Psalms 119:174

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I have longed for thy salvation, O Jehovah; And thy law is my delight.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תָּאַ֣בְתִּי לִֽישׁוּעָתְךָ֣ יְהוָ֑ה וְ֝ת֥וֹרָתְךָ֗ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָֽי

Transliteration

Tāʾaḇtî lîšûʿātəḵā YHWH wətôrātəḵā šaʿăšuʿāy

Grammar Details

• *tāʾaḇtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have longed
• *lî-*: preposition - for
• *yəšûʿātəḵā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your salvation
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *wə-*: conjunction - and
• *tôrātəḵā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your law
• *šaʿăšuʿāy*: masculine plural noun with 1st person singular suffix - my delight

Word Meanings

• *tāʾaḇtî*: I have longed/desired/craved
• *yəšûʿātəḵā*: your salvation/deliverance/help
• *tôrātəḵā*: your law/instruction/teaching/direction
• *šaʿăšuʿāy*: my delight/pleasure/enjoyment

Referenced Verses

• Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
• Ps 119:24 : 24 Thy testimonies also are my delight [And] my counsellors.
• Ps 119:47 : 47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, Which I have loved.
• Ps 119:77 : 77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; For thy law is my delight.
• Ps 119:81 : 81 KAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation; [But] I hope in thy word.
• Ps 119:111 : 111 Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage for ever; For they are the rejoicing of my heart.
• Ps 119:162 : 162 I rejoice at thy word, As one that findeth great spoil.
• Ps 119:166-167 : 166 I have hoped for thy salvation, O Jehovah, And have done thy commandments. 167 My soul hath observed thy testimonies; And I love them exceedingly.
• Prov 13:12 : 12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; But when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
• Song 5:8 : 8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.
• Rom 7:22-25 : 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
• Rom 8:23-25 : 23 And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for [our] adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body. 24 For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for {G5101} who {G2532} hopeth for that which he seeth? 25 But if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for it.
• Phil 1:23 : 23 But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:
• Gen 49:18 : 18 I have waited for thy salvation, O Jehovah.
• 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 Verily my house is not so with God; Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, Although he maketh it not to grow.
• Ps 1:2 : 2 But his delight is in the law of Jehovah; And on his law doth he meditate day and night.