Psalms 65:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach [unto thee], That he may dwell in thy courts: We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, Thy holy temple.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דִּבְרֵ֣י עֲ֭וֺנֹת גָּ֣בְרוּ מֶ֑נִּי פְּ֝שָׁעֵ֗ינוּ אַתָּ֥ה תְכַפְּרֵֽם

Transliteration

diḇrê ʿăwōnōṯ gāḇrû from-me pəšāʿênû you ṯəḵappərēm

Grammar Details

*diḇrê*: noun, masculine plural construct - words/matters of
*ʿăwōnōṯ*: noun, masculine plural - iniquities
*gāḇrû*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd person common plural - they prevailed/were stronger
*mennî*: preposition min (from) with 1st person singular suffix
*pəšāʿênû*: noun, masculine plural with 1st person plural suffix - our transgressions
*ʾattâ*: pronoun, 2nd person masculine singular - you
*ṯəḵappərēm*: verb, Piel imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - you will atone/cover them

Word Meanings

*diḇrê*: words/matters/accounts/acts
*ʿăwōnōṯ*: iniquities/sins/guilt
*gāḇrû*: prevailed/overpowered/were stronger
*pəšāʿênû*: our transgressions/rebellions/offenses
*ṯəḵappərēm*: will cover/atone for/forgive/purge them

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 33:12 : 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, The people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Ps 36:8 : 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; And thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
Ps 84:4 : 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: They will be still praising thee. Selah
Ps 63:5 : 5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips;
Ps 4:3 : 3 But know that Jehovah hath set apart for himself him that is godly: Jehovah will hear when I call unto him.
Ps 15:1 : 1 A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with [beholding] thy form.
Ps 23:6 : 6 Surely goodness and lovingkindness shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of Jehovah for ever.
Ps 24:7 : 7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in.
Ps 106:4-5 : 4 Remember me, O Jehovah, with the favor that thou bearest unto thy people; Oh visit me with thy salvation, 5 That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen, That I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, That I may glory with thine inheritance.
Eph 1:4 : 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
Rev 3:12 : 12 He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no {G3361} more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.
Rev 7:16-17 : 16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun strike upon them, nor any heat: 17 for the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them unto fountains of waters of life: and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Rev 21:3-4 : 3 And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, [ and be] their God: 4 and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, {G2071} nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.
2 Thess 2:13 : 13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God {G138} chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
Ps 135:4 : 4 For Jehovah hath chosen Jacob unto himself, [And] Israel for his own possession.
Jer 31:12-14 : 12 And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow unto the goodness of Jehovah, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith Jehovah.
Jer 31:25 : 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.
Ps 78:70-71 : 70 He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds: 71 From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

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