on the other hand a better hope is brought in, through which we draw near to God.
Hebrews 7:1-3 - 23 July 2009
1 For this Melchizedek, King of Salem and Priest of God the Most High, [was] the one who met Abraham returning from he slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 and to him a tenth of everything Abraham apportioned. First, by interpretation, King of Righteousness; next also King of Salem, which is King of Peace. 3 Without Father, without Mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest for ever.
Hebrews 1:1-4 - 27 April 2009
1 Many times and in many ways long ago God spoke to the Fathers in the prophets; 2 at [the] end of these days he spoke to us in a Son, whom he appointed heir of all, through whom also he made the ages; 3 who being the radiance of his glory and the exact likeness of his being, upholding all things by the word of his power, having made purification for sins, sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high, 4 having become as much greater than the angels as the name he had inherited is superior to theirs.
A chiasm in Psalm 22? - 14 April 2009
A David shall declare [spr] the Lord’s name in the congregation (22)
B Israel’s seed [zr'] shall serve the Lord (23)
C The afflicted/poor ['nw] shall eat ['kl] and be satisfied (24-26)
C’ The rich shall eat ['kl] and bow down [schh] (27-29)
B’ The seed [zr'] of the nations shall serve the Lord (30a)
A’ The seed shall declare [spr] the Lord’s righteousness to the next generation (30b-31)
Note that the matching sections are about the same length, and that they make good lexical and theological sense (e.g. corresponding vocabulary; B: Israel-Nations; C: poor-rich; etc).
Here’s the full translation:
22 I will declare [spr] your name to my brothers
in the midst of the congregation [qahal], I will praise you.
23 You who fear the LORD – praise him!
All you seed [zr'] of Jacob – glorify him!
And stand in awe of [from?] him, all you seed [zr'] of Israel!
24 For he has not despised and he has not scorned the affliction ['nw] of his afflicted ['nw],
and he has not hidden his face from him,
but when he cried to him, he heard!
25 From/to [?] you [is] my praise in a [the?] great congregation [qahal, v. 22]
my vows I will fulfil before those who fear him.
26 The afflicted ['nw, v. 24] shall eat ['kl] and be satisfied,
they shall praise him who seek the LORD
may your hearts live for ever!
27 They shall remember and return to the LORD, all the ends of the earth
They shall bow [schh] before you, all the tribes of the nations [goyim].
28 For to the LORD [is {belongs?}] the kingdom,
and he rules in [over?] the nations [goyim, v. 27].
29 They shall eat ['kl, v. 26] and bow [schh] – all the rich of the earth
30 Seed [zr', v. 23] shall serve him;
it shall be declared [spr, v. 22] of the Lord to a generation
31 They shall come, and they shall proclaim [ngd] his righteousness to a people being born,
that he has done it.
Jonah 4 - 1 April 2009
4:1 But it was evil to Jonah – a great evil – and anger burned within him. 2 And he prayed to the LORD, and he said, ‘Ah, now, LORD, is not this my word while I was in my land? This is why I hastened [?] to flee to Tarshish. For I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger [lit. ‘long of nose’] and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from calamity [lit. ‘evil’]. 3 Now, LORD, take my life from me, for better is my death than my life.’
4 But the LORD said, ‘Is it good that you burn with anger [lit, ‘that it burns to you’]?
5 Now Jonah had gone out from the city, and he sat to the east of the city, and he made for himself there a booth, and he sat under it in the shadow, until he might see what would happen in [to?] the city. 6 And the LORD God appointed [1:17] a castor-oil plant, and it went up over Jonah, to bring to pass a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his calamity [lit. ‘evil’]. And Jonah rejoiced over the castor oil plant – a great rejoicing. 7 And God appointed a worm in the going-up of the dawn on the next day, and it struck the castor-oil plant, and it withered. 8 And at the rising of the sun God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun struck the head of Jonah, and he became faint. And he asked that his soul would die, and he said, ‘Better is my death than my life.’
9 And God said to Jonah, ‘Is it good that you burn with anger [lit, ‘that it burns to you’] about the castor oil plant?’ And he replied, ‘It is good for me to be angry – unto death!’
10 And God said, ‘You had compassion on the castor oil plant, which overnight came to be and overnight perished. 11 So should I not have compassion on Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 men who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many cattle?’
Jonah 3 - 24 March 2009
3:1 And the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time, saying, 2 ‘Arise! Go to Nineveh, the great city, and call out [cf. 1:2] to [prob. not ‘against’, as in 1:2] her the proclamation which I speak to you.’ 3 And Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was a great city to [before?] God – a journey of three days.
4 And Jonah began to go into the city, a journey of one day. And he called out, saying, ‘Forty more days, and Nineveh will be overthrown!’
5 And the men of Nineveh believed in God. And they called [cf. 3:2, 4] a fast, and they put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them. 6 And the word [thing?] reached the King of Nineveh. And he arose [cf. 3:1] from his throne, and he caused his robe to pass off [pass over?] from upon him, and he covered [himself with] sackcloth, and he sat on the ashes.
7 And he made a proclamation, and he said in Nineveh, ‘From the decree of the King and his great ones: “The man and the beast, the herd and the flock – they shall not taste anything! They shall not feed, and water they shall not drink! 8 The man and the beast shall cover themselves with sackcloth! And let them call [3:2, 4, 5] to God mightily! And let man repent of his evil way and from the violence which [is] in his hand! 9 Who knows? God may turn [repent, 3:8] and have pity, and turn [repent; 3:8] from the burning of his anger, and we may not perish [cf. 1:14].”’
10 When God saw their deeds – that they turned [cf. 3:8, 9] from their evil way [cf. 3:8] – God had pity [cf. 3:9] concerning the disaster [evil, 3:8] which he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
Jonah 2 - 17 March 2009
1:17 And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah,
and Jonah was in the inner parts of the fish three days and three nights.
2:1 And Jonah prayed to the LORD his God
from the inner parts of the fish
2 I cried out from my distress to the LORD, and he answered me
from the belly of Sheol and called for help, and you heard my voice
3 You cast me [into] the depths, in the heart of the sea
all your breakers and your waves passed over me.
4 [But I], I said, ‘I have been driven away from before your eyes,
yet I shall surely look again toward your holy temple.’
5 Water encompassed me unto life, flood surrounded me
weeds were wrapped around my head
6 To the roots of the mountains I went down;
the earth – her bars closed upon me for ever
You brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God
7 When my soul was feeble within me [?], the LORD I remembered
and it came to you, my prayer, to your holy temple
8 Watchers of the vanity of idols,
their steadfast love they forsake
9 But I, with a sound of a song of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you;
that which I have vowed, I will make good.
Salvation [is] from [to?] the LORD!
10 And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto the dry land.