Sermon Tone Analysis
Overall tone of the sermon
This automated analysis scores the text on the likely presence of emotional, language, and social tones. There are no right or wrong scores; this is just an indication of tones readers or listeners may pick up from the text.
A score of 0.5 or higher indicates the tone is likely present.
Emotion Tone
Anger
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Disgust
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Fear
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Joy
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Sadness
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Language Tone
Analytical
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Confident
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Tentative
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Social Tone
Openness
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Conscientiousness
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Extraversion
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Agreeableness
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Emotional Range
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Tone of specific sentences
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Overview of
Confidence in God (vv.
1-5)
Praise to God’s livingkindness, protection, faithfullness, (vv.
6-8)
Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Distress, sorrow, due to others I’ve become a reproach (denial?), universally hated,(vv.
9-13)
v. 10 Iniquity = Physical Distress
v. 11 Adversaries = Psychological and Spiritual Distress (“reproach”)
Word Study on Reproach
Of the 20 occurences of this lexical form of the Hebrew noun, all but 4 convey the idea that:
The reproach was justly poured out on the subject by God (; )
The subject of the reproach was sinful and therefore deserving of the reproach (;)
The subject of the reproach and author of the Scripture, at least in part, understood why God made them a reproach ()
deserving (; ; ; ; ;
The subject of the reproach, at least in part, understood why God made them a reproach
The 4 uncommon usages of this lexical form of the noun only occur in the Psalms:
Uniquely prophetic — Jesus’ prayer and experience on the cross (; )
God is not specified as the source of the reproach
The subject appears undeserving of the reproach
Unclear why the subject was made a reproach
The reproach appears to be unjustly poured out on to David by God (, )
“For whom the LORD loves He reproves, Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights” ()
Even David!
For whom the LORD loves He reproves,
Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.
New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), .
David (subject) and Ethan the Ezrahite (author) don’t understood why God made David a reproach
provides an outsiders commentary on the fact that God has caused David to become a reproach
(why is suffering, why are deceitful mouths opened against him?
His sin?
Hand of God (5a)
I commit my spirit
Word Study: Hand of God
Stephen
God’s Ransom (5b)
You have ransomed me
Word study: Ransom
God of Truth
Word Study:
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