Psalms 69:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יָגַ֣עְתִּי בְקָרְאִי֮ נִחַ֢ר גְּר֫וֹנִ֥י כָּל֥וּ עֵינַ֑י מְ֝יַחֵ֗ל לֵאלֹהָֽי׃

Transliteration

yāga'tî in-qārĕ'î niḥar gĕrônî kālû 'ênay mĕyaḥēl to-'ĕlōhāy

Grammar Details

• *yāga'tî*: Qal perfect, 1st person singular - I am weary
• *qārĕ'î*: Qal infinitive construct with 1st person singular suffix and prefixed preposition bĕ - in my calling
• *niḥar*: Niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it is parched/dried
• *gĕrônî*: masculine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - my throat
• *kālû*: Qal perfect, 3rd person plural - they are consumed/spent
• *'ênay*: feminine dual noun with 1st person singular suffix - my eyes
• *mĕyaḥēl*: Piel participle, masculine singular - waiting/hoping
• *'ĕlōhāy*: masculine plural noun with 1st person singular suffix and prefixed preposition lĕ - for my God

Word Meanings

• *yāga'tî*: I am weary/I am exhausted
• *niḥar*: is parched/dried/inflamed
• *gĕrônî*: my throat/my neck
• *kālû*: they fail/they are consumed/they are spent
• *mĕyaḥēl*: waiting/hoping/expecting
• *'ĕlōhāy*: my God

Referenced Verses

• Ps 35:19 : 19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
• 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.
• Ps 40:12 : 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.
• Isa 53:4-7 : 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also {G3958} suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• Ps 59:3 : 3 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.
• Ps 109:3-5 : 3 They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause. 4 For my love they are my adversaries: But I [give myself unto] prayer. 5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
• 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 {G1063} Him who knew no sin he made [to be] sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
• 1 Pet 2:22 : 22 who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
• Ps 38:19-20 : 19 But mine enemies are lively, [and] are strong; And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. 20 They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.
• Ps 7:3-5 : 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}
• Ps 35:11-12 : 11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I know not. 12 They reward me evil for good, [To] the bereaving of my soul.
• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.