Psalms 28:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְדָוִ֡ד אֵ֘לֶ֤יךָ יְהוָ֨ה ׀ אֶקְרָ֗א צוּרִי֮ אַֽל־תֶּחֱרַ֢שׁ מִּ֫מֶּ֥נִּי פֶּן־תֶּֽחֱשֶׁ֥ה מִמֶּ֑נִּי וְ֝נִמְשַׁ֗לְתִּי עִם־י֥וֹרְדֵי בֽוֹר׃

Transliteration

To Dāwid, unto ʾēleykā YHWH I ʾeqrāʾ, ṣûrî, do not teḥĕraš from me, lest you teḥĕšeh from me, and I be nimšaltî with those yôrĕdê bôr.

Grammar Details

*Dāwid*: proper name with preposition lamed - belonging to/of David
*ʾēleykā*: preposition with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to/unto you
*YHWH*: divine name - LORD/Yahweh
*ʾeqrāʾ*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I call/cry out
*ṣûrî*: noun with 1st person singular possessive suffix - my rock
*teḥĕraš*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular with negative particle - be silent/deaf toward
*teḥĕšeh*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular with negative particle pen (lest) - be silent/unresponsive
*nimšaltî*: niphal perfect 1st person singular - I have become like/compared to
*yôrĕdê*: qal participle masculine plural construct - those who go down
*bôr*: noun masculine singular - pit/grave/cistern

Word Meanings

*ṣûrî*: my rock/my strength/my fortress
*teḥĕraš*: be silent/be deaf/ignore
*teḥĕšeh*: be silent/be unresponsive/ignore
*bôr*: pit/grave/cistern/dungeon

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 18:2 : 2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Ps 83:1 : 1 A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace{H8799)}, and be not still{H8799)}, O God.
Ps 143:7 : 7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Prov 1:12 : 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Ps 88:4-6 : 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.
Ps 35:22 : 22 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence{H8799)}: O Lord, be not far{H8799)} from me.
Ps 39:12 : 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear{H8685)} unto my cry; hold not thy peace{H8799)} at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Ps 42:9 : 9 I will say{H8799)} unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten{H8804)} me? why go{H8799)} I mourning{H8802)} because of the oppression of the enemy{H8802)}?
Ps 69:15 : 15 Let not the waterflood overflow{H8799)} me, neither let the deep swallow me up{H8799)}, and let not the pit shut{H8799)} her mouth upon me.
Ps 77:1 : 1 To the chief Musician{H8764)}, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried{H8799)} unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear{H8689)} unto me.
Ps 22:2 : 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Ps 30:9 : 9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Job 33:28 : 28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Ps 3:4 : 4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Ps 5:2 : 2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.
Ps 142:1 : 1 Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
Isa 26:4 : 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
Isa 38:18 : 18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Rev 20:3 : 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

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