Psalms 9:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Rise up, LORD! Don’t let men be defiant! May the nations be judged in your presence!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י לֹ֣א לָ֭נֶצַח יִשָּׁכַ֣ח אֶבְי֑וֹן תִּקְוַ֥ת עֲ֝נִיִּ֗ים תֹּאבַ֥ד לָעַֽד׃

Transliteration

For not to neṣaḥ will be šākaḥ the 'ebyôn; the tiqwâ of 'ăniyyîm will 'ābad forever

Grammar Details

• *neṣaḥ*: masculine singular noun with lamed prefix - 'to/for perpetuity'
• *šākaḥ*: niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - 'will be forgotten'
• *'ebyôn*: masculine singular adjective as substantive - 'the needy'
• *tiqwâ*: feminine singular construct - 'hope of'
• *'ăniyyîm*: masculine plural adjective as substantive - 'the afflicted'
• *'ābad*: qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - 'will perish'
• *'ad*: masculine singular noun with lamed prefix - 'to/for eternity'

Word Meanings

• *neṣaḥ*: perpetuity/eminence/forever/completely
• *šākaḥ*: forgotten/ignored/neglected
• *'ebyôn*: needy/poor/destitute/beggar
• *tiqwâ*: hope/expectation/ground of hope
• *'ăniyyîm*: afflicted/poor/oppressed/humble
• *'ābad*: perish/be destroyed/vanish
• *'ad*: eternity/forever/continuous existence

Referenced Verses

• Ps 3:7 : 7 Rise up, LORD! Deliver me, my God! Yes, you will strike all my enemies on the jaw; you will break the teeth of the wicked.
• Ps 7:6 : 6 Stand up angrily, LORD! Rise up with raging fury against my enemies! Wake up for my sake and execute the judgment you have decreed for them!
• Ps 10:12 : 12 Rise up, LORD! O God, strike him down! Do not forget the oppressed!
• Ps 44:23 : 23 Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever!
• Ps 44:26 : 26 Rise up and help us! Rescue us because of your loyal love!
• Ps 68:1-2 : 1 For the music director; by David, a psalm, a song. God springs into action! His enemies scatter; his adversaries run from him. 2 As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.
• Ps 74:22-23 : 22 Rise up, O God! Defend your honor! Remember how fools insult you all day long! 23 Do not disregard what your enemies say, or the unceasing shouts of those who defy you.
• Ps 76:8-9 : 8 From heaven you announced what their punishment would be. The earth was afraid and silent 9 when God arose to execute judgment, and to deliver all the oppressed of the earth.(Selah)
• Ps 79:6 : 6 Pour out your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not pray to you!
• Ps 80:2 : 2 In the sight of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh reveal your power! Come and deliver us!
• Ps 149:7 : 7 in order to take revenge on the nations, and punish foreigners.
• Isa 42:13-14 : 13 The LORD emerges like a hero, like a warrior he inspires himself for battle; he shouts, yes, he yells, he shows his enemies his power. 14 “I have been inactive for a long time; I kept quiet and held back. Like a woman in labor I groan; I pant and gasp.
• Isa 51:9 : 9 Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the LORD! Wake up as in former times, as in antiquity! Did you not smash the Proud One? Did you not wound the sea monster?
• Jer 10:25 : 25 Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.
• Joel 3:12 : 12 Let the nations be roused and let them go up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit in judgment on all the surrounding nations.
• Mic 5:15 : 15 With furious anger I will carry out vengeance on the nations that do not obey me.”
• Zeph 3:8 : 8 Therefore you must wait patiently for me,” says the LORD,“for the day when I attack and take plunder. I have decided to gather nations together and assemble kingdoms, so I can pour out my fury on them– all my raging anger. For the whole earth will be consumed by my fiery anger.
• Zech 14:18 : 18 If the Egyptians will not do so, they will get no rain– instead there will be the kind of plague which the LORD inflicts on any nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Shelters.
• Rev 19:15 : 15 From his mouth extends a sharp sword, so that with it he can strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod, and he stomps the winepress of the furious wrath of God, the All-Powerful.
• Gen 32:28 : 28 “No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him,“but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”
• 1 Sam 2:9 : 9 He watches over his holy ones, but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness, for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.
• 2 Chr 14:11 : 11 Asa prayed to the LORD his God:“O LORD, there is no one but you who can help the weak when they are vastly outnumbered. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you and have marched on your behalf against this huge army. O LORD, you are our God; don’t let men prevail against you!”
• Ps 2:1-3 : 1 Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail? 2 The kings of the earth form a united front; the rulers collaborate against the LORD and his anointed king. 3 They say,“Let’s tear off the shackles they’ve put on us! Let’s free ourselves from their ropes!”