Psalms 31:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Bow down thine ear unto me; Deliver me speedily: Be thou to me a strong rock, A house of defence to save me.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּךָֽ־יְהוָ֣ה חָ֭סִיתִי אַל־אֵב֣וֹשָׁה לְעוֹלָ֑ם בְּצִדְקָתְךָ֥ פַלְּטֵֽנִי׃

Transliteration

In-you YHWH ḥāsîtî not-ʾēbôšâ to-ʿôlām; in-ṣidqātəkā pallǝṭēnî

Grammar Details

*ḥāsîtî*: verb, perfect 1st person singular - I have taken refuge/trusted
*ʾēbôšâ*: verb, cohortative/imperfect 1st person singular with negative particle - let me not be put to shame
*ʿôlām*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed preposition lamed - forever/eternity
*ṣidqātəkā*: noun, feminine singular construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix and prefixed preposition beth - in your righteousness
*pallǝṭēnî*: verb, imperative masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - deliver/rescue me

Word Meanings

*ḥāsîtî*: I have taken refuge/trusted/sought shelter
*ʾēbôšâ*: be put to shame/be disappointed/be confounded
*ʿôlām*: forever/eternity/perpetuity
*pallǝṭēnî*: deliver/rescue/save me

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 102:2 : 2 Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress: Incline thine ear unto me; In the day when I call answer me speedily.
Deut 32:31 : 31 For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.
Ps 86:1 : 1 A Prayer of David. Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me; For I am poor and needy.
Ps 71:2-3 : 2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me: Bow down thine ear unto me, and save me. 3 Be thou to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: Thou hast given commandment to save me; For thou art my rock and my fortress.
Ps 79:1 : 1 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Ps 90:1 : 1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place In all generations.
Ps 91:9 : 9 For thou, O Jehovah, art my refuge! Thou hast made the Most High thy habitation;
Ps 94:22 : 22 But Jehovah hath been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge.
2 Sam 22:3 : 3 God, my rock, in him will I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge; My saviour, thou savest me from violence.
Job 7:21 : 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Ps 18:1-2 : 1 For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David the servant of Jehovah, who spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said, I love thee, O Jehovah, my strength. 2 Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
Ps 40:17 : 17 But I am poor and needy; [Yet] the Lord thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.
Ps 62:7 : 7 With God is my salvation and my glory: The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
Ps 69:17 : 17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; For I am in distress; answer me speedily.
Ps 130:2 : 2 Lord, hear my voice: Let thine ears be attentive To the voice of my supplications.
Ps 143:7 : 7 Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; My spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
Prov 22:17 : 17 Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
Isa 33:16 : 16 He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be sure.
Luke 18:8 : 8 I say unto you, that he will avenge them {G1722} speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
John 6:56 : 56 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him.
1 John 4:12 : 12 No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:
1 John 4:15-16 : 15 Whosoever {G302} shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God. 16 And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

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