Psalms 51:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Rescue me from the guilt of murder, O God, the God who delivers me! Then my tongue will shout for joy because of your righteousness.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הָשִׁ֣יבָה לִּ֭י שְׂשׂ֣וֹן יִשְׁעֶ֑ךָ וְר֖וּחַ נְדִיבָ֣ה תִסְמְכֵֽנִי׃

Transliteration

hāšîbâ to-me śəśôn yišʿekā and-rûaḥ nədîbâ tisməkēnî

Grammar Details

• *hāšîbâ*: Hiphil imperative masculine singular - restore
• *śəśôn*: masculine singular noun - joy
• *yišʿekā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your salvation
• *rûaḥ*: feminine singular noun - spirit
• *nədîbâ*: feminine singular adjective - willing/noble
• *tisməkēnî*: Qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - she will uphold me

Word Meanings

• *hāšîbâ*: restore/return/bring back
• *śəśôn*: joy/gladness/exultation
• *yišʿekā*: your salvation/deliverance/victory
• *rûaḥ*: spirit/breath/wind
• *nədîbâ*: willing/noble/generous/free
• *tisməkēnî*: she will uphold me/sustain me/support me

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 12:9 : 9 Why have you shown contempt for the LORD’s decrees by doing evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife to be your own wife! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
• Ps 35:28 : 28 Then I will tell others about your justice, and praise you all day long.
• Ps 26:9 : 9 Do not sweep me away with sinners, or execute me along with violent people,
• 2 Sam 21:1 : 1 The Gibeonites Demand Revenge During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the LORD. The LORD said,“It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, because he murdered the Gibeonites.”
• Ezra 9:13 : 13 “Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.
• Neh 9:33 : 33 You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. It is we who have been in the wrong!
• Ps 25:5 : 5 Guide me into your truth and teach me. For you are the God who delivers me; on you I rely all day long.
• Gen 9:6 : 6 “Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”
• Gen 42:22 : 22 Reuben said to them,“Didn’t I say to you,‘Don’t sin against the boy,’ but you wouldn’t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!”
• 2 Sam 3:28 : 28 When David later heard about this, he said,“I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner!
• 2 Sam 11:15-17 : 15 In the letter he wrote:“Station Uriah at the front in the thick of the battle and then withdraw from him so he will be cut down and killed.” 16 So as Joab kept watch on the city, he stationed Uriah at the place where he knew the best enemy soldiers were. 17 When the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, some of David’s soldiers fell in battle. Uriah the Hittite also died.
• Ps 38:22 : 22 Hurry and help me, O Lord, my deliverer!
• Ps 55:23 : 23 But you, O God, will bring them down to the deep Pit. Violent and deceitful people will not live even half a normal lifespan. But as for me, I trust in you.
• Ps 68:20 : 20 Our God is a God who delivers; the LORD, the sovereign Lord, can rescue from death.
• Ps 71:15-24 : 15 I will tell about your justice, and all day long proclaim your salvation, though I cannot fathom its full extent. 16 I will come and tell about the mighty acts of the Sovereign LORD. I will proclaim your justice– yours alone. 17 O God, you have taught me since I was young, and I am still declaring your amazing deeds. 18 Even when I am old and gray, O God, do not abandon me, until I tell the next generation about your strength, and those coming after me about your power. 19 Your justice, O God, extends to the skies above; you have done great things. O God, who can compare to you? 20 Though you have allowed me to experience much trouble and distress, revive me once again! Bring me up once again from the depths of the earth! 21 Raise me to a position of great honor! Turn and comfort me! 22 I will express my thanks to you with a stringed instrument, praising your faithfulness, O my God! I will sing praises to you accompanied by a harp, O Holy One of Israel! 23 My lips will shout for joy! Yes, I will sing your praises! I will praise you when you rescue me! 24 All day long my tongue will also tell about your justice, for those who want to harm me will be embarrassed and ashamed.
• Ps 86:12-13 : 12 O Lord, my God, I will give you thanks with my whole heart! I will honor your name continually! 13 For you will extend your great loyal love to me, and will deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.
• Ps 88:1 : 1 A song, a psalm written by the Korahites; for the music director; according to the machalath-leannoth style; a well-written song by Heman the Ezrachite. O LORD God who delivers me! By day I cry out and at night I pray before you.
• Isa 12:2 : 2 Look, God is my deliverer! I will trust in him and not fear. For the LORD gives me strength and protects me; he has become my deliverer.”
• Isa 45:17 : 17 Israel will be delivered once and for all by the LORD; you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.
• Ezek 33:8 : 8 When I say to the wicked,‘O wicked man, you must certainly die,’ and you do not warn the wicked about his behavior, the wicked man will die for his iniquity, but I will hold you accountable for his death.
• Dan 9:7 : 7 “You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day– the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.
• Dan 9:16 : 16 O Lord, according to all your justice, please turn your raging anger away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. For due to our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people are mocked by all our neighbors.
• Hos 4:2 : 2 There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.
• Hab 3:18 : 18 I will rejoice because of the LORD; I will be happy because of the God who delivers me!
• Acts 18:6 : 6 When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them,“Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!”
• Acts 20:26 : 26 Therefore I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all.
• Rom 10:3 : 3 For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.