Psalms 66:7

Bishops' Bible (1568)

He ruleth with his power for euer, his eyes beholdeth the gentiles: such as be rebels shal not come to promotion. Selah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מֹ֘שֵׁ֤ל בִּגְבוּרָת֨וֹ ׀ עוֹלָ֗ם עֵ֭ינָיו בַּגּוֹיִ֣ם תִּצְפֶּ֑ינָה הַסוֹרְרִ֓ים ׀ אַל־*ירימו **יָר֖וּמוּ לָ֣מוֹ סֶֽלָה׃

Transliteration

mōšēl in gəbûrātô ʿôlām ʿênāyw in the gôyim tiṣpênāh the sôrərîm not-yārûmû to them selāh

Grammar Details

• *mōšēl*: verb qal participle masculine singular - ruling/governing
• *gəbûrātô*: noun feminine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his might/power
• *ʿôlām*: noun masculine singular - forever/eternity
• *ʿênāyw*: noun feminine dual + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his eyes
• *gôyim*: noun masculine plural - nations/peoples
• *tiṣpênāh*: verb qal imperfect 3rd person feminine plural - watch/observe
• *sôrərîm*: verb qal participle masculine plural - rebels/rebellious ones
• *yārûmû*: verb qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural jussive - exalt themselves/be lifted up
• *selāh*: musical notation/interlude/pause - uncertain meaning

Word Meanings

• *mōšēl*: ruling/governing/reigning/having dominion
• *gəbûrātô*: his might/power/strength
• *ʿôlām*: forever/eternity/perpetuity/antiquity
• *ʿênāyw*: his eyes
• *gôyim*: nations/peoples/gentiles
• *tiṣpênāh*: watch/observe/keep watch/spy out
• *sôrərîm*: rebels/rebellious ones/those who turn aside
• *yārûmû*: let them exalt themselves/lift themselves up/raise themselves
• *selāh*: musical interlude/pause/lift up/forever (exact meaning uncertain)

