Wednesday's Word: Tsur/ "Rock"

 

 

 

"He is the Rock, His work is perfect: for all His ways are judgment:
a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He."
(Deuteronomy 32:4)

 "Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal."
(Isaiah 26:4)

 

  In Hebrew, the word, "Tsur" (Rock) conveys the idea of a stronghold or refuge.

 

Jesus Is Our Stronghold And Refuge
In This Lost And Fallen World
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Lead to the shadow of the Rock of Refuge

My weary feet;

Give me the water from the life-stream flowing

Clear, pure, and sweet.

There from the billows and tempest hiding,

Under the shelter of Thy love abiding,

Safe in the shadow of the Rock of Ages

Joy shall be mine! 

Lead to the shadow of the Rock Eternal

My heart oppressed;

There in the secret of Thy holy presence,

Calm shall I rest. 

Lead to the shadow of the Rock of Ages;

O keep Thou me

Safe from the arrows of the world's temptations,

Close, close to Thee! 

 

"The Shadow Of The Rock"
(1891)
Fanny Crosby
(1820-1915)
 American Christian hymn writer
and evangelist

Material Source: Bible Hub
Cyber Hymnal