Psalms 44:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth, By reason of the enemy and the avenger.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כָּל־הַ֭יּוֹם כְּלִמָּתִ֣י נֶגְדִּ֑י וּבֹ֖שֶׁת פָּנַ֣י כִּסָּֽתְנִי׃

Transliteration

All-hayyôm kĕlimmātî negdî and ûbōšet pānay kissātnî

Grammar Details

• *hayyôm*: article + noun, masculine singular - the day
• *kĕlimmātî*: noun, feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my disgrace
• *negdî*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - before me
• *ûbōšet*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct - and shame of
• *pānay*: noun, masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my face
• *kissātnî*: verb, piel perfect, 3rd person feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - it has covered me

Word Meanings

• *kĕlimmātî*: my disgrace/my humiliation/my dishonor
• *kissātnî*: covered/overwhelmed/concealed

Referenced Verses

• Ps 8:2 : 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, because of thine adversaries, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
• Ps 74:10 : 10 How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
• Ps 74:18 : 18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
• Ps 74:22-23 : 22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day. 23 Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.
• Ps 79:12 : 12 And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
• Isa 37:3-4 : 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 4 It may be Jehovah thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
• Isa 37:17 : 17 Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open thine eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to defy the living God.
• Isa 37:23-24 : 23 Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel. 24 By thy servants hast thou defied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;