Sunday, November 13, 2016

Habakkuk 3

The Lord God is my strength;
He will make my feet like deer’s feet,
And He will make me walk on my high hills.
To the Chief Musician. With my stringed instruments. v.19
Read chapter 3
Chapter three is a psalm.  A similar wording to David's psalm in 2 Samuel 22 of making feet like a deer.  We all may walk our every day life like we're stuck in the mud, yet the deer's feet are so opposite.  The deer's feet or hind feet are "elastic, springing ease, of light and bounding gracefulness, that clears every obstacle, and sweeps swiftly over the moor...One sees the herd on the skyline of the mountain ridge, and at home up there, far above dangers and attack; able to keep their footing on cliff and precipice, and tossing their antlers in the pure air. One wave of the hand, and they are miles away. ‘" (biblehub.com).   Do you find yourself on hinds feet or stuck in the mud?  "Communion with Him will make us light-footed, and lift us high, and yet it will keep us at desk, and mill, and study, and kitchen, and nursery, and shop, and we shall find that the high places are reachable in every life, and in every task." 
Notice psalm has the pre and post scripts that we see throughout the psalm.  Notice that there is a post script - it ends with "To the Chief Musician... In the psalms we don't read any post scripts.  Yet due to scripture answering scripture this proves that any time this phrase is used, to the chief musician, it should be at the end of the psalm.  It also helps make sense of musical notations that actually have a deeper meaning, but since it would get put with the wrong psalm it didn't make sense to the translators so they put this broad term of a musical notation. Flip through the psalms and take a look.  Here the Hebrew word is Negnoth and refers to the smiting of Jehovah on the enemies of Israel.

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