Psalms 59:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; The mighty gather themselves together against me: Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַ֭צִּילֵנִי מִפֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן וּֽמֵאַנְשֵׁ֥י דָ֝מִ֗ים הוֹשִׁיעֵֽנִי׃

Transliteration

Haṣṣîlēnî from pōʿălê ʾāwen and from ʾanšê dāmîm hôšîʿēnî.

Grammar Details

• *Haṣṣîlēnî*: Hiphil imperative with 1st person singular suffix - deliver me
• *pōʿălê*: masculine plural construct noun with preposition min- - from workers of
• *ʾāwen*: masculine noun - iniquity/wickedness
• *ʾanšê*: masculine plural construct noun with preposition min- and conjunction wə- - and from men of
• *dāmîm*: masculine plural noun - bloods/bloodshed
• *hôšîʿēnî*: Hiphil imperative with 1st person singular suffix - save me

Word Meanings

• *ʾāwen*: iniquity/wickedness/trouble/sorrow
• *dāmîm*: bloodshed/bloodguilt/blood (plural form often indicates violent bloodshed)
• *hôšîʿēnî*: save me/deliver me/help me

Referenced Verses

• Ps 56:6 : 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.
• Ps 69:4 : 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: That which I took not away I have to restore.
• 1 Sam 24:11 : 11 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against thee, though thou huntest after my life to take it.
• 1 Sam 24:17 : 17 And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I; for thou hast rendered unto me good, whereas I have rendered unto thee evil.
• 1 Sam 26:18 : 18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?
• Ps 2:2 : 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, [saying],
• Ps 7:3-6 : 3 O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands; 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;) 5 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. {H5542} 6 Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger; Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries, And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment.
• Ps 10:9-9 : 9 He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net. 10 He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones.
• Ps 37:32-33 : 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him. 33 Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged.
• Ps 38:12 : 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.
• Prov 12:6 : 6 The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
• 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.
• John 15:25 : 25 But [this cometh to pass], that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
• Acts 4:26-27 : 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,
• Acts 23:21 : 21 {G3767} Do not thou therefore yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have bound themselves under a curse, {G3739} neither to eat nor to drink till {G3739} they have slain him: and now are they ready, looking for the promise from thee.
• 1 Sam 19:1 : 1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should slay David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.