Genesis 19:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

Behold now, your servant has found grace in your sight, and you have magnified your mercy, which you have shown to me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil overtake me and I die.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִנֵּה־נָ֠א מָצָ֨א עַבְדְּךָ֣ חֵן֮ בְּעֵינֶיךָ֒ וַתַּגְדֵּ֣ל חַסְדְּךָ֗ אֲשֶׁ֤ר עָשִׂ֙יתָ֙ עִמָּדִ֔י לְהַחֲי֖וֹת אֶת־נַפְשִׁ֑י וְאָנֹכִ֗י לֹ֤א אוּכַל֙ לְהִמָּלֵ֣ט הָהָ֔רָה פֶּן־תִּדְבָּקַ֥נִי הָרָעָ֖ה וָמַֽתִּי׃

Transliteration

hinnêh-nāʾ māṣāʾ ʿabdəkā ḥēn in-ʿênêkā wə-tagdêl ḥasdəkā which ʿāśîtā with-me to-haḥăyôt ʾet-napšî wə-ʾānōkî not ʾûkal to-himālêṭ to-the-hārâ lest-tidbāqanî the-rāʿâ wə-mattî

Grammar Details

• *hinnêh*: demonstrative particle - behold/look
• *nāʾ*: particle of entreaty - please/I pray
• *māṣāʾ*: Qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he found
• *ʿabdəkā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your servant
• *ḥēn*: masculine singular noun - favor/grace
• *ʿênêkā*: feminine dual noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your eyes
• *tagdêl*: Hiphil imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you magnified/enlarged
• *ḥasdəkā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your lovingkindness/mercy
• *ʿāśîtā*: Qal perfect 2nd masculine singular - you did/made
• *haḥăyôt*: Hiphil infinitive construct - to keep alive/preserve
• *napšî*: feminine singular noun with 1st singular suffix - my life/soul
• *ʾānōkî*: 1st person singular independent pronoun - I
• *ʾûkal*: Qal imperfect 1st singular - I am able
• *himālêṭ*: Niphal infinitive construct - to escape/flee
• *hārâ*: masculine singular noun with directional suffix - to the mountain/hill country
• *tidbāqanî*: Qal imperfect 3rd feminine singular with 1st singular suffix - it overtakes/clings to me
• *rāʿâ*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the evil/disaster/calamity
• *mattî*: Qal perfect 1st singular - I die

Word Meanings

• *ḥēn*: favor/grace/charm
• *tagdêl*: magnified/enlarged/made great
• *ḥasdəkā*: lovingkindness/mercy/steadfast love/loyalty
• *haḥăyôt*: keep alive/preserve/save
• *napšî*: my life/my soul/myself
• *ʾûkal*: am able/can/have power
• *tidbāqanî*: overtakes me/clings to me/catches up with me
• *rāʿâ*: evil/disaster/calamity/misfortune

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  "Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me by sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  behold now, thy servant{H5650} hath found{H4672} favor{H2580} in thy sight,{H5869} and thou hast magnified{H1431} thy lovingkindness,{H2617} which thou hast showed{H6213} unto me{H5978} in saving{H2421} my life;{H5315} and I cannot{H3201} escape{H4422} to the mountain,{H2022} lest evil{H7451} overtake{H1692} me, and I die:{H4191}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Behold now, thy servant{H5650} hath found{H4672}{(H8804)} grace{H2580} in thy sight{H5869}, and thou hast magnified{H1431}{(H8686)} thy mercy{H2617}, which thou hast shewed{H6213}{(H8804)} unto me{H5978} in saving{H2421}{(H8687)} my life{H5315}; and I cannot{H3201}{(H8799)} escape{H4422}{(H8736)} to the mountain{H2022}, lest some evil{H7451} take{H1692}{(H8799)} me, and I die{H4191}{(H8804)}:

