Psalms 107:39

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But when they do fall from God, they are diminished & brought low: through oppression, calamitie, & griefe of minde.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּמְעֲט֥וּ וַיָּשֹׁ֑חוּ מֵעֹ֖צֶר רָעָ֣ה וְיָגֽוֹן

Transliteration

and-yimʿăṭû and-yāšōḥû from-ʿōṣer rāʿâ and-yāgôn

Grammar Details

• *yimʿăṭû*: qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine plural - and they were diminished/became few
• *yāšōḥû*: qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine plural - and they were bowed down/brought low
• *ʿōṣer*: noun, masculine singular construct with prefixed preposition min - from oppression of
• *rāʿâ*: noun/adjective, feminine singular - evil/calamity/distress
• *yāgôn*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed conjunction waw - and sorrow

Word Meanings

• *yimʿăṭû*: they were diminished/became few/were reduced
• *yāšōḥû*: they were bowed down/brought low/humbled
• *ʿōṣer*: oppression of/restraint of/coercion of
• *rāʿâ*: evil/calamity/distress/trouble
• *yāgôn*: sorrow/grief/anguish

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 10:32 : 32 In those dayes the Lorde began to cut Israel short, and Hazael smote them in all the coastes of Israel,
• 2 Kgs 13:7 : 7 Neither did he leaue of the people to Iehoahaz but fiftie horsemen, ten charets, and ten thousand footemen: for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them lyke thresshed dust.
• 2 Kgs 13:22 : 22 But Hazael king of Syria vexed Israel all the dayes of Iehoahaz.
• 2 Kgs 14:26 : 26 For the Lorde sawe howe that the affliction of Israel was exceeding bytter, insomuch that the prisoned and the forsaken were at an ende, and there was none to helpe Israel.
• 2 Chr 15:5-6 : 5 And in that time there was no peace to him that did go out and in, but great sedition was there among all the inhabiters of the earth. 6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and citie of citie: for God did moue all aduersitie among them.
• Job 1:10-17 : 10 Hast thou not preserued him and his house, and al that he hath on euery side? Thou hast blessed the worke of his handes, and his possession is encreased in the lande. 11 But laye thyne hand now vpon him, and touche all that he hath, and he shall curse thee to thy face. 12 And the Lorde saide vnto Satan: Lo, all that he hath be in thy power, only vpon him selfe see that thou lay not thine hand. And Satan went foorth from the presence of the Lorde. 13 And vpon a certayne day, when his sonnes and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house, 14 There came a messenger vnto Iob, and sayde: The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them: 15 And the Sabees came violently, and toke them away, yea they haue slayne thy seruauntes with the edge of the sword: and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 16 While he was yet speaking, there came another, and sayde: The fire of God is fallen from heauen, and hath brent vp thy sheepe and seruauntes, and consumed them: and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. 17 And whyle he was yet speaking there came another, and sayde: The Caldees made out their bandes, and fel vpon the camels, and haue caried them away, yea and slayne thy seruauntes with the sworde: and I only am gotten away alone to tell thee.
• Ps 30:6-7 : 6 And in my prosperitie I saide, I shall neuer haue a fal: 7 thou God of thy goodnes hadst made my hyll so strong.
• Jer 51:33-34 : 33 For thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon hath ben in her tyme lyke as a threshyng floore, but shortly shall her haruest come. 34 Nabuchodonozor the kyng of Babylon hath deuoured and destroyed me, he hath made me an emptie vessell, he swalowed me vp lyke a dragon, and fylled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
• Gen 45:11 : 11 And there wyll I prouide thee sustenaunce (for there remaine yet fiue yeres of dearth) lest thou and thy housholde, & all that thou hast come to pouertie.
• Exod 1:13-14 : 13 And the Egyptians helde the children of Israel in bondage without mercie, 14 And they made their lyues bytter vnto them in that cruell bondage, in claye, and bricke, and all maner of worke in the fielde: for all their bondage wherein they serued them was ful of tirannie.
• Exod 2:23-24 : 23 And in processe of tyme the kyng of Egypt dyed, and the chyldren of Israel syghed by the reason of bondage, and cryed. 24 And their complaynt came vp vnto God from the bondage: and God heard their mone, and God remembred his couenaunt with Abraham, Isahac, and Iacob.
• Judg 6:3-6 : 3 And when Israel had sowen, then came vp the Madianites, the Amalechites, and they of the east, and came vp agaynst them, 4 And pitched their tentes against them, and destroyed the encrease of the earth, euen tyll thou come vnto Azah, & left no sustenaunce for Israel, neither sheepe, oxe, nor asse: 5 For they went vp, they and their cattel, and came with their tentes as a multitude of grasshopers, so that both they and also their camels were without number: And they entred into the land to destroy it. 6 And so was Israel exceedingly impoueryshed in the sight of the Madianites, and cried vnto the Lorde.
• Ruth 1:20-21 : 20 And she annswered them: Cal me not Naomi: but call me Mara, for the almightie hath made me verie bitter. 21 I went out full, and the Lorde hath brought me home agayne emptie: Why then call ye me Naomi, seying, the Lord hath humbled me, & the almightie hath brought me vnto aduersite?
• 1 Sam 2:5-7 : 5 They that were full, haue hyred out them selues for bread, and they that were hungry, ceasse, tyll the barren hath borne seuen, and she that had many children, is waxed feeble. 6 The Lord kylleth and maketh alyue, bryngeth downe to the graue & fetcheth vp agayne. 7 The Lord maketh poore, and maketh ryche, bringeth lowe, and heaueth vp on hye.
• 2 Kgs 4:8 : 8 And it fell on a day, that Elisa came to Sunem, where was a great woman, that toke him in for to eate bread: And so it came to passe, that from that tyme foorth (as oft as he came that way) he turned in thyther to eate bread.
• 2 Kgs 8:3 : 3 And at the seuen yeres ende, it fortuned that the woman came againe out of the land of the Philistines, and went out to call vpon the king for her house and for her lande.