Psalms 119:110

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Sinners have put a net to take me; but I was true to your orders.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נָתְנ֬וּ רְשָׁעִ֣ים פַּ֣ח לִ֑י וּ֝מִפִּקּוּדֶ֗יךָ לֹ֣א תָעִֽיתִי׃

Transliteration

nātənû rəšāʿîm paḥ to-me and-from-piqqûdêkā not tāʿîtî

Grammar Details

• *nātənû*: qal perfect 3rd person plural - they have set/placed
• *rəšāʿîm*: masculine plural adjective - wicked ones
• *paḥ*: masculine singular noun - snare/trap
• *piqqûdêkā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your precepts
• *tāʿîtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have strayed/wandered
• *lî*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - to/for me
• *wə-*: conjunction - and
• *mi-*: preposition - from
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not

Word Meanings

• *nātənû*: they have set/placed/put
• *rəšāʿîm*: wicked ones/the wicked/evil people
• *paḥ*: snare/trap/net
• *piqqûdêkā*: your precepts/orders/commands
• *tāʿîtî*: I have strayed/wandered/gone astray

Referenced Verses

• Ps 140:5 : 5 The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)
• Ps 141:9 : 9 Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.
• Prov 1:11-12 : 11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause; 12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;
• Jer 18:22 : 22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.
• Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor. 9 He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net. 10 The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones. 11 He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it. 12 Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor. 13 Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it? 14 You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father. 15 Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more. 16 The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations are gone from his land. 17 Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing: 18 To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.
• Ps 119:10 : 10 I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.
• Ps 119:85 : 85 The men of pride, who are turned away from your law, have put nets for me.
• Ps 119:95 : 95 The sinners have been waiting for me to give me up to destruction; but I will give all my mind to your unchanging ward.
• Ps 124:6-7 : 6 Praise be to the Lord, who has not let us be wounded by their teeth. 7 Our soul has gone free like a bird out of the net of those who would take her: the net is broken, and we are free.
• 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 119:51 : 51 The men of pride have made great sport of me; but I have not been turned from your law.
• Dan 6:10 : 10 For this reason King Darius put his name on the writing and the order.
• Luke 20:19-26 : 19 And the chief priests and the scribes made attempts to get their hands on him in that very hour; and they were in fear of the people, for they saw that he had made up this story against them. 20 And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler. 21 And they put a question to him, saying, Master, we are certain that your teaching and your words are right, and that you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God: 22 Is it right for us to make payment of taxes to Caesar or not? 23 But he saw through their trick and said to them, 24 Let me see a penny. Whose image and name are on it? And they said, Caesar's. 25 And he said, Then give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's. 26 And they were not able to get anything from these words before the people: but they were full of wonder at his answer, and said nothing.
• Ps 119:87 : 87 They had almost put an end to me on earth; but I did not give up your orders.