 | John White - 2009 - 180 pàgines
...means total rejection? I can only say that the God who wants you to be free is also compassionate. "As a Father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust." (Ps. 103: 13-14). His only Son, who loved you... | |
 | John C. L. Gibson - 1981 - 236 pàgines
...estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath. (Ps. 62:9) As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes... | |
 | Werner H. Schmidt - 1983 - 316 pàgines
...father' (Isa. 63: 15f.; 64: If.; cf. Jer. 3: 4, 19; Mai. 3: 17) or we can be assured of his goodness: As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him. (Ps. 103: 13; cf. Prov. 3: 12 et al.) But the son does not respond to the 'call' of the loving father.... | |
 | Robert McAfee Brown - 1985 - 332 pàgines
...ever. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor requite us according to our iniquities. . . . As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him. (Ps. 103:8-10, 13) Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy steadfast love; according to thy abundant... | |
 | Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) - 1986 - 112 pàgines
...who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. As a father pities his children so the LORD pities those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes... | |
 | James Limburg - 228 pàgines
...italics). The same is also used to describe a father's love for his children, translated "pities": As a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear him. (Ps. 103:13, author's italics) The imagery here anticipates the picture of the waiting father in Luke... | |
 | Stewart Delisle Govig - 1989 - 160 pàgines
...awareness, to an understanding that God has not failed people with disabilities, nor is he punishing them. "As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust" (Ps. 103:13-14). courageous self-resolve. A... | |
 | Albert Curry Winn - 1990 - 268 pàgines
...because God is "in heaven," God's way of being gathers up and transcends both masculinity and femininity. As a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear him. Psalm 103:13 As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. Isaiah 66:13 So God's fatherhood... | |
 | Alvin F. Kimel - 1992 - 356 pàgines
...manifested in Christ, should have in mind the attitudes and acts of the Godhead as such toward us — "our Mother." Julian does not use "Mother" to designate...metaphor, as when he refers to the divine care for Cornell University Press, 1989), William P. Alston argues against "irreducible metaphors" in theology,... | |
 | Géza Vermès - 1993 - 258 pàgines
...God disciplines you (8.5). The same imagery is used in Psalm 103.1 3 in connection with the pious: As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him. In prophetic literature, God is depicted as proclaiming the Father-son bond between himself and Israel:... | |
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As a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust. 
