Psalms 119:59

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I gave thought to my steps, and my feet were turned into the way of your unchanging word.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חִשַּׁ֥בְתִּי דְרָכָ֑י וָאָשִׁ֥יבָה רַ֝גְלַ֗י אֶל־עֵדֹתֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

ḥiššaḇtî ḏǝrāḵāy and-ʾāšîḇāh raḡlay to-ʿēḏōṯeykā

Grammar Details

• *ḥiššaḇtî*: piel perfect 1st person singular - I have considered
• *ḏǝrāḵāy*: masculine plural noun + 1st person singular suffix - my ways
• *wāʾāšîḇāh*: conjunction + hiphil imperfect cohortative 1st person singular - and I turned
• *raḡlay*: feminine dual noun + 1st person singular suffix - my feet
• *ʾel-ʿēḏōṯeykā*: preposition + feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to your testimonies

Word Meanings

• *ḥiššaḇtî*: I have considered/thought about/pondered
• *ḏǝrāḵāy*: my ways/paths/conduct
• *ʾāšîḇāh*: I turned/returned/brought back

Referenced Verses

• Deut 4:30-31 : 30 When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice: 31 Because the Lord your God is a God of mercy, he will not take away his help from you or let destruction overtake you, or be false to the agreement which he made by an oath with your fathers.
• Jer 8:4-6 : 4 Further, you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Will those who are falling not be lifted up again? will he who has gone away not come back? 5 Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back. 6 I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.
• Jer 31:18-19 : 18 Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God. 19 Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.
• Lam 3:40 : 40 Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
• Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.
• Ezek 18:30 : 30 For this cause I will be your judge, O children of Israel, judging every man by his ways, says the Lord. Come back and be turned from all your sins; so that they may not be the cause of your falling into evil.
• Ezek 33:14-16 : 14 And when I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; if he is turned from his sin and does what is ordered and right; 15 If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him. 16 Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his.
• Ezek 33:19 : 19 And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing, does what is ordered and right, he will get life by it.
• Joel 2:13 : 13 Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.
• Hag 1:5 : 5 For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.
• Hag 1:7 : 7 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.
• Luke 15:17-20 : 17 But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food! 18 I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: 19 I am no longer good enough to be named your son: make me like one of your servants. 20 And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss.
• 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.
• 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Make a test of yourselves, if you are in the faith; make certain of yourselves. Or are you not conscious in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are truly Christ's?