Psalms 116:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then I made my prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, take my soul out of trouble.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבְשֵֽׁם־יְהוָ֥ה אֶקְרָ֑א אָנָּ֥ה יְ֝הוָ֗ה מַלְּטָ֥ה נַפְשִֽׁי׃

Transliteration

And in šēm-YHWH I ʾeqrāʾ ʾānnâ YHWH malleṭâ napšî

Grammar Details

• *û-ve-šēm*: conjunction + preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - and on/in name of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *ʾeqrāʾ*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will call/I call
• *ʾānnâ*: interjection - oh now/please/I beseech
• *malleṭâ*: verb, piel imperative, masculine singular - deliver/rescue
• *napšî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my soul/life

Word Meanings

• *šēm*: name/reputation/character
• *ʾeqrāʾ*: I call/I will call/I invoke
• *ʾānnâ*: please/I beseech you/oh now
• *malleṭâ*: deliver/rescue/save
• *napšî*: my soul/my life/myself

Referenced Verses

• Ps 118:5 : 5 I made my prayer to the Lord in my trouble: and the Lord gave me an answer, and put me in a wide place.
• Ps 22:20 : 20 Make my soul safe from the sword, my life from the power of the dog.
• Ps 25:17 : 17 The troubles of my heart are increased: O take me out of my sorrows.
• Ps 30:7-8 : 7 Lord, by your grace you have kept my mountain strong: when your face was turned from me I was troubled. 8 My voice went up to you, O Lord; I made my prayer to the Lord.
• Ps 34:6 : 6 This poor man's cry came before the Lord, and he gave him salvation from all his troubles.
• Ps 40:12-13 : 12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them. 13 Be pleased, O Lord, to take me out of danger; O Lord, come quickly and give me help.
• Ps 50:15 : 15 Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.
• 2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers, 13 And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.
• Ps 6:4 : 4 Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.
• Ps 18:6 : 6 In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.
• Ps 22:1-3 : 1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying? 2 O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest. 3 But you are holy, O you who are seated among the praises of Israel.
• Ps 130:1-2 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord. 2 Lord, let my voice come before you: let your ears be awake to the voice of my prayer.
• Ps 142:4-6 : 4 Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul. 5 I have made my cry to you, O Lord; I have said, You are my safe place, and my heritage in the land of the living. 6 Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.
• Ps 143:6-9 : 6 My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.) 7 Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld. 8 Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you. 9 O Lord, take me out of the hands of my haters; my soul is waiting for you.
• Isa 37:15-20 : 15 And he made prayer to the Lord, saying, 16 O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. 17 Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord; let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see: take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God. 18 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands, 19 And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction. 20 But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.
• Isa 38:1-3 : 1 In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near. 2 And Hezekiah, turning his face to the wall, made his prayer to the Lord, saying, 3 O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.
• Luke 18:13 : 13 The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
• Luke 23:42-43 : 42 And he said, Jesus, keep me in mind when you come in your kingdom. 43 And he said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you will be with me in Paradise.
• John 2:2 : 2 And Jesus with his disciples came as guests.