Sunrise! Psalm １１３

 מִמִּזְרַח-שֶׁמֶשׁ עַד-מְבוֹאוֹ--    מְהֻלָּל, שֵׁם יְהוָה

From the Rising of the sun to the going down of the same, the Name of the LORD is to be praised!!

Psalm 113:3

This psalm comes through my heart when I watched the sunrise!! God filled the sky and water with His Shekinah glory as He brought the sun up from over the horizon! In Japan it is a custom to watch the first sunrise of the year.  I  have gone to the same spot for 19 years to watch the sunrise.  It is at my husband's hometown fishing island.  There are always people in a line parallel to the horizon on the concrete sea wall, who go out in the morning to watch the first sunrise.  It is a very beautiful sight and sound to be there with the people along the sea wall, standing up so that when approach the sight you see the figures of the people standing on the concrete wall overlooking the sea, parallel to the horizon.  The sounds of the peoples voices excitedly waiting for the first peek of sun to come up as the sky changes to colors of glistening orange. As I type on this horizontal line, parallell to the horizon in the picture, you can get a sense, perhaps as the letters move across the frame, how the people are there in various points facing the beautiful sunrise.   I have mentioned in previous years how each year it gets less and less people as people are moving away from the island to more urban areas and now there are really a handful of those who are there.    One woman who I got to know there is now 90 years old.  She has become my friend just from having stood in the same spot with her over the years!!

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I just was looking for a version of this scripture to post, and when I opened to the version  in the Hebrew English Tanakh the translation says

From east to west

the name of the LORD is praised.

It looked so simple and a little different from the versions I always saw with "from the rising of the sun", so I looked at the Hebrew, and saw that the literal translation is indeed, 

From east to west.

I also like the directness of the verb tense, the LORD is praised.

And visually if you look at the line with east west and sun, it is like this:

west sun east

 מִמִּזְרַח-שֶׁמֶשׁ עַד-מְבוֹאוֹ

And sun is, remember?  From an earlier Hannukah post??? 

Yes, shemesh.

So in the line in Hebrew there is "sh-m-sh" between the words "east" and "west".

(plus a few prepositions, though I haven't really learned them yet!) 

I love that as it continues what we were seeing in the menorah, the Shamash (same Hebrew root word as "shemesh", thus I wrote sh-m-sh to express how that similarity would be seen like the Hebrew) in the middle, gathering all the nations to His light from the east and from the west!!

So I chose this version for the post today!!

Here is how it looks in Hebrew!! If any Hebrew readers see this and if you see anything that is not quite right in my Hebrew explanation, feel free to share! I am learning by seeing!

 מִמִּזְרַח-שֶׁמֶשׁ עַד-מְבוֹאוֹ--    מְהֻלָּל, שֵׁם יְהוָה

For anyone whose interest is piqued for the Hebrew, in the second part of the verse, where it says the name of the Lord is praised, can you find the word there for praise?! Yes, there is is, the root is Halal, which is where the word of praise  "Hallelujah!" comes from!! I highlighted the root in blue in the Hebrew above..
 

Hallelujah!
Blessings!

The sky was clear and the Shekinah glory of the LORD shone from the sunrise!! Photos taken in our Japan family's hometown island.  Blessings and Shalom in 2019~!

Much Love, 

Shayndel

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The LORD is exalted above all nations;
His glory is above the heavens.  
Psalm 113:4

related posts:
First Sunrise 2018
First Sunrise 2017