Psalms 55:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲ֭נִי אֶל־אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֶקְרָ֑א וַ֝יהוָ֗ה יוֹשִׁיעֵֽנִי׃

Transliteration

I, to ʾĕlōhîm ʾeqrāʾ, and YHWH yôšîʿēnî

Grammar Details

• *ʾănî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
• *ʾel-ʾĕlōhîm*: preposition and masculine plural noun (divine plural) - to God
• *ʾeqrāʾ*: qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will call
• *wəYHWH*: proper divine name with waw conjunction - and Yahweh
• *yôšîʿēnî*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - he will save me

Word Meanings

• *ʾĕlōhîm*: God/gods/divine being
• *ʾeqrāʾ*: I will call/I cry out/I call
• *YHWH*: Yahweh/LORD
• *yôšîʿēnî*: he will save me/he rescues me/he delivers me

Referenced Verses

• Acts 3:1 : 1 Now Peter and John were going up to the Temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer;
• Ps 141:2 : 2 Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.
• Eph 6:18 : 18 With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,
• 1 Thess 5:17 : 17 Keep on with your prayers.
• Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.
• Acts 10:3 : 3 He saw in a vision, clearly, at about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of the Lord coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius!
• Acts 10:9 : 9 Now the day after, when they were on their journey and were near the town, Peter went up to the top of the house for prayer, about the sixth hour:
• Acts 10:30 : 30 And Cornelius said, Four days from now I was in my house in prayer at the ninth hour; and I saw before me a man in shining clothing,
• Ps 92:2 : 2 To make clear your mercy in the morning, and your unchanging faith every night;
• Dan 6:10 : 10 For this reason King Darius put his name on the writing and the order.
• Dan 6:13 : 13 Then they came near before the king and said, O King, have you not put your name to an order that any man who makes a request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole? The king made answer and said, The thing is fixed by the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.
• Mark 1:35 : 35 And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.
• Mark 6:46 : 46 And after he had sent them away, he went up into a mountain for prayer.
• Ps 119:62 : 62 In the middle of the night I will get up to give you praise, because of all your right decisions.
• Ps 119:147-148 : 147 Before the sun is up, my cry for help comes to your ear; my hope is in your words. 148 In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.
• Ps 5:2-3 : 2 Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer. 3 My voice will come to you in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I send my prayer to you, and keep watch.
• Ps 88:13 : 13 But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.
• Luke 18:1-7 : 1 And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired; 2 Saying, There was a judge in a certain town, who had no fear of God or respect for man: 3 And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong. 4 And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man, 5 Because this widow is a trouble to me, I will give her her right; for if not, I will be completely tired out by her frequent coming. 6 And the Lord said, Give ear to the words of the evil judge. 7 And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?
• Job 19:7 : 7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.
• Lam 3:8 : 8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
• Mark 6:48 : 48 And seeing that they had trouble in getting their boat through the water, because the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea; and he would have gone past them;