Psalms 55:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִקּ֤וֹל אוֹיֵ֗ב מִפְּנֵ֣י עָקַ֣ת רָשָׁ֑ע כִּי־יָמִ֥יטוּ עָלַ֥י אָ֝֗וֶן וּבְאַ֥ף יִשְׂטְמֽוּנִי׃

Transliteration

from qôl ʾôyēb, from before ʿāqat rāšāʿ, because they yāmîṭû upon me ʾāwen and in ʾap they yiśṭəmûnî

Grammar Details

• *qôl*: masculine singular construct with prefixed preposition min (from) - from voice of
• *ʾôyēb*: qal participle, masculine singular - enemy
• *ʿāqat*: feminine singular construct - oppression of
• *rāšāʿ*: masculine singular adjective - wicked
• *yāmîṭû*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they bring down/cast
• *ʾāwen*: masculine singular noun - iniquity/trouble
• *ʾap*: masculine singular noun with prefixed preposition beth (in) - in anger
• *yiśṭəmûnî*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - they hate me/persecute me

Word Meanings

• *qôl*: voice/sound
• *ʾôyēb*: enemy/foe
• *ʿāqat*: oppression/pressure/distress
• *rāšāʿ*: wicked/evil person
• *yāmîṭû*: they bring down/they cast/they drop
• *ʾāwen*: iniquity/trouble/wickedness
• *ʾap*: anger/nostril/face
• *yiśṭəmûnî*: they hate me/they persecute me/they oppose me

Referenced Verses

• Ps 116:3 : 3 The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
• Ps 18:4-5 : 4 The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid. 5 The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
• Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
• Ps 88:3 : 3 For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.
• Ps 102:3-5 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand. 4 My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
• Isa 38:10-13 : 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. 12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. 13 I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
• Matt 26:37-38 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.
• Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly amazed, and sore troubled. 34 And he saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death: abide ye here, and watch.
• John 12:27 : 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour.
• 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life: 9 yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead: 10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
• 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,
• Ps 6:3 : 3 My soul also is sore troubled: And thou, O Jehovah, how long?