Psalms 27:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לׅׄוּלֵׅׄ֗אׅׄ‪[4]‬ הֶ֭אֱמַנְתִּי לִרְא֥וֹת בְּֽטוּב־יְהוָ֗ה בְּאֶ֣רֶץ חַיִּֽים׃

Transliteration

lûlēʾ heʾĕmantî lirʾôt bə-ṭûb-YHWH bə-ʾereṣ ḥayyîm

Grammar Details

• *lûlēʾ*: conditional particle - if not/unless
• *heʾĕmantî*: hiphil perfect 1st person singular - I believed
• *lirʾôt*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to see
• *bə-ṭûb*: preposition + noun masculine singular construct - in goodness of
• *YHWH*: divine name - tetragrammaton
• *bə-ʾereṣ*: preposition + noun feminine singular construct - in land of
• *ḥayyîm*: noun masculine plural - living/life

Word Meanings

• *lûlēʾ*: if not/unless/had it not been that
• *heʾĕmantî*: I believed/trusted/had faith
• *lirʾôt*: to see/look upon/experience/perceive
• *ṭûb*: goodness/welfare/prosperity/blessing
• *ʾereṣ*: land/earth/ground/territory
• *ḥayyîm*: living/life/lifetime/living ones

Referenced Verses

• Ps 142:5 : 5 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
• Ps 56:13 : 13 For thou hast delivered{H8689)} my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk{H8692)} before God in the light of the living?
• Ezek 26:20 : 20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
• 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you. 13 {G1161} We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; 14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
• 2 Cor 4:16 : 16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
• Ps 56:3 : 3 What time I am afraid{H8799)}, I will trust{H8799)} in thee.
• Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
• Ps 116:9-9 : 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. 10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
• Ps 31:19 : 19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
• Job 28:13 : 13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
• Isa 38:11 : 11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
• Ps 42:5 : 5 Why art thou cast down{H8709)}, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted{H8799)} in me? hope{H8685)} thou in God: for I shall yet praise{H8686)} him for the help of his countenance.
• Ps 52:5 : 5 God shall likewise destroy{H8799)} thee for ever, he shall take thee away{H8799)}, and pluck thee out{H8799)} of thy dwelling place, and root thee out{H8765)} of the land of the living. Selah.
• Eph 2:8 : 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
• 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
• Job 33:30 : 30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
• Isa 38:19 : 19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.