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PHall | October 10, 2018
Punctuation changes the meaning. Consider these two well-known examples: [ ] Let’s eat, Grandma. [ ] Let’s eat Grandma. Commas save lives, so goes the joke. That second one is dangerous for grandma! To understand further Interpretation by Punctuation, lets begin by laying the foundation: [ ] For those who don’t know, when the OT […]
PHall | May 10, 2016
NASB – Thus says the LORD to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander; they have not kept their feet in check. Therefore the LORD does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquity and call their sins to account.” HCSB – This is what the LORD says concerning these people: Truly […]
PHall | May 10, 2016
NASB “Why are You like a man dismayed, Like a mighty man who cannot save? Yet You are in our midst, O LORD, And we are called by Your name; Do not forsake us!” HCSB Why are You like a helpless man, like a warrior unable to save? Yet You are among us, Yahweh, and […]
PHall | May 10, 2016
NASB “O Hope of Israel, Its Savior in time of distress, Why are You like a stranger in the land Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent for the night? HCSB Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of distress, why are You like a foreigner in the land, like a traveler stopping […]
PHall | May 10, 2016
NASB “Because the ground is cracked, For there has been no rain on the land; The farmers have been put to shame, They have covered their heads. HCSB The ground is cracked since no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads. ESV Because of the ground that is […]
PHall | May 10, 2016
NASB “Judah mourns And her gates languish; They sit on the ground in mourning, And the cry of Jerusalem has ascended. HCSB Judah mourns; her gates languish. Her people are on the ground in mourning; Jerusalem’s cry rises up. ESV “Judah mourns, and her gates languish; her people lament on the ground, and the cry […]
PHall | November 11, 2015
NASB – They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us. HCSB – They went out from us, but they did not […]
PHall | October 20, 2015
NASB (17) The world is passing away, and [also] its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. HCSB (17) And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does God’s will remains forever. ESV (17) And the world is passing away along with its desires, but […]
PHall | October 19, 2015
NASB (16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. HCSB (16) For everything that belongs to the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the […]
PHall | October 19, 2015
NASB (7) Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard. HCSB (7) Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old command that you have had from the […]