Psalms 7:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַעֲדַ֣ת לְ֭אֻמִּים תְּסוֹבְבֶ֑ךָּ וְ֝עָלֶ֗יהָ לַמָּר֥וֹם שֽׁוּבָה׃

Transliteration

waʿădat ləʾummîm təsôbəbekā wəʿāleyhā to-the-mārôm shûbāh

Grammar Details

• *waʿădat*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct - and assembly/congregation of
• *ləʾummîm*: noun, masculine plural - peoples/nations
• *təsôbəbekā*: verb, poel imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - will surround you
• *wəʿāleyhā*: conjunction + preposition with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - and over it
• *lammārôm*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - to the height/high place
• *shûbāh*: verb, qal imperative, masculine singular with paragogic he - return

Word Meanings

• *ʿădat*: assembly/congregation/company
• *ləʾummîm*: peoples/nations/communities
• *təsôbəbekā*: will surround you/encompass you/encircle you
• *mārôm*: height/high place/heaven/exalted position
• *shûbāh*: return/come back/be restored

Referenced Verses

• Ps 96:13 : 13 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
• Rom 14:10-12 : 10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. 12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
• Ps 98:9 : 9 Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
• Ps 26:1 : 1 A Psalm of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
• 1 Cor 4:4-5 : 4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
• 1 Thess 2:10 : 10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
• Ps 43:1 : 1 Judge{H8798)} me, O God, and plead{H8798)} my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver{H8762)} me from the deceitful and unjust man.
• Ps 78:72 : 72 So he fed{H8686)} them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided{H8686)} them by the skilfulness of his hands.
• Ps 26:11 : 11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
• Ps 35:24-27 : 24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice{H8799)} over me. 25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say{H8799)}, We have swallowed him up{H8765)}. 26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion{H8799)} together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed{H8799)} with shame and dishonour that magnify{H8688)} themselves against me. 27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad{H8799)}, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say{H8799)} continually, Let the LORD be magnified{H8799)}, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
• Ps 41:12 : 12 And as for me, thou upholdest{H8804)} me in mine integrity, and settest{H8686)} me before thy face for ever.
• Gen 18:25 : 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
• Gen 31:53 : 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
• 2 Chr 20:12 : 12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
• Ps 9:8 : 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
• Ps 11:4 : 4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
• Ps 17:2-3 : 2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. 3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
• Ps 18:20-24 : 20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. 23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. 24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
• Ps 25:21 : 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
• Prov 19:1 : 1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
• Acts 17:31 : 31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
• Ps 82:1 : 1 A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth{H8737)} in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth{H8799)} among the gods.