Psalms 59:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Slay them not, lest my people forget: Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֱלֹהֵ֣י *חסדו **חַסְדִּ֣י יְקַדְּמֵ֑נִי אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים יַרְאֵ֥נִי בְשֹׁרְרָֽי׃

Transliteration

ʾĕlōhê ḥasdî yĕqaddĕmēnî ʾĕlōhîm yarʾēnî with šōrĕrāy.

Grammar Details

*ʾĕlōhê*: masculine plural construct noun - God of
*ḥasdî*: masculine noun with 1st person singular suffix - my lovingkindness (Ketiv: his lovingkindness - *ḥasdô*; Qere: my lovingkindness - *ḥasdî*)
*yĕqaddĕmēnî*: Piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - he will come before me/meet me
*ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural noun - God
*yarʾēnî*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - he will let me see/show me
*šōrĕrāy*: Qal participle, masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix and preposition bə- - with those who watch me/my enemies

Word Meanings

*ḥasdî*: my lovingkindness/my steadfast love/my mercy (textual variant with *ḥasdô* - his lovingkindness)
*yĕqaddĕmēnî*: will come before me/will meet me/will anticipate me/will prevent me
*šōrĕrāy*: those who watch me/my enemies/those who lie in wait for me

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Referenced Verses

Ps 3:3 : 3 But thou, O Jehovah, art a shield about me; My glory and the lifter up of my head.
Ps 44:11 : 11 Thou hast made us like sheep [appointed] for food, And hast scattered us among the nations.
Ps 52:5 : 5 God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. {H5542}
Ps 84:9 : 9 Behold, O God our shield, And look upon the face of thine anointed.
Ps 84:11 : 11 For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Ps 106:27 : 27 And that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, And scatter them in the lands.
Eccl 9:5 : 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Ezek 12:15-16 : 15 And they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries. 16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations whither they come; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Ezek 14:22-23 : 22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings; and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. 23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their way and their doings; and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Luke 1:51-52 : 51 He hath showed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart. 52 He hath put down princes from [their] thrones, And hath exalted them of low degree.
Luke 21:21 : 21 Then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains; and let them that are in the midst of her depart out; and let not them that are in the country enter {G1519} therein.
Rev 9:6 : 6 And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.
Gen 4:12-15 : 12 when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth. 13 And Cain said unto Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever findeth me will slay me. 15 And Jehovah said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And Jehovah appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should smite him.
Lev 26:33 : 33 And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children's children;
Deut 4:27 : 27 And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah shall lead you away.
Deut 28:64 : 64 And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.
Deut 30:3-4 : 3 that then Jehovah thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the peoples, whither Jehovah thy God hath scattered thee. 4 If [any of] thine outcasts be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from thence will Jehovah thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
Judg 1:6-7 : 6 But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. 7 And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Job 40:12 : 12 Look on every one that is proud, [and] bring him low; And tread down the wicked where they stand.

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