Psalms 125:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; That the righteous put not forth their hands unto iniquity.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י ׀ לֹ֪א יָנ֡וּחַ שֵׁ֤בֶט הָרֶ֗שַׁע עַל֮ גּוֹרַ֢ל הַֽצַּדִּ֫יקִ֥ים לְמַ֡עַן לֹא־יִשְׁלְח֖וּ הַצַדִּיקִ֨ים בְּעַוְלָ֬תָה יְדֵיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

For not yānûaḥ šēbeṭ of-hārešaʿ upon gôral of-haṣṣaddîqîm, ləmaʿan not-yišləḥû haṣaddîqîm in-ʿawlātāh yədêhem.

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *yānûaḥ*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - will rest/remain
• *šēbeṭ*: noun, masculine singular construct - rod/scepter/tribe
• *hāreša*ʿ: noun, masculine singular with definite article - wickedness/the wicked
• *gôral*: noun, masculine singular construct - lot/portion/inheritance
• *haṣṣaddîqîm*: noun, masculine plural with definite article - the righteous ones
• *ləmaʿan*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *yišləḥû*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will stretch out/put forth
• *haṣaddîqîm*: noun, masculine plural with definite article - the righteous ones
• *ʿawlātāh*: noun, feminine singular - iniquity/injustice/unrighteousness
• *yədêhem*: noun, feminine dual with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their hands

Word Meanings

• *šēbeṭ hāreša*ʿ: rod of wickedness/scepter of the wicked/authority of evil
• *gôral*: lot/portion/inheritance/allotted territory
• *ləmaʿan*: so that/in order that/with the result that
• *yišləḥû*: put forth/stretch out/extend
• *ʿawlātāh*: unrighteousness/injustice/iniquity

Referenced Verses

• Prov 22:8 : 8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.
• Ps 89:22 : 22 The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
• Ps 103:9 : 9 He will not always chide; Neither will he keep [his anger] for ever.
• Ps 103:14 : 14 For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.
• 1 Sam 24:10 : 10 Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that Jehovah had delivered thee to-day into my hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee; but [mine eye] spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Jehovah's anointed.
• Isa 14:5-6 : 5 Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers; 6 that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
• Isa 27:8 : 8 In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed [them] with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
• 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
• Rev 2:10 : 10 Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer: behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.
• Ps 55:20 : 20 He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant.
• Isa 10:5 : 5 Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!