Psalms 39:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הָסֵ֣ר מֵעָלַ֣י נִגְעֶ֑ךָ מִתִּגְרַ֥ת יָ֝דְךָ֗ אֲנִ֣י כָלִֽיתִי׃

Transliteration

hāsēr from-upon-me nigʿekā from-tigrāt yādəkā ʾănî kālîtî

Grammar Details

*hāsēr*: verb, hiphil imperative masculine singular - remove
*nigʿekā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix and prefixed 'mē'+'al' with 1st person singular suffix - your stroke from upon me
*tigrāt*: noun, feminine singular construct with prefixed preposition 'min' - from the blow of
*yādəkā*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your hand
*ʾănî*: pronoun, 1st person singular - I
*kālîtî*: verb, qal perfect 1st person singular - I am consumed/perish

Word Meanings

*hāsēr*: remove/take away/turn aside
*nigʿekā*: your stroke/plague/affliction
*tigrāt*: blow/attack/contention
*kālîtî*: I am consumed/perish/come to an end

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 13:28 : 28 Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth - eaten.
Isa 50:9 : 9 Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
Hos 5:12 : 12 Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
1 Cor 5:5 : 5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1 Cor 11:30-32 : 30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. 31 But if we discerned ourselves, we should not {G302} be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
Heb 12:6 : 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
2 Pet 2:16 : 16 but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man's voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.
Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
Ps 38:1-8 : 1 A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness. 6 I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Ps 90:7-9 : 7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
Ps 102:10-11 : 10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away. 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
Job 4:19 : 19 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

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