Psalms 125:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהַמַּטִּ֤ים עַֽקַלְקַלּוֹתָ֗ם יוֹלִיכֵ֣ם יְ֭הוָה אֶת־פֹּעֲלֵ֣י הָאָ֑וֶן שָׁ֝ל֗וֹם עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

Wə-hammaṭṭîm ʿăqalqallôtām yôlîkēm YHWH with-pōʿălê hāʾāwen. Šālôm upon-Yiśrāʾēl.

Grammar Details

• *wə*: conjunction - and/but
• *hammaṭṭîm*: hiphil participle, masculine plural with definite article - those who turn aside/bend
• *ʿăqalqallôtām*: noun, feminine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their crooked ways
• *yôlîkēm*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - he will lead them away
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
• *pōʿălê*: noun, masculine plural construct - workers/doers of
• *hāʾāwen*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - iniquity/wickedness/trouble
• *Šālôm*: noun, masculine singular - peace
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

• *hammaṭṭîm*: those who turn aside/those who bend/those who pervert
• *ʿăqalqallôtām*: their crooked ways/their devious paths/their twisted paths
• *yôlîkēm*: he will lead them away/he will cause them to go/he will make them walk
• *pōʿălê hāʾāwen*: workers of iniquity/evildoers/those who practice wickedness
• *Šālôm*: peace/well-being/prosperity/completeness

Referenced Verses

• Ps 128:6 : 6 Yea, see thou thy children's children. Peace be upon Israel.
• Prov 2:15 : 15 Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
• Ps 40:4 : 4 Blessed is the man that maketh Jehovah his trust, And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
• Isa 59:8 : 8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.
• Gal 6:16 : 16 And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace [be] upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
• Ps 101:3 : 3 I will set no base thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave unto me.
• Phil 2:15 : 15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,
• Heb 10:38 : 38 But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.
• 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
• Jer 2:19 : 19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
• Ezek 37:26 : 26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
• Hos 2:18 : 18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely.
• Zeph 1:6 : 6 and them that are turned back from following Jehovah; and those that have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired after him.
• Matt 7:23 : 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
• Matt 24:48-51 : 48 But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord tarrieth; 49 and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken; 50 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not, 51 and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
• John 14:27 : 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
• Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.
• Ps 94:4 : 4 They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
• 1 Chr 10:13-14 : 13 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Jehovah, because of the word of Jehovah, which he kept not; and also for that he asked counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire [thereby], 14 and inquired not of Jehovah: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
• Job 23:11 : 11 My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside.
• Prov 14:14 : 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself.
• Isa 54:10 : 10 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee.
• Isa 54:13 : 13 And all thy children shall be taught of Jehovah; and great shall be the peace of thy children.