Psalms 119:57

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

ח(Khet) The LORD is my source of security. I have determined to follow your instructions.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חֶלְקִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אָמַ֗רְתִּי לִשְׁמֹ֥ר דְּבָרֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

ḥelqî YHWH ʾāmartî to-šǝmōr dǝḇāreykā

Grammar Details

• *ḥelqî*: masculine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - my portion
• *YHWH*: proper name - Yahweh/LORD
• *ʾāmartî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have said
• *lišǝmōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to keep
• *dǝḇāreykā*: masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your words

Word Meanings

• *ḥelqî*: my portion/share/inheritance
• *ʾāmartî*: I have said/promised/declared
• *šǝmōr*: to keep/observe/guard

Referenced Verses

• Ps 16:5 : 5 LORD, you give me stability and prosperity; you make my future secure.
• Lam 3:24 : 24 “My portion is the LORD,” I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him.
• Ps 66:14 : 14 which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke when I was in trouble.
• Ps 73:26 : 26 My flesh and my heart may grow weak, but God always protects my heart and gives me stability.
• Ps 119:106 : 106 I have vowed and solemnly sworn to keep your just regulations.
• Ps 119:115 : 115 Turn away from me, you evil men, so that I can observe the commands of my God.
• Ps 142:5 : 5 I cry out to you, O LORD; I say,“You are my shelter, my security in the land of the living.”
• Jer 10:16 : 16 The LORD, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
• Deut 26:17-18 : 17 Today you have declared the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him. 18 And today the LORD has declared you to be his special people(as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.
• Josh 24:15 : 15 If you have no desire to worship the LORD, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the LORD.
• Josh 24:18 : 18 The LORD drove out from before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship the LORD, for he is our God!”
• Josh 24:21 : 21 The people said to Joshua,“No! We really will worship the LORD.
• Josh 24:24-27 : 24 The people said to Joshua,“We will worship the LORD our God and obey him.” 25 That day Joshua drew up an agreement for the people, and he established rules and regulations for them in Shechem. 26 Joshua wrote these words in the Law Scroll of God. He then took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the LORD’s shrine. 27 Joshua said to all the people,“Look, this stone will be a witness against us, for it has heard everything the LORD said to us. It will be a witness against you if you deny your God.”
• Neh 10:29-39 : 29 hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders and enter into a curse and an oath to adhere to the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, along with his ordinances and his statutes. 30 “We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons. 31 We will not buy on the Sabbath or on a holy day from the neighboring peoples who bring their wares and all kinds of grain to sell on the Sabbath day. We will let the fields lie fallow every seventh year, and we will cancel every loan. 32 We accept responsibility for fulfilling the commands to give one third of a shekel each year for the work of the temple of our God, 33 for the loaves of presentation and for the regular grain offerings and regular burnt offerings, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the appointed meetings, for the holy offerings, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the temple of our God. 34 “We– the priests, the Levites, and the people– have cast lots concerning the wood offerings, to bring them to the temple of our God according to our families at the designated times year by year to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as is written in the law. 35 We also accept responsibility for bringing the first fruits of our land and the first fruits of every fruit tree year by year to the temple of the LORD. 36 We also accept responsibility, as is written in the law, for bringing the firstborn of our sons and our cattle and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks to the temple of our God, to the priests who are ministering in the temple of our God. 37 We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work. 38 A priest of Aaron’s line will be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithes, and the Levites will bring up a tenth of the tithes to the temple of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury. 39 The Israelites and the Levites will bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms where the utensils of the sanctuary are kept, and where the priests who minister stay, along with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the temple of our God.”