Isaiah 26:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee earnestly: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נַפְשִׁ֤י אִוִּיתִ֙יךָ֙ בַּלַּ֔יְלָה אַף־רוּחִ֥י בְקִרְבִּ֖י אֲשַֽׁחֲרֶ֑ךָּ כִּ֞י כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר מִשְׁפָּטֶ֙יךָ֙ לָאָ֔רֶץ צֶ֥דֶק לָמְד֖וּ יֹשְׁבֵ֥י תֵבֵֽל׃

Transliteration

Napšî ʾiwwîtîḵā in laylāh, also rûḥî in qirbî ʾăšaḥărekkā; because when mišpāṭeḵā to ʾāreṣ, ṣedeq lāmdû yōšbê tēbēl.

Grammar Details

*Napšî*: feminine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - 'my soul'
*ʾiwwîtîḵā*: piel perfect 1st person singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'I have desired you'
*ballaylāh*: preposition with definite article and masculine singular noun - 'in the night'
*ʾap-rûḥî*: conjunction with feminine singular noun and 1st person singular suffix - 'also my spirit'
*beqirbî*: preposition with masculine singular noun and 1st person singular suffix - 'within me'
*ʾăšaḥărekkā*: piel imperfect 1st person singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'I seek you early/earnestly'
*kî*: conjunction - 'because/for/when'
*kaʾăšer*: conjunction - 'when/as'
*mišpāṭeḵā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your judgments'
*lāʾāreṣ*: preposition with definite article and feminine singular noun - 'to/for the earth'
*ṣedeq*: masculine singular noun - 'righteousness'
*lāmdû*: qal perfect 3rd person common plural - 'they have learned'
*yōšbê*: qal participle masculine plural construct - 'inhabitants of'
*tēbēl*: feminine singular noun - 'world'

Word Meanings

*ʾiwwîtîḵā*: desired/longed for/yearned for
*ʾăšaḥărekkā*: seek early/seek earnestly/seek diligently
*mišpāṭeḵā*: judgments/ordinances/decisions/justice
*ṣedeq*: righteousness/justice/rightness
*lāmdû*: learned/studied/taught
*tēbēl*: world/habitable part of earth/mankind

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Referenced Verses

Ps 63:1 : 1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.
Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Luke 6:12 : 12 And it came to pass in these days, that he went out into the mountain to pray; and he continued all night in prayer to God.
Rev 11:13 : 13 And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell; and there were killed {G3686} in the earthquake seven thousand persons: and the rest were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Prov 8:17 : 17 I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.
Song 3:1-4 : 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 2 [ I said], I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 3 The watchmen that go about the city found me; [To whom I said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? 4 It was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me.
Ps 119:62 : 62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee Because of thy righteous ordinances.
Hos 5:15 : 15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.
Ps 130:6 : 6 My soul [waiteth] for the Lord More than watchmen [wait] for the morning; [Yea, more than] watchmen for the morning.
Num 14:21-23 : 21 but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah; 22 because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it:
Ps 58:11 : 11 So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Ps 63:6-7 : 6 When I remember thee upon my bed, [And] meditate on thee in the night-watches. 7 For thou hast been my help, And in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
Ps 64:9 : 9 And all men shall fear; And they shall declare the work of God, And shall wisely consider of his doing.
Ps 77:2-3 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. {H5542}
Ps 78:34 : 34 When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.
Ps 83:18 : 18 That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth.
Song 5:2-8 : 2 I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night. 3 I have put off my garment; How shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the door], And my heart was moved for him. 5 I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the bolt. 6 I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. 7 The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me. 8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.
Isa 27:9 : 9 Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
Isa 55:6 : 6 Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near:
Mark 1:35 : 35 And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose up and went out, and departed into a desert place, and there prayed.

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