Psalms 81:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שְׁמַ֣ע עַ֭מִּי וְאָעִ֣ידָה בָּ֑ךְ יִ֝שְׂרָאֵ֗ל אִם־תִּֽשְׁמַֽע־לִֽי׃

Transliteration

šəmaʿ my ʿammî and wəʾāʿîdâ against you, yiśrāʾēl if-tišmaʿ-to me

Grammar Details

*šəmaʿ*: qal imperative masculine singular - 'hear/listen'
*ʿammî*: masculine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - 'my people'
*wəʾāʿîdâ*: hiphil cohortative 1st singular with prefixed conjunction waw - 'and let me testify/warn'
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper name - 'Israel'
*tišmaʿ*: qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular with conditional particle 'im - 'if you would listen'

Word Meanings

*šəmaʿ*: hear/listen/obey
*ʿammî*: my people/my nation
*wəʾāʿîdâ*: and I will testify/I will warn/I will admonish
*tišmaʿ*: you would listen/you would hear/you would obey

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Deut 32:12 : 12 Jehovah alone did lead him, And there was no foreign god with him.
Isa 43:12 : 12 I have declared, and I have saved, and I have showed; and there was no strange [god] among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and I am God.
Mal 2:11 : 11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god.
1 Cor 8:5-6 : 5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many; 6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.
Ps 44:20 : 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
Exod 20:3-5 : 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any likeness [of any thing] that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
Deut 6:14 : 14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you;

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6I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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Exod 20:3-5
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3Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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