Psalms 69:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַתָּ֤ה יָדַ֗עְתָּ חֶרְפָּתִ֣י וּ֭בָשְׁתִּי וּכְלִמָּתִ֑י נֶ֝גְדְּךָ֗ כָּל־צוֹרְרָֽי׃

Transliteration

'attâ yāda'tā ḥerpātî and-bāštî and-kĕlimmātî before-you all-ṣôrĕrāy

Grammar Details

• *'attâ*: 2nd person masculine singular independent pronoun - you
• *yāda'tā*: Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you know
• *ḥerpātî*: feminine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - my reproach
• *bāštî*: feminine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix and prefixed conjunction waw - and my shame
• *kĕlimmātî*: feminine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix and prefixed conjunction waw - and my dishonor
• *ṣôrĕrāy*: Qal participle, masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - my adversaries

Word Meanings

• *yāda'tā*: you know/you knew
• *ḥerpātî*: my reproach/my disgrace/my scorn
• *bāštî*: my shame/my disgrace
• *kĕlimmātî*: my dishonor/my humiliation/my disgrace
• *ṣôrĕrāy*: my adversaries/my enemies/those who harass me

Referenced Verses

• Job 16:2 : 2 I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
• Isa 63:5 : 5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my wrath, it upheld me.
• Ps 142:4 : 4 Look on [my] right hand, and see; For there is no man that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; No man careth for my soul.
• Mark 14:50 : 50 And they all left him, and fled.
• John 12:27 : 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour.
• John 16:32 : 32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is {G3568} come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and [yet] I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
• 2 Tim 4:16-17 : 16 At my first defence no one took my part, but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their account. 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might me fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Heb 11:36 : 36 and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
• Matt 26:37-38 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.
• Matt 26:56 : 56 But all this is come to pass, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
• Mark 14:37 : 37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest thou not watch one hour?
• Job 19:21-22 : 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me. 22 Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
• Ps 42:6 : 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
• Ps 42:10 : 10 As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
• Ps 123:4 : 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud.