Psalms 146:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The LORD gives sight to the blind. The LORD lifts up all who are bent over. The LORD loves the godly.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְהוָ֤ה ׀ פֹּ֘קֵ֤חַ עִוְרִ֗ים יְ֭הוָה זֹקֵ֣ף כְּפוּפִ֑ים יְ֝הוָ֗ה אֹהֵ֥ב צַדִּיקִֽים׃

Transliteration

YHWH poqeaḥ ʿiwrim YHWH zoqeph kephupphim YHWH ʾoheb tsaddiqim

Grammar Details

• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD/Yahweh
• *poqeaḥ*: qal participle, masculine, singular - opening [the eyes of]
• *ʿiwrim*: adjective, masculine, plural - blind
• *zoqeph*: qal participle, masculine, singular - raising up/straightening
• *kephupphim*: qal passive participle, masculine, plural - bowed down
• *ʾoheb*: qal participle, masculine, singular - loving
• *tsaddiqim*: adjective, masculine, plural - righteous ones

Word Meanings

• *poqeaḥ*: opens [the eyes of]/gives sight to
• *ʿiwrim*: blind ones/the blind
• *zoqeph*: raises up/straightens/makes upright
• *kephupphim*: bowed down/bent over/oppressed
• *tsaddiqim*: righteous ones/just ones/those who are righteous

Referenced Verses

• Matt 9:30 : 30 And their eyes were opened. Then Jesus sternly warned them,“See that no one knows about this!”
• Ps 11:7 : 7 Certainly the LORD is just; he rewards godly deeds; the upright will experience his favor.
• Ps 145:14 : 14 The LORD supports all who fall, and lifts up all who are bent over.
• Ps 147:6 : 6 The LORD lifts up the oppressed, but knocks the wicked to the ground.
• Isa 35:5 : 5 Then blind eyes will open, deaf ears will hear.
• Isa 42:16 : 16 I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.
• Isa 42:18 : 18 The Lord Reasons with His People“Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!
• Deut 33:3 : 3 Surely he loves the people; all your holy ones are in your power. And they sit at your feet, each receiving your words.
• Matt 11:5 : 5 The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them
• Luke 13:11-13 : 11 and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her to him and said,“Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.” 13 Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.
• Luke 18:41-42 : 41 “What do you want me to do for you?” He replied,“Lord, let me see again.” 42 Jesus said to him,“Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.”
• John 9:7-9 : 7 and said to him,“Go wash in the pool of Siloam”(which is translated“sent”). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing. 8 Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying,“Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some people said,“This is the man!” while others said,“No, but he looks like him.” The man himself kept insisting,“I am the one!” 10 So they asked him,“How then were you made to see?” 11 He replied,“The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me,‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and was able to see.” 12 They said to him,“Where is that man?” He replied,“I don’t know.” 13 The Pharisees’ Reaction to the Healing They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees. 14 (Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.) 15 So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied,“He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see.” 16 Then some of the Pharisees began to say,“This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath.” But others said,“How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division among them. 17 So again they asked the man who used to be blind,“What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?”“He is a prophet,” the man replied. 18 Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see. 19 They asked the parents,“Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?” 20 So his parents replied,“We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. 21 But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself.” 22 (His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue. 23 For this reason his parents said,“He is a mature adult, ask him.”) 24 Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him,“Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner.” 25 He replied,“I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing– that although I was blind, now I can see.” 26 Then they said to him,“What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?” 27 He answered,“I told you already and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You people don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?” 28 They heaped insults on him, saying,“You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses! 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!” 30 The man replied,“This is a remarkable thing, that you don’t know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see! 31 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him. 32 Never before has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
• John 14:21-23 : 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.” 22 “Lord,” Judas(not Judas Iscariot) said,“what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” 23 Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.
• John 16:27 : 27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
• 2 Cor 7:6 : 6 But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.
• Eph 1:18 : 18 – since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened– so that you can know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.