Psalms 119:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You demand that your precepts be carefully kept.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֭תָּה צִוִּ֥יתָה פִקֻּדֶ֗יךָ לִשְׁמֹ֥ר מְאֹֽד׃

Transliteration

ʾattâ ṣiwwîtâ p̄iqqudêḵā to-šəmōr məʾōd

Grammar Details

• *ʾattâ*: 2nd person masculine singular pronoun - you
• *ṣiwwîtâ*: Piel perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you have commanded
• *p̄iqqudêḵā*: masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your precepts
• to-*šəmōr*: preposition *lə* + Qal infinitive construct - to keep/observe
• *məʾōd*: adverb - very/exceedingly/diligently

Word Meanings

• *ṣiwwîtâ*: commanded/ordered/charged
• *p̄iqqudêḵā*: precepts/commandments/orders/decrees
• *šəmōr*: keep/observe/guard/watch
• *məʾōd*: very/exceedingly/diligently/carefully

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 5:3 : 3 For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,
• Deut 4:1 : 1 The Privileges of the Covenant Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.
• Deut 4:9 : 9 Reminder of the Horeb Covenant Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.
• Deut 5:29-33 : 29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever. 30 Go and tell them,‘Return to your tents!’ 31 But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that you are to teach them, so that they can carry them out in the land I am about to give them.” 32 Be careful, therefore, to do exactly what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn right or left! 33 Walk just as he has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land you are going to possess.
• Deut 6:17 : 17 Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.
• Deut 11:13 : 13 Now, if you pay close attention to my commandments that I am giving you today and love the LORD your God and serve him with all your mind and being,
• Deut 11:22 : 22 For if you carefully observe all of these commandments I am giving you and love the LORD your God, live according to his standards, and remain loyal to him,
• Deut 12:32 : 32 Idolatry and False Prophets(13:1) You must be careful to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it!
• Deut 28:1-9 : 1 The Covenant Blessings“If you indeed obey the LORD your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth. 2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance if you obey the LORD your God: 3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field. 4 Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks. 5 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed. 6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. 7 The LORD will cause your enemies who attack you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction but flee from you in seven different directions. 8 The LORD will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do– yes, he will bless you in the land he is giving you. 9 The LORD will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him. 10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the LORD, and they will respect you. 11 The LORD will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you. 12 The LORD will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any. 13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his commandments which I am urging you today to be careful to do. 14 But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship them.
• Deut 30:16 : 16 What I am commanding you today is to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess.
• Josh 1:7 : 7 Make sure you are very strong and brave! Carefully obey all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep! Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful in all you do.
• Jer 7:23 : 23 I also explicitly commanded them:“Obey me. If you do, I will be your God and you will be my people. Live exactly the way I tell you and things will go well with you.”
• Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
• John 14:15 : 15 Teaching on the Holy Spirit“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
• John 14:21 : 21 The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”
• Phil 4:8-9 : 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if something is excellent or praiseworthy, think about these things. 9 And what you learned and received and heard and saw in me, do these things. And the God of peace will be with you.