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Psalm 150:Worship Him!Psalm 150:Worship Him!

Genre and Meaning

Psalm 150 is the last Psalm. Appropriately,it ends the book of Psalms by answering the “where” ,“why” ,“how” ,and “who”  of worship. The meaning of this Psalm is that God is to be praised everywhere,by everyone,using everything available to them,because of what God does [...]

Isaiah 13:The Destruction of BabylonIsaiah 13:The Destruction of Babylon

Genre and Meaning

Isaiah 13 is an oracle prophesy against the kingdom of Babylon. There is some controversy regarding the oracle. Babylon is only mentioned in the first verse and again in the last section of the chapter. Some would argue that,due to the fact that “it was the Medes who destroyed Nenevah,the [...]

The Proverbs 31 WomanThe Proverbs 31 Woman

 

Proverbs 31:10-31 is a cluster proverb organized as an Alphabetic Acrostic poem. According to Fox’s commentary,it is “best classified as an encomium. The encomium,best known from Greco-Roman lyric and rhetoric,is a declaration of lofty praise for a person or a type of person.” [1] This poem is in [...]