Psalms 119:59

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חִשַּׁ֥בְתִּי דְרָכָ֑י וָאָשִׁ֥יבָה רַ֝גְלַ֗י אֶל־עֵדֹתֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

ḥiššaḇtî ḏǝrāḵāy and-ʾāšîḇāh raḡlay to-ʿēḏōṯeykā

Grammar Details

• *ḥiššaḇtî*: piel perfect 1st person singular - I have considered
• *ḏǝrāḵāy*: masculine plural noun + 1st person singular suffix - my ways
• *wāʾāšîḇāh*: conjunction + hiphil imperfect cohortative 1st person singular - and I turned
• *raḡlay*: feminine dual noun + 1st person singular suffix - my feet
• *ʾel-ʿēḏōṯeykā*: preposition + feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to your testimonies

Word Meanings

• *ḥiššaḇtî*: I have considered/thought about/pondered
• *ḏǝrāḵāy*: my ways/paths/conduct
• *ʾāšîḇāh*: I turned/returned/brought back

Referenced Verses

• Deut 4:30-31 : 30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; 31 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
• Jer 8:4-6 : 4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
• Jer 31:18-19 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
• Lam 3:40 : 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
• Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Ezek 18:30 : 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
• Ezek 33:14-16 : 14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; 15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. 16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
• Ezek 33:19 : 19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
• Joel 2:13 : 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
• Hag 1:5 : 5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
• Hag 1:7 : 7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
• Luke 15:17-20 : 17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, 19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
• 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
• 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?