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  • Qoph

    Qoph

    HELP! Save me, O Lord!

    1 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw.

    Habakkuk’s Complaint

    2 O Lord, how long shall I cry for help,
    and you will not hear?
    Or cry to you “Violence!”
    and you will not save?
    3 Why do you make me see iniquity,
    and why do you idly look at wrong?
    Destruction and violence are before me;
    strife and contention arise.
    4 So the law is paralyzed,
    and justice never goes forth.
    For the wicked surround the righteous;
    so justice goes forth perverted.

    The prophets, the psalmists, the righteous men and righteous women of God cry out with our whole heart: Save me, O Lord!

    קָרָא

    qara’

    Cry out!

    Cry out in prayer to the Lord your God.

    Psalm 119

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet 

    Qoph [KOPH]

    145 With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O Lord!
    I will keep your statutes.
    146 I call to you; save me,
    that I may observe your testimonies.

    I cried out with my whole heart. I cried out , “save me.” (Same Hebrew word: quara’) with a primitive root meaning: to encounter, whether accidentally or in a hostile manner.

    147 I rise before dawn and cry for help;
    I hope in your words.
    148 My eyes are awake before the watches of the night,
    that I may meditate on your promise.

    The KJV states: Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. This, the same context as David’s song of deliverance in 2 Samuel 22.

    The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented H6923 me… They prevented H6923 me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. – 2 Sam. 22:6,19

    149 Hear my voice according to your steadfast love;
    O Lord, according to your justice give me life.

    150 They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose;
    they are far from your law.
    151 But you are near, O Lord,
    and all your commandments are true.

    152 Long have I known from your testimonies
    that you have founded them forever.

    The prayer is the Psalmist’s personal plea to the Living God, in whom we trust. And one more thing of the Lord, who IS near, nearer than our evil enemies who draw near to us:

    It is the Lord we ask to be our Savior.

    “Save me,” in Psalm 199:146 is the action of one who can save: a Savior.

    יָשַׁע – yasha`

    The place of those near is subtly different than the nearness of relationship, especially our relationship with God our Savior.

    Jesus IS Lord. Draw near to Him.

  • Complaint to the Lord

    Complaint to the Lord

    Job 6

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

    6 Then Job answered and said:

    2 “Oh that my vexation were weighed,
    and all my calamity laid in the balances!
    3 For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;
    therefore my words have been rash.
    4 For the arrows of the Almighty are in me;
    my spirit drinks their poison;
    the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

    8 “Oh that I might have my request,
    and that God would fulfill my hope,
    9 that it would please God to crush me,
    that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
    10 This would be my comfort;
    I would even exult in pain unsparing,
    for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
    11 What is my strength, that I should wait?
    And what is my end, that I should be patient?

    21 For you have now become nothing;
    you see my calamity and are afraid.
    22 Have I said, ‘Make me a gift’?
    Or, ‘From your wealth offer a bribe for me’?
    23 Or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand’?
    Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless’?

    24 “Teach me, and I will be silent;
    make me understand how I have gone astray.

    Go not your own way

    Or run to your own understanding,

    But seek the answer of the Lord

    The eternal truth of temporal trouble.

    Numbers 15:39 NIV

    You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.

    Psalm 22

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    Why Have You Forsaken Me?

    27 All the ends of the earth shall remember
    and turn to the Lord,
    and all the families of the nations
    shall worship before you.
    28 For kingship belongs to the Lord,
    and he rules over the nations.

    29 All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship;
    before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
    even the one who could not keep himself alive.
    30 Posterity shall serve him;
    it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;
    31 they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn,
    that he has done it.

     

  • Out of the depths

    Out of the depths

     

    Psalm 130

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    My Soul Waits for the Lord

    A Song of Ascents.

    Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
    2     O Lord, hear my voice!
    Let your ears be attentive
    to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

    3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
    O Lord, who could stand?
    4 But with you there is forgiveness,
    that you may be feared.

    5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
    and in his word I hope;
    6 my soul waits for the Lord
    more than watchmen for the morning,
    more than watchmen for the morning.

    He IS above the Highest of the Heavens

    In His mercy He has descended into Sheol.

    He IS near to the place where my heart sinks.

    He IS near to the brokenhearted.

    Hear our cry, O LORD, our rock and our Redeemer.