Psalms 119:52

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

I remember Your judgments of old, LORD, and I find comfort.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זָ֘כַ֤רְתִּי מִשְׁפָּטֶ֖יךָ מֵעוֹלָ֥ם ׀ יְהוָ֗ה וָֽאֶתְנֶחָֽם׃

Transliteration

zāḵartî mišpāṭeyḵā from-ʿôlām YHWH and-ʾeṯneḥām

Grammar Details

• *zāḵartî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have remembered
• *mišpāṭeyḵā*: masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your judgments
• *mēʿôlām*: preposition + masculine singular noun - from of old/ancient times
• *YHWH*: proper name - Yahweh/LORD
• *wāʾeṯneḥām*: conjunction + hithpael imperfect 1st person singular - and I comfort myself

Word Meanings

• *zāḵartî*: I have remembered/recalled/thought of
• *mišpāṭeyḵā*: your judgments/ordinances/regulations
• *mēʿôlām*: from ancient times/from of old/from everlasting
• *ʾeṯneḥām*: I comfort myself/am comforted/console myself

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  I remembered Your judgments of old, O LORD, and have comforted myself.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  I have remembered thine ordinances of old, O Jehovah, And have comforted myself.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I remembre thy euerlastinge iudgmentes (o LORDE) and am comforted.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  I remembred thy iudgements of olde, O Lord, and haue bene comforted.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For I called to remembraunce thy iudgementes from the begynnyng of the worlde O God: and so I comforted my selfe.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh, And have comforted myself.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  I remembered Thy judgments of old, O Jehovah, And I comfort myself.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I have remembered thine ordinances of old, O Jehovah, And have comforted myself.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I have remembered thine ordinances of old, O Jehovah, And have comforted myself.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  I have kept the memory of your decisions from times past, O Lord; and they have been my comfort.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh, and have comforted myself.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I remember your ancient regulations, O LORD, and console myself.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 14:29-30 : 29 But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground, with the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left. 30 On that day, the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore.
• Num 16:3-9 : 3 They gathered against Moses and Aaron and said to them, "You have taken too much upon yourselves! The whole community is holy, each one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you set yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?" 4 When Moses heard this, he fell face down. 5 Then he spoke to Korah and all his followers, saying, "In the morning the Lord will show who belongs to Him, who is holy, and whom He permits to approach Him. The one He chooses, He will bring near to Himself. 6 "Do this: Take censers for yourselves, Korah and all your followers. 7 Put fire in them and place incense on them in the presence of the Lord tomorrow. The man the Lord chooses will be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!" 8 Moses also said to Korah, "Listen now, you sons of Levi! 9 Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has set you apart from the rest of the Israelite community to bring you near to Himself to do the work of the Lord's tabernacle and to stand before the assembly to minister to them? 10 He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near to Him, but now you are demanding the priesthood as well! 11 Therefore, it is against the Lord that you and all your followers have gathered. Who is Aaron that you should grumble against him?" 12 Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, "We will not come! 13 Isn't it enough that you brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also lord it over us? 14 What's more, you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor have you given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you intend to gouge out the eyes of these men? We will not come!" 15 Moses was very angry and said to the Lord, "Do not accept their offering. I have not taken even a single donkey from them, nor have I wronged any one of them." 16 Moses said to Korah, "You and all your followers are to appear before the Lord tomorrow—you, they, and Aaron. 17 Each man is to take his censer, put incense in it, and present it before the Lord—250 censers in all. You and Aaron are also to do the same, each with his censer. 18 So each of them took his censer, put fire and incense in it, and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 19 When Korah had assembled the entire community against them at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole assembly. 20 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 21 "Separate yourselves from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once." 22 But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out, "O God, the God who gives breath to all living things, will you be angry with the entire assembly when only one man sins?" 23 Then the Lord said to Moses, 24 "Say to the assembly, 'Move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.'" 25 Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him. 26 He warned the assembly, "Move away from the tents of these wicked men! Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins." 27 So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing with their wives, children, and little ones at the entrances to their tents. 28 Then Moses said, "This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my own idea: 29 If these men die a natural death and experience only what usually happens to men, then the Lord has not sent me. 30 But if the Lord brings about something unprecedented and the ground opens its mouth to swallow them and everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have treated the Lord with contempt. 31 As soon as he finished speaking all these words, the ground beneath them split apart. 32 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, along with all of Korah's men and all their possessions. 33 They went down alive into the grave, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished from the community. 34 All the Israelites around them ran away at their cries, saying, 'The earth might swallow us too!' 35 Then fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were offering incense.
• Deut 1:35-36 : 35 Not one man of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers, 36 except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he walked, because he wholeheartedly followed the LORD.
• Deut 4:3-4 : 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal Peor; for every man who followed Baal Peor, the LORD your God destroyed him from among you. 4 But all of you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive today.
• Ps 77:5 : 5 You have held my eyelids open; I am troubled and cannot speak.
• Ps 77:11-12 : 11 Then I said, 'This is my sorrow: the years of the right hand of the Most High.' 12 I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will remember Your wonders of old.
• Ps 103:18 : 18 With those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.
• Ps 105:5 : 5 Remember the wonders He has done, His miracles, and the judgments He has spoken.
• 2 Pet 2:4-9 : 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned but cast them into hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment, 5 and if He did not spare the ancient world but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, along with seven others when He brought the flood on the ungodly world, 6 and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly, 7 and if He rescued righteous Lot, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless, 8 (For that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard.) 9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
• Ps 143:5 : 5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all you have done; I consider the work of your hands.