Psalms 119:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Spare me shame and humiliation, for I observe your rules.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גַּ֣ל מֵֽ֭עָלַי חֶרְפָּ֣ה וָב֑וּז כִּ֖י עֵדֹתֶ֣יךָ נָצָֽרְתִּי׃

Transliteration

gal from-upon-me ḥerpâ and-ḇûz because ʿēdōtêḵā nāṣārtî

Grammar Details

• *gal*: Qal imperative masculine singular - remove/roll away
• from-upon-me: preposition *min* + preposition *ʿal* + 1st person singular suffix - from upon me
• *ḥerpâ*: feminine singular noun - reproach
• and-*ḇûz*: conjunction *wə* + masculine singular noun - and contempt
• because *ʿēdōtêḵā*: conjunction *kî* + feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - because your testimonies
• *nāṣārtî*: Qal perfect 1st person singular - I have kept

Word Meanings

• *gal*: remove/roll away/strip off
• *ḥerpâ*: reproach/disgrace/shame/scorn
• *ḇûz*: contempt/despising/scorn
• *ʿēdōtêḵā*: your testimonies/witnesses/decrees
• *nāṣārtî*: I have kept/guarded/observed/preserved

Referenced Verses

• Ps 39:8 : 8 Deliver me from all my sins of rebellion! Do not make me the object of fools’ insults!
• Ps 119:39 : 39 Take away the insults that I dread! Indeed, your regulations are good.
• 1 Pet 2:20 : 20 For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.
• 1 Pet 3:16-17 : 16 Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you. 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.
• 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, who is the Spirit of God, rests on you. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or as a troublemaker. 16 But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear such a name.
• Ps 119:42 : 42 Then I will have a reply for the one who insults me, for I trust in your word.
• Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Show us favor, O LORD, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some. 4 We have had our fill of the taunts of the self-assured, of the contempt of the proud.
• Heb 13:13 : 13 We must go out to him, then, outside the camp, bearing the abuse he experienced.
• Ps 42:10 : 10 My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long,“Where is your God?”
• Ps 68:9-9 : 9 O God, you cause abundant showers to fall on your chosen people. When they are tired, you sustain them, 10 for you live among them. You sustain the oppressed with your good blessings, O God. 11 The Lord speaks; many, many women spread the good news.
• Ps 68:19-20 : 19 The Lord deserves praise! Day after day he carries our burden, the God who delivers us.(Selah) 20 Our God is a God who delivers; the LORD, the sovereign Lord, can rescue from death.
• 1 Sam 25:10 : 10 But Nabal responded to David’s servants,“Who is David, and who is this son of Jesse? This is a time when many servants are breaking away from their masters!
• 1 Sam 25:39 : 39 When David heard that Nabal had died, he said,“Praised be the LORD who has vindicated me and avenged the insult that I suffered from Nabal! The LORD has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.
• 2 Sam 16:7-8 : 7 As he yelled curses, Shimei said,“Leave! Leave! You man of bloodshed, you wicked man! 8 The LORD has punished you for all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the LORD has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!”
• Job 16:20 : 20 My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
• Job 19:2-3 : 2 “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words? 3 These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!
• Ps 37:3 : 3 Trust in the LORD and do what is right! Settle in the land and maintain your integrity!
• Ps 37:6 : 6 He will vindicate you in broad daylight, and publicly defend your just cause.