Isaiah 26:9

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נַפְשִׁ֤י אִוִּיתִ֙יךָ֙ בַּלַּ֔יְלָה אַף־רוּחִ֥י בְקִרְבִּ֖י אֲשַֽׁחֲרֶ֑ךָּ כִּ֞י כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר מִשְׁפָּטֶ֙יךָ֙ לָאָ֔רֶץ צֶ֥דֶק לָמְד֖וּ יֹשְׁבֵ֥י תֵבֵֽל׃

Transliteration

Napšî ʾiwwîtîḵā in laylāh, also rûḥî in qirbî ʾăšaḥărekkā; because when mišpāṭeḵā to ʾāreṣ, ṣedeq lāmdû yōšbê tēbēl.

Grammar Details

• *Napšî*: feminine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - 'my soul'
• *ʾiwwîtîḵā*: piel perfect 1st person singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'I have desired you'
• *ballaylāh*: preposition with definite article and masculine singular noun - 'in the night'
• *ʾap-rûḥî*: conjunction with feminine singular noun and 1st person singular suffix - 'also my spirit'
• *beqirbî*: preposition with masculine singular noun and 1st person singular suffix - 'within me'
• *ʾăšaḥărekkā*: piel imperfect 1st person singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'I seek you early/earnestly'
• *kî*: conjunction - 'because/for/when'
• *kaʾăšer*: conjunction - 'when/as'
• *mišpāṭeḵā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your judgments'
• *lāʾāreṣ*: preposition with definite article and feminine singular noun - 'to/for the earth'
• *ṣedeq*: masculine singular noun - 'righteousness'
• *lāmdû*: qal perfect 3rd person common plural - 'they have learned'
• *yōšbê*: qal participle masculine plural construct - 'inhabitants of'
• *tēbēl*: feminine singular noun - 'world'

Word Meanings

• *ʾiwwîtîḵā*: desired/longed for/yearned for
• *ʾăšaḥărekkā*: seek early/seek earnestly/seek diligently
• *mišpāṭeḵā*: judgments/ordinances/decisions/justice
• *ṣedeq*: righteousness/justice/rightness
• *lāmdû*: learned/studied/taught
• *tēbēl*: world/habitable part of earth/mankind

Referenced Verses

• Ps 63:1 : 1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek{H8762)} thee: my soul thirsteth{H8804)} for thee, my flesh longeth{H8804)} for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
• Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
• Luke 6:12 : 12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
• Rev 11:13 : 13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
• Prov 8:17 : 17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
• Song 3:1-4 : 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? 4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
• Ps 119:62 : 62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
• Hos 5:15 : 15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
• Ps 130:6 : 6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
• Num 14:21-23 : 21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. 22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
• Ps 58:11 : 11 So that a man shall say{H8799)}, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth{H8802)} in the earth.
• Ps 63:6-7 : 6 When I remember{H8804)} thee upon my bed, and meditate{H8799)} on thee in the night watches. 7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice{H8762)}.
• Ps 64:9 : 9 And all men shall fear{H8799)}, and shall declare{H8686)} the work of God; for they shall wisely consider{H8689)} of his doing.
• Ps 77:2-3 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought{H8804)} the Lord: my sore ran{H8738)} in the night, and ceased{H8799)} not: my soul refused{H8765)} to be comforted{H8736)}. 3 I remembered{H8799)} God, and was troubled{H8799)}: I complained{H8799)}, and my spirit was overwhelmed{H8691)}. Selah.
• Ps 78:34 : 34 When he slew{H8804)} them, then they sought{H8804)} him: and they returned{H8804)} and enquired early{H8765)} after God.
• Ps 83:18 : 18 That men may know{H8799)} that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
• Song 5:2-8 : 2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. 3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. 5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. 6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. 7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. 8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
• Isa 27:9 : 9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
• Isa 55:6 : 6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
• Mark 1:35 : 35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.