Psalms 59:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Even thou, O Jehovah God of hosts, the God of Israel, Arise to visit all the nations: Be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. {H5542}

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּֽלִי־עָ֭וֺן יְרוּצ֣וּן וְיִכּוֹנָ֑נוּ ע֖וּרָה לִקְרָאתִ֣י וּרְאֵה׃

Transliteration

Without ʿāwōn they yĕrûṣûn and they yikkônānû ʿûrāh to qĕrātî and rĕʾēh.

Grammar Details

*ʿāwōn*: masculine noun with preposition bĕlî- - without iniquity
*yĕrûṣûn*: Qal imperfect, 3rd plural - they run
*yikkônānû*: Hithpolel imperfect, 3rd plural with conjunction wə- - and they prepare themselves
*ʿûrāh*: Qal imperative, masculine singular - awake/rouse yourself
*qĕrātî*: infinitive construct with preposition lə- and 1st person singular suffix - to meet me
*rĕʾēh*: Qal imperative, masculine singular with conjunction wə- - and see

Word Meanings

*ʿāwōn*: iniquity/guilt/punishment for iniquity
*yikkônānû*: they prepare themselves/they establish themselves/they set themselves in array

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Referenced Verses

Gen 33:20 : 20 And he erected there an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
Exod 3:15 : 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
Exod 20:5 : 5 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
Ps 7:12-13 : 12 If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery [shafts].
Ps 9:15 : 15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Ps 54:3 : 3 For strangers are risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. {H5542}
Ps 55:15 : 15 Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
Ps 80:4 : 4 O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
Ps 84:8 : 8 O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob. {H5542}
Isa 1:10 : 10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
Jer 18:23 : 23 Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.
Ezek 18:27-28 : 27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Amos 9:7 : 7 Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
Rom 2:28-29 : 28 For he is not a Jew who is one {G1722} outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: 29 but he is a Jew who is one {G1722} inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Rom 9:6 : 6 But [it is] not as though {G3754} the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all {G1537} Israel, that {G3778} are of Israel:
Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment [is] without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: {G2532} mercy glorieth against judgment.

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