Psalms 80:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Turn us again, O God of hosts; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תְּשִׂימֵ֣נוּ מָ֭דוֹן לִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּ וְ֝אֹיְבֵ֗ינוּ יִלְעֲגוּ־לָֽמוֹ׃

Transliteration

təśîmēnû mādôn to šəkēnênû and ʾōyəbênû yilʿăgû-lāmô

Grammar Details

*təśîmēnû*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular with 1st person plural suffix - 'you make us/set us'
*mādôn*: noun, masculine singular - 'strife/contention'
*šəkēnênû*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person plural suffix - 'our neighbors'
*ʾōyəbênû*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person plural suffix - 'our enemies'
*yilʿăgû*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - 'they mock/deride'
*lāmô*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix (poetic form) - 'to/for themselves'

Word Meanings

*təśîmēnû*: you make us/set us/place us
*mādôn*: strife/contention/object of strife
*yilʿăgû*: they mock/deride/laugh at

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 51:10 : 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.
Ps 80:3 : 3 Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
Ps 80:19 : 19 Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
Isa 30:15 : 15 For thus said the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. And ye would not:
Isa 64:5 : 5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we be saved?
Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?
Mark 4:12 : 12 that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest haply they should turn again, and it should be forgiven them.
Luke 1:16 : 16 And many of the children of Israel shall be turn unto the Lord their God.
2 Tim 2:25-26 : 25 in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.

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