Thursday, March 18, 2010

To those cheerful people...

...sometimes your thoughts/opinions are hard for people to hear. I love those moments when you come across a verse in the Bible that you didn't know ever existed but always hoped you'd find. Here's one, Proverbs 25:20, in a few different versions:

"Like one who takes away a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar poured on soda, is one who sings songs to a heavy heart." (NIV)

"Singing light songs to the heavyhearted is like pouring salt in their wounds." (MSG)

And then there's the KJV version, which I think makes it sound more legit:
"As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart."

1 comments:

Ll said...

This may be affected by what you think was meant by "heavy heart." Any exegesis on that?