Psalms 31:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בָּר֥וּךְ יְהוָ֑ה כִּ֥י הִפְלִ֘יא חַסְדּ֥וֹ לִ֝֗י בְּעִ֣יר מָצֽוֹר׃

Transliteration

Bārûk YHWH for hiplîʾ ḥasdô to-me in-ʿîr māṣôr

Grammar Details

*Bārûk*: verb, passive participle masculine singular - blessed
*hiplîʾ*: verb, perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he has made wonderful
*ḥasdô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his lovingkindness
*ʿîr*: noun, feminine singular construct - city of
*māṣôr*: noun, masculine singular - siege/distress

Word Meanings

*Bārûk*: blessed/praised/adored
*hiplîʾ*: made wonderful/did marvelously/performed wondrously
*ḥasdô*: his lovingkindness/steadfast love/mercy
*ʿîr*: city/town
*māṣôr*: siege/distress/fortification

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 116:11 : 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Jonah 2:4 : 4 And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
Jonah 2:7-9 : 7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple. 8 They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy. 9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah.
Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up {G5037} prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
Isa 6:5 : 5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.
Isa 38:10-12 : 10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Isa 49:14 : 14 But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.
Lam 3:54-55 : 54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. 55 I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.
Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
1 Sam 23:26 : 26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.
1 Sam 27:1 : 1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
2 Chr 33:11-13 : 11 Wherefore Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in distress, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 And he prayed unto him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah he was God.
Job 35:14 : 14 How much less when thou sayest thou beholdest him not, The cause is before him, and thou waitest for him!
Ps 6:9 : 9 Jehovah hath heard my supplication; Jehovah will receive my prayer.
Ps 31:17 : 17 Let me not be put to shame, O Jehovah; For I have called upon thee: Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.
Ps 88:16 : 16 Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.

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