Psalms 119:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּכָל־לִבִּ֥י דְרַשְׁתִּ֑יךָ אַל־תַּ֝שְׁגֵּ֗נִי מִמִּצְוֺתֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

With-all-libbî dəraštiḵā not-tašgēnî from-miṣwōtêḵā

Grammar Details

• With-all-*libbî*: preposition *bə* + noun *kol* + masculine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - with all my heart
• *dəraštiḵā*: Qal perfect 1st person singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - I have sought you
• not-*tašgēnî*: negative particle + Hiphil imperfect 2nd person masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - do not let me wander
• from-*miṣwōtêḵā*: preposition *min* + feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - from your commandments

Word Meanings

• *libbî*: my heart/mind/inner self
• *dəraštiḵā*: I have sought you/searched for you/inquired of you
• *tašgēnî*: let me wander/err/go astray
• *miṣwōtêḵā*: your commandments/precepts/orders

Referenced Verses

• 2 Chr 15:15 : 15 And all Judah was glad because of the oath, for they had taken it with all their heart, turning to the Lord with all their desire; and he was with them and gave them rest on every side.
• Ps 119:118 : 118 You have overcome all those who are wandering from your rules; for all their thoughts are false.
• 1 Sam 7:3 : 3 Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.
• Ps 119:133 : 133 Let my steps be guided by your word; and let not sin have control over me.
• Ps 119:2 : 2 Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.
• Ps 119:21 : 21 Your hand has been against the men of pride, a curse is on those who go wandering out of your way.
• Ps 119:34 : 34 Give me wisdom, so that I may keep your law; going after it with all my heart.
• Ps 119:58 : 58 I have given my mind to do your pleasure with all my heart; have mercy on me, as you have said.
• Ps 23:3 : 3 He gives new life to my soul: he is my guide in the ways of righteousness because of his name.
• Matt 6:24 : 24 No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
• Col 3:22 : 22 Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:
• Isa 35:8 : 8 And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.
• Jer 3:10 : 10 But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.
• Ezek 34:6 : 6 And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.
• Hos 10:2 : 2 Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.
• Zeph 1:5-6 : 5 And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom, 6 And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.
• Ps 78:37 : 37 And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.
• Ps 119:69 : 69 The men of pride have said false things about me; but I will keep your orders in my heart.
• Ps 119:176 : 176 I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.
• Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.
• Ps 143:8-9 : 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. 10 Give me teaching so that I may do your pleasure; for you are my God: let your good Spirit be my guide into the land of righteousness.
• Prov 2:13 : 13 Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;
• Prov 21:16 : 16 The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
• 1 John 2:15 : 15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• 2 Pet 2:15-22 : 15 Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing; 16 But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet. 17 These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store. 18 For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error; 19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him. 20 For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first. 21 For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it. 22 They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.