Psalms 82:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹ֤א יָֽדְע֨וּ ׀ וְלֹ֥א יָבִ֗ינוּ בַּחֲשֵׁכָ֥ה יִתְהַלָּ֑כוּ יִ֝מּ֗וֹטוּ כָּל־מ֥וֹסְדֵי אָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

not yādəʿû and-not yābînû in-ḥăšēkāh yithallākû yimmôṭû all-môsədê ʾāreṣ

Grammar Details

*yādəʿû*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine plural - they know/knew
*yābînû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they understand/will understand
in-*ḥăšēkāh*: preposition + feminine singular noun - in darkness
*yithallākû*: hithpael imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they walk about/continue
*yimmôṭû*: niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they totter/are shaken
all-*môsədê*: construct - all foundations of
*ʾāreṣ*: feminine singular noun - earth/land

Word Meanings

*yādəʿû*: know/understand/perceive
*yābînû*: understand/discern/perceive
*ḥăšēkāh*: darkness/ignorance
*yithallākû*: walk about/go about/continue
*yimmôṭû*: totter/shake/be moved
*môsədê*: foundations/pillars/supports
*ʾāreṣ*: earth/land/world

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Referenced Verses

Ps 11:3 : 3 If the foundations be destroyed, What can the righteous do?
Mic 3:1 : 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice?
Prov 2:13 : 13 Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?
Ps 75:3 : 3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have set up the pillars of it. {H5542}
Prov 1:29 : 29 For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah:
Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
Eccl 2:14 : 14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.
Eccl 3:16 : 16 And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.
Isa 59:9 : 9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
John 3:19 : 19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
John 12:35 : 35 Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they {G1381} {G3756} refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
2 Tim 2:19 : 19 Howbeit the firm foundation of God standeth, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his: and, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.
1 John 2:11 : 11 But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Ps 53:4 : 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon God?

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