Psalms 34:21

World English Bible (2000)

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שֹׁמֵ֥ר כָּל־עַצְמוֹתָ֑יו אַחַ֥ת מֵ֝הֵ֗נָּה לֹ֣א נִשְׁבָּֽרָה׃

Transliteration

Keeping all-ʿaṣmôtāyw ʾaḥat from them not nišbārâ

Grammar Details

• *šōmēr*: Qal participle masculine singular - keeping
• *ʿaṣmôtāyw*: noun feminine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his bones
• *ʾaḥat*: numeral feminine singular - one
• *mēhēnnâ*: preposition with 3rd feminine plural pronoun - from them
• *nišbārâ*: Niphal perfect 3rd feminine singular - is broken

Word Meanings

• *šōmēr*: keeping/guarding/protecting
• *ʿaṣmôtāyw*: his bones/frame/substance
• *nišbārâ*: is broken/shattered/crushed

Referenced Verses

• Ps 94:23 : 23 He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
• Prov 24:16 : 16 for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
• Isa 3:11 : 11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
• Luke 19:14 : 14 But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'
• Luke 19:27 : 27 But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.'"
• Luke 19:41-44 : 41 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, 44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."
• John 7:7 : 7 The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
• John 15:18-23 : 18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.
• 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men; 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
• 2 Thess 1:6 : 6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
• 2 Thess 1:9 : 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
• Exod 20:7 : 7 "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
• 1 Sam 19:4-5 : 4 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, "Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you; 5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"
• 1 Sam 31:4 : 4 Then Saul said to his armor bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me!" But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.
• 1 Kgs 22:8 : 8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil." Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so."
• 1 Kgs 22:37 : 37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
• Ps 37:12-15 : 12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth. 13 The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming. 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way. 15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken.
• Ps 37:30-40 : 30 The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice. 31 The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide. 32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him. 33 Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. 34 Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it. 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. 36 But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found. 37 Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace. 38 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off. 39 But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble. 40 Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him. A Psalm by David, for a memorial.
• Ps 40:15 : 15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, "Aha! Aha!"
• Ps 89:23 : 23 I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.