Psalms 119:143

American Standard Version (1901)

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; [Yet] thy commandments are my delight.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

צַר־וּמָצ֥וֹק מְצָא֑וּנִי מִ֝צְוֺתֶ֗יךָ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָֽי׃

Transliteration

ṣar-ûmāṣôq məṣāʾûnî miṣwōtêkā šaʿăšuʿāy

Grammar Details

• *ṣar*: masculine singular noun - distress/trouble
• *ûmāṣôq*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - and anguish
• *məṣāʾûnî*: perfect, 3rd person common plural, qal with 1st person singular suffix - they found me
• *miṣwōtêkā*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your commandments
• *šaʿăšuʿāy*: masculine plural noun with 1st person singular suffix - my delights

Word Meanings

• *ṣar*: distress/trouble/affliction
• *māṣôq*: anguish/straits/distress
• *məṣāʾûnî*: they found me/they came upon me/they overtook me
• *miṣwōtêkā*: your commandments/your precepts
• *šaʿăšuʿāy*: my delights/my pleasures/my joys

Referenced Verses

• Job 23:12 : 12 I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
• Ps 18:4-5 : 4 The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid. 5 The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
• Ps 88:3-9 : 3 For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol. 4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help, 5 Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps. 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. {{Selah 8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. 9 Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee. 10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are deceased arise and praise thee? {{Selah 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction? 12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13 But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee. 14 Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me? 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 16 Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off. 17 They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together. 18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness.
• Ps 116:3 : 3 The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
• Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
• Ps 119:47 : 47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, Which I have loved.
• Ps 119:77 : 77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; For thy law is my delight.
• Ps 119:107 : 107 I am afflicted very much: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according unto thy word.
• Ps 130:1 : 1 [A Song of Ascents]. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Jehovah.
• Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly amazed, and sore troubled. 34 And he saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death: abide ye here, and watch.
• John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.