Proverbs 17–18: Death & Life in the Power of the Tongue
Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.
Truth For The Heart
Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.
Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
“‘You shall thus set apart as holy the fiftieth year and
proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants.
It shall be a jubilee for you.’”
“Go, inquire of Yahweh for me and the people and all Judah,
concerning the words of this book that has been found…”
He who walks with the wise will be wise…
Read MoreThen Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it,
and he went up to the house of Yahweh and spread it out before Yahweh.
So he rose up and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
Read More“What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,
‘The fathers eat the sour grapes,
But the children’s teeth are set on edge’?”
Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub
on which it had been, to the threshold of the house of Yahweh.