Psalms 143:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Teach me to do thy will; For thou art my God: Thy Spirit is good; Lead me in the land of uprightness.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לַמְּדֵ֤נִי ׀ לַֽעֲשׂ֣וֹת רְצוֹנֶךָ֮ כִּֽי־אַתָּ֢ה אֱל֫וֹהָ֥י רוּחֲךָ֥ טוֹבָ֑ה תַּ֝נְחֵ֗נִי בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִישֽׁוֹר׃

Transliteration

Lammēḏēnî to la'ăśôṯ rəṣôneḵā, kî-you 'attāh 'ělôhāy; rûḥăḵā ṭôḇāh, tanḥēnî in 'ereṣ mîšôr.

Grammar Details

• *Lammēḏēnî*: piel imperative, masculine, singular + 1st person singular suffix - teach me
• *la'ăśôṯ*: preposition lamed + qal infinitive construct - to do
• *rəṣôneḵā*: noun, masculine, singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your will/pleasure
• *kî-'attāh*: conjunction + pronoun, 2nd person masculine singular - for you
• *'ělôhāy*: noun, masculine, singular + 1st person singular suffix - my God
• *rûḥăḵā*: noun, feminine, singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your spirit
• *ṭôḇāh*: adjective, feminine, singular - good
• *tanḥēnî*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - she will lead me
• *be'ereṣ*: preposition bet + noun, feminine, singular, construct - in land of
• *mîšôr*: noun, masculine, singular - levelness/straightness

Word Meanings

• *Lammēḏēnî*: teach me/instruct me/train me
• *la'ăśôṯ rəṣôneḵā*: to do your will/to perform your pleasure/to carry out what pleases you
• *'ělôhāy*: my God/my deity
• *rûḥăḵā ṭôḇāh*: your spirit is good/your good spirit
• *tanḥēnî*: may lead me/will guide me/may direct me
• *'ereṣ mîšôr*: land of levelness/level ground/smooth country

Referenced Verses

• Ps 25:4-5 : 4 Show me thy ways, O Jehovah; Teach me thy paths. 5 Guide me in thy truth, and teach me; For thou art the God of my salvation; For thee do I wait all the day.
• Neh 9:20 : 20 Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
• Ps 119:12 : 12 Blessed art thou, O Jehovah: Teach me thy statutes.
• Heb 13:21 : 21 make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• Ps 23:3 : 3 He restoreth my soul: He guideth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
• 1 John 2:27 : 27 And as for you, the anointing which ye received of him abideth in you, and ye need {G5532} not that any one teach you; but as his anointing teacheth you; concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in him.
• Isa 63:14 : 14 As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused them to rest; so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
• Mic 4:2 : 2 And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem;
• Eph 4:30 : 30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.
• Eph 5:9 : 9 (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
• Col 1:9-9 : 9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and None understanding, 10 {G4043} {G5209} to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Ps 119:35 : 35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; For therein do I delight.
• Ps 139:24 : 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.
• Ps 140:6 : 6 I said unto Jehovah, Thou art my God: Give ear unto the voice of my supplications, O Jehovah.
• Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Good and upright is Jehovah: Therefore will he instruct sinners in the way. 9 The meek will he guide in justice; And the meek will he teach his way.
• Ps 25:12 : 12 What man is he that feareth Jehovah? Him shall he instruct in the way that he shall choose.
• Ps 31:14 : 14 But I trusted in thee, O Jehovah: I said, Thou art my God.
• Ps 63:1 : 1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.
• Ps 118:28 : 28 Thou art my God, and I will give thanks unto thee: Thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
• Ps 119:5-7 : 5 Oh that my ways were established To observe thy statutes! 6 Then shall I not be put to shame, When I have respect unto all thy commandments. 7 I will give thanks unto thee with uprightness of heart, When I learn thy righteous judgments.
• John 14:26 : 26 But the Comforter, [even] the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said unto you.
• John 16:13-15 : 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, [these] shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come. 14 He shall glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall declare [it] unto you. 15 All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore {G5124} said I, that he taketh of mine, and shall declare [it] unto you.
• Rom 5:5 : 5 and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.
• Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
• Rom 8:14-16 : 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For ye {G2983} received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God:
• Rom 8:26 : 26 And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for [us] with groanings which cannot be uttered;
• Rom 15:13 : 13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
• Rom 15:30 : 30 Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
• Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.
• Isa 29:10 : 10 For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered.
• 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, — that ye abound more and more. 2 For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
• 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 For God gave us {G1325} not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.
• Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
• Ps 22:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Aijeleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [Why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my groaning?