Psalms 119:153

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me; For I do not forget thy law.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

רְאֵֽה־עָנְיִ֥י וְחַלְּצֵ֑נִי כִּי־תֽ֝וֹרָתְךָ֗ לֹ֣א שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃

Transliteration

rəʾēh-ʿānyî wəḥalləṣēnî because-tôrātəkā not šākāḥtî

Grammar Details

*rəʾēh*: imperative, masculine singular, qal - see/look
*ʿānyî*: masculine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - my affliction
*wəḥalləṣēnî*: conjunction + imperative, masculine singular, piel with 1st person singular suffix - and deliver me
*tôrātəkā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your law
*šākāḥtî*: perfect, 1st person singular, qal - I forgot

Word Meanings

*rəʾēh*: see/look/behold
*ʿānyî*: my affliction/my misery/my trouble
*ḥalləṣēnî*: deliver me/rescue me/save me
*tôrātəkā*: your law/your instruction/your teaching
*šākāḥtî*: I forgot/I neglected/I ignored

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Lam 5:1 : 1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Ps 119:98 : 98 Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; For they are ever with me.
Ps 119:109 : 109 My soul is continually in my hand; Yet do I not forget thy law.
Ps 119:141 : 141 I am small and despised; [Yet] do I not forget thy precepts.
Ps 119:159 : 159 Consider how I love thy precepts: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thy lovingkindness.
Ps 119:176 : 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek thy servant; For I do not forget thy commandments.
Prov 3:1 : 1 My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments:
Lam 2:20 : 20 See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Exod 3:7-8 : 7 And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 8 and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Neh 9:32 : 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and lovingkindness, let not all the travail seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
Ps 9:13 : 13 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; Behold my affliction [which I suffer] of them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;
Ps 13:3-4 : 3 Consider [and] answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death; 4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [Lest] mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.
Ps 25:19 : 19 Consider mine enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.

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