Psalms 102:23

Bishops' Bible (1568)

he afflicted my strength in the way, he shortened my dayes.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּהִקָּבֵ֣ץ עַמִּ֣ים יַחְדָּ֑ו וּ֝מַמְלָכ֗וֹת לַעֲבֹ֥ד אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

In bᵉhiqqāḇēṣ ʿammîm yaḥdāw and mamlāḵôt to laʿăḇōḏ ʾet-YHWH

Grammar Details

• *bᵉhiqqāḇēṣ*: preposition + verb, Niphal infinitive construct - in the gathering
• *ʿammîm*: noun, masculine plural - peoples
• *yaḥdāw*: adverb - together
• *û*: conjunction - and
• *mamlāḵôt*: noun, feminine plural - kingdoms
• *laʿăḇōḏ*: preposition + verb, Qal infinitive construct - to serve
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh

Word Meanings

• *bᵉhiqqāḇēṣ*: in the gathering/assembling
• *ʿammîm*: peoples/nations
• *yaḥdāw*: together/as one
• *mamlāḵôt*: kingdoms/realms
• *laʿăḇōḏ*: to serve/worship

Referenced Verses

• Job 21:21 : 21 For what careth he for his house after his death, when the number of his monethes is cut short?
• Ps 89:38-47 : 38 But thou hast abhorred & forsake thine annoynted: & art sore displeased at him. 39 Thou hast broken the couenaunt of thy seruaunt: thou hast disgraced his crowne, castyng it on the grounde. 40 Thou hast ouerthrowe all his walles: and broken downe his strong holdes. 41 All they that go by the way spoyle hym: he is become a rebuke vnto his neyghbours. 42 Thou hast exalted the ryght hande of his enemies: and made all his aduersaries to reioyce. 43 Thou hast turned the harde edge of his sworde: and thou hast not lifted him vp in the battayle. 44 Thou hast brought his noble estate to an ende: and hast cast his throne downe to the grounde. 45 Thou hast shortened the dayes of his youth: and thou hast couered him with shame. Selah. 46 O God howe long wylt thou hyde thy selfe? for euer? shall thy wrath burne lyke fire? 47 Remember what I am, howe short my tyme is of lyfe: wherfore hast thou created in vayne all the sonnes of men?
• 2 Thess 2:3-9 : 3 Let no man deceaue you by any meanes, for the Lorde shall not come excepte there come a fallyng away first, & that that man of sinne be reuealed, the sonne of perdition, 4 Whiche is an aduersarie, and is exalted aboue all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he as God, sitteth in the temple of God, shewing hym selfe that he is God. 5 Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I tolde you these thynges? 6 And nowe ye knowe what withholdeth, that he myght be reuealed in his tyme. 7 For the misterie of iniquitie doth alredie worke, tyll he whiche nowe onlye letteth, be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that wicked be reuealed, whom the Lorde shall consume with the spirite of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightnesse of his commyng: 9 Euen hym whose commyng is after the workyng of Satan, in all power & signes, and wonders, of lying, 10 And in all deceauablenesse of vnryghteousnesse, in them that peryshe: because they receaued not the loue of the trueth, that they myght be saued. 11 And therefore God shall sende them strong delusion, that they should beleue lyes: 12 That all they myght be dampned whiche beleued not the trueth, but had pleasure in vnryghteousnes.
• 1 Tim 4:1-3 : 1 Nowe the spirite speaketh euidently, that in the latter tymes some shall depart from the fayth, geuing heede vnto spirites of errour, & doctrines of deuyls, 2 Which speake false in hypocrisie, hauyng their conscience seared with an hotte iron: 3 Forbidding to marrie & commaunding to abstayne from meates whiche God hath created to be receaued with geuing thankes, of them whiche beleue, and knowe the trueth.
• 2 Tim 3:1-9 : 1 This knowe also, that in the last dayes, perylous tymes shalbe at hande. 2 For men shalbe louers of their owne selues, couetous, boasters, proude, blasphemers, disobedient to fathers and mothers, vnthankefull, vngodlye: 3 Without naturall affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, riotous, fierce, despisers of them which are good, 4 Traytours, headdy, hye mynded, louers of pleasures more then louers of God: 5 Hauyng a fourme of godlynesse, but denying the power therof: turne away from these. 6 These are they, which enter into houses, & leade captiue simple women laden with sinne, caryed with diuers lustes: 7 Euer learnyng, and neuer able to come vnto the knowledge of the trueth. 8 For as Iannes and Iambres withstoode Moyses, so do these also resist the trueth: Men of corrupt myndes, reprobate concernyng the fayth: 9 But they shall preuayle no longer. For their madnesse shalbe manifest vnto all men as also theirs was. 10 But thou hast folowed my doctrine, fashion of lyuyng, purpose, fayth, long sufferyng, loue, patience, 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came vnto me at Antioche, at Iconium, at Lystra, which persecutions I suffred patiently: And from them all, the Lord deliuered me. 12 Yea, and all that wyll lyue godly in Christe Iesus, shall suffer persecution. 