Psalms 119:95

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The wicked prepare to kill me, yet I concentrate on your rules.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לִ֤י קִוּ֣וּ רְשָׁעִ֣ים לְאַבְּדֵ֑נִי עֵ֝דֹתֶ֗יךָ אֶתְבּוֹנָֽן׃

Transliteration

For me lî wait qiwwû the wicked rəšāʿîm to destroy me ləʾabbəḏēnî; your testimonies ʿēḏōṯêḵā I will consider ʾeṯbônān.

Grammar Details

• *lî*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - for me
• *qiwwû*: piel perfect 3rd person common plural - they wait/have waited
• *rəšāʿîm*: adjective masculine plural - wicked ones
• *ləʾabbəḏēnî*: preposition + piel infinitive construct + 1st person singular suffix - to destroy me
• *ʿēḏōṯêḵā*: feminine plural construct + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your testimonies
• *ʾeṯbônān*: hithpael imperfect 1st person singular - I will consider/contemplate

Word Meanings

• *qiwwû*: wait/lie in wait/expect
• *rəšāʿîm*: wicked ones/evil people/the ungodly
• *ləʾabbəḏēnî*: to destroy me/to ruin me/to cause me to perish
• *ʿēḏōṯêḵā*: your testimonies/your witnesses/your covenant laws
• *ʾeṯbônān*: I will consider/I will understand/I will discern

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 23:20-23 : 20 Now at your own discretion, O king, come down. Delivering him into the king’s hand will be our responsibility.” 21 Saul replied,“May you be blessed by the LORD, for you have had compassion on me. 22 Go and make further arrangements. Determine precisely where he is and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning. 23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him among all the thousands of Judah.”
• 2 Sam 17:1-4 : 1 The Death of Ahithophel Ahithophel said to Absalom,“Let me pick out twelve thousand men. Then I will go and pursue David this very night. 2 When I catch up with him he will be exhausted and worn out. I will rout him, and the entire army that is with him will flee. I will kill only the king 3 and will bring the entire army back to you. In exchange for the life of the man you are seeking, you will get back everyone. The entire army will return unharmed.” 4 This seemed like a good idea to Absalom and to all the leaders of Israel.
• Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim. 9 He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net. 10 His victims are crushed and beaten down; they are trapped in his sturdy nets.
• Ps 27:2 : 2 When evil men attack me to devour my flesh, when my adversaries and enemies attack me, they stumble and fall.
• Ps 37:32 : 32 Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.
• Ps 38:12 : 12 Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.
• Ps 119:24 : 24 Yes, I find delight in your rules; they give me guidance.
• Ps 119:31 : 31 I hold fast to your rules. O LORD, do not let me be ashamed!
• Ps 119:61 : 61 The ropes of the wicked tighten around me, but I do not forget your law.
• Ps 119:69 : 69 Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies, but I observe your precepts with all my heart.
• Ps 119:85-87 : 85 The arrogant dig pits to trap me, which violates your law. 86 All your commands are reliable. I am pursued without reason. Help me! 87 They have almost destroyed me here on the earth, but I do not reject your precepts.
• Ps 119:111 : 111 I claim your rules as my permanent possession, for they give me joy.
• Ps 119:125 : 125 I am your servant. Give me insight, so that I can understand your rules.
• Ps 119:129 : 129 פ(Pe) Your rules are marvelous. Therefore I observe them.
• Ps 119:167 : 167 I keep your rules; I love them greatly.
• Matt 26:3-5 : 3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas. 4 They planned to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. 5 But they said,“Not during the feast, so that there won’t be a riot among the people.”
• Acts 12:11 : 11 When Peter came to himself, he said,“Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from everything the Jewish people were expecting to happen.”
• Acts 23:21 : 21 So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request.”
• Acts 25:3 : 3 Requesting him to do them a favor against Paul, they urged Festus to summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.