Psalms 31:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; Thou hast set my feet in a large place.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָגִ֥ילָה וְאֶשְׂמְחָ֗ה בְּחַ֫סְדֶּ֥ךָ אֲשֶׁ֣ר רָ֭אִיתָ אֶת־עָנְיִ֑י יָ֝דַ֗עְתָּ בְּצָר֥וֹת נַפְשִֽׁי׃

Transliteration

ʾāgîlâ and-ʾeśməḥâ in-ḥasdekā which rāʾîtā ʾet-ʿonyî; yādaʿtā in-ṣārôt napšî

Grammar Details

*ʾāgîlâ*: verb, cohortative 1st person singular - I will rejoice
*ʾeśməḥâ*: verb, cohortative 1st person singular - I will be glad
*ḥasdekā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix and prefixed preposition beth - in your lovingkindness
*rāʾîtā*: verb, perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you have seen
*ʿonyî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my affliction
*yādaʿtā*: verb, perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you have known
*ṣārôt*: noun, feminine plural with prefixed preposition beth - in distresses
*napšî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my soul

Word Meanings

*ʾāgîlâ*: rejoice/be joyful/exult
*ʾeśməḥâ*: be glad/rejoice/be joyful
*ḥasdekā*: your lovingkindness/steadfast love/mercy
*ʿonyî*: my affliction/trouble/misery
*ṣārôt*: distresses/troubles/adversities

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Deut 32:30 : 30 How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?
Job 36:16 : 16 Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.
Ps 4:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness; Thou hast set me at large [when I was] in distress: Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
Ps 18:19 : 19 He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Ps 88:8 : 8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Isa 19:4 : 4 And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
1 Sam 17:46 : 46 This day will Jehovah deliver thee into my hand; and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day unto the birds of the heavens, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
1 Sam 24:18 : 18 And thou hast declared this day how that thou hast dealt well with me, forasmuch as when Jehovah had delivered me up into thy hand, thou killedst me not.
1 Sam 26:8 : 8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.
Job 16:11 : 11 God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.

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