Psalms 143:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Give me teaching so that I may do your pleasure; for you are my God: let your good Spirit be my guide into the land of righteousness.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לַמְּדֵ֤נִי ׀ לַֽעֲשׂ֣וֹת רְצוֹנֶךָ֮ כִּֽי־אַתָּ֢ה אֱל֫וֹהָ֥י רוּחֲךָ֥ טוֹבָ֑ה תַּ֝נְחֵ֗נִי בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִישֽׁוֹר׃

Transliteration

Lammēḏēnî to la'ăśôṯ rəṣôneḵā, kî-you 'attāh 'ělôhāy; rûḥăḵā ṭôḇāh, tanḥēnî in 'ereṣ mîšôr.

Grammar Details

• *Lammēḏēnî*: piel imperative, masculine, singular + 1st person singular suffix - teach me
• *la'ăśôṯ*: preposition lamed + qal infinitive construct - to do
• *rəṣôneḵā*: noun, masculine, singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your will/pleasure
• *kî-'attāh*: conjunction + pronoun, 2nd person masculine singular - for you
• *'ělôhāy*: noun, masculine, singular + 1st person singular suffix - my God
• *rûḥăḵā*: noun, feminine, singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your spirit
• *ṭôḇāh*: adjective, feminine, singular - good
• *tanḥēnî*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - she will lead me
• *be'ereṣ*: preposition bet + noun, feminine, singular, construct - in land of
• *mîšôr*: noun, masculine, singular - levelness/straightness

Word Meanings

• *Lammēḏēnî*: teach me/instruct me/train me
• *la'ăśôṯ rəṣôneḵā*: to do your will/to perform your pleasure/to carry out what pleases you
• *'ělôhāy*: my God/my deity
• *rûḥăḵā ṭôḇāh*: your spirit is good/your good spirit
• *tanḥēnî*: may lead me/will guide me/may direct me
• *'ereṣ mîšôr*: land of levelness/level ground/smooth country

Referenced Verses

• Ps 25:4-5 : 4 Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways. 5 Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.
• Neh 9:20 : 20 And you gave your good spirit to be their teacher, and did not keep back your manna from their mouths, and gave them water when they had need of it.
• Ps 119:12 : 12 Praise be to you, O Lord: give me knowledge of your rules.
• Heb 13:21 : 21 Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
• Ps 23:3 : 3 He gives new life to my soul: he is my guide in the ways of righteousness because of his name.
• 1 John 2:27 : 27 As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.
• Isa 63:14 : 14 Like the cattle which go down into the valley, they went without falling, the spirit of the Lord guiding them: so you went before your people, to make yourself a great name.
• Mic 4:2 : 2 And a number of nations will go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
• Eph 4:30 : 30 And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.
• Eph 5:9 : 9 (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),
• Col 1:9-9 : 9 For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit, 10 Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Ps 119:35 : 35 Make me go in the way of your teachings; for they are my delight.
• Ps 139:24 : 24 See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.
• Ps 140:6 : 6 I have said to the Lord, You are my God: give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my prayer.
• Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way. 9 He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.
• Ps 25:12 : 12 If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.
• Ps 31:14 : 14 But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.
• Ps 63:1 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;
• Ps 118:28 : 28 You are my God, and I will give you praise; my God, and I will give honour to your name.
• Ps 119:5-7 : 5 If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules! 6 Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching. 7 I will give you praise with an upright heart in learning your right decisions.
• John 14:26 : 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will be your teacher in all things and will put you in mind of everything I have said to you.
• John 16:13-15 : 13 However, when he, the Spirit of true knowledge, has come, he will be your guide into all true knowledge: for his words will not come from himself, but whatever has come to his hearing, that he will say: and he will make clear to you the things to come. 14 He will give me glory, because he will take of what is mine, and make it clear to you. 15 Everything which the Father has is mine: that is why I say, He will take of what is mine and will make it clear to you.
• Rom 5:5 : 5 And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
• Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
• Rom 8:14-16 : 14 And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God:
• Rom 8:26 : 26 And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;
• Rom 15:13 : 13 Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.
• Rom 15:30 : 30 Now I make request to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you will be working together with me in your prayers to God for me;
• Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith, 23 Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.
• Isa 29:10 : 10 For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.
• 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more. 2 Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
• 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.
• Matt 28:20 : 20 Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.
• Ps 22:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?