Psalms 119:91

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They abide this day according to thine ordinances; For all things are thy servants.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְֽ֭מִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ עָמְד֣וּ הַיּ֑וֹם כִּ֖י הַכֹּ֣ל עֲבָדֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

For your judgments ləmišpāṭêḵā they stand ʿāmḏû this day hayyôm; for kî all things hakkōl are your servants ʿăḇāḏêḵā.

Grammar Details

• *ləmišpāṭêḵā*: preposition + masculine plural construct + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - for your judgments
• *ʿāmḏû*: qal perfect 3rd person common plural - they stand/have stood
• *hayyôm*: definite article + noun masculine singular - this day/today
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *hakkōl*: definite article + noun masculine singular - the all/everything
• *ʿăḇāḏêḵā*: masculine plural construct + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your servants

Word Meanings

• *ləmišpāṭêḵā*: for your judgments/according to your ordinances/by your laws
• *ʿāmḏû*: they stand/they continue/they persist
• *hayyôm*: this day/today/at present
• *hakkōl*: all things/everything/the whole universe
• *ʿăḇāḏêḵā*: your servants/your slaves

Referenced Verses

• Jer 33:25 : 25 Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night [stand] not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
• Isa 48:13 : 13 Yea, my hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread out the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
• Matt 5:45 : 45 that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.
• Matt 8:9 : 9 For I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers: and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
• Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
• Deut 4:19 : 19 and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven.
• Josh 10:12-13 : 12 Then spake Joshua to Jehovah in the day when Jehovah delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; And thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon. 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, Until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
• Judg 5:20 : 20 From heaven fought the stars, From their courses they fought against Sisera.
• Ps 148:5-6 : 5 Let them praise the name of Jehovah; For he commanded, and they were created. 6 He hath also established them for ever and ever: He hath made a decree which shall not pass away.