Psalms 119:46

Bishops' Bible (1568)

I wyll also speake of thy testimonies before kinges: & I will not be ashamed.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַאֲדַבְּרָ֣ה בְ֭עֵדֹתֶיךָ נֶ֥גֶד מְלָכִ֗ים וְלֹ֣א אֵבֽוֹשׁ׃

Transliteration

And-ʾăḏabbǝrāh in-ʿēḏōṯeykā before mǝlāḵîm and-not ʾēḇôš

Grammar Details

• *waʾăḏabbǝrāh*: conjunction + piel imperfect cohortative 1st person singular - and I will speak
• *ḇǝʿēḏōṯeykā*: preposition + feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - of your testimonies
• *neḡeḏ*: preposition - before/in front of
• *mǝlāḵîm*: masculine plural noun - kings
• *wǝlōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *ʾēḇôš*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will be ashamed

Word Meanings

• *ʾăḏabbǝrāh*: I will speak/talk/declare
• *ʿēḏōṯeykā*: your testimonies/witnesses/decrees
• *ʾēḇôš*: I will be ashamed/embarrassed/disappointed

Referenced Verses

• Acts 26:1-2 : 1 Then Agrippa sayde vnto Paul, thou art permitted to speake for thy selfe. Then Paul stretched foorth the hande, and aunswered for hym selfe 2 I thynke my selfe happy, king Agrippa, because I shall aunswere this day before thee, of all the thynges whereof I am accused of the Iewes:
• Acts 26:24-29 : 24 And as he thus spake for hym selfe, Festus sayde with a loude voyce: Paul, thou art besyde thy selfe, much learnyng doth make thee mad. 25 But he sayde: I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speake foorth the wordes of trueth and sobernesse. 26 For the kyng knoweth of these thynges, before whom also I speake freely, neither thynke I, that any of these thynges are hydden from him: For this thyng was not done in a corner. 27 Kyng Agrippa, beleuest thou the prophetes? I wote wel that thou beleuest. 28 Then Agrippa sayde vnto Paul: Somewhat thou perswadest me to be a christian. 29 And Paul sayde: I woulde to God, that not only thou, but also all that heare me to day, were both somewhat, and also in a great deale, such as I am, except these bondes.
• Rom 1:16 : 16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christ, because it is the power of God vnto saluation to all that beleue, to the Iewe first, and also to the Greke.
• Phil 1:20 : 20 Accordyng to my expectation, and my hope, yt in nothyng I shalbe ashamed: but yt with all boldnesse, as alwayes, so now also, Christ shalbe magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
• Ps 138:1 : 1 Of Dauid. I wyll geue thankes vnto thee O God with my whole heart: I wyll sing psalmes vnto thee before the gods.
• Dan 3:16-18 : 16 Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego aunswered the king, and sayd: O Nabuchodonozor, we are not carefull to aunswere thee in this matter: 17 Beholde, our God whom we serue, is able to deliuer vs from the hot firie fornace: and he wil deliuer vs out of thy hande O king. 18 And though he will not, yet shalt thou knowe O king, that we will not serue thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set vp.
• Dan 4:1-3 : 1 Nabuchodonozor king, vnto all people, natios, and languages that dwel vpon the whole earth, peace be multiplied among you. 2 I thought it good to shewe the signes & marueylous workes that the hie God hath wrought vpo me. 3 O how great are his signes, and howe mightie are his wonders? his kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome, & his dominion is fro generation to generation.
• Dan 4:25-27 : 25 Thou shalt be cast out from men, and thy dwelling shalbe with the beastes of the fielde: with grasse shalt thou be fed like oxen, thou must be wet with the deawe of the heauen, yea seue times shall passe ouer thee, till thou knowe that the hyghest hath power ouer the kingdome of men, & geueth it to whom he list. 26 Moreouer, where as it was sayd, that the stumpe of the roote of the tree should be left still: it betokeneth, that thy kingdome shall remayne whole vnto thee, after thou hast learned to knowe that the power commeth from heauen. 27 Wherfore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable vnto thee, and breake of thy sinnes by righteousnesse, and thyne iniquities by mercie towarde the poore: lo, let there be a healing of thyne errour.
• Matt 10:18-19 : 18 And ye shalbe brought to the head rulers, and kynges, for my sake, in witnesse to them, and to the Gentiles. 19 But whe they delyuer you vp, take ye no thought, how or what ye shal speake. For it shalbe geuen you, euen in that same houre, what ye shall speake.
• Mark 8:38 : 38 Whosoeuer therfore shalbe ashamed of me, and of my wordes, in this adulterous and synnefull generation: of hym also shall the sonne of man be ashamed, when he commeth in the glorie of his father, with the holy Angels.
• 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 Be not thou therfore ashamed of the testimonie of our Lorde, neither of me his prisoner: but suffer thou aduersitie with the Gospell, accordyng to the power of God,
• 2 Tim 1:16 : 16 The Lorde geue mercie vnto ye house of Onesiphorus, for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chayne.
• 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 Yf ye be rayled vpon for the name of Christe, happy are ye. For the spirite of glory and of God, resteth vpon you: On their part he is euyll spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 15 See that none of you be punished as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euyll doer, or as a busie body in other mens matters. 16 Yf any man suffer as a Christian man, let hym not be ashamed, but let him glorifie God on this behalfe.
• 1 John 2:28 : 28 And nowe babes abide in him, that when he shal appeare, we may be bolde and not be made ashamed of hym at his commyng.