Psalms 19:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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 ¶ To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David the servant of the LORD. 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 ¶ [A Psalm] for Solomon. 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.