Psalms 19:9

King James Version 1611 (Original)

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פִּקּ֘וּדֵ֤י יְהוָ֣ה יְ֭שָׁרִים מְשַׂמְּחֵי־לֵ֑ב מִצְוַ֥ת יְהוָ֥ה בָּ֝רָ֗ה מְאִירַ֥ת עֵינָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

piqqûdê YHWH yəšārîm məśamməḥê-lēḇ miṣwat YHWH bārāh məʾîrat ʿênāyim

Grammar Details

• *piqqûdê*: noun, masculine, plural, construct - precepts of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *yəšārîm*: adjective, masculine, plural - upright/straight
• *məśamməḥê*: verb, piel participle, masculine, plural, construct - rejoicing/making glad
• *lēḇ*: noun, masculine, singular, absolute - heart
• *miṣwat*: noun, feminine, singular, construct - commandment of
• *bārāh*: adjective, feminine, singular - pure/clear
• *məʾîrat*: verb, hiphil participle, feminine, singular, construct - enlightening/illuminating
• *ʿênāyim*: noun, feminine, dual, absolute - eyes

Word Meanings

• *piqqûdê*: precepts/orders/regulations/statutes
• *YHWH*: LORD/Yahweh (divine name)
• *yəšārîm*: upright/straight/right/just
• *məśamməḥê*: rejoicing/making glad/bringing joy to
• *lēḇ*: heart/mind/inner person
• *miṣwat*: commandment/ordinance/law
• *bārāh*: pure/clear/clean
• *məʾîrat*: giving light to/illuminating/enlightening
• *ʿênāyim*: eyes

Referenced Verses

• Ps 119:142 : 142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
• 1 Sam 12:24 : 24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
• Ps 34:11-14 : 11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD. 12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. 14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
• Ps 119:1 : 1 ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
• Ps 36:1 : 1 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
• Ps 36:6 : 6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
• Ps 72:1-2 : 1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. 2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
• Ps 111:10-112:6 : 10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever. 1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. 2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed. 3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever. 4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous. 5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion. 6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
• Ps 115:13 : 13 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.
• 1 Kgs 18:3-4 : 3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly: 4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
• 1 Kgs 18:12 : 12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.
• Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
• Ps 10:5 : 5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
• Gen 22:12 : 12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
• Gen 42:18 : 18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
• Exod 21:1 : 1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
• Deut 4:8 : 8 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
• Ps 119:106 : 106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
• Ps 119:137-138 : 137 TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments. 138 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
• Rev 19:2 : 2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
• Ps 147:19 : 19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
• Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
• Isa 26:8 : 8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
• Acts 10:22 : 22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.
• Rom 2:2 : 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
• Rom 3:10-18 : 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they not known: 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
• Rom 11:22 : 22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
• Rev 15:3 : 3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
• Rev 16:7 : 7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
• Ps 119:7 : 7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
• Ps 119:39 : 39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
• Ps 119:62 : 62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
• Ps 119:75 : 75 I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.