COMMENTARY:
: 1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. (4726 “fountain” [maqowr] means well-spring, source of life, joy and purification, descendants of Israel, with an associative with meaning of life and cleansing of association with clean water.… Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, says the LORD, which stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him. (3335 “forms” [yatsar] means to create, fashion, frame, plan, shape, or mold.)
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COMMENTARY:
: 5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. (6238 “rich” [ashar] means enrich, to make rich, to gain riches, get abundance, or pretend to be rich.)
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COMMENTARY
: 1 Ask you of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so that LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. (7592 “ask” [sha’al] means consult, beg for, to make a request, to seek, or find out.)
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COMMENTARY:
: 7 And I take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remains, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. (3249 “I will take away” [yacuwr] means to change direction, to … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 This says the LORD of hosts, I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. (7065 “jealous” [qana’] means to get heated, envy, become excited, to become desirous of exclusivity in relationship, or zealous.)
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COMMENTARY:
: 3 And to speak to the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years? (5144 “separating myself” [nazar] means to consecrate oneself to a deity, to deal respectfully, … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 7 And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth. (1245 “sought” [baqash] means require, request, seek out, besought, ask, begging, to … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it. (7650 “sweareth” … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep. (5782 “waked” [‘uwr] means raise, arise, incite, to rouse oneself, stir up, to act in an aroused manner or awake.)
DEVOTION: Sometimes we can hear a message and all that … Read More