Referenced Verses

• Ps 11:4 : 4 But God is in his holy temple, Gods throne is in heauen: his eyes looke downe, his eye liddes tryeth the chyldren of men.
• Ps 33:13 : 13 God looketh downe from heauen, and beholdeth all the chyldren of men
• Ps 52:1-5 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a wyse instruction of Dauid, when Doeg the Edomite came to Saul and tolde him, saying: Dauid is come to the house of Achimelek. Why boastest thy self thou tiraunt of mischiefe? the goodnes of God dayly endureth. 2 Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser. 3 Thou hast loued vngratiousnes more then goodnes: and to talke of falshood more then of righteousnes. Selah. 4 Thou hast loued to speake all wordes that may do hurt: O thou deceiptfull tongue. 5 Therfore the Lord wyll destroy thee for euer: he wyll take thee and plucke thee out of thy dwelling, and roote thee out of the lande of the liuing. Selah.
• Ps 62:11 : 11 The Lord spake it once, but I haue hearde it twise, that power and mercy belongeth to thee O Lorde God:
• Ps 73:3-9 : 3 For I enuied at the case of the foolishe: I sawe the wicked flowe in all kynde of prosperitie. 4 For there be no bondes of death that can holde them: and the galaries of their houses be strong. 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.
• Ps 75:4-5 : 4 I sayd vnto fooles deale not so madly: & to the vngodly set not vp your horne. 5 Set not vp your horne an high: and speake not with a stiffe necke.
• Ps 140:8 : 8 Graunt not vnto the vngodly his desires O God: bryng not to passe his mischeuous imagination lest they shoulde be made to proude. Selah.
• Ps 145:13 : 13 Thy kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome: and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages.
• Isa 10:7-9 : 7 Howbeit, his meaning is not so, neither thinketh his heart on this fashion: But he imagineth howe he may roote out and destroy muche people. 8 For he saith, Are not my princes all kynges? 9 Is not Chalno as easie to winne, as Charchamis? Is it harder to conquer Hamath, then Arphad? or is it lighter to ouercome Damascus, then Samaria? 10 As who say I were able to winne the kyngdomes of the idolaters and their gods, but not Hierusalem and Samaria. 11 Shall I not do vnto Hierusalem and her images, as I dyd vnto Samaria and her idols? 12 Wherefore it shall come to passe, that assoone as the Lorde hath perfourmed his whole worke vpon the hill of Sion and Hierusalem, then wyll I visite the fruite of the stoute heart of the kyng of Assyria with his proude lookes. 13 For he standeth thus in his owne conceipt, This do I thorowe the power of myne owne hande, & thorowe my wysdome: for I am wyse, I am he that remoue the landes of the people, I rob their treasure, and haue pulled downe the inhabitauntes like a valiaunt man. 14 My hand hath found out the strength of the people as it were a nest: and like as egges that were layde here and there, are gathered together, so do I gather all countreys, and there was none so bolde as to moue the winge, that dare open his mouth, or once whisper. 15 Shall the axe boast it selfe against him that heweth therwith? or shal the sawe make any bragging against hym that ruleth it? That were euen lyke as if the rod did exalt it selfe against him that beareth it, or as though the staffe should magnifie it selfe as who say it were no wood. 16 Therefore shall the Lorde the God of hoastes sende among his fatlinges leanenesse, and burne vp his glory as it were with a fire.
• Isa 37:28-29 : 28 I knowe thy wayes, thy going foorth, and thy commyng home, yea and thy madnesse agaynst me. 29 Therfore thy furiousnesse agaynst me, and thy pride is come before me, I wyll put my ryng in thy nose, and my bridle bit in the iawes of thee, and turne thee about euen the same way thou camest.
• Dan 4:35 : 35 And all they that dwel vpon the earth, are to be reputed as nothing, and according to his will he worketh in the armie of heauen, among the inhabitours of the earth: and there is none that may resist his hand, or say vnto him, what doest thou?
• Dan 5:20-28 : 20 But because his heart was loftie, and his minde strengthened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they toke his glory from him. 21 He was driuen out from the sonnes of men, his heart was made lyke the beastes, and his dwelling was with the wilde Asses, they fed him with grasse lyke Oxen, and his body was wet with the deawe of the heauen, till he knewe that the most hie God bare rule ouer the kingdome of men, and that he appoynteth ouer it whom so euer he pleaseth. 22 And thou his sonne, O Balthasar, hast not submitted thyne heart, though thou knewest all these thinges: 23 But hast lift vp thy selfe against the Lorde of heauen, so that the vessels of his house were brought before thee, that thou and thy princes, with thy wyues and concubines, might drinke wine thereout: and thou hast praysed the gods of siluer and golde, of brasse and iron, of wood and stone, which neither see, heare, nor vnderstand: As for the God in whose hande consisteth thy breath and all thy wayes, thou hast not glorified him. 24 Then was the knockles of the hand sent from him, and hath written this writing. 25 And this the writing that he hath writte: MENE MENE, THECEL, VPHARSIN. 26 Now the interpretation of the thing is this: MENE, God hath numbred thy kingdome, and brought it to an ende. 27 THECEL, thou art wayed in the balauce, and art founde wanting. 28 PHERES, thy kingdome is deuided, and geuen to the Medes, and Perses.
• Dan 6:26-27 : 26 My commaundement is in all my dominion and kingdome, that men feare and stand in awe of Daniels God: for he is the liuing God which abideth euer, his kindgome shall not fayle, and his power is euerlasting. 27 It is he that deliuereth and saueth, he doth wonders and marueylous workes in heauen and in earth, he hath preserued Daniel from the power of the lions.
• Matt 6:13 : 13 And leade vs not into temptation, but delyuer vs from euyll. For thyne is the kyngdome, and the power, and the glory, for euer. Amen.
• Matt 28:18 : 18 And Iesus came, and spake vnto the, saying: All power is geuen vnto me in heauen and in earth.
• Exod 18:11 : 11 Nowe I knowe that the Lorde is greater then all gods: for in the thyng whereby they dealt cruelly with them, were they destroyed them selues.
• 2 Chr 16:9 : 9 For the eyes of the Lorde beholde all the earth, to strength them that are of perfect heart toward him: Herein thou hast done foolishly, and therefore from hencefoorth thou shalt haue warre.
• Job 9:4 : 4 He is wyse in heart and mightie in strength: who hath ben fearce against hym, and hath prospered?
• Ps 2:10-12 : 10 Wherfore be you nowe wel aduised O ye kinges: be you learned ye that are iudges of the earth. 11 Serue ye God in feare: and reioyce ye with a trembling. 12 Kisse ye the sonne lest that he be angrye, and so ye perishe from the way, if his wrath be neuer so litle kindled: blessed are all they that put their trust in hym.