Psalms 66:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He is ruling in power for ever; his eyes are watching the nations: may his haters have no strength against him. (Selah.)

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מֹ֘שֵׁ֤ל בִּגְבוּרָת֨וֹ ׀ עוֹלָ֗ם עֵ֭ינָיו בַּגּוֹיִ֣ם תִּצְפֶּ֑ינָה הַסוֹרְרִ֓ים ׀ אַל־*ירימו **יָר֖וּמוּ לָ֣מוֹ סֶֽלָה׃

Transliteration

mōšēl in gəbûrātô ʿôlām ʿênāyw in the gôyim tiṣpênāh the sôrərîm not-yārûmû to them selāh

Grammar Details

• *mōšēl*: verb qal participle masculine singular - ruling/governing
• *gəbûrātô*: noun feminine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his might/power
• *ʿôlām*: noun masculine singular - forever/eternity
• *ʿênāyw*: noun feminine dual + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his eyes
• *gôyim*: noun masculine plural - nations/peoples
• *tiṣpênāh*: verb qal imperfect 3rd person feminine plural - watch/observe
• *sôrərîm*: verb qal participle masculine plural - rebels/rebellious ones
• *yārûmû*: verb qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural jussive - exalt themselves/be lifted up
• *selāh*: musical notation/interlude/pause - uncertain meaning

Word Meanings

• *mōšēl*: ruling/governing/reigning/having dominion
• *gəbûrātô*: his might/power/strength
• *ʿôlām*: forever/eternity/perpetuity/antiquity
• *ʿênāyw*: his eyes
• *gôyim*: nations/peoples/gentiles
• *tiṣpênāh*: watch/observe/keep watch/spy out
• *sôrərîm*: rebels/rebellious ones/those who turn aside
• *yārûmû*: let them exalt themselves/lift themselves up/raise themselves
• *selāh*: musical interlude/pause/lift up/forever (exact meaning uncertain)

Referenced Verses

• Ps 11:4 : 4 The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.
• Ps 33:13 : 13 The Lord is looking down from heaven; he sees all the sons of men;
• Ps 52:1-5 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.> Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day? 2 Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade. 3 You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.) 4 Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue. 5 But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)
• Ps 62:11 : 11 Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:
• Ps 73:3-9 : 3 Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers. 4 For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong. 5 They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men. 6 For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe. 7 Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire. 8 Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts. 9 Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth. 10 For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them. 11 And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High? 12 Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.
• Ps 75:4-5 : 4 I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up. 5 Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.
• Ps 140:8 : 8 O Lord, give not the wrongdoer his desire; give him no help in his evil designs, or he may be uplifted in pride. (Selah.)
• Ps 145:13 : 13 Your kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and your rule is through all generations.
• Isa 10:7-9 : 7 But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations. 8 For he says, Are not all my captains kings? 9 Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and Samaria; 11 So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images. 12 For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes. 13 For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them; 14 And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound. 15 Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood. 16 For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.
• Isa 37:28-29 : 28 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in. 29 Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.
• Dan 4:35 : 35 And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
• Dan 5:20-28 : 20 But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him: 21 And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure. 22 And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this; 23 But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory; 24 Then the part of the hand was sent out from before him, and this writing was recorded. 25 And this is the writing which was recorded, Mene, tekel, peres. 26 This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended. 27 Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight. 28 Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.
• Dan 6:26-27 : 26 Then King Darius sent a letter to all the peoples, nations, and languages, living in all the earth: May your peace be increased. 27 It is my order that in all the kingdom of which I am ruler, men are to be shaking with fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, unchanging for ever, and his kingdom is one which will never come to destruction, his rule will go on to the end.
• Matt 6:13 : 13 And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.
• Matt 28:18 : 18 And Jesus came to them and said, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
• Exod 18:11 : 11 Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods, for he has overcome them in their pride.
• 2 Chr 16:9 : 9 For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.
• Job 9:4 : 4 He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?
• Ps 2:10-12 : 10 So now be wise, you kings: take his teaching, you judges of the earth. 11 Give worship to the Lord with fear, kissing his feet and giving him honour, 12 For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.