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  beholde in as moch as thy servaunte hath fownde grace in thy syghte now make thi mercy great which thou shewest vnto me in savinge my lyfe. For I can not saue my selfe in the mountayns lest some misfortune fall vpon me and I dye.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  beholde, in as moch as thy seruaut hath founde grace in thy sight, now make ye mercy greate, which thou hast shewed vnto me, in that thou sauest my soule alyue. I can not saue my self vpon the mountayne. There might some mysfortune fall vpon me, that I shulde dye.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Behold now, thy seruant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercie, which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauing my life: and I cannot escape in the mountaine, least some euill take me, and I die.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Beholde thy seruaunt hath founde grace in thy syght, and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast shewed vnto me in sauyng my lyfe: Beholde I can not be saued in the mountayne, lest some harme fall vppon me, and I dye.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  lo, I pray thee, thy servant hath found grace in thine eyes, and thou dost make great thy kindness which thou hast done with me by saving my life, and I am unable to escape to the mountain, lest the evil cleave `to' me, and I have died;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  behold now, thy servant hath found favor in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy lovingkindness, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die:

• American Standard Version (1901)

  behold now, thy servant hath found favor in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy lovingkindness, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die:

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death;

• World English Bible (2000)

  See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 12:13 : 13 Say, I pray you, you are my sister: that it may be well with me for your sake; and my soul shall live because of you.
• Deut 31:17 : 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
• 1 Sam 27:1 : 1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should quickly escape into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of me, to seek me any longer in any territory of Israel. Thus I will escape out of his hand.
• 1 Kgs 9:9 : 9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold of other gods, and have worshiped them, and served them: therefore, the LORD has brought upon them all this evil.
• Ps 18:1-9 : 1 I will love you, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. 3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies. 4 The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 5 The sorrows of hell surrounded me: the snares of death confronted me. 6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice from his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. 7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was angry. 8 Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth: coals were kindled by it. 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. 10 And he rode upon a cherub, and flew: yea, he flew upon the wings of the wind. 11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion around him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. 12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire. 13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hailstones and coals of fire. 14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; he shot out lightning, and confused them. 15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils. 16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me: for they were too strong for me. 18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my support. 19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has 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 my iniquity. 24 Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. 25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright; 26 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the perverse you will show yourself contrary. 27 For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks. 28 For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. 29 For by you I have run through a troop; and by my God I have leaped over a wall. 30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tested: he is a shield to all those who trust in him. 31 For who is God except the LORD? or who is a rock except our God? 32 It is God who girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect. 33 He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me upon my high places. 34 He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of bronze is broken by my arms. 35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great. 36 You have enlarged my steps under me, so that my feet did not slip. 37 I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn back till they were consumed. 38 I have wounded them so that they were not able to rise: they have fallen under my feet. 39 For you have girded me with strength for the battle: you have subdued under me those who rose up against me. 40 You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy those who hate me. 41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but he did not answer them. 42 Then I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind: I cast them out like dirt in the streets. 43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people whom I have not known shall serve me. 44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves to me. 45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their closed places. 46 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. 47 It is God who avenges me, and subdues the people under me. 48 He delivers me from my enemies: yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man. 49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to your name. 50 Great deliverance he gives to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his descendants forevermore.
• Ps 40:1-9 : 1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined to me and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. 3 And He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the LORD. 4 Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust and does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. 5 Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done, and Your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be counted in order to You: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. 6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; my ears You have opened: burnt offering and sin offering You have not required. 7 Then I said, Behold, I come: in the scroll of the book it is written of me, 8 I delight to do Your will, O my God: yes, Your law is within my heart. 9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: behold, I have not restrained my lips, O LORD, You know. 10 I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation: I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation. 11 Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me. 12 For innumerable evils have surrounded me: my iniquities have taken hold of me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me. 13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame who wish me evil. 15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame who say to me, Aha, aha. 16 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You: let such as love Your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. 17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks upon me: You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God.
