Psalms 57:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. {H5542}

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

ר֣וּמָה עַל־הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם אֱלֹהִ֑ים עַ֖ל כָּל־הָאָ֣רֶץ כְּבוֹדֶֽךָ

Transliteration

rûmâ upon-the-šāmayim ʾělōhîm upon kol-the-ʾāreṣ kəbôdekā

Grammar Details

• *rûmâ*: verb, Qal imperative masculine singular with cohortative he - be exalted
• *šāmayim*: noun, masculine dual with definite article and preposition al - above the heavens
• *ʾělōhîm*: noun, masculine plural (divine plural) - God
• *kol*: noun, masculine singular construct - all of
• *ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the earth
• *kəbôdekā*: noun with 2ms suffix - your glory

Word Meanings

• *rûm*: rise/be exalted/be lifted up
• *šāmayim*: heaven/sky
• *kol*: all/every/whole
• *ʾereṣ*: earth/land/ground
• *kābôd*: glory/honor/dignity

Referenced Verses

• Ps 145:14 : 14 Jehovah upholdeth all that fall, And raiseth up all those that are bowed down.
• Ps 140:5 : 5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. {H5542}
• Ps 142:3 : 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a snare for me.
• Ps 143:4 : 4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
• Prov 28:10 : 10 Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, He shall fall himself into his own pit; But the perfect shall inherit good.
• Prov 29:5 : 5 A man that flattereth his neighbor Spreadeth a net for his steps.
• Mic 7:2 : 2 The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
• 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.
• 1 Sam 23:22-26 : 22 Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly. 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah. 24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert. 25 And Saul and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon. 26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.
• Ps 7:15-16 : 15 He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made. 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
• Ps 9:15-16 : 15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 16 Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. {H1902} Selah}
• Ps 35:7-8 : 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit; Without cause have they digged [a pit] for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.
• Ps 42:6 : 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.