Psalms 37:20

Geneva Bible (1560)

But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be consumed as the fatte of lambes: euen with the smoke shall they consume away.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י רְשָׁעִ֨ים ׀ יֹאבֵ֗דוּ וְאֹיְבֵ֣י יְ֭הוָה כִּיקַ֣ר כָּרִ֑ים כָּל֖וּ בֶעָשָׁ֣ן כָּֽלוּ׃

Transliteration

For rəšāʿîm will yōʾbēdû, and ʾōyəbê YHWH [are] like yəqar kārîm; they kālû in ʿāšān, they kālû.

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *rəšāʿîm*: masculine plural adjective/noun - wicked ones
• *yōʾbēdû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will perish
• *ʾōyəbê*: Qal participle, masculine plural construct - enemies of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD/Yahweh
• *kîqar*: preposition + masculine singular construct - like the precious part of
• *kārîm*: masculine plural noun - pastures/meadows/fat lambs
• *kālû*: Qal perfect, 3rd person common plural - they are consumed/vanish
• *beʿāšān*: preposition + masculine singular noun - in smoke

Word Meanings

• *yōʾbēdû*: will perish/will be destroyed/will vanish
• *ʾōyəbê*: enemies of/adversaries of
• *kîqar kārîm*: like the precious part of pastures/like the glory of meadows/like fat of lambs
• *kālû*: are consumed/vanish/come to an end
• *beʿāšān*: in smoke/as smoke

Referenced Verses

• Ps 102:3 : 3 For my dayes are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burnt like an herthe.
• Ps 68:2 : 2 As the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou driue them away: and as waxe melteth before the fire, so shall the wicked perish at the presence of God.
• Ps 92:9 : 9 For loe, thine enemies, O Lorde: for loe, thine enemies shall perish: all the workers of iniquitie shall be destroyed.
• Deut 33:14-16 : 14 And for the sweete increase of the sunne, and for the sweete increase of the moone, 15 And for the sweetenes of the top of the ancient mountaines, and for the sweetenes of the olde hilles, 16 And for the sweetenesse of the earth, and abundance thereof: and the good will of him that dwelt in the bushe, shall come vpon the head of Ioseph, and vpon the toppe of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
• Judg 5:31 : 31 So let all thine enemies perish, O Lorde: but they that loue him, shall be as the Sunne when he riseth in his might, and the lande had rest fourtie yeres.
• Luke 13:3 : 3 I tell you, nay: but except ye amend your liues, ye shall all likewise perish.
• Luke 13:5 : 5 I tell you, nay: but except ye amend your liues, ye shall all likewise perish.
• Heb 12:29 : 29 For euen our God is a consuming fire.
• 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these, as naturall brute beasts, led with sensualitie and made to be taken, and destroyed, speake euill of those things which they know not, and shal perish through their owne corruption,
• Gen 19:28 : 28 And looking towarde Sodom and Gomorah and toward all the land of the plaine, behold, he sawe the smoke of the lande mounting vp as the smoke of a fornace.
• Lev 3:3-9 : 3 So he shall offer part of the peace offerings as a sacrifice made by fire vnto the Lorde, euen the fat that couereth the inwardes, and all the fat that is vpon the inwardes. 4 He shall also take away the two kidneis, & the fat that is on them, and vpon the flankes, and the kall on the liuer with the kidneis. 5 And Aarons sonnes shall burne it on the altar, with the burnt offering, which is vpon the wood, that is on the fire: this is a sacrifice made by fire for a sweete sauour vnto the Lorde. 6 Also if his oblation be a peace offring vnto the Lorde out of ye flocke, whether it be male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. 7 If he offer a lambe for his oblation, then he shall bring it before the Lorde, 8 And lay his hand vpon the head of his offring, & shall kill it before the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and Aarons sonnes shall sprinckle the blood thereof round about vpon the altar. 9 After, of the peace offrings he shal offer an offring made by fire vnto the Lord: he shall take away the fat therof, & the rump altogether, hard by the backe bone, and the fat that couereth the inwardes, & all the fat that is vpon the inwards. 10 Also hee shall take away the two kidneis, with the fat that is vpon them, & vpon the flankes, and the kall vpon the liuer with the kidneis. 11 Then the Priest shall burne it vpon the altar, as the meat of an offring made by fire vnto the Lord.
• Lev 3:16 : 16 So the Priest shall burne them vpon the altar, as the meate of an offering made by fire for a sweete sauour: all the fatte is the Lordes.
• Deut 29:20 : 20 The Lord will not be mercifull vnto him, but then the wrath of the Lorde and his ielousie shall smoke against that man, and euery curse that is written in this booke, shall light vpon him, and the Lorde shall put out his name from vnder heauen,