Psalms 119:59

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חִשַּׁ֥בְתִּי דְרָכָ֑י וָאָשִׁ֥יבָה רַ֝גְלַ֗י אֶל־עֵדֹתֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

ḥiššaḇtî ḏǝrāḵāy and-ʾāšîḇāh raḡlay to-ʿēḏōṯeykā

Grammar Details

• *ḥiššaḇtî*: piel perfect 1st person singular - I have considered
• *ḏǝrāḵāy*: masculine plural noun + 1st person singular suffix - my ways
• *wāʾāšîḇāh*: conjunction + hiphil imperfect cohortative 1st person singular - and I turned
• *raḡlay*: feminine dual noun + 1st person singular suffix - my feet
• *ʾel-ʿēḏōṯeykā*: preposition + feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to your testimonies

Word Meanings

• *ḥiššaḇtî*: I have considered/thought about/pondered
• *ḏǝrāḵāy*: my ways/paths/conduct
• *ʾāšîḇāh*: I turned/returned/brought back

Referenced Verses

• Deut 4:30-31 : 30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, in the latter days thou shalt return to Jehovah thy God, and hearken unto his voice: 31 for Jehovah thy God is a merciful God; he will not fail thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
• Jer 8:4-6 : 4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return? 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turneth to his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.
• Jer 31:18-19 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
• Lam 3:40 : 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
• Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Ezek 18:30 : 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
• Ezek 33:14-16 : 14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; 15 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. 16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be remembered against him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
• Ezek 33:19 : 19 And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
• Joel 2:13 : 13 and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto Jehovah your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
• Hag 1:5 : 5 Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
• Hag 1:7 : 7 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
• Luke 15:17-20 : 17 But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight: 19 I am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of thy hired servants. 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But while he was yet afar off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
• 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 lest again when I come {G3825} my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.
• 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be {G5100} reprobate.