Psalms 119:67

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Before I felt affliction I swarued out of the way: but nowe I kepe thy word.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

טֶ֣רֶם אֶ֭עֱנֶה אֲנִ֣י שֹׁגֵ֑ג וְ֝עַתָּ֗ה אִמְרָתְךָ֥ שָׁמָֽרְתִּי׃

Transliteration

Before ṭerem I was ʿānâ I ʾănî šōgēg; and now wəʿattâ your word ʾimrātəḵā I have kept šāmārtî.

Grammar Details

• *ṭerem*: adverb - before, not yet
• *ʿānâ*: niphal imperfect 1st person singular - was afflicted/humbled
• *ʾănî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I, myself
• *šōgēg*: qal participle masculine singular - erring, going astray
• *wəʿattâ*: conjunction + adverb - and now
• *ʾimrātəḵā*: feminine singular construct + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your word/saying
• *šāmārtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have kept/observed/guarded

Word Meanings

• *ʿānâ*: was afflicted/was humbled/was oppressed
• *šōgēg*: going astray/erring/sinning unintentionally
• *ʾimrātəḵā*: your utterance/your word/your command

Referenced Verses

• Jer 31:18-19 : 18 Moreouer, I hearde Ephraim that was led away captiue complayne on this maner: O Lorde thou hast correct me, & thy chastenyng haue I receaued, as an vntamed calfe, conuert thou me and I shalbe conuerted: for thou art my Lorde God. 19 Yea assoone as thou turnest me, I shall refourme my selfe, and when I vnderstande, I shall smite vpon my thygh: For veryly I haue committed shamefull thynges: for I haue borne the reproofe and confusion of my youth.
• Ps 119:71 : 71 It is good for me that I am brought into miserie: by that meanes I shall learne thy statutes.
• Ps 119:75 : 75 I know O God that thy iudgementes are iustice: and that thou hast caused me ryghtfully to be afflicted.
• Ps 119:176 : 176 I haue gone astray lyke a lost sheepe: oh seke out thy seruaunt, for I haue not forgotten thy commaundementes.
• Prov 1:32 : 32 For the turnyng away of the vnwise shall slay them, and the prosperitie of fooles shall destroy them.
• Jer 22:21 : 21 I gaue thee warning whyle thou wast yet in prosperitie: but thou saidest, I wyll not heare: And this maner hast thou vsed from thy youth, that thou wouldest neuer heare my voyce.
• Deut 32:15 : 15 But he that shoulde haue ben vpright, when he waxed fat, spurned with his heele: Thou art well fed, thou art growen thicke, thou art euen laden with fatnesse: And he forsoke God his maker, and regarded not the God of his saluation.
• 2 Sam 10:19 : 19 And when all the kinges that were seruauntes to Hadarezer, saw that they fel before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and serued them: and so the Syrians feared to helpe the children of Ammon any more.
• 2 Sam 11:2-9 : 2 And in an euening tyde, Dauid arose out of his bed, and walked vpon the roofe of the kinges palace, and from the roofe he sawe a woman washing her selfe, and the woman was very beautifull to loke vpon. 3 And Dauid sent to enquire what woman it should be: And one saide, Is not this Bethsabe the daughter of Eliam, and wyfe to Urias the Hethite? 4 And Dauid sent messengers, and toke her away: And she came in vnto him, and he lay with her (and she was purified from her vnclennesse) and returned vnto her house. 5 And the woman conceaued, and sent and tolde Dauid, & sayde: I am with childe. 6 And Dauid sent to Ioab, saying: Send me Urias the Hethite. And Ioab sent Urias to Dauid. 7 And whe Urias was come vnto him, Dauid demaunded of him howe Ioab did, and how the people fared, and how the warre prospered? 8 And Dauid sayde to Urias: Go downe to thy house, & washe thy feete. And Urias departed out of the kinges palace, and there folowed him a present from the king. 9 But Urias slept at the doore of ye kinges palace, with all the seruauntes of his lorde, and went not downe to his house. 10 Which when they had tolde Dauid, saying, Urias went not downe vnto his house: Dauid saide vnto Urias, Camest thou not from thy iourney? why diddest thou not go downe then vnto thyne house? 11 Urias aunswered Dauid: The arke, & Israel, and Iuda dwell in pauilions, and my lorde Ioab and the seruauntes of my lorde abyde in the open fieldes, and shall I then go into myne house, to eate, and drinke, & lye with my wyfe? By thy lyfe, and by the lyfe of thy soule, I will not do this thing. 12 And Dauid saide vnto Urias: Tary here this day also, and to morow I wil let thee departe. And so Urias abode in Hierusalem that day, and the morow. 13 And when Dauid had called him, he did eate and drinke before him, and he made him drunke: And at euen he went out to lye on his couch with ye seruautes of his lorde, but went not downe to his house. 14 On the morowe Dauid wrote a letter to Ioab, and sent it by the hand of Urias. 15 And he wrote thus in the letter: Put ye Urias in the forefront of the sharper battaile, and come ye backe from him, that he maye be smytten, and dye. 16 So when Ioab besieged the citie, he assigned Urias vnto a place where he wist that strong men were. 17 And the men of the citie came out, and fought with Ioab: And there were certayne ouerthrowen of the people of the seruauntes of Dauid: & Urias the Hethite dyed also. 18 Then Ioab sent, and tolde Dauid all the thinges concerning the warre: 19 And charged the messenger, saying: When thou hast made an ende of telling the matters of the warre vnto the king: 20 If the kinges anger aryse, and he say vnto thee, wherfore approched ye so nye vnto the citie when ye did fight? wyst ye not that they would hurle and shoote from the wall? 21 Who smote Abimelech sonne of Ierubesheth? Did not a woman cast a peece of a mylstone vpon him from of the wall, and he dyed in Thebes? why went ye nye the wall? Then say thou: Thy seruaunt Urias the Hethite is dead also. 22 So the messenger went, & came and shewed Dauid all that Ioab had sent him for. 23 And the messenger saide vnto Dauid: The men preuailed against vs, & came out vnto vs into the fielde, & we pursued them, euen vnto the entring of the gate: 24 And the shooters shotte from the walles vpon thy seruauntes, and some of the kinges seruauntes be dead, and thy seruaunt Urias the Hethite is dead also. 25 And Dauid saide vnto the messenger, thus shalt thou saye vnto Ioab: Let not that thing trouble thee, for ye sword deuoureth one as well as another: Make thy battayle more strong against the citie to ouerthrowe it, & encourage thou him. 26 And when the wyfe of Urias heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. 27 And when the mourning was past, Dauid sent and fet her to his house, and she became his wyfe, and bare him a sonne: But this thing that Dauid dyd, displeased the Lorde.
