Psalms 27:6

World English Bible (2000)

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעַתָּ֨ה יָר֪וּם רֹאשִׁ֡י עַ֤ל אֹֽיְבַ֬י סְֽבִיבוֹתַ֗י וְאֶזְבְּחָ֣ה בְ֭אָהֳלוֹ זִבְחֵ֣י תְרוּעָ֑ה אָשִׁ֥ירָה וַ֝אֲזַמְּרָ֗ה לַיהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

wə-ʿattâ yārûm rōʾšî ʿal ʾōyəbay səbîbôtay wə-ʾezbəḥâ bə-ʾāhŏlô zibḥê tərûʿâ ʾāšîrâ wa-ʾăzammərâ la-YHWH

Grammar Details

• *wə-ʿattâ*: conjunction + adverb - and now
• *yārûm*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - it will be lifted up
• *rōʾšî*: noun masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my head
• *ʿal*: preposition - above/over
• *ʾōyəbay*: noun masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my enemies
• *səbîbôtay*: noun feminine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my surroundings
• *wə-ʾezbəḥâ*: conjunction + qal cohortative 1st person singular - and I will sacrifice
• *bə-ʾāhŏlô*: preposition + noun masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - in his tent
• *zibḥê*: noun masculine plural construct - sacrifices of
• *tərûʿâ*: noun feminine singular - shouting/acclamation
• *ʾāšîrâ*: qal cohortative 1st person singular - I will sing
• *wa-ʾăzammərâ*: conjunction + piel cohortative 1st person singular - and I will make music
• *la-YHWH*: preposition + divine name - to YHWH

Word Meanings

• *yārûm*: will be lifted up/exalted/raised
• *rōʾšî*: my head/chief part
• *ʾōyəbay*: my enemies/foes/adversaries
• *səbîbôtay*: my surroundings/all around me
• *ʾezbəḥâ*: I will sacrifice/offer/slaughter
• *zibḥê*: sacrifices/offerings
• *tərûʿâ*: shouting/jubilation/acclamation/alarm
• *ʾāšîrâ*: I will sing/chant
• *ʾăzammərâ*: I will make music/sing praises/play instruments

Referenced Verses

• Ps 3:3 : 3 But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
• Ps 107:22 : 22 Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with singing.
• Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great in the midst of you!"
• Heb 13:15 : 15 Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
• 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• Rev 5:9 : 9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
• Rev 15:3 : 3 They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
• Jer 31:7 : 7 For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish, praise, and say, Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
• Jer 33:11 : 11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever; [and of them] who bring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Yahweh.
• Zeph 3:14-15 : 14 Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem. 15 Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is in the midst of you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.
• Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
• Luke 19:37-38 : 37 As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen, 38 saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!"
• Eph 5:19-20 : 19 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord; 20 giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
• Gen 40:13 : 13 Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.
• Ps 110:7 : 7 He will drink of the brook in the way; therefore he will lift up his head.
• Ps 116:17-19 : 17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on the name of Yahweh. 18 I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people, 19 in the courts of Yahweh's house, in the midst of you, Jerusalem. Praise Yah!
• Ps 138:5 : 5 Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh; for great is Yahweh's glory.
• 2 Sam 7:9 : 9 I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
• 2 Sam 22:1 : 1 David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
• 2 Sam 22:49 : 49 who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
• 2 Kgs 25:27 : 27 It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
• 1 Chr 22:18 : 18 "Isn't Yahweh your God with you? Hasn't he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.
• 2 Chr 30:21-26 : 21 The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, [singing] with loud instruments to Yahweh. 22 Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good understanding [in the service] of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers. 23 The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept [other] seven days with gladness. 24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves. 25 All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced. 26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.
• Ezra 3:11-13 : 11 They sang one to another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, "For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel." All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of the house of Yahweh was laid. 12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' [houses], the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: 13 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
• Ps 21:1 : 1 The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!
• Ps 21:13 : 13 Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, so we will sing and praise your power. For the Chief Musician; set to "The Doe of the Morning." A Psalm by David.
• Ps 22:22-25 : 22 I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the assembly, I will praise you. 23 You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel! 24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard. 25 Of you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.
• Ps 26:6-7 : 6 I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh; 7 that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and tell of all your wondrous works.
• Ps 43:3-4 : 3 Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents. 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
• Ps 47:1 : 1 Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
• Ps 66:13-16 : 13 I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you, 14 which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress. 15 I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah. 16 Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.
• Ps 81:1 : 1 Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
• Ps 95:1 : 1 Oh come, let's sing to Yahweh. Let's shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
• Ps 100:1-2 : 1 Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands! 2 Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.
• Gen 40:20 : 20 It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.