Psalms 103:6

Bishops' Bible (1568)

God executeth iustice and iudgement: for all them that are oppressed with wrong.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עֹשֵׂ֣ה צְדָק֣וֹת יְהוָ֑ה וּ֝מִשְׁפָּטִ֗ים לְכָל־עֲשׁוּקִֽים׃

Transliteration

ʿōśēh ṣədāqôt YHWH û-mišpāṭîm for-all-ʿăšûqîm

Grammar Details

• *ʿōśēh*: qal participle masculine singular construct - doing/maker of
• *ṣədāqôt*: feminine plural noun - righteous acts
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *û*: conjunction - and
• *mišpāṭîm*: masculine plural noun - judgments
• *ʿăšûqîm*: qal passive participle masculine plural with prefixed preposition *lə* - for all oppressed

Word Meanings

• *ʿōśēh*: doing/making/performing/executing
• *ṣədāqôt*: righteous acts/justice/righteousness
• *mišpāṭîm*: judgments/justice/ordinances/decisions
• *ʿăšûqîm*: oppressed/exploited/defrauded ones

Referenced Verses

• Deut 24:14-15 : 14 Thou shalt not oppresse an hyred seruaunt that is needie and poore, whether he be of thy brethre, or of the straungers that are in thy lande within thy gates: 15 But shalt geue him his hyre the same day, & let not the sunne go downe theron, for he is needie, and therwith sustayneth his life: lest he crye against thee vnto the Lorde, and it be sinne vnto thee.
• Ps 12:5 : 5 For the calamities of the oppressed, for the deepe sighyng of the poore, I wyll nowe vp sayeth God: and I wyll put in safetie, hym whom the wicked hath snared.
• Ps 146:7 : 7 God looseth those that be bounde: God geueth syght to the blynde.
• Ezek 22:7 : 7 In thee haue they dispised father and mother, in thee haue they oppressed the straunger, in thee haue they vexed the widowe and the fatherlesse.
• Ezek 22:12-14 : 12 Yea giftes haue ben receaued in thee to shed blood, thou hast taken vsurie and encrease, thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion, and forgotten me, saith the Lorde God. 13 Beholde, I haue smitten my handes vpon thy couetousnesse that thou hast vsed, and vpon the blood which hath ben shed in thee. 14 Is thy heart able to endure? or may thy handes be strenghthened in the dayes that I shal haue to do with thee? Euen I the Lorde that speake it, wyll bryng it also to passe.
• Mic 2:1-3 : 1 Wo vnto them that imagine iniquitie, and worke wickednesse vpon their beddes: when the morning is light they practise it, because their hande hath power. 2 And they couet fieldes, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage. 3 Therefore thus saith the Lorde: Beholde, against this housholde haue I deuised a plague, whereout ye shall not plucke your neckes: ye shall no more go so proudly, for it wyl be a perilous time.
• Mic 3:2-4 : 2 But they hate the good, and loue the euill, they plucke of their skinnes from them, and their fleshe from their bones. 3 And they eate also the fleshe of my people, & flay of their skinne from them: and they breake their bones, and chop them in peeces as for the pot, and as fleshe within the cauldron. 4 Then shall they crye vnto the Lorde, but he wyll not heare them: he wyll euen hide his face from them at that time, because they haue done wickedly in their workes.
• Jas 2:6 : 6 But ye haue despised the poore. Do not riche men oppresse you by tirannie, and drawe you before the iudgementes seates?
• Jas 5:1-6 : 1 Go to nowe ye riche men, weepe and howle on your wretchednesse that shall come vpon you. 2 Your riches is corrupt, your garmentes are motheaten: 3 Your golde and siluer is cankred, and the rust of them shalbe a witnesse agaynst you, and shall eate your fleshe as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure together in your last dayes. 4 Beholde, the hire of labourers, which haue reaped downe your fieldes, which hire is of you kept backe by fraude, cryeth: and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lorde Sabaoth. 5 Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and ben wanton: Ye haue nourisshed your heartes, as in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye haue condempned and kylled the iust, and he hath not resisted you.
• Prov 14:31 : 31 He that doth a poore man wrong, blasphemeth his maker: but who so honoureth him, hath pitie on the poore.
• Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Rob not the poore, because he is poore: and oppresse not the simple in iudgement: 23 For the Lorde him selfe wyll defende their cause, and do violence vnto them that haue vsed violence.
• Prov 23:10 : 10 Remoue not the olde lande marke, and come not within the fielde of the fatherlesse:
• Isa 14:4-9 : 4 Then shalt thou vse this mockage vpon the kyng of Babylon, and say: Howe happeneth it that the oppressour leaueth of? Is the golden tribute come to an ende? 5 The Lorde hath broken the scepter of the vngodly, and the rod of the lordelye, 6 Which when he is wroth, smiteth the people with continuall strokes, and in wrath raigneth ouer the heathen, who he persecuteth without compassion. 7 And therfore the whole worlde is nowe at rest and quietnesse, and men sing for ioy. 8 Yea euen the Firre trees and Cedars of Libanus reioyce at thy fall, saying: Nowe that thou art layde downe, there come no mo vp to hewe downe vs. 9 Hell also beneath trembleth to meete thee at thy commyng, and for thy sake hath raysed his dead, all mightie men and princes of the earth, all kynges of the earth stande vp from their seates, 10 That they may all aunswere and speake vnto thee, Art thou become weake also as we? Art thou become lyke vnto vs? 11 Thy pompe and thy pride is layde downe into the pit, and so is the melodie of thy instrumentes. Wormes be layde vnder thee, & wormes be thy coueryng. 12 Howe art thou fallen from heauen O Lucifer, thou faire mornyng chylde? Howe hast thou gotten a fall euen to the grounde, which didst weaken the nations? 13 For thou saydest in thine heart, I wyll clymbe vp into heauen, and exalt my throne aboue beside the starres of God, I wyll sit also vpon the mount of the congregation towarde the North. 14 I wyll clymbe vp aboue the cloudes, and wyll be lyke the hyghest of all. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought downe to the deepe of hell, to the sides of the lake. 16 They that see thee shall narowly loke vpon thee, and thinke in them selues, saying: Is this the man that brought all landes in feare, and made the kyngdomes afrayde? 17 Is this he that made the worlde in a maner waste, and layde the cities to the grounde, which let not his prisoners go out? 18 The kynges of the nations lye euery one in his owne house with worship. 19 And thou art cast out of thy graue like a fylthy abhominable braunche, like as dead mens rayment that are shot thorowe with the sworde, and go downe to the stones of the deepe, as a dead coarse that is troden vnder feete. 20 Thou art not buried with them: euen because that thou hast wasted thy lande & destroyed thy people: The generation of the wicked shalbe out of memorie for euer. 21 Let there a way be sought to destroy their children that be in their fathers wickednesse, that they come not vp agayne to possesse the lande, and fyll the worlde full of enemies. 22 I wyll stande vp agaynst them saith the Lorde of hoastes, and roote out the name and remnaunt, sonne and sonnes sonne of Babylon saith the Lorde. 23 I wyll geue it to the Otters, and wyll make water puddels of it, and I wyll sweepe them out with the besome of destruction saith the Lorde of hoastes. 24 The Lorde of hoastes hath sworne an othe, saying: It shall come to passe as I haue determined, and shalbe fulfylled as I haue deuised, 25 So that Assyria shall I destroy in my lande, and vpon my mountaynes wil I treade hym vnder foote, wherthrough his yoke shall come from them, and his burthen shalbe taken from their shoulder. 26 This deuise hath God taken through the whole worlde, and this is his hande stretched out ouer all people. 27 For yf the Lord of hoastes determine a thyng, who is able to disanull it? And if he stretch foorth his hande, who may returne it agayne? 28 The same yere that kyng Ahaz dyed, was this burthen: 29 Reioyce not thou whole Palestina, because the rod of him that beateth thee is broken: for out of the serpentes roote there shall come an Adder, and his fruite shalbe a fierie fleeyng worme. 30 But the first borne of the poore shalbe fed, and the simple shall dwell in safetie: Thy roote also wyll I destroy with hunger, and it shall slay the remnaunt. 31 Mourne thou porte, weepe thou citie, for, O whole lande of Palestina, thou art layd waste: for there shal come from the north a smoke, that not one alone may abide at home in his times. 32 What shall one then aunswere the messengers of the Gentiles? For the Lorde hath stablished Sion, and the poore of his people that be therein shall put their trust in it.