• 2 Chr 33:9-9 : 9 And so Manasse made Iuda and the inhabiters of Hierusalem to erre, and to do worse then the heathen whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel. 10 And the Lord spake to Manasse and to his people: but they woulde not regarde. 11 Wherfore the Lord brought vpon them the captaynes of the hoast of the king of the Assyrians, whiche toke Manasse in holde, and bounde him with chaynes, and caried him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in tribulation, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled him selfe exceedingly before the God of his fathers, 13 And made intercession to him: and God was intreated of him, and hearde his prayer, and brought him againe to Hierusalem into his kingdome: and then Manasse knewe that the Lorde was God.
• Ps 73:5-9 : 5 They come in no misfortune lyke other folke: neither are they plagued lyke other men. 6 And this is the cause that pride compasse them rounde about: and crueltie couereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: and the cogitations of their heartes do passe from them. 8 They make other dissolute, they speake oppression with iniurie: they talke proudely and presumptuously. 9 For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde. 10 Therfore God his people turneth thither: and there is drawen vnto them waters in a full cuppe. 11 And they say, howe shoulde God perceaue it? is there knowledge in the most hyghest? 12 Lo these vngodly and fortunate in the worlde: do possesse riches. 13 Truely I haue cleansed my heart in vayne: and wasshed my handes in innocencie. 14 All the day long I haue ben scourged: and chastened euery mornyng. 15 If I shoulde say that I woulde iudge after this sort: lo then I shoulde condempne the generation of thy children. 16 Therfore I considered howe I might vnderstande this: but it was to paynefull in myne eyes. 17 Untyll I went vnto the sanctuarie of God: and vnderstood the ende of them. 18 Truely thou doest set them in slippery places: and castest them downe headlong for to be destroyed. 19 Oh howe be they brought to a destruction euen vpon a sodayne: they faynt, they consume away for very dread. 20 They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked: O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie. 21 Ueryly thus was my heart inflamed: thus was my reynes pricked. 22 So foolishe was I and voyde of vnderstanding: I was euen a bruite beast before thee. 23 Neuerthelesse I am alway with thee: for thou hast holden me by my ryght hande. 24 Thou hast guyde me with thy counsayle: and after that thou receauedst me with glorie. 25 Whom haue I in heauen but thee? and there is none vpon earth that I desire besides thee. 26 My fleshe and my heart fayleth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for euer. 27 For lo, they that kepe them selues a loofe from thee shall perishe: thou destroyest euery one that committeth fornication agaynst thee. 28 But it is good for me to come neare vnto God: wherfore I put my trust in thee O Lorde God, that I may declare all thy workes.
• Hos 2:6-7 : 6 Therefore beholde, I wyll stop thy way with thornes, and make a hedge, that she shall not finde her pathes. 7 And though she runne after her louers, yet shall she not ouertake them: she shall seeke them, but not finde them. Then shall she say, I wyll go and returne to my first husbande: for at that tyme it was better with me then nowe.
• Hos 5:15-6:1 : 15 I wyll go and returne to my place, tyll they knowledge that they haue sinned and seeke me. In their aduersitie they shall early seeke me. 1 Come, let vs turne agayne to the Lorde: for he hath smitten vs, and he shall heale vs, he hath wounded vs, and he shall binde vs vp agayne.
• Heb 12:5-9 : 5 And ye haue forgotten the exhortatio, which speaketh vnto you as vnto chyldren: My sonne despise not thou the chastenyng of the Lorde, neither faynt when thou art rebuked of hym: 6 For whom the Lord loueth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth euery sonne that he receaueth. 7 If ye endure chastenyng, God offereth him selfe as vnto sonnes: For what sonne is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8 But yf ye be without chastisment, wherof all are partakers, then are ye bastardes, and not sonnes. 9 Furthermore, we haue had fathers of our fleshe, which corrected vs, and we gaue them reuerence: Shall we not then much rather be in subiection vnto the father of spirites, and lyue? 10 For they veryly, for a fewe dayes, chastened vs after their owne pleasure: but he, for our profite, that we myght be partakers of his holynesse. 11 No chashsyng for the present seemeth to be ioyous, but greeuous: Neuerthelesse, afterwarde it bryngeth the quiet fruite of ryghteousnesse, vnto the which are exercised therby.
• Rev 3:10 : 10 Because thou hast kept the wordes of my patience, therfore I wyll kepe thee from the houre of temptation, which wyll come vpon all the worlde, to trie them that dwel vpon the earth.