Psalms 4:6

Webster's Bible (1833)

Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זִבְח֥וּ זִבְחֵי־צֶ֑דֶק וּ֝בִטְח֗וּ אֶל־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

zibḥû zibḥê-ṣedeq and-biṭḥû to-YHWH

Grammar Details

• *zibḥû*: verb Qal imperative 2nd person masculine plural - sacrifice/offer
• *zibḥê*: noun masculine plural construct - sacrifices of
• *ṣedeq*: noun masculine singular - righteousness
• *biṭḥû*: verb Qal imperative 2nd person masculine plural with prefixed conjunction ו (and) - trust
• *YHWH*: proper noun with prefixed preposition אֶל (to/toward) - the LORD

Word Meanings

• *zibḥû*: sacrifice/offer/slaughter
• *zibḥê-ṣedeq*: sacrifices of righteousness/righteous offerings/right sacrifices
• *biṭḥû*: trust/rely on/have confidence in

Referenced Verses

• Ps 80:7 : 7 Turn us again, God of hosts. Cause your face to shine, And we will be saved.
• Ps 80:19 : 19 Turn us again, Yahweh God of hosts. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
• Num 6:26 : 26 Yahweh lift up his face toward you, And give you peace.'
• Ps 67:1 : 1 > May God be merciful to us, bless us, And cause his face to shine on us. Selah.
• Ps 89:15 : 15 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.
• Ps 119:135 : 135 Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.
• Eccl 2:3-9 : 3 I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives. 4 I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards. 5 I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit. 6 I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared. 7 I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem; 8 I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