• Isa 58:6-7 : 6 Doth not this fasting rather please me, That thou lose the wicked bands, that thou take of the ouer heauie burthens, that thou let the oppressed go free, and breake all maner of yoke? 7 To deale thy bread to the hungrie, and to bring the poore wandering home into thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou couer hym, and hide not thy selfe from thy neighbour, and despise not thyne owne fleshe?
• Jer 7:6-9 : 6 Oppresse not the straunger, the fatherlesse, and the widowe, shed not innocent blood in this place, cleaue not to straunge gods to your owne destruction: 7 Then wyll I let you dwell in this place, yea in the land that I gaue afore tyme to your fathers for euer. 8 But take heede, ye trust in lying tales, that beguile you and do you no good. 9 For when ye haue stollen, murthered, committed adultrie and periurie, when ye haue offered vnto Baal, folowing straunge and vnknowen gods: shall ye be vnpunished? 10 Yet then come ye and stande before me in this house (whiche hath my name geuen vnto it) and say, tushe, we are absolued quite, though we haue done all these abhominations. 11 What, thinke you this house that beareth my name, is a denne of thieues? And yet I see what you thinke, saith the Lorde. 12 Go to my place in Silo, wherevnto I gaue my name aforetyme, and looke well what I did to the same place for the wickednesse of my people of Israel. 13 And now seing ye haue done all these deedes saith the Lorde, and I my selfe rose vp euer betimes to warne you and to commune with you, yet would ye not heare me, I called, ye would not aunswere: 14 Therefore, euen as I haue done vnto Silo, so wyll I do to this house that my name is geuen vnto, and that you put your trust in, yea vnto the place that I haue geuen to you and your fathers: 15 And I shal thrust you out of my sight, as I haue cast out all your brethren the whole seede of Ephraim.
• Ps 72:4 : 4 He wyll iudge the afflicted amongst the people: he wyll saue the children of the poore, and subdue the oppressour.
• Ps 72:12 : 12 For he wyll delyuer the poore when he cryeth: and the afflicted and hym that hath no helper.
• Ps 109:31 : 31 For he wyll stande at the right hande of the poore: to saue him from the iudges of his soule.
• Job 27:13-23 : 13 Saying: This is the portion that the wicked haue of God, and the heritage that tyrauntes shall receaue of the almightie. 14 If he get many children, they shall perishe with the sworde, and his posteritie shall haue scarcenesse of bread. 15 His remnaunt shalbe buried in death, and his widowes shall not weepe. 16 Though he heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay: 17 He may well prepare it, but the godly shall put it on, and the innocent shall deale out the money. 18 He buyldeth his house as the moth, & as a booth that the watchman maketh. 19 When the riche man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered to his fathers, they opened their eyes, and he was gone. 20 Terrour taketh holde vpon hym as a water fludde, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season. 21 A vehement east winde caryeth him hence, and he departeth: a storme hurleth him out of his place. 22 God shal cast vpon him, and not spare, though he woulde fayne flee out of his hande. 23 Then clap men their handes at hym, and hisse at him out of his place.
• Ps 9:9 : 9 God also wyll be a refuge for the oppressed: euen a refuge in tyme of trouble.
• Ps 10:14-18 : 14 Surely thou hast seene this for thou beholdest labour and spite: that thou mayest take the matter into thy hands, he that is weake leaueth it for thee, for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse. 15 Breake thou the power of the vngodly and malitious: searche thou out his vngodlynes, and thou shalt finde none afterwarde in him. 16 God is king for euer and euer: but the Heathen shall perishe out of the lande. 17 O God, thou hast hearde the desire of the afflicted: and thou wylt settle their heart. 18 Thou wylt be attentiue with thyne eare, to geue iudgement for the fatherlesse and oppressed: so no man in the earth shall once go about hereafter to do them violence.