Psalms 125:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהַמַּטִּ֤ים עַֽקַלְקַלּוֹתָ֗ם יוֹלִיכֵ֣ם יְ֭הוָה אֶת־פֹּעֲלֵ֣י הָאָ֑וֶן שָׁ֝ל֗וֹם עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

Wə-hammaṭṭîm ʿăqalqallôtām yôlîkēm YHWH with-pōʿălê hāʾāwen. Šālôm upon-Yiśrāʾēl.

Grammar Details

• *wə*: conjunction - and/but
• *hammaṭṭîm*: hiphil participle, masculine plural with definite article - those who turn aside/bend
• *ʿăqalqallôtām*: noun, feminine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their crooked ways
• *yôlîkēm*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - he will lead them away
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
• *pōʿălê*: noun, masculine plural construct - workers/doers of
• *hāʾāwen*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - iniquity/wickedness/trouble
• *Šālôm*: noun, masculine singular - peace
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

• *hammaṭṭîm*: those who turn aside/those who bend/those who pervert
• *ʿăqalqallôtām*: their crooked ways/their devious paths/their twisted paths
• *yôlîkēm*: he will lead them away/he will cause them to go/he will make them walk
• *pōʿălê hāʾāwen*: workers of iniquity/evildoers/those who practice wickedness
• *Šālôm*: peace/well-being/prosperity/completeness

Referenced Verses

• Ps 128:6 : 6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.
• Prov 2:15 : 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
• Ps 40:4 : 4 Blessed is that man that maketh{H8804)} the LORD his trust, and respecteth{H8804)} not the proud, nor such as turn aside{H8802)} to lies.
• Isa 59:8 : 8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
• Gal 6:16 : 16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
• Ps 101:3 : 3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
• Phil 2:15 : 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
• Heb 10:38 : 38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
• 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
• Jer 2:19 : 19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
• Ezek 37:26 : 26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
• Hos 2:18 : 18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
• Zeph 1:6 : 6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
• Matt 7:23 : 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
• Matt 24:48-51 : 48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• John 14:27 : 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
• Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked spring{H8800)} as the grass, and when all the workers{H8802)} of iniquity do flourish{H8686)}; it is that they shall be destroyed{H8736)} for ever:
• Ps 94:4 : 4 How long shall they utter{H8686)} and speak{H8762)} hard things? and all the workers{H8802)} of iniquity boast{H8691)} themselves?
• 1 Chr 10:13-14 : 13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it; 14 And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
• Job 23:11 : 11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
• Prov 14:14 : 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
• Isa 54:10 : 10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
• Isa 54:13 : 13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.