Psalms 119:35

American Standard Version (1901)

Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; For therein do I delight.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַ֭דְרִיכֵנִי בִּנְתִ֣יב מִצְוֺתֶ֑יךָ כִּי־ב֥וֹ חָפָֽצְתִּי׃

Transliteration

hadrîkēnî in-nǝtîḇ miṣwōṯeykā for-in-bô ḥāp̄āṣtî

Grammar Details

• *hadrîkēnî*: hiphil imperative + 1st person singular suffix - cause me to walk/lead me
• *nǝtîḇ*: masculine singular construct - path/way of
• *miṣwōṯeykā*: feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your commandments
• *bô*: preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - in it
• *ḥāp̄āṣtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I delight/desire

Word Meanings

• *hadrîkēnî*: cause me to tread/guide me/make me walk
• *nǝtîḇ*: pathway/trail/course
• *ḥāp̄āṣtî*: I have delighted/I desire/I take pleasure

Referenced Verses

• Ps 23:3 : 3 He restoreth my soul: He guideth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
• Ps 25:4 : 4 Show me thy ways, O Jehovah; Teach me thy paths.
• Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
• Ps 119:27 : 27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: So shall I meditate on thy wondrous works.
• Ps 119:36 : 36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, And not to covetousness.
• Ps 119:173 : 173 Let thy hand be ready to help me; For I have chosen thy precepts.
• Prov 3:17 : 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.
• Prov 4:11 : 11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in paths of uprightness.
• Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
• Prov 8:20 : 20 I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;
• Isa 2:3 : 3 And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth [ the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.
• Isa 48:17 : 17 Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
• Isa 58:13-14 : 13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of Jehovah honorable; and shalt honor it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words: 14 then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah; and I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth; and I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.
• Ezek 36:26-27 : 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep mine ordinances, and do them.
• Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
• Phil 2:13 : 13 for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• Heb 13:21 : 21 make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• 1 John 5:3 : 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.