Psalms 119:10

World English Bible (2000)

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּכָל־לִבִּ֥י דְרַשְׁתִּ֑יךָ אַל־תַּ֝שְׁגֵּ֗נִי מִמִּצְוֺתֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

With-all-libbî dəraštiḵā not-tašgēnî from-miṣwōtêḵā

Grammar Details

• With-all-*libbî*: preposition *bə* + noun *kol* + masculine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - with all my heart
• *dəraštiḵā*: Qal perfect 1st person singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - I have sought you
• not-*tašgēnî*: negative particle + Hiphil imperfect 2nd person masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - do not let me wander
• from-*miṣwōtêḵā*: preposition *min* + feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - from your commandments

Word Meanings

• *libbî*: my heart/mind/inner self
• *dəraštiḵā*: I have sought you/searched for you/inquired of you
• *tašgēnî*: let me wander/err/go astray
• *miṣwōtêḵā*: your commandments/precepts/orders

Referenced Verses

• 2 Chr 15:15 : 15 All Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and Yahweh gave them rest all around.
• Ps 119:118 : 118 You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.
• 1 Sam 7:3 : 3 Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."
• Ps 119:133 : 133 Establish my footsteps in your word. Don't let any iniquity have dominion over me.
• Ps 119:2 : 2 Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
• Ps 119:21 : 21 You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
• Ps 119:34 : 34 Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
• Ps 119:58 : 58 I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.
• Ps 23:3 : 3 He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
• Matt 6:24 : 24 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.
• Col 3:22 : 22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
• Isa 35:8 : 8 A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
• Jer 3:10 : 10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense," says Yahweh.
• Ezek 34:6 : 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.
• Hos 10:2 : 2 Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.
• Zeph 1:5-6 : 5 those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam, 6 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
• Ps 78:37 : 37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
• Ps 119:69 : 69 The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
• Ps 119:176 : 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don't forget your commandments. A Song of Ascents.
• Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel. A Song of Ascents.
• Ps 143:8-9 : 8 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you. 9 Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me. 10 Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
• Prov 2:13 : 13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
• Prov 21:16 : 16 The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
• 1 John 2:15 : 15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.
• 2 Pet 2:15-22 : 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing; 16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error; 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him. 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."