Psalms 119:57

Bible in Basic English (1941)

<CHETH> The Lord is my heritage: I have said that I would be ruled by your words.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חֶלְקִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אָמַ֗רְתִּי לִשְׁמֹ֥ר דְּבָרֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

ḥelqî YHWH ʾāmartî to-šǝmōr dǝḇāreykā

Grammar Details

• *ḥelqî*: masculine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - my portion
• *YHWH*: proper name - Yahweh/LORD
• *ʾāmartî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have said
• *lišǝmōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to keep
• *dǝḇāreykā*: masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your words

Word Meanings

• *ḥelqî*: my portion/share/inheritance
• *ʾāmartî*: I have said/promised/declared
• *šǝmōr*: to keep/observe/guard

Referenced Verses

• Ps 16:5 : 5 The Lord is my heritage and the wine of my cup; you are the supporter of my right.
• Lam 3:24 : 24 I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.
• Ps 66:14 : 14 Keeping the word which came from my lips, and which my mouth said, when I was in trouble.
• Ps 73:26 : 26 My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.
• Ps 119:106 : 106 I have made an oath and kept it, to be guided by your upright decisions.
• Ps 119:115 : 115 Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.
• Ps 142:5 : 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.
• Jer 10:16 : 16 The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.
• Deut 26:17-18 : 17 Today you have given witness that the Lord is your God, and that you will go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions and give ear to his voice: 18 And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders;
• Josh 24:15 : 15 And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.
• Josh 24:18 : 18 And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.
• Josh 24:21 : 21 And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord.
• Josh 24:24-27 : 24 And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice. 25 So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem. 26 And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord. 27 And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.
• Neh 10:29-39 : 29 They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord, our Lord, and his decisions and his rules; 30 And that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our sons; 31 And if the peoples of the lands come to do trade in goods or food on the Sabbath day, that we would do no trade with them on the Sabbath or on a holy day: and that in the seventh year we would take no payment from any debtor. 32 And we made rules for ourselves, taxing ourselves a third of a shekel every year for the upkeep of the house of our God; 33 For the holy bread, and for the regular meal offering and the regular burned offering on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and the fixed feasts, and for the sin-offerings to take away the sin of Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. 34 And we, the priests and the Levites and the people, made selection, by the decision of the Lord, of those who were to take the wood offering into the house of God, by families at the regular times, year by year, to be burned on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is recorded in the law; 35 And to take the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of every sort of tree, year by year, into the house of the Lord; 36 As well as the first of our sons and of our cattle, as it is recorded in the law, and the first lambs of our herds and of our flocks, which are to be taken to the house of our God, to the priests who are servants in the house of our God: 37 And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land. 38 And the priest, the son of Aaron, is to be with the Levites, when the Levites take the tenths: and the Levites are to take a tenth of the tenths into the house of our God, to the rooms, into the store-house; 39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi are to take the lifted offering of the grain and wine and oil into the rooms where the vessels of the holy place are, together with the priests and the door-keepers and the makers of music: and we will not give up caring for the house of our God.