Psalms 89:41

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פָּרַצְתָּ כָל־גְּדֵרֹתָיו שַׂמְתָּ מִבְצָרָיו מְחִתָּה

Transliteration

You-pāraṣtā all-gᵉdērōtāyw; you-śamtā mibṣārāyw mᵉḥittâ

Grammar Details

*pāraṣtā*: verb, qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you have breached
*kol-gᵉdērōtāyw*: noun + noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - all his walls/hedges
*śamtā*: verb, qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you have set/made
*mibṣārāyw*: noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his fortresses
*mᵉḥittâ*: noun, feminine singular - ruin

Word Meanings

*pāraṣtā*: you have breached/broken down/broken through
*gᵉdērōtāyw*: his walls/hedges/fences
*śamtā*: you have set/made/put
*mibṣārāyw*: his fortresses/strongholds
*mᵉḥittâ*: ruin/terror/destruction

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Referenced Verses

Ps 79:4 : 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.
Ps 80:13 : 13 The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
Isa 10:6 : 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Jer 24:9 : 9 I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
Jer 29:18 : 18 And I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them;
Jer 42:18 : 18 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: As mine anger and my wrath hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt; and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
Jer 44:8 : 8 in that ye provoke me unto anger with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jer 44:12 : 12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an execration, [and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
Lam 5:1 : 1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
Ezek 5:14-15 : 14 Moreover I will make thee a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by. 15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments on thee in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Jehovah, have spoken it;)
Dan 9:16 : 16 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy wrath, I pray thee, be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are round about us.
Deut 28:37 : 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee away.
Neh 5:9 : 9 Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
Ps 44:10-14 : 10 Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves. 11 Thou hast made us like sheep [appointed] for food, And hast scattered us among the nations. 12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased [thy wealth] by their price. 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us. 14 Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
Ps 74:10 : 10 How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 89:39-40
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Ps 62:3
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Hab 1:10
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Nah 3:19
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