Psalms 119:134

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Redeem me from the oppression of man: So will I observe thy precepts.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פְּ֭דֵנִי מֵעֹ֣שֶׁק אָדָ֑ם וְ֝אֶשְׁמְרָ֗ה פִּקּוּדֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

pədēnî from ʿōšeq ʾādām wəʾešmərāh piqqûdêkā

Grammar Details

*pədēnî*: imperative, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - redeem me
*ʿōšeq*: masculine singular noun - oppression
*ʾādām*: masculine singular noun - man/mankind
*wəʾešmərāh*: conjunction + cohortative, 1st person singular, qal - and let me keep/observe
*piqqûdêkā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your precepts

Word Meanings

*pədēnî*: redeem me/ransom me/deliver me
*ʿōšeq*: oppression/extortion/fraud
*ʾādām*: man/mankind/humanity
*ʾešmərāh*: let me keep/let me observe/let me guard
*piqqûdêkā*: your precepts/your commands/your orders

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 56:1-2 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God; For man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me. 2 Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; {H4791} For they are many that fight proudly against me.
Ps 119:122 : 122 Be surety for thy servant for good: Let not the proud oppress me.
Ezek 11:17-20 : 17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. 18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh; 20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Luke 1:74-75 : 74 To grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies Should serve him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
Acts 9:31 : 31 So the church throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified; and, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was multiplied.
Ezek 36:24-27 : 24 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. 25 And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 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.
Ps 142:6 : 6 Attend unto my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For they are stronger than I.
Ps 56:13 : 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [Hast thou] not [delivered] my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?
Ps 105:43-45 : 43 And he brought forth his people with joy, [And] his chosen with singing. 44 And he gave them the lands of the nations; And they took the labor of the peoples in possession: 45 That they might keep his statutes, And observe his laws. Praise ye Jehovah.

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