Psalms 63:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They shall be given over to the power of the sword: They shall be a portion for foxes.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהֵ֗מָּה לְ֭שׁוֹאָה יְבַקְשׁ֣וּ נַפְשִׁ֑י יָ֝בֹ֗אוּ בְּֽתַחְתִּיּ֥וֹת הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

And hēmmāh to šōʾāh yəbaqšū napšî yābōʾū into taḥtiyyōt hāʾāreṣ

Grammar Details

*wəhēmmāh*: conjunction + personal pronoun, 3rd masculine plural - and they
*ləšōʾāh*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - to destruction
*yəbaqšū*: verb, Piel imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they seek
*napšî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my soul
*yābōʾū*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they will enter/go
*bətaḥtiyyōt*: preposition + noun, feminine plural construct - into lowest parts of
*hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the earth

Word Meanings

*šōʾāh*: destruction/ruin/desolation
*yəbaqšū*: they seek/they search for/they try to destroy
*napšî*: my soul/my life/myself
*taḥtiyyōt*: lowest parts/depths/nether regions

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Referenced Verses

Jer 18:21 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
Ezek 35:5 : 5 Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
Ezek 39:4 : 4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy hordes, and the peoples that are with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
Ezek 39:17-20 : 17 And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Speak unto the birds of every sort, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh and drink blood. 18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20 And ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Rev 19:17-18 : 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven, Come [and] be gathered together unto the great supper of God; 18 that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, {G846} and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great.
1 Sam 26:10 : 10 And David said, As Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
1 Sam 31:1-6 : 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. 2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. 3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers. 4 Then said Saul to his armorbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armorbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell upon it. 5 And when his armorbearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword, and died with him. 6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armorbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
Song 2:15 : 15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, That spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in blossom.

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