Psalms 110:2

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מַטֵּֽה־עֻזְּךָ֗ יִשְׁלַ֣ח יְ֭הוָה מִצִיּ֑וֹן רְ֝דֵ֗ה בְּקֶ֣רֶב אֹיְבֶֽיךָ

Transliteration

Maṭṭêh-ʿuzzekā yišlaḥ YHWH from Ṣiyyôn; rědêh in qereb ʾōybeykā

Grammar Details

• *Maṭṭêh*: masculine singular construct noun - 'rod/staff of'
• *ʿuzzekā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your strength'
• *yišlaḥ*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'he will send/stretch out'
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
• *miṢiyyôn*: preposition + proper noun - 'from Zion'
• *rědêh*: qal imperative, masculine singular - 'rule/have dominion'
• *běqereb*: preposition + masculine singular noun - 'in the midst of'
• *ʾōybeykā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your enemies'

Word Meanings

• *Maṭṭêh*: rod/staff/scepter/tribe
• *ʿuzzekā*: your strength/power/might
• *yišlaḥ*: he will send/stretch out/extend
• *rědêh*: rule/have dominion/subdue
• *qereb*: midst/inner part/interior

Referenced Verses

• Matt 28:18-20 : 18 Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
• Acts 2:34-37 : 34 For David didn't ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand, 35 until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."' 36 "Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified." 37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"
• Rom 1:16 : 16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
• 1 Cor 1:23-24 : 23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
• 2 Cor 10:4-5 : 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, 5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
• 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
• 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
• Exod 7:19 : 19 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"
• Exod 8:5 : 5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch forth your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.'"
• Ps 2:8-9 : 8 Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
• Ps 22:28-29 : 28 For the kingdom is Yahweh's. He is the ruler over the nations. 29 All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can't keep his soul alive.
• Ps 45:5-6 : 5 Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies. 6 Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
• Ps 72:8 : 8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.
• Isa 2:3 : 3 Many peoples shall go and say, "Come, let's go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.
• Jer 48:17 : 17 All you who are around him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!
• Ezek 19:14 : 14 Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
• Ezek 47:1 : 1 He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for the forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.
• Dan 7:13-14 : 13 I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. 14 There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
• Mic 4:2 : 2 Many nations will go and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem;
• Mic 7:14 : 14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the midst of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.