Psalms 119:43

World English Bible (2000)

Don't snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְֽאַל־תַּצֵּ֬ל מִפִּ֣י דְבַר־אֱמֶ֣ת עַד־מְאֹ֑ד כִּ֖י לְמִשְׁפָּטֶ֣ךָ יִחָֽלְתִּי׃

Transliteration

And-not-taṣṣēl from-pî ḏǝḇar-ʾĕmeṯ until-mǝʾōḏ for to-mišpāṭeḵā yiḥāltî

Grammar Details

• *wǝʾal-taṣṣēl*: conjunction + negative particle + hiphil imperfect 2nd person masculine singular jussive - and do not take away
• *mippî*: preposition + masculine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - from my mouth
• *dǝḇar-ʾĕmeṯ*: masculine singular construct + feminine singular noun - word of truth
• *ʿaḏ-mǝʾōḏ*: preposition + adverb - until greatly/completely
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *lǝmišpāṭeḵā*: preposition + masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - for your judgments
• *yiḥāltî*: piel perfect 1st person singular - I wait/hope

Word Meanings

• *taṣṣēl*: snatch away/remove/take away
• *ʿaḏ-mǝʾōḏ*: utterly/completely/exceedingly
• *yiḥāltî*: I wait for/I hope in/I have hoped

Referenced Verses

• Ps 7:6-9 : 6 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment. 7 Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. Rule over them on high. 8 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me. 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
• Ps 9:4 : 4 For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.
• Ps 9:16 : 16 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
• Ps 43:1 : 1 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
• Ps 50:16 : 16 But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
• Ps 51:14-15 : 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness. 15 Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.
• Ps 71:17-18 : 17 God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works. 18 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
• Ps 119:13 : 13 With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
• Ps 119:52 : 52 I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh, and have comforted myself.
• Ps 119:120 : 120 My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments. AYIN
• Ps 119:175 : 175 Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.
• Isa 59:21 : 21 "As for me, this is my covenant with them," says Yahweh. "My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed," says Yahweh, "from henceforth and forever."
• Eph 1:13 : 13 in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation--in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
• Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
• 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;