Psalms 44:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹא־נָס֣וֹג אָח֣וֹר לִבֵּ֑נוּ וַתֵּ֥ט אֲ֝שֻׁרֵ֗ינוּ מִנִּ֥י אָרְחֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

Not-nāsôg ʾāḥôr libbēnû wattēṭ ʾăšurênû from minnî ʾorḥekā

Grammar Details

*nāsôg*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it turned back
*ʾāḥôr*: adverb - backward
*libbēnû*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person plural suffix - our heart
*wattēṭ*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular, waw consecutive - and it turned aside
*ʾăšurênû*: noun, feminine plural + 1st person plural suffix - our steps
*minnî*: preposition - from
*ʾorḥekā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your path

Word Meanings

*nāsôg*: turned back/retreated/withdrawn
*wattēṭ*: turned aside/deviated/strayed
*ʾăšurênû*: our steps/our goings/our footsteps
*ʾorḥekā*: your path/your way/your trail

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Referenced Verses

Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
Ps 23:4 : 4 Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Ps 51:8 : 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Ps 60:1-3 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth. Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand. O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again. 2 Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it: Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh. 3 Thou hast showed thy people hard things: Thou hast made us to drink the wine of staggering.
Ps 74:13-14 : 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters. 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.
Isa 34:13-14 : 13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. 14 And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
Isa 35:7 : 7 And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Jer 14:17 : 17 And thou shalt say this word unto them, Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
Ezek 29:3 : 3 speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lieth in the midst of his rivers, that hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Matt 4:16 : 16 the people that sat in darkness saw a great light, and to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, to them did light spring up.
Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.
Rev 13:2 : 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority.
Rev 13:11-13 : 11 And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast in his sight. And he maketh the earth and them that dwell {G1722} therein to worship the first beast, whose {G846} death-stroke {G4127} was healed. 13 And he doeth great signs, that he should even make fire to come down out of heaven upon the earth in the sight of men.
Rev 16:10 : 10 And the fifth {G32} poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was darkened; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
Ps 38:8 : 8 I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; 22 The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
Job 30:29 : 29 I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

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