Psalms 49:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זֶ֣ה דַ֭רְכָּם כֵּ֣סֶל לָ֑מוֹ וְאַחֲרֵיהֶ֓ם ׀ בְּפִיהֶ֖ם יִרְצ֣וּ סֶֽלָה׃

Transliteration

This darkām kēsel to-them wə-ʾaḥărêhem in-pîhem yirṣû selāh

Grammar Details

*darkām*: noun masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'their way'
*kēsel*: noun masculine singular - 'folly/confidence'
*lāmô*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'to/for them'
*wə*: conjunction - 'and/yet'
*ʾaḥărêhem*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'after them'
*pîhem*: noun masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix with prefixed preposition bet - 'with their mouth'
*yirṣû*: verb qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - 'they approve/delight in'
*selāh*: musical notation or liturgical direction

Word Meanings

*kēsel*: folly/confidence/stupidity
*yirṣû*: they approve/delight in/find pleasure in
*selāh*: musical notation/pause/lift up

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Mal 4:3 : 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, saith Jehovah of hosts.
1 Cor 6:2 : 2 Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
Dan 7:22 : 22 until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
Luke 22:30 : 30 that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom; and ye shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Ps 39:11 : 11 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
Job 24:19-20 : 19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [So doth] Sheol [those that] have sinned. 20 The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
Ps 44:11 : 11 Thou hast made us like sheep [appointed] for food, And hast scattered us among the nations.
Ps 47:3 : 3 He subdueth peoples under us, And nations under our feet.
Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
Isa 38:10-11 : 10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Jer 12:3 : 3 But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
Dan 7:18 : 18 But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
Job 4:21 : 21 Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.
Job 17:13-14 : 13 If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; 14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;
Job 21:13 : 13 They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.
Job 21:26 : 26 They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.
Rom 8:36 : 36 Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Rev 2:26-27 : 26 And he that overcometh, and he that keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give authority over the nations: 27 and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to shivers; as I also have received of my Father:
Rev 20:4-5 : 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as worshipped not the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 {G1161} The rest of the dead lived not {G326} until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection.
Hos 6:3 : 3 And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.
Ps 9:17 : 17 The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.
Ps 30:5 : 5 For his anger is but for a moment; His favor is for a life-time: Weeping may tarry for the night, But joy [cometh] in the morning.

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