Psalms 136:23

World English Bible (2000)

Who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שֶׁ֭בְּשִׁפְלֵנוּ זָ֣כַר לָ֑נוּ כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ

Transliteration

that-in-šiplēnû zākar to-us because to-ʿôlām ḥasdô

Grammar Details

• שֶׁ֭בְּשִׁפְלֵנוּ: relative particle + preposition bet + noun, masculine singular with 1st person plural suffix - that in our low estate
• *zākar*: qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he remembered
• לָ֑נוּ: preposition lamed with 1st person plural suffix - to/for us
• *ʿôlām*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed preposition lamed - to/for eternity/forever
• *ḥasdô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular possessive suffix - his steadfast love/mercy/kindness

Word Meanings

• *šiplēnû*: our low estate/our humiliation/our lowliness
• *zākar*: remembered/thought of/was mindful of
• *ʿôlām*: eternity/long duration/antiquity
• *ḥasdô*: his steadfast love/mercy/kindness/covenant faithfulness

Referenced Verses

• Gen 8:1 : 1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
• Deut 32:36 : 36 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that [their] power is gone, There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.
• Ps 113:7 : 7 He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
• Ps 102:17 : 17 He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
• Ps 106:43-45 : 43 Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity. 44 Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry. 45 He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
• Ps 116:6 : 6 Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
• Ps 142:6 : 6 Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.
• Isa 63:9 : 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
• Ezek 16:3-9 : 3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite. 4 As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all. 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born. 6 When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live; yes, I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live. 7 I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were naked and bare. 8 Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine. 9 Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. 10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with sealskin, and I dressed you about with fine linen, and covered you with silk. 11 I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck. 12 I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. 13 Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour, and honey, and oil; and you were exceeding beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.
• Luke 1:48 : 48 for he has looked at the humble state of his handmaid. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
• Luke 1:52 : 52 He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.
• 1 Sam 2:7-8 : 7 Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up. 8 He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's. He has set the world on them.
• Ps 72:12-14 : 12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper. 13 He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy. 14 He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.