Psalms 94:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit be digged for the wicked.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְהַשְׁקִ֣יט ל֭וֹ מִ֣ימֵי רָ֑ע עַ֤ד יִכָּרֶ֖ה לָרָשָׁ֣ע שָֽׁחַת

Transliteration

ləhašqîṭ to-him from-yəmê rāʿ until yikkāreh to-the-rāšāʿ šāḥat

Grammar Details

• *ləhašqîṭ*: preposition + verb, hiphil, infinitive construct - to give rest/quietness
• *lô*: preposition + 3rd person, masculine, singular pronominal suffix - to him
• *mi-yəmê*: preposition + noun, masculine, plural, construct - from days of
• *rāʿ*: noun, masculine, singular - evil/distress
• *ʿad*: preposition - until
• *yikkāreh*: verb, niphal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular - it is dug
• *lā-rāšāʿ*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine, singular - for the wicked one
• *šāḥat*: noun, feminine, singular - pit

Word Meanings

• *ləhašqîṭ*: to give rest/to grant relief/to quiet
• *yəmê*: days of/times of
• *rāʿ*: evil/distress/trouble
• *yikkāreh*: is dug/is prepared
• *rāšāʿ*: wicked one/evil-doer
• *šāḥat*: pit/trap/grave

Referenced Verses

• Ps 55:23 : 23 But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee.
• Ps 9:15 : 15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
• Rev 14:13 : 13 And I heard the voice from heaven saying, {G3427} Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.
• 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;
• Hab 3:16 : 16 I heard, and my body trembled, My lips quivered at the voice; Rottenness entereth into my bones, and I tremble in my place; Because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, For the coming up of the people that invadeth us.
• 2 Cor 4:17-18 : 17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us {G2596} more and {G5236} more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; 18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
• 2 Thess 1:7-8 : 7 and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire, 8 rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:
• Heb 4:9 : 9 There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.
• Isa 26:20-21 : 20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 21 For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
• Jer 18:20 : 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
• Jer 18:22 : 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
• 2 Pet 3:3-7 : 3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts, 4 and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God; 6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
• Rev 6:10-11 : 10 and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? 11 And there was given them to each one a white robe; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little time, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, who should be killed even as they were, should have fulfilled [their course].
• Rev 11:18 : 18 And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and [the time] to give their reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth.
• Job 34:29 : 29 When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Alike whether [it be done] unto a nation, or unto a man:
• Ps 49:5 : 5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, When iniquity at my heels compasseth me about?