Psalms 26:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־חַ֭סְדְּךָ לְנֶ֣גֶד עֵינָ֑י וְ֝הִתְהַלַּ֗כְתִּי בַּאֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃

Transliteration

Kî-ḥasdəḵā before ʿênāy and-hiṯhallāḵtî in-ʾămitteḵā.

Grammar Details

• *Kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ḥasdəḵā*: noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your lovingkindness
• *ʿênāy*: noun dual with 1st person singular suffix - my eyes
• *hiṯhallāḵtî*: hithpael perfect 1st person singular - I have walked about/conducted myself
• *ʾămitteḵā*: noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your truth

Word Meanings

• *ḥasdəḵā*: your lovingkindness/your steadfast love/your mercy/your covenant faithfulness
• *hiṯhallāḵtî*: I have walked about/I have conducted myself/I have lived
• *ʾămitteḵā*: your truth/your faithfulness/your reliability

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
• Ps 25:5 : 5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
• Ps 52:1 : 1 To the chief Musician{H8764)}, Maschil{H8688)}, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came{H8800)} and told{H8686)} Saul, and said{H8799)} unto him, David is come{H8804)} to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest{H8691)} thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
• Ps 85:10-13 : 10 Mercy and truth are met together{H8738)}; righteousness and peace have kissed{H8804)} each other. 11 Truth shall spring out{H8799)} of the earth; and righteousness shall look down{H8738)} from heaven. 12 Yea, the LORD shall give{H8799)} that which is good; and our land shall yield{H8799)} her increase. 13 Righteousness shall go{H8762)} before him; and shall set{H8799)} us in the way of his steps.
• Ps 86:11 : 11 Teach{H8685)} me thy way, O LORD; I will walk{H8762)} in thy truth: unite{H8761)} my heart to fear{H8800)} thy name.
• Ps 101:2 : 2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
• Ps 119:142 : 142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
• Isa 2:5 : 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
• Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
• Matt 5:44-48 : 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
• Luke 6:36 : 36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
• John 14:6 : 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
• 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
• 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
• 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
• Eph 4:20-25 : 20 But ye have not so learned Christ; 21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. 25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
• Eph 4:32-5:2 : 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. 1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; 2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
• Col 3:12-13 : 12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
• 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
• 1 John 4:19-21 : 19 We love him, because he first loved us. 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
• 2 John 1:4 : 4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
• 3 John 1:3-4 : 3 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
• 3 John 1:11 : 11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.