Psalms 35:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַל־יֹאמְר֣וּ בְ֭לִבָּם הֶאָ֣ח נַפְשֵׁ֑נוּ אַל־יֹ֝אמְר֗וּ בִּֽלַּעֲנֽוּהוּ׃

Transliteration

ʾAl-yōʾmərû bə-libbām heʾāḥ napšēnû; ʾal-yōʾmərû billaʿănûhû.

Grammar Details

*ʾAl*: negative particle - not/do not
*yōʾmərû*: imperfect jussive, 3rd person masculine plural - let them say
*bə*: preposition - in
*libbām*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their heart
*heʾāḥ*: interjection - aha
*napšēnû*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person plural suffix - our desire
*ʾal*: negative particle - not/do not
*billaʿănûhû*: perfect, 1st person plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - we have swallowed him

Word Meanings

*yōʾmərû*: let them say/speak/declare
*libbām*: their heart/mind/inner self
*heʾāḥ*: aha/ha-ha/exclamation of satisfaction
*napšēnû*: our desire/appetite/longing
*billaʿănûhû*: we have swallowed him/devoured him/consumed him

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Referenced Verses

Lam 2:16 : 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
Ps 124:3 : 3 Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
Ps 140:8 : 8 Grant not, O Jehovah, the desires of the wicked; Further not his evil device, [lest] they exalt themselves. {H5542}
Matt 27:43 : 43 He trusteth on God; let him deliver him now, if he desireth him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
Mark 2:6 : 6 But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
Mark 2:8 : 8 And straightway Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, saith unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
1 Cor 15:54 : 54 But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
2 Sam 20:19 : 19 I am of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?
Job 1:5 : 5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
Ps 27:12 : 12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty.
Ps 28:3 : 3 Draw me not away with the wicked, And with the workers of iniquity; That speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.
Ps 56:1-2 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God; For man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me. 2 Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; {H4791} For they are many that fight proudly against me.
Ps 57:3 : 3 He will send from heaven, and save me, [When] he that would swallow me up reproacheth; {H5542} God will send forth his lovingkindness and his truth.
Ps 70:3 : 3 Let them be turned back by reason of their shame That say, Aha, aha.
Ps 74:8 : 8 They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

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