Psalms 71:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Many are appalled when they see me, but you are my secure shelter.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כְּ֭מוֹפֵת הָיִ֣יתִי לְרַבִּ֑ים וְ֝אַתָּ֗ה מַֽחֲסִי־עֹֽז׃

Transliteration

Like môpēt hāyîtî to rabbîm wəʾattāh maḥăsî-ʿōz

Grammar Details

• *môpēt*: noun, masculine singular - 'wonder/sign'
• *hāyîtî*: qal perfect, 1st person singular - 'I have been'
• *rabbîm*: adjective, masculine plural - 'many'
• *wəʾattāh*: conjunction with 2nd person masculine singular independent pronoun - 'and you'
• *maḥăsî*: noun with 1st person singular suffix - 'my refuge'
• *ʿōz*: noun, masculine singular - 'strength'

Word Meanings

• *môpēt*: wonder/sign/portent
• *hāyîtî*: I have been/I became/I was
• *rabbîm*: many/numerous/great
• *maḥăsî*: my refuge/my shelter/my protection
• *ʿōz*: strength/power/might

Referenced Verses

• Isa 8:18 : 18 Look, I and the sons whom the LORD has given me are reminders and object lessons in Israel, sent from the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, who lives on Mount Zion.
• 1 Cor 4:9 : 9 For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.
• 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 we are persecuted, but not abandoned; we are knocked down, but not destroyed, 10 always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body. 11 For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body. 12 As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
• 2 Cor 6:8-9 : 8 through glory and dishonor, through slander and praise; regarded as impostors, and yet true; 9 as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying and yet– see!– we continue to live; as those who are scourged and yet not executed; 10 as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
• Ps 61:3 : 3 Indeed, you are my shelter, a strong tower that protects me from the enemy.
• Ps 62:7 : 7 God delivers me and exalts me; God is my strong protector and my shelter.
• Ps 142:4-5 : 4 Look to the right and see! No one cares about me. I have nowhere to run; no one is concerned about my life. 5 I cry out to you, O LORD; I say,“You are my shelter, my security in the land of the living.”
• Jer 16:19 : 19 Then I said,“LORD, you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say,‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods– worthless idols that could not help them at all.
• Zech 3:6 : 6 Then the angel of the LORD exhorted Joshua solemnly:
• Luke 2:34 : 34 Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary,“Listen carefully: This child is destined to be the cause of the falling and rising of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be rejected.
• Acts 4:13 : 13 When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and discovered that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and recognized these men had been with Jesus.