Psalms 55:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Day and night they go about{H8779)} it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּלַּ֣ע אֲ֭דֹנָי פַּלַּ֣ג לְשׁוֹנָ֑ם כִּֽי־רָאִ֨יתִי חָמָ֖ס וְרִ֣יב בָּעִֽיר׃

Transliteration

ballaʿ ʾădōnāy pallag ləšônām because rāʾîtî ḥāmās wərîb in the ʿîr

Grammar Details

*ballaʿ*: piel imperative, masculine singular - swallow up/destroy
*ʾădōnāy*: divine name - Lord
*pallag*: piel imperative, masculine singular - divide
*ləšônām*: feminine singular noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their tongue
*rāʾîtî*: qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have seen
*ḥāmās*: masculine singular noun - violence
*wərîb*: masculine singular noun with waw conjunction - and strife
*ʿîr*: feminine singular noun with prefixed preposition beth (in) - in the city

Word Meanings

*ballaʿ*: swallow up/destroy/confuse
*ʾădōnāy*: Lord/my Lord
*pallag*: divide/confuse/split
*ləšônām*: their tongue/their language
*ḥāmās*: violence/wrong/cruelty
*rîb*: strife/contention/dispute
*ʿîr*: city/town

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Referenced Verses

Ps 59:14-15 : 14 And at evening let them return{H8799)}; and let them make a noise{H8799)} like a dog, and go round about{H8779)} the city. 15 Let them wander up and down {H8686)}{H8675)}{H8799)} for meat{H8800)}, and grudge{H8799)} if they be not satisfied{H8799)}.
Isa 59:6-9 : 6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. 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. 9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. 11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; 13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
Ezek 9:4 : 4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Hos 7:6 : 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Zeph 3:1-3 : 1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! 2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
John 18:3 : 3 Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
John 18:28 : 28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
Acts 9:24 : 24 But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
1 Sam 19:11 : 11 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
2 Sam 16:21-22 : 21 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong. 22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Sam 17:1-2 : 1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: 2 And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
Ps 59:6 : 6 They return{H8799)} at evening: they make a noise{H8799)} like a dog, and go round about{H8779)} the city.

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