Psalms 57:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They have prepared{H8689)} a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down{H8804)}: they have digged{H8804)} a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen{H8804)} themselves. Selah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

ר֣וּמָה עַל־הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם אֱלֹהִ֑ים עַ֖ל כָּל־הָאָ֣רֶץ כְּבוֹדֶֽךָ

Transliteration

rûmâ upon-the-šāmayim ʾělōhîm upon kol-the-ʾāreṣ kəbôdekā

Grammar Details

• *rûmâ*: verb, Qal imperative masculine singular with cohortative he - be exalted
• *šāmayim*: noun, masculine dual with definite article and preposition al - above the heavens
• *ʾělōhîm*: noun, masculine plural (divine plural) - God
• *kol*: noun, masculine singular construct - all of
• *ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the earth
• *kəbôdekā*: noun with 2ms suffix - your glory

Word Meanings

• *rûm*: rise/be exalted/be lifted up
• *šāmayim*: heaven/sky
• *kol*: all/every/whole
• *ʾereṣ*: earth/land/ground
• *kābôd*: glory/honor/dignity

Referenced Verses

• Ps 145:14 : 14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.
• Ps 140:5 : 5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
• Ps 142:3 : 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
• Ps 143:4 : 4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
• Prov 28:10 : 10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
• Prov 29:5 : 5 A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
• Mic 7:2 : 2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
• Matt 26:37-38 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
• 1 Sam 23:22-26 : 22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly. 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah. 24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon. 25 Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon. 26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.
• Ps 7:15-16 : 15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
• Ps 9:15-16 : 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
• Ps 35:7-8 : 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged{H8804)} for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares{H8799)}; and let his net that he hath hid{H8804)} catch{H8799)} himself: into that very destruction let him fall{H8799)}.
• Ps 42:6 : 6 O my God, my soul is cast down{H8709)} within me: therefore will I remember{H8799)} thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.