From Heart of Stone to Heart of Flesh and New Spirit
‘Create in me a clean heart, O Elohim, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Set-apart Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your deliverance, And uphold me, Noble Spirit!’
- Tehillim (Psalms) 51:10-12
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/PSA.51.10-12
‘“And I shall give them one heart, and put a new spirit within you. And I shall take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, so that they walk in My laws, and guard My right-rulings, and shall do them. And they shall be My people and I shall be their Elohim.’
- Yehezqĕl (Ezekiel) 11:19-20
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/EZK.11.19-20
‘“Cast away from you all the transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Yisra’ĕl?’
- Yehezqĕl (Ezekiel) 18:31
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/EZK.18.31
‘“And I shall give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. And I shall take the heart of stone out of your flesh, and I shall give you a heart of flesh, and put My Spirit within you. And I shall cause you to walk in My laws and guard My right-rulings and shall do them.’
- Yehezqĕl (Ezekiel) 36:26-27
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/EZK.36.26-27
‘“And they made their hearts like flint against hearing the Torah, and the words, which יהוה of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from יהוה of hosts.’
- Zeḵaryah (Zechariah) 7:12
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ZEC.7.12
Torah Written on the Heart
‘“Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one! “And you shall love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might. And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart, and you shall impress them upon your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up, and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. “And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.’
- Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 6:4-9
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/DEU.6.4-9
‘I have delighted to do Your pleasure, O my Elohim, And Your Torah is within my heart.” I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness, In the great assembly; See, I do not restrain my lips, O יהוה, You know. I did not conceal Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your trustworthiness and Your deliverance; I did not hide Your loving-commitment and Your truth From the great assembly.’
- Tehillim (Psalms) 40:8-10
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/PSA.40.8-10
‘See, You have desired truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You make me know wisdom.’
- Tehillim (Psalms) 51:6
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/PSA.51.6
‘My son, do not forget my Torah, And let your heart watch over my commands; For length of days and long life And peace they add to you. Let not loving-commitment and truth forsake you – Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart, Thus finding favour and good insight In the eyes of Elohim and man. Trust in יהוה with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; Know Him in all your ways, And He makes all your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear יהוה and turn away from evil. It is healing to your navel, And moistening to your bones.’
- Mishlĕ (Proverbs) 3:1-8
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/PRO.3.1-8
‘My son, watch over your father’s command, And do not forsake the Torah of your mother. Bind them on your heart always; Tie them around your neck. When you are walking about, it leads you; When you lie down, it guards you. And when you have woken up, It talks to you. For the command is a lamp, And the Torah a light, And reproofs of discipline a way of life,’
- Mishlĕ (Proverbs) 6:20-23
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/PRO.6.20-23
‘My son, guard my words, And treasure up my commands with you. Guard my commands and live, And my Torah as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.’
- Mishlĕ (Proverbs) 7:1-3
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/PRO.7.1-3
‘“Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, a people in whose heart is My Torah: do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their revilings.’
- Yeshayah (Isaiah) 51:7
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ISA.51.7
‘“For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra’ĕl after those days, declares יהוה: I shall put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.’
- Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 31:33
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/JER.31.33
Sins Are Written on the Heart
‘“The sin of Yehuḏah is written with a pen of iron, engraved with the point of a diamond on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your slaughter-places, while their children remember their slaughter-places and their Ashĕrim by the spreading trees on the high hills.’
- Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 17:1-2
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/JER.17.1-2
Circumcision of the Heart
‘‘But if they confess their crookedness and the crookedness of their fathers, with their trespass in which they trespassed against Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me, and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies – if their uncircumcised heart is then humbled, and they accept the punishment of their crookedness, then I shall remember My covenant with Ya‛aqoḇ, and also My covenant with Yitsḥaq, and also remember My covenant with Aḇraham, and remember the land.’
- Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 26:40-42
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/LEV.26.40-42
‘Oh, that they had such a heart in them, to fear Me and to guard all My commands always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever!’
- Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 5:29
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/DEU.5.29
‘And you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and harden your neck no more.’
- Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 10:16
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/DEU.10.16
‘“And יהוה your Elohim shall circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being, so that you might live,’
- Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 30:6
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/DEU.30.6
‘“Blessed be יהוה, who has given rest to His people Yisra’ĕl, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good word, which He promised through His servant Mosheh. “יהוה our Elohim is with us as He was with our fathers – He does not leave us nor forsake us – to incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to guard His commands and His laws and His right-rulings, which He commanded our fathers. “And let these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before יהוה, be near יהוה our Elohim day and night, to maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Yisra’ĕl, the matter of each day in its day, so that all the peoples of the earth might know that יהוה is Elohim, there is no one else. “Let your heart therefore be perfect to יהוה our Elohim, to walk in His laws and guard His commands, as at this day.”’
- Melaḵim Aleph (1 Kings) 8:56-61
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/1KI.8.56-61
‘The slaughterings of Elohim are a broken spirit, A heart broken and crushed, O Elohim, These You do not despise.’
- Tehillim (Psalms) 51:17
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/PSA.51.17
‘And He said, “Go, and you shall say to this people, ‘Hearing, you hear, but do not understand; and seeing, you see, but do not know.’ “Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and shall turn and be healed.”’
- Yeshayah (Isaiah) 6:9-10
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ISA.6.9-10
‘And יהוה says, “Because this people has drawn near with its mouth, and with its lips they have esteemed Me, and it has kept its heart far from Me, and their fear of Me has become a command of men that is taught!’
- Yeshayah (Isaiah) 29:13
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ISA.29.13
‘“Circumcise yourselves unto יהוה, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, you men of Yehuḏah and inhabitants of Yerushalayim, lest My wrath come forth like fire and burn, with none to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.”’
- Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 4:4
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/JER.4.4
‘“See, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall punish all circumcised with the uncircumcised – “Mitsrayim, and Yehuḏah, and Eḏom, and the children of Ammon, and Mo’aḇ, and all those trimmed on the edges, who dwell in the wilderness. For all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Yisra’ĕl are uncircumcised in heart!”’
- Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 9:25-26
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/JER.9.25-26
‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “No son of a foreigner, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, comes into My set-apart place, even any son of a foreigner who is among the children of Yisra’ĕl.’
- Yehezqĕl (Ezekiel) 44:9
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/EZK.44.9
‘“Yet even now,” declares יהוה, “turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.” And tear your heart and not your garments, and turn back to יהוה your Elohim, for He shows favour and is compassionate, patient, and of great loving-commitment, and He shall relent concerning the evil.’
- Yo’ĕl (Joel) 2:12-13
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/JOL.2.12-13
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‘“And in them the prophecy of Yeshayahu is completely filled, which says, ‘Hearing you shall hear and by no means understand, and seeing you shall see and by no means perceive, for the heart of this people has become thickened, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart, and turn back, and I heal them.’ “And blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear, for truly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous ones longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.’
- Mattithyahu (Matthew) 13:14-17
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/MAT.13.14-17
‘“The Tent of Witness was with our fathers in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Mosheh to make it according to the pattern that he had seen, which our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought with Yehoshua into the land possessed by the nations, whom Elohim drove out before the face of our fathers until the days of Dawiḏ, who found favour before Elohim and asked to find a dwelling for the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ, but Shelomoh built Him a house. “However, the Most High does not dwell in dwellings made with hands, as the prophet says: ‘The heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What house shall you build for Me? says יהוה, or what is the place of My rest? ‘Has My hand not made all these?’ “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Set-apart Spirit, as your fathers did, you also do. “Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who before announced the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, who received the Torah as it was ordained by messengers, but did not watch over it.”’
- Ma`asei (Acts) 7:44-53
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/ACT.7.44-53
‘Drawing near to Him, a living Stone – rejected indeed by men, but chosen by Elohim and precious – you also, as living stones, are being built up, a spiritual house, a set-apart priesthood, to offer up spiritual slaughter offerings acceptable to Elohim through יהושע Messiah.’
- Kĕpha Aleph (1 Peter) 2:4-5
https://www.bible.com/bible/316/1PE.2.4-5
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