Psalms 73:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: Thou hast destroyed all them that play the harlot, [departing] from thee.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֣ה רְחֵקֶ֣יךָ יֹאבֵ֑דוּ הִ֝צְמַ֗תָּה כָּל־זוֹנֶ֥ה מִמֶּֽךָּ׃

Transliteration

Ki-hinneh recheqekha yovedu; hitzmattah kol-zoneh mimmekka.

Grammar Details

*Ki-hinneh*: conjunction + interjection - for behold
*recheqekha*: verb, qal participle, masculine plural construct + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - ones far from you
*yovedu*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will perish
*hitzmattah*: verb, hiphil perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you have destroyed
*kol-zoneh*: noun, masculine singular construct + verb, qal participle, masculine singular - all who go astray
*mimmekka*: preposition + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - from you

Word Meanings

*recheq*: far from/distant
*avad*: perish/be destroyed/be lost
*tzamat*: destroy/cut off/annihilate
*zoneh*: go astray/be unfaithful/commit fornication

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Referenced Verses

Ps 119:155 : 155 Salvation is far from the wicked; For they seek not thy statutes.
Exod 34:15 : 15 lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;
Num 15:39 : 39 and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that ye follow not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot;
Jas 4:4 : 4 Ye {G3432} {G2532} adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever {G302} therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
Rev 17:1-5 : 1 And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spake with me, saying, {G3427} Come hither, I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters; 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication. 3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication, 5 and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Job 21:14-15 : 14 And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Ps 106:39 : 39 Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.
Isa 29:13 : 13 And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh [unto me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught [them];
Jer 12:2 : 2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
Matt 15:7-8 : 7 Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, 8 This people honoreth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me.
Eph 2:13 : 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ.
Eph 2:17 : 17 and he came and preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were nigh:

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