Psalms 31:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Smile on your servant! Deliver me because of your faithfulness!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּיָדְךָ֥ עִתֹּתָ֑י הַצִּ֘ילֵ֤נִי מִיַּד־א֝וֹיְבַ֗י וּמֵרֹדְפָֽי׃

Transliteration

In-yādəkā ʿittōtāy; haṣṣîlēnî from-yad-ʾôyəbay and-from-rōdəpāy

Grammar Details

• *yādəkā*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix and prefixed preposition beth - in your hand
• *ʿittōtāy*: noun, feminine plural with 1st person singular suffix - my times
• *haṣṣîlēnî*: verb, imperative masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - deliver me
• *yad*: noun, feminine singular construct - hand of
• *ʾôyəbay*: noun, masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - my enemies
• *rōdəpāy*: verb, participle masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix and prefixed preposition min - from my pursuers

Word Meanings

• *ʿittōtāy*: my times/seasons/periods
• *haṣṣîlēnî*: deliver me/rescue me/save me
• *ʾôyəbay*: my enemies/foes/adversaries
• *rōdəpāy*: my pursuers/persecutors

Referenced Verses

• Ps 4:6 : 6 Many say,“Who can show us anything good?” Smile upon us, LORD!
• Ps 6:4 : 4 Relent, LORD, rescue me! Deliver me because of your faithfulness!
• Ps 80:3 : 3 O God, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!
• Ps 80:7 : 7 O God of Heaven’s Armies, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!
• Ps 80:19 : 19 O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!
• Ps 106:45 : 45 He remembered his covenant with them, and relented because of his great loyal love.
• Dan 9:9 : 9 Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.
• Dan 9:17-18 : 17 “So now, our God, accept the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to your devastated sanctuary for your own sake. 18 Listen attentively, my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins and the city called by your name. For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, but because your compassion is abundant.
• Rom 9:15 : 15 For he says to Moses:“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
• Rom 9:23 : 23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory–
• Eph 1:6-7 : 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace
• Eph 2:4-7 : 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, 5 even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!– 6 and he raised us up together with him and seated us together with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
• Ps 30:7 : 7 O LORD, in your good favor you made me secure. Then you rejected me and I was terrified.
• Ps 51:1 : 1 For the music director; a psalm of David, written when Nathan the prophet confronted him after David’s affair with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, because of your loyal love! Because of your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts!
• Ps 67:1 : 1 For the music director; to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm, a song. May God show us his favor and bless us! May he smile on us!(Selah)
• Num 6:25-26 : 25 The LORD make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you; 26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.”’