Digging Deeper Daily: By Daily Bible Reading PodcastSample

GENESIS 25-26:
Yesterday in Genesis 24 we read the charming story of how Rebecca became Isaac's wife.

JOB 14:
In chapter 13, Job challenged his friends with these words:

6 GNT Listen while I state my case.
7 Why are you lying?
Do you think your lies will benefit God?
8 Are you trying to defend him?
Are you going to argue his case in court?
9 If God looks at you closely, will he find anything good?
Do you think you can fool God the way you fool others?
…

14 I am ready to risk my life.
15 I've lost all hope, so what if God kills me?
I am going to state my case to him.
16 It may even be that my boldness will save me,
since no wicked person would dare to face God.

Today we read the third and final chapter of this response of Job to Zophar, chapter 14.

MARK 9a:
Yesterday at the end of Mark 8, Jesus gave this requirement for all his followers:

“Everyone who wants to follow Me must leave his own self interests, and follow Me continually with this resolve, ‘No matter if I die— even if that be by crucifixion, I will keep following the Lord!’” (PET)

(The PET stands for the Plain English Translation. That is an English translation of our Plain Indonesian Translation (TSI).)

The rest of the chapter has other important verses including this one:

“If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up
your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it.”

Translation note:
1 And he went on to say, “I tell you, there are some here who will not die
until they [have seen God coming and setting up his Kingdom to reign on
earth in great power!//have seen the Kingdom of God come with power.”]

In most languages (and I really think we need to include English) kingdoms don't ‘come’ or ‘arrive’. Similarly, cabbages don't read books. Such things are collocational clashes. The kingdom of North America doesn't move to South America. The Lord's prayer is a famous example. Instead of ‘May your kingdom come’ it makes better sense in most of the world's languages to say, “May You come and reign here as our king.”