Psalms 130:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But you are willing to forgive, so that you might be honored.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־עִמְּךָ֥ הַסְּלִיחָ֑ה לְ֝מַ֗עַן תִּוָּרֵֽא

Transliteration

For with ʿimməkā the səlîḥāh for ləmaʿan tiwwārēʾ

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ʿimməkā*: preposition עִם with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - with you
• *hasəlîḥāh*: definite article + noun, feminine, singular - the forgiveness
• *ləmaʿan*: conjunction - in order that/for the purpose that
• *tiwwārēʾ*: imperfect verb, 2nd person masculine singular, niphal form - you may be feared

Word Meanings

• *səlîḥāh*: forgiveness/pardon
• *tiwwārēʾ*: feared/revered/held in awe

Referenced Verses

• Jer 33:8-9 : 8 I will purify them from all the sin that they committed against me. I will forgive all their sins which they committed in rebelling against me. 9 All the nations will hear about all the good things which I will do to them. This city will bring me fame, honor, and praise before them for the joy that I bring it. The nations will tremble in awe at all the peace and prosperity that I will provide for it.’
• Isa 55:7 : 7 The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the LORD, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.
• 1 Kgs 8:39-40 : 39 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives.(Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) 40 Then they will obey you throughout their lifetimes as they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.
• Dan 9:9 : 9 Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.
• Ps 86:5 : 5 Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.
• Ps 103:2-3 : 2 Praise the LORD, O my soul! Do not forget all his kind deeds! 3 He is the one who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,
• Isa 1:18 : 18 Come, let’s consider your options,” says the LORD.“Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.
• Ps 2:11-12 : 11 Serve the LORD in fear! Repent in terror! 12 Give sincere homage! Otherwise he will be angry, and you will die because of your behavior, when his anger quickly ignites. How blessed are all who take shelter in him!
• Ps 25:11 : 11 For the sake of your reputation, O LORD, forgive my sin, because it is great.
• Jer 31:34 : 34 “People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” says the LORD.“For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.”
• Exod 34:5-7 : 5 The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the LORD by name. 6 The LORD passed by before him and proclaimed:“The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness, 7 keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”
• Hos 3:5 : 5 Afterward, the Israelites will turn and seek the LORD their God and their Davidic king. Then they will submit to the LORD in fear and receive his blessings in the future.
• Mic 7:18-20 : 18 Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love? 19 Who will once again have mercy on us? Who will conquer our evil deeds? Who will hurl all our sins into the depths of the sea? 20 You will be loyal to Jacob and extend your loyal love to Abraham, which you promised on oath to our ancestors in ancient times.
• Acts 9:31 : 31 Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced peace and thus was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, the church increased in numbers.
• Rom 8:1 : 1 The Believer’s Relationship to the Holy Spirit There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
• 2 Cor 5:19 : 19 In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation.
• Eph 1:7 : 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace
• Col 1:14 : 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
• 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 However, God’s solid foundation remains standing, bearing this seal:“The Lord knows those who are his,” and“Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from evil.”
• Heb 12:24-28 : 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does. 25 Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven? 26 Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised,“I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.” 27 Now this phrase“once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain. 28 So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.