Psalms 119:143

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

צַר־וּמָצ֥וֹק מְצָא֑וּנִי מִ֝צְוֺתֶ֗יךָ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָֽי׃

Transliteration

ṣar-ûmāṣôq məṣāʾûnî miṣwōtêkā šaʿăšuʿāy

Grammar Details

• *ṣar*: masculine singular noun - distress/trouble
• *ûmāṣôq*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - and anguish
• *məṣāʾûnî*: perfect, 3rd person common plural, qal with 1st person singular suffix - they found me
• *miṣwōtêkā*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your commandments
• *šaʿăšuʿāy*: masculine plural noun with 1st person singular suffix - my delights

Word Meanings

• *ṣar*: distress/trouble/affliction
• *māṣôq*: anguish/straits/distress
• *məṣāʾûnî*: they found me/they came upon me/they overtook me
• *miṣwōtêkā*: your commandments/your precepts
• *šaʿăšuʿāy*: my delights/my pleasures/my joys

Referenced Verses

• Job 23:12 : 12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
• Ps 18:4-5 : 4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
• Ps 88:3-9 : 3 For my soul is full{H8804)} of troubles: and my life draweth nigh{H8689)} unto the grave. 4 I am counted{H8738)} with them that go down{H8802)} into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead{H8801)}, like the slain that lie{H8802)} in the grave, whom thou rememberest{H8804)} no more: and they are cut off{H8738)} from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid{H8804)} me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. 7 Thy wrath lieth hard{H8804)} upon me, and thou hast afflicted{H8765)} me with all thy waves. Selah. 8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance{H8794)} far{H8689)} from me; thou hast made{H8804)} me an abomination unto them: I am shut up{H8803)}, and I cannot come forth{H8799)}. 9 Mine eye mourneth{H8804)} by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called{H8804)} daily upon thee, I have stretched out{H8765)} my hands unto thee. 10 Wilt thou shew{H8799)} wonders to the dead{H8801)}? shall the dead arise{H8799)} and praise{H8686)} thee? Selah. 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared{H8792)} in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall thy wonders be known{H8735)} in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13 But unto thee have I cried{H8765)}, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent{H8762)} thee. 14 LORD, why castest thou off{H8799)} my soul? why hidest{H8686)} thou thy face from me? 15 I am afflicted and ready to die{H8802)} from my youth up: while I suffer{H8804)} thy terrors I am distracted{H8799)}. 16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over{H8804)} me; thy terrors have cut me off{H8768)}. 17 They came round about{H8804)} me daily like water; they compassed{H8689)} me about together. 18 Lover{H8802)} and friend hast thou put far{H8689)} from me, and mine acquaintance{H8794)} into darkness.
• Ps 116:3 : 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
• Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
• Ps 119:47 : 47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
• Ps 119:77 : 77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
• Ps 119:107 : 107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
• Ps 130:1 : 1 A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
• Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.
• John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.