Word for the Week

Future tense?

Week beginning: 18th April, 2021 | By Janet Cole | Wokingham

I love the LORD because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy. Because he bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath!

Psalm 116:1-2 (NLT)

As the detailed minds of lawyers know, the tense in which you write is sometimes important.

Many of the Bible translations put the verses above in the past tense 'he heard my cry for mercy' (NIV). This translation, however, puts it in the present te