• Ps 77:7-9 : 7 Will the Lord cast off forever? and will He be favorable no more? 8 Is His mercy completely gone forever? Does His promise fail forevermore? 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah. 10 And I said, This is my infirmity; but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. 11 I will remember the works of the LORD; surely I will remember Your wonders of old.
• Ps 103:1-9 : 1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name. 2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His benefits: 3 Who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases; 4 Who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies; 5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things; so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. 6 The LORD executes righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. 7 He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel. 8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and rich in mercy. 9 He will not always rebuke: nor will He keep His anger forever. 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. 13 As a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear Him. 14 For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are like grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place remembers it no more. 17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children; 18 To those who keep His covenant, and to those who remember His commandments to do them. 19 The LORD has prepared His throne in the heavens; and His kingdom rules over all. 20 Bless the LORD, you His angels, who excel in strength, who do His commandments, listening to the voice of His word. 21 Bless the LORD, all you His hosts; you ministers of His, who do His pleasure. 22 Bless the LORD, all His works in all places of His dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.
• Ps 106:1-9 : 1 Praise the LORD. O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his mercy endures forever. 2 Who can declare the mighty acts of the LORD? Who can show forth all his praise? 3 Blessed are they who keep judgment and he who does righteousness at all times. 4 Remember me, O LORD, with the favor you bear unto your people. O visit me with your salvation; 5 That I may see the good of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance. 6 We have sinned with our ancestors, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. 7 Our ancestors did not understand your wonders in Egypt; they did not remember the multitude of your mercies, but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red Sea. 8 Nevertheless, he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power known. 9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. 10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. 11 And the waters covered their enemies; there was not one of them left. 12 Then they believed his words; they sang his praise. 13 They soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel. 14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. 15 And he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul. 16 They also envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD. 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. 18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. 19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the molten image. 20 Thus they changed their glory into the likeness of an ox that eats grass. 21 They forgot God their savior, who had done great things in Egypt; 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea. 23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them. 24 Yes, they despised the pleasant land, they did not believe his word. 25 But murmured in their tents, and did not listen to the voice of the LORD. 26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness. 27 To overthrow their descendants also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. 28 They joined themselves also to Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions, and the plague broke out among them. 30 Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment, and so the plague was stopped. 31 And that was accounted unto him for righteousness unto all generations forevermore. 32 They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went badly with Moses for their sakes; 33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke rashly with his lips. 34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them. 35 But they were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. 36 And they served their idols, which were a snare to them. 37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood. 39 Thus they were defiled with their own works, and played the harlot with their own inventions. 40 Therefore the wrath of the LORD was kindled against his people, so much so that he abhorred his own inheritance. 41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and those who hated them ruled over them. 42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand. 43 Many times he delivered them, but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. 44 Nevertheless, he regarded their affliction when he heard their cry. 45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and relented according to the multitude of his mercies. 46 He made those who carried them captives to pity them. 47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks to your holy name, and to triumph in your praise. 48 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting; and let all the people say, Amen. Praise the LORD.
• Ps 116:1-9 : 1 I love the LORD, because He has heard my voice and my supplications. 2 Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live. 3 The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the pains of hell took hold of me: I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then I called upon the name of the LORD: O LORD, I beg You, deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yes, our God is merciful. 6 The LORD preserves the simple: I was brought low, and He helped me. 7 Return to your rest, O my soul; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. 8 For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. 10 I believed, therefore I have spoken: I was greatly afflicted. 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars. 12 What shall I render to the LORD for all His benefits toward me? 13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. 14 I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all His people. 15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints. 16 O LORD, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your handmaid: You have loosed my bonds. 17 I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD. 18 I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all His people, 19 In the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD.
• Matt 8:25-26 : 25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we are perishing. 26 And he said to them, Why are you fearful, O you of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
• Mark 9:19 : 19 He answered and said to him, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to me.
• Rom 8:31 : 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
• 1 Tim 1:14-16 : 14 And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. 15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. 16 However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all patience as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life.