Psalms 71:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For mine enemies speak concerning me; And they that watch for my soul take counsel together,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־אָמְר֣וּ אוֹיְבַ֣י לִ֑י וְשֹׁמְרֵ֥י נַ֝פְשִׁ֗י נוֹעֲצ֥וּ יַחְדָּֽו׃

Transliteration

For-ʾāmərû ʾôyəbay to me and šōmərê napšî nôʿăṣû yaḥdāw

Grammar Details

• *ʾāmərû*: qal perfect, 3rd person common plural - 'they have said'
• *ʾôyəbay*: noun, masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - 'my enemies'
• *šōmərê*: qal participle, masculine plural construct - 'watchers of'
• *napšî*: noun with 1st person singular suffix - 'my soul/life'
• *nôʿăṣû*: niphal perfect, 3rd person common plural - 'they consult together'
• *yaḥdāw*: adverb - 'together'

Word Meanings

• *ʾāmərû*: they have said/they spoke/they declared
• *ʾôyəbay*: my enemies/my adversaries/my foes
• *šōmərê*: watchers of/those who guard/those who observe
• *napšî*: my soul/my life/myself
• *nôʿăṣû*: they consult together/they take counsel/they plot
• *yaḥdāw*: together/united/as one

Referenced Verses

• Ps 56:6 : 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.
• Ps 83:3 : 3 Thy take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones.
• Matt 27:1 : 1 Now when morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
• Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
• Jer 20:10 : 10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
• Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas; 4 and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
• 1 Sam 19:11 : 11 And Saul sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to-night, to-morrow thou wilt be slain.
• 2 Sam 17:1-9 : 1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: 2 and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, {H3027} and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only; 3 and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace. 4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. 5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith. 6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do [after] his saying? if not, speak thou. 7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given this time is not good. 8 Hushai said moreover, Thou knowest thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field; and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. 9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other] place: and it will come to pass, when some of them are fallen at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom. 10 And even he that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they that are with him are valiant men. 11 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person. 12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground; and of him and of all the men that are with him we will not leave so much as one. 13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there. 14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Jehovah had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Jehovah might bring evil upon Absalom.
• Ps 2:2 : 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, [saying],
• Ps 10:9 : 9 He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
• Ps 31:13 : 13 For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
• Ps 37:32-33 : 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him. 33 Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged.