Psalms 17:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Arise, O Jehovah, Confront him, cast him down: Deliver my soul from the wicked by thy sword;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

קוּמָ֤ה יְהוָ֗ה קַדְּמָ֣ה פָ֭נָיו הַכְרִיעֵ֑הוּ פַּלְּטָ֥ה נַ֝פְשִׁ֗י מֵרָשָׁ֥ע חַרְבֶּֽךָ׃

Transliteration

Qûmāh YHWH qaddǝmāh fānāyw hakhrî'ēhû pallǝṭāh nafšî mērāšā' ḥarbekā

Grammar Details

*Qûmāh*: verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular - arise
*YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
*qaddǝmāh*: verb, piel imperative, 2nd person masculine singular - confront/meet
*fānāyw*: noun, masculine plural + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his face
*hakhrî'ēhû*: verb, hiphil imperative, 2nd person masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - make him bow down/subdue him
*pallǝṭāh*: verb, piel imperative, 2nd person masculine singular - deliver/rescue
*nafšî*: noun, feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my soul
*mērāšā'*: preposition + adjective, masculine singular - from the wicked
*ḥarbekā*: noun, feminine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your sword

Word Meanings

*qaddǝmāh*: confront/meet/go before
*hakhrî'ēhû*: make him bow down/subdue him/cause him to kneel

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 3:7 : 7 Arise, O Jehovah; Save me, O my God: For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; Thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.
Ps 7:6 : 6 Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger; Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries, And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment.
Ps 7:11-13 : 11 God is a righteous judge, Yea, a God that hath indignation every day. 12 If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery [shafts].
Ps 22:20 : 20 Deliver my soul from the sword, My darling from the power of the dog.
Ps 44:23 : 23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast [us] not off for ever.
Ps 44:26 : 26 Rise up for our help, And redeem us for thy lovingkindness' sake.
Ps 119:126 : 126 It is time for Jehovah to work; [For] they have made void thy law.
Isa 10:5 : 5 Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!
Isa 10:15 : 15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? as if a rod should wield them that lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him that is] not wood.
Isa 13:5 : 5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
Isa 37:26 : 26 Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
Isa 51:9 : 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster?
Hab 1:12 : 12 Art not thou from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast established him for correction.
Acts 4:28 : 28 to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council foreordained to come to pass.

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