Psalms 119:53

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I am burning with wrath, because of the sinners who have given up your law.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זַלְעָפָ֣ה אֲ֭חָזַתְנִי מֵרְשָׁעִ֑ים עֹ֝זְבֵ֗י תּוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

zalʿāp̄āh ʾăḥāzaṯnî from-rǝšāʿîm ʿōzḇê tôrāṯeḵā

Grammar Details

• *zalʿāp̄āh*: feminine singular noun - burning indignation/rage
• *ʾăḥāzaṯnî*: qal perfect 3rd person feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - it has seized me
• *mērǝšāʿîm*: preposition + masculine plural adjective - from the wicked
• *ʿōzḇê*: qal participle masculine plural construct - those forsaking
• *tôrāṯeḵā*: feminine singular noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your law

Word Meanings

• *zalʿāp̄āh*: burning indignation/horror/rage/burning anger
• *ʾăḥāzaṯnî*: it has seized me/taken hold of me/gripped me
• *ʿōzḇê*: those who forsake/abandon/leave

Referenced Verses

• Ezra 9:3 : 3 And hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.
• Ps 119:158 : 158 I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.
• Jer 13:17 : 17 But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.
• Dan 4:19 : 19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was at a loss for a time, his thoughts troubling him. The king made answer and said, Belteshazzar, do not be troubled by the dream or by the sense of it. Belteshazzar, answering, said, My lord, may the dream be about your haters, and its sense about those who are against you.
• Hab 3:16 : 16 Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.
• Luke 19:41-42 : 41 And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it, 42 Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.
• Rom 9:1-3 : 1 I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit, 2 That I am full of sorrow and pain without end. 3 For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:
• 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.
• Phil 3:18 : 18 For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ;
• Ezra 9:14 : 14 Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?
• Ezra 10:6 : 6 Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib; but when he came there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.
• Neh 13:25 : 25 And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
• Ps 89:30 : 30 If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;
• Ps 119:136 : 136 Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.