Psalms 56:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; {H4791} For they are many that fight proudly against me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חָנֵּ֣נִי אֱ֭לֹהִים כִּֽי־שְׁאָפַ֣נִי אֱנ֑וֹשׁ כָּל־הַ֝יּ֗וֹם לֹחֵ֥ם יִלְחָצֵֽנִי׃

Transliteration

Ḥānnēnî ʾĕlōhîm for-šəʾāpanî ʾĕnôš all-the-yôm lōḥēm yilḥāṣēnî

Grammar Details

• *Ḥānnēnî*: Qal imperative masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - be gracious to me
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural noun used as singular - God
• *šəʾāpanî*: Qal perfect 3rd masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - he pants after me/swallows me up
• *ʾĕnôš*: masculine singular noun - man/mankind/mortal
• *yôm*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the day
• *lōḥēm*: Qal participle masculine singular - fighting/warrior
• *yilḥāṣēnî*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - he oppresses me

Word Meanings

• *Ḥānnēnî*: be gracious to me/have mercy on me/show favor to me
• *šəʾāpanî*: pants after me/tramples on me/crushes me/swallows me up
• *ʾĕnôš*: man/mankind/mortal/human
• *lōḥēm*: fighter/warrior/one who fights
• *yilḥāṣēnî*: oppresses me/presses me/crushes me

Referenced Verses

• Ps 3:1 : 1 A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Jehovah, how are mine adversaries increased! Many are they that rise up against me.
• Ps 9:2 : 2 I will be glad and exult in thee; I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.
• Ps 35:1 : 1 [ A Psalm of David.] Strive thou, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me: Fight thou against them that fight against me.
• Ps 54:5 : 5 He will requite the evil unto mine enemies: Destroy thou them in thy truth.
• Ps 57:3 : 3 He will send from heaven, and save me, [When] he that would swallow me up reproacheth; {H5542} God will send forth his lovingkindness and his truth.
• Ps 91:1 : 1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
• Ps 92:1 : 1 A Psalm, a Song for the sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks unto Jehovah, And to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High;
• Ps 92:8 : 8 But thou, O Jehovah, art on high for evermore.
• Ps 93:4 : 4 Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, Jehovah on high is mighty.
• Ps 118:10-12 : 10 All nations compassed me about: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off. 11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off. 12 They compassed me about like bees; They are quenched as the fire of thorns: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.
• Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
• Dan 5:18 : 18 O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
• Mic 6:6 : 6 Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?
• Acts 4:25-27 : 25 who by the Holy Spirit, [by] the mouth of our father David thy servant, didst say, Why did the Gentiles rage, And the peoples imagine vain things? 26 The kings of the earth set themselves in array, And the rulers were gathered together, Against the Lord, and against his Anointed: 27 for of a truth in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together,
• Rev 16:14 : 14 for they are spirits of demons, working signs; which go forth {G3739} {G1607} unto the kings {G1093} {G2532} of the whole world, to gather them together unto the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.