This essay, “Moses, Psalmist (Part Four),” was first published in CGG Weekly on December 7, 2001. “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.” —Deuteronomy 32:1 On anyone’s list of world religious figures of all time, Moses would certainly rank in the …
“Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than one perverse in his ways, though he be rich.” —Proverbs 28:6 Throughout his writings, Solomon had a penchant for using proverbial comparisons of the “better is” or “better than” variety (see, for instance, Proverbs 8:11; 12:9; 15:16-17; 16:32; 27:5; Ecclesiastes 7:1-3, 5; …
“As yet he will remain at Nob that day; He will shake his fist at the mount of the daughter of Zion, The hill of Jerusalem.” —Isaiah 10:32 The prophet Isaiah, living in the eighth century BC, spoke against the moral decline and idolatry of the people of Judah and …
