Psalms 119:143

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

צַר־וּמָצ֥וֹק מְצָא֑וּנִי מִ֝צְוֺתֶ֗יךָ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָֽי׃

Transliteration

ṣar-ûmāṣôq məṣāʾûnî miṣwōtêkā šaʿăšuʿāy

Grammar Details

• *ṣar*: masculine singular noun - distress/trouble
• *ûmāṣôq*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - and anguish
• *məṣāʾûnî*: perfect, 3rd person common plural, qal with 1st person singular suffix - they found me
• *miṣwōtêkā*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your commandments
• *šaʿăšuʿāy*: masculine plural noun with 1st person singular suffix - my delights

Word Meanings

• *ṣar*: distress/trouble/affliction
• *māṣôq*: anguish/straits/distress
• *məṣāʾûnî*: they found me/they came upon me/they overtook me
• *miṣwōtêkā*: your commandments/your precepts
• *šaʿăšuʿāy*: my delights/my pleasures/my joys

Referenced Verses

• Job 23:12 : 12 I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.
• Ps 18:4-5 : 4 The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear. 5 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
• Ps 88:3-9 : 3 For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld. 4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help: 5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care. 6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places. 7 The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.) 8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out. 9 My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you. 10 Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.) 11 Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction? 12 May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead? 13 But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you. 14 Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me? 15 I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength. 16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments. 17 They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me. 18 You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.
• Ps 116:3 : 3 The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
• Ps 119:16 : 16 I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.
• Ps 119:47 : 47 And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love.
• Ps 119:77 : 77 Let your gentle mercies come to me, so that I may have life; for your law is my delight.
• Ps 119:107 : 107 I am greatly troubled, O Lord, give me life in keeping with your word.
• Ps 130:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.
• Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and grief and great trouble came on him. 34 And he said to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: be here a little time, and keep watch.
• John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.