Psalms 69:29

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I am oppressed and suffering! O God, deliver and protect me!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִ֭מָּחֽוּ מִסֵּ֣פֶר חַיִּ֑ים וְעִ֥ם צַ֝דִּיקִ֗ים אַל־יִכָּתֵֽבוּ׃

Transliteration

yimmāḥû from-sēper ḥayyîm and-with ṣaddîqîm not-yikkātēḇû

Grammar Details

• *yimmāḥû*: Niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - let them be blotted out
• *sēper*: masculine singular construct noun with prefixed preposition min - from book of
• *ḥayyîm*: masculine plural noun - life/living
• *ṣaddîqîm*: masculine plural adjective with prefixed conjunction waw and preposition 'im - and with righteous ones
• *yikkātēḇû*: Niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural with negative particle 'al - let them not be written

Word Meanings

• *yimmāḥû*: let them be blotted out/may they be erased
• *sēper*: book/scroll/document
• *ḥayyîm*: life/living ones
• *ṣaddîqîm*: righteous ones/just ones
• *yikkātēḇû*: let them be written/may they be recorded

Referenced Verses

• Ps 18:48 : 48 He delivers me from my enemies; you snatch me away from those who attack me; you rescue me from violent men.
• Ps 20:1 : 1 For the music director; a psalm of David. May the LORD answer you when you are in trouble; may the God of Jacob make you secure!
• Ps 22:27-31 : 27 Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the LORD and turn to him! Let all the nations worship you! 28 For the LORD is king and rules over the nations. 29 All of the thriving people of the earth will join the celebration and worship; all those who are descending into the grave will bow before him, including those who cannot preserve their lives. 30 A whole generation will serve him; they will tell the next generation about the Lord. 31 They will come and tell about his saving deeds; they will tell a future generation what he has accomplished.
• Ps 40:17 : 17 I am oppressed and needy! May the Lord pay attention to me! You are my helper and my deliverer! O my God, do not delay!
• Ps 59:1 : 1 For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David, written when Saul sent men to surround his house and murder him. Deliver me from my enemies, my God! Protect me from those who attack me!
• Ps 70:5 : 5 I am oppressed and needy! O God, hurry to me! You are my helper and my deliverer! O LORD, do not delay!
• Ps 89:26-27 : 26 He will call out to me,‘You are my father, my God, and the protector who delivers me.’ 27 I will appoint him to be my firstborn son, the most exalted of the earth’s kings.
• Ps 91:14-16 : 14 The LORD says,“Because he is devoted to me, I will deliver him; I will protect him because he is loyal to me. 15 When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble; I will rescue him and bring him honor. 16 I will satisfy him with long life, and will let him see my salvation.
• Ps 109:22 : 22 For I am oppressed and needy, and my heart beats violently within me.
• Ps 109:31 : 31 because he stands at the right hand of the needy, to deliver him from those who threaten his life.
• Isa 53:2-3 : 2 He sprouted up like a twig before God, like a root out of parched soil; he had no stately form or majesty that might catch our attention, no special appearance that we should want to follow him. 3 He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.
• Matt 8:20 : 20 Jesus said to him,“Foxes have dens, and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
• 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich, he became poor for your sakes, so that you by his poverty could become rich.
• Eph 1:21-22 : 21 far above every rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 22 And God put all things under Christ’s feet, and gave him to the church as head over all things.
• Phil 2:9-9 : 9 As a result God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow– in heaven and on earth and under the earth– 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.