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Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Old Testament books of wisdom and poetry carry themselves differently from those of the Pentateuch, the histories, or the prophets. The divine voice does not peal from Sinai, there are no narratives carried along by prophetic interpretation, nor are oracles declaimed by a prophet. Here Scripture often speaks in the words of human response to God and God’s world. The hymns, laments, and...

as “God fearers,” they also exhort the worshiping community to fear God (Ps 34:10). In Psalm 86:11, the psalmist asks God to give him an “undivided heart” in order to fear him. Indeed, just as the psalms hope for the day the nations will fear God (see reference to Ps 33:8 above; Ps 67:7; 102:15), they also admonish them to fear God as well (Ps 2:11: “You kings.… Serve Yahweh with fear and rejoice with trembling”). Those who do fear the Lord experience wonderful blessings. Above, we saw that they
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