Psalms 119:121

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

AYIN. I have done justice and righteousness: Leave me not to mine oppressors.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עָ֭שִׂיתִי מִשְׁפָּ֣ט וָצֶ֑דֶק בַּל־תַּ֝נִּיחֵ֗נִי לְעֹֽשְׁקָֽי׃

Transliteration

ʿāśîtî mišpāṭ and-ṣedeq not-tannîḥēnî to-ʿōšəqāy

Grammar Details

*ʿāśîtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have done/performed
*mišpāṭ*: masculine singular noun - judgment/justice
*ṣedeq*: masculine singular noun - righteousness
*tannîḥēnî*: hiphil imperfect 2nd person masculine singular jussive with 1st person singular suffix - leave me
*ʿōšəqāy*: qal participle masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - my oppressors
*wə-*: conjunction - and
*bal*: negative particle - not
*lə-*: preposition - to/for

Word Meanings

*ʿāśîtî*: I have done/performed/made/executed
*mišpāṭ*: judgment/justice/what is right
*ṣedeq*: righteousness/justice/rightness
*tannîḥēnî*: leave me/abandon me/hand me over
*ʿōšəqāy*: my oppressors/those who oppress me

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 8:15 : 15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness unto all his people.
Ps 7:3-5 : 3 O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands; 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;) 5 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. {H5542}
Ps 18:20-24 : 20 Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 21 For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God. 22 For all his ordinances were before me, And I put not away his statutes from me. 23 I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from mine iniquity. 24 Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Ps 37:33 : 33 Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged.
Ps 57:3-4 : 3 He will send from heaven, and save me, [When] he that would swallow me up reproacheth; {H5542} God will send forth his lovingkindness and his truth. 4 My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
Ps 75:2 : 2 When I shall find the set time, I will judge uprightly.
Acts 21:16 : 16 And there went with us also [certain] of the disciples from Caesarea, bringing [with them] one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we should lodge.
Acts 25:10-11 : 10 But Paul said, I am standing before Caesar's judgment-seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou also very well knowest. 11 {G1063} If then {G3303} I am a wrong-doer, and have committed anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if none of those things is [true] whereof these accuse me, no man can give me up unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2 Pet 2:9 : 9 the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;
1 Sam 24:11-15 : 11 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against thee, though thou huntest after my life to take it. 12 Jehovah judge between me and thee, and Jehovah avenge me of thee; but my hand shall not be upon thee. 13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Out of the wicked cometh forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be upon thee. 14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. 15 Jehovah therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.
1 Sam 25:28 : 28 Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid: for Jehovah will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fighteth the battles of Jehovah; and evil shall not be found in thee all thy days.

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