Psalms 119:57

Webster's Bible (1833)

Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חֶלְקִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אָמַ֗רְתִּי לִשְׁמֹ֥ר דְּבָרֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

ḥelqî YHWH ʾāmartî to-šǝmōr dǝḇāreykā

Grammar Details

• *ḥelqî*: masculine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - my portion
• *YHWH*: proper name - Yahweh/LORD
• *ʾāmartî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have said
• *lišǝmōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to keep
• *dǝḇāreykā*: masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your words

Word Meanings

• *ḥelqî*: my portion/share/inheritance
• *ʾāmartî*: I have said/promised/declared
• *šǝmōr*: to keep/observe/guard

Referenced Verses

• Ps 16:5 : 5 Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
• Lam 3:24 : 24 Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
• Ps 66:14 : 14 which my lips promised, And my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
• Ps 73:26 : 26 My flesh and my heart fails, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
• Ps 119:106 : 106 I have sworn, and have confirmed it, That I will obey your righteous ordinances.
• Ps 119:115 : 115 Depart from me, you evildoers, That I may keep the commandments of my God.
• Ps 142:5 : 5 I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my refuge, My portion in the land of the living."
• Jer 10:16 : 16 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Hosts is his name.
• Deut 26:17-18 : 17 You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice: 18 and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;
• Josh 24:15 : 15 If it seem evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.
• Josh 24:18 : 18 and Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land: therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.
• Josh 24:21 : 21 The people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve Yahweh.
• Josh 24:24-27 : 24 The people said to Joshua, Yahweh our God will we serve, and to his voice will we listen. 25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. 26 Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh. 27 Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.
• Neh 10:29-39 : 29 They joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes; 30 and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; 31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. 32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God; 33 for the show bread, and for the continual meal-offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin-offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. 34 We cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of Yahweh our God, as it is written in the law; 35 and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, to the house of Yahweh; 36 also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God; 37 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage. 38 The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure-house. 39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the heave-offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests who minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.