Psalms 119:139

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

צִמְּתַ֥תְנִי קִנְאָתִ֑י כִּֽי־שָׁכְח֖וּ דְבָרֶ֣יךָ צָרָֽי׃

Transliteration

ṣimmətātnî qinʾātî because-šākəḥû ḏəḇārêkā ṣārāy

Grammar Details

• *ṣimmətātnî*: perfect, 3rd person feminine singular, piel with 1st person singular suffix - it has consumed me
• *qinʾātî*: feminine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - my zeal
• *kî*: conjunction - because/for
• *šākəḥû*: perfect, 3rd person common plural, qal - they forgot
• *ḏəḇārêkā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your words
• *ṣārāy*: masculine plural participle with 1st person singular suffix - my adversaries

Word Meanings

• *ṣimmətātnî*: consumed me/cut me off/destroyed me
• *qinʾātî*: my zeal/my jealousy/my passion
• *šākəḥû*: they forgot/they neglected/they ignored
• *ḏəḇārêkā*: your words/your matters/your commands
• *ṣārāy*: my adversaries/my enemies/my foes

Referenced Verses

• Ps 69:9 : 9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up{H8804)}; and the reproaches of them that reproached{H8802)} thee are fallen{H8804)} upon me.
• John 2:17 : 17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
• 1 Kgs 19:10 : 10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
• 1 Kgs 19:14 : 14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
• Ps 53:4 : 4 Have the workers{H8802)} of iniquity no knowledge{H8804)}? who eat up{H8802)} my people as they eat{H8804)} bread: they have not called{H8804)} upon God.
• Acts 13:27 : 27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
• Acts 28:23-27 : 23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. 24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. 25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, 26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: 27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
• Matt 9:13 : 13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
• Matt 12:3-5 : 3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; 4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests? 5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
• Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; 6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
• Matt 21:13 : 13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
• Matt 21:16 : 16 And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
• Matt 21:42 : 42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
• Matt 22:29 : 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.