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Mar 11, 2022

NUMBERS 4
Yesterday we learned that the Levite clans were given separate tasks in the care of the sacred tent. The 22,000 Levites became substitutes for Israel's 22,273 first-born sons.

PSALM 28
David cries out to the Lord with all his heart. I love the imagery of the Lord as David’s ‘rock’, ‘shield’, and ‘shepherd’. (v1, 7, 9) As a translator, one sometimes has to make the choice of whether to retain a figure of speech more literally, or just to give its meaning. The GNT chose to translate the meaning at the first of v1 and7, but I will follow the NLT in those two places because I think we will understand David’s metaphors.

Translation notes:

1 [GNT: O Lord, my defender, I call to you.//NLT: I pray to You, O Lord, my rock.]

Listen to my cry!

If you do not answer me,

I will be among those who go down to the world of the dead.

5 They take no notice of what [You have done, Lord,//the Lord has done]

or of what [You have//he has] made;

so [You//he] will punish them

and destroy them forever.

6 [How I praise you Lord!//Give praise to the Lord;]

[You have//he has] heard my cry for help.

7 [You protect and defend me.//based on NLT: You, Lord, are my strength and shield.//The Lord protects and defends me;]

I trust in [You//him].

[You give me help and make me glad!//He gives me help and makes me glad;]

I praise [You//him] with joyful songs.

8 You, Lord, protect your people.//The Lord protects his people;]

[You defend and save me, your chosen king.//he defends and saves his chosen king.]

LUKE 19 
Yesterday in Luke 18, we heard of Jesus’ encounter with the rich young man, Jesus again predicted his death, and blind Bartimaeus (as named in Mark) was healed at Jericho.