13 But the euyll men and deceauers, shall waxe worse and worse, deceauyng and deceaued. 14 But continue thou in the thynges which thou haste learned, which also were committed vnto thee, knowyng of whom thou hast learned them: 15 And that from an infant thou hast knowen the scriptures, which are able to make thee wyse vnto saluation, thorowe fayth which is in Christe Iesus. 16 All scripture is geuen by inspiration of God, and is profitable to doctrine, to reproue, to correction, to instruction which is in ryghteousnesse, 17 That the man of God may be perfect, instructed vnto all good workes.
• Rev 11:2-9 : 2 But the court which is without the temple, cast out, and meate it not: for it is geuen vnto the gentiles, and the holy citie shall they treade vnder foote fourtie and two monethes. 3 And I wyl geue power vnto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesie a thousande, two hundred, and threescore dayes, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are two oliue trees, and two candlestickes, standyng before the God of the earth. 5 And yf any man wyll hurt them, fyre shal proceade out of their mouthes, & cosume their enemies: And if any man wil hurt them, this wyse must he be kylled. 6 These haue power to shut heauen, that it rayne not in the dayes of their prophesiyng: and haue power ouer waters, to turne them to blood, and to smite the earth with all maner plagues, as often as they wyll. 7 And whe they haue finished their testimonie, the beast that commeth out of the bottomlesse pit, shall make warre against them, and shal ouercome them, and kyll them. 8 And their bodyes shall lye in ye streates of the great citie, which spiritually is called Sodome and Egypt, where our Lorde was crucified. 9 And they of the people, and kinredes, and tongues, and they of the nations, shall see their bodyes three dayes and an halfe, & shall not suffer their bodyes to be put in graues. 10 And they that dwell vpon the earth shal reioyce ouer them, and be glad, and shall sende gyftes one to another: for these two prophetes vexed them that dwelt on the earth. 11 And after three dayes and an halfe, the spirite of lyfe commyng from God, shall enter into them: And they shall stande vp vpon their feete, & great feare shall come vpon the which sawe them. 12 And they shall heare a great voyce from heauen, saying vnto them, come vp hyther. And they shall ascende vp to heauen in a cloude, and their enemies shall see them. 13 And the same houre shall there be a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the citie shall fall, and in the earthquake shalbe slaine names of men seuen thousande: and the remnaunt shalbe afraide, and geue glorie to the God of heauen. 14 The seconde wo is past, and beholde the thirde wo wyll come anone. 15 And the seuenth angell blewe, & there were made greate voyces in heauen, saying: the kyngdomes of this worlde are our Lordes, and his Christes, and he shall raigne for euermore. 16 And the 24 elders which sit before God on their seates, fel vpon their faces, and worshipped God, 17 Saying: we geue thee thankes, O Lorde God almyghtie, which art, and wast, and art to come: for thou hast receaued thy great myght, & hast raigned. 18 And the nations were angrie, and thy wrath is come, and the tyme of the dead that they shoulde be iudged, and that thou shouldest geue rewarde vnto thy seruauntes the prophetes and saintes, and to them that feare thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. 19 And the temple of God was opened in heauen, and there were seene in his temple the arke of his testament: and there folowed lyghtninges, and voyces, and thundringes, and earthquake, and much hayle.
• Rev 12:13-17 : 13 And when the dragon sawe that he was cast vnto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought foorth the man chylde. 14 And to the woman were geuen two winges, of a great Egle, that she myght flee into the wildernesse into her place, where she is norished for a tyme, tymes, and halfe a tyme, from the presence of the serpent. 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water after the woman as it had ben a fludde, that he myght cause her to be caryed away of the fludde. 16 And the earth holpe the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swalowed vp the ryuer which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went and made warre with the remnaunt of her seede, which kepe the commaundementes of God, & haue the testimonie of Iesus Christe.