Psalms 39:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּֽתוֹכָ֘ח֤וֹת עַל־עָוֺ֨ן ׀ יִסַּ֬רְתָּ אִ֗ישׁ וַתֶּ֣מֶס כָּעָ֣שׁ חֲמוּד֑וֹ אַ֤ךְ הֶ֖בֶל כָּל־אָדָ֣ם סֶֽלָה׃

Transliteration

With-tôkāḥôt upon-ʿāwōn yissartā ʾîš and-temes like-ʿāš ḥămûdô ʾak hebel all-ʾādām selāh

Grammar Details

• *tôkāḥôt*: noun, feminine plural with prefixed preposition 'bə' - with reproofs
• *ʿāwōn*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed preposition 'al' - for iniquity
• *yissartā*: verb, piel perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you discipline
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man
• *temes*: verb, hiphil imperfect 2nd person masculine singular with prefixed conjunction 'wa' - and you melt away
• *ʿāš*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed preposition 'kə' - like a moth
• *ḥămûdô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his desired things
• *ʾak*: adverb - surely/only
• *hebel*: noun, masculine singular - vanity/breath
• *ʾādām*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed 'kol' - every man
• *selāh*: musical notation - selah

Word Meanings

• *tôkāḥôt*: reproofs/corrections/rebukes
• *ʿāwōn*: iniquity/guilt/punishment for iniquity
• *yissartā*: you discipline/chasten/correct
• *temes*: you melt away/consume/dissolve
• *ʿāš*: moth/insect that destroys clothes
• *ḥămûdô*: his desired things/precious things/beauty
• *hebel*: vapor/breath/vanity/emptiness

Referenced Verses

• Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
• Heb 11:13 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
• 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• Lev 25:23 : 23 And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
• 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
• Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.
• 2 Kgs 20:5 : 5 Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee; on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of Jehovah.
• Ps 56:8 : 8 Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?
• Ps 102:1 : 1 A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before Jehovah. Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And let my cry come unto thee.
• Ps 116:3 : 3 The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
• 1 Pet 1:17 : 17 And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:
• Ps 119:54 : 54 Thy statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.
• 2 Cor 5:6 : 6 Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord
• 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,
• Job 16:20 : 20 My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,
• 2 Sam 16:12 : 12 It may be that Jehovah will look on the wrong done unto me, and that Jehovah will requite me good for [his] cursing of me this day.