Qodesh Corner
Who Is Yahuah?
Then Yahuah said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop. No one may go up with you; in fact, no one may be seen anywhere on the mountain—not even the flocks or herds may graze in front of the mountain.”
"So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as Yahuah had commanded him.
And Yahuah descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, Yahuah. Then Yahuah passed in front of Moses and called out:
“Yahuah, Yahuah Elohiym,
is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger,
abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations,
forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin.
Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished;
He will visit the iniquity of the fathers
on their children and grandchildren
to the third and fourth generations.”
Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped. “O Yahuah,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Elohiym, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
Exodus 34:1-9 BSB
Who Is Like Yahuah?
Bless Yahuah, O my soul;
all that is within me, bless His holy name.
Bless Yahuah, O my soul,
and do not forget all His kind deeds—
He who forgives all your iniquities
and heals all your diseases,
who redeems your life from the Pit
and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
who satisfies you with good things,
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Yahuah executes righteousness
and justice for all the oppressed.
He made known His ways to Moses,
His deeds to the people of Israel.
Yahuah is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
He will not always accuse us,
nor harbor His anger forever.
He has not dealt with us according to our sins
or repaid us according to our iniquities.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.
As far as the east is from the west,
so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
As a father has compassion on his children,
so Yahuah has compassion on those who fear Him.
For He knows our frame;
He is mindful that we are dust.
As for man, his days are like grass—
he blooms like a flower of the field;
when the wind passes over, it vanishes,
and its place remembers it no more.
But from everlasting to everlasting
the loving devotion of Yahuah
extends to those who fear Him,
and His righteousness to their children’s children—
to those who keep His covenant
and remember to obey His precepts.
Yahuah has established His throne in heaven,
and His kingdom rules over all.
Bless Yahuah, all His angels mighty in strength
who carry out His word,
who hearken to the voice of His command.
Bless Yahuah, all His hosts,
you servants who do His will.
Bless Yahuah, all His works
in all places of His dominion.
Bless Yahuah, O my soul!
Psalm 103
Creation Blesses Yahuah
Bless Yahuah, O my soul!
O Yahuah my Elohiym, You are very great;
You are clothed with splendor and majesty.
He wraps Himself in light as with a garment;
He stretches out the heavens like a tent,
laying the beams of His chambers
in the waters above,
making the clouds His chariot,
walking on the wings of the wind.
He makes the winds His messengers,
flames of fire His servants.
He set the earth on its foundations,
never to be moved.
You covered it with the deep like a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
At Your rebuke the waters fled;
at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—
the mountains rose and the valleys sank
to the place You assigned for them—
You set a boundary they cannot cross,
that they may never again cover the earth.
He sends forth springs in the valleys;
they flow between the mountains.
They give drink to every beast of the field;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
The birds of the air nest beside the springs;
they sing among the branches.
He waters the mountains from His chambers;
the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.
He makes the grass grow for the livestock
and provides crops for man to cultivate,
bringing forth food from the earth:
wine that gladdens the heart of man,
oil that makes his face to shine,
and bread that sustains his heart.
The trees of Yahuah have their fill,
the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,
where the birds build their nests;
the stork makes her home in the cypresses.b
The high mountains are for the wild goats,
the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.c
He made the moon to mark the seasons;
the sun knows when to set.
You bring darkness, and it becomes night,
when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
The young lions roar for their prey
and seek their food from God.
The sun rises, and they withdraw;
they lie down in their dens.
Man goes forth to his work
and to his labor until evening.
How many are Your works, O Yahuah!
In wisdom You have made them all;
the earth is full of Your creatures.
Here is the sea, vast and wide,
teeming with creatures beyond number,
living things both great and small.
There the ships pass,
and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.
All creatures look to You
to give them their food in due season.
When You give it to them,
they gather it up;
when You open Your hand,
they are satisfied with good things.
When You hide Your face,
they are terrified;
when You take away their breath,
they die and return to dust.
When You send Your Spirit,
they are created,
and You renew
the face of the earth.
May the glory of Yahuah endure forever;
may Yahuah rejoice in His works.
He looks on the earth,
and it trembles;
He touches the mountains,
and they smolder.
I will sing to Yahuah all my life;
I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
May my meditation be pleasing to Him,
for I rejoice in Yahuah.
May sinners vanish from the earth
and the wicked be no more.
Bless Yahuah, O my soul.
HalleluYah!
Psalms 104 BSB