Psalms 55:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּלַּ֣ע אֲ֭דֹנָי פַּלַּ֣ג לְשׁוֹנָ֑ם כִּֽי־רָאִ֨יתִי חָמָ֖ס וְרִ֣יב בָּעִֽיר׃

Transliteration

ballaʿ ʾădōnāy pallag ləšônām because rāʾîtî ḥāmās wərîb in the ʿîr

Grammar Details

*ballaʿ*: piel imperative, masculine singular - swallow up/destroy
*ʾădōnāy*: divine name - Lord
*pallag*: piel imperative, masculine singular - divide
*ləšônām*: feminine singular noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their tongue
*rāʾîtî*: qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have seen
*ḥāmās*: masculine singular noun - violence
*wərîb*: masculine singular noun with waw conjunction - and strife
*ʿîr*: feminine singular noun with prefixed preposition beth (in) - in the city

Word Meanings

*ballaʿ*: swallow up/destroy/confuse
*ʾădōnāy*: Lord/my Lord
*pallag*: divide/confuse/split
*ləšônām*: their tongue/their language
*ḥāmās*: violence/wrong/cruelty
*rîb*: strife/contention/dispute
*ʿîr*: city/town

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Referenced Verses

Ps 59:14-15 : 14 And at evening let them return, let them howl like a dog, And go round about the city. 15 They shall wander up and down for food, And tarry all night if they be not satisfied.
Isa 59:6-9 : 6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths. 8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace. 9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men. 11 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them: 13 transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Ezek 9:4 : 4 And Jehovah said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.
Hos 7:6 : 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Zeph 3:1-3 : 1 Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city! 2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God. 3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.
John 18:3 : 3 Judas then, having received the band [of soldiers], and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
John 18:28 : 28 They lead Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium: and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.
Acts 9:24 : 24 but their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night that they might kill him:
1 Sam 19:11 : 11 And Saul sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to-night, to-morrow thou wilt be slain.
2 Sam 16:21-22 : 21 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, that he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then will the hands of all that are with thee be strong. 22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Sam 17:1-2 : 1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: 2 and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, {H3027} and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;
Ps 59:6 : 6 They return at evening, they howl like a dog, And go round about the city.

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