Psalms 36:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַל־תְּ֭בוֹאֵנִי רֶ֣גֶל גַּאֲוָ֑ה וְיַד־רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים אַל־תְּנִדֵֽנִי׃

Transliteration

Not-tᵊbôʾēnî regel gaʾăwâ and-yad-rᵊšāʿîm not-tᵊnidēnî

Grammar Details

*tᵊbôʾēnî*: qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix (me) and negative particle אַל - let not come upon me
*regel*: feminine, singular construct - foot of
*gaʾăwâ*: feminine, singular - pride
*yad*: feminine, singular construct with prefixed conjunction וְ (and) - and hand of
*rᵊšāʿîm*: masculine, plural - wicked ones
*tᵊnidēnî*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix (me) and negative particle אַל - let not drive/move me

Word Meanings

*tᵊbôʾēnî*: let it come upon me/approach me
*regel*: foot/leg
*gaʾăwâ*: pride/arrogance/majesty
*yad*: hand/power
*rᵊšāʿîm*: wicked ones/evildoers
*tᵊnidēnî*: drive me away/move me/cast me out

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Referenced Verses

Ps 1:5 : 5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Ps 9:16 : 16 Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. {H1902} Selah}
Ps 18:38 : 38 I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise: They shall fall under my feet.
Ps 55:23 : 23 But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee.
Ps 58:10-11 : 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked; 11 So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Ps 64:7-9 : 7 But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded. 8 So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head. 9 And all men shall fear; And they shall declare the work of God, And shall wisely consider of his doing.
Ps 140:10 : 10 Let burning coals fall upon them: Let them be cast into the fire, Into deep pits, whence they shall not rise.
Jer 51:64 : 64 and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
2 Thess 1:8-9 : 8 rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus: 9 who shall suffer punishment, [even] eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Rev 15:4 : 4 Who shall not fear, {G4571} O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy; for all the nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy righteous acts have been made manifest.
Rev 19:1-6 : 1 {G2532} After these things I heard as it were a great voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory, and power, {G2532} {G5092} belong to {G2962} our God: 2 for true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath judged the great harlot, her that corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. 3 And a second time they say, Hallelujah. And her smoke goeth up for ever and ever. 4 And the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped God that sitteth on the throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah. 5 And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, Give praise to our God, all ye his servants, {G2532} ye that fear him, the small and the great. 6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunders, saying, Hallelujah: for the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigneth.
Judg 5:31 : 31 So let all thine enemies perish, O Jehovah: But let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

Similar Verses (AI)

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7When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.
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73%
18Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.
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72%
1[ A Psalm of David.] Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, Neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness.
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Ps 55:23
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Isa 31:2
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Ps 57:6
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Ps 55:15
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Prov 4:16
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Ps 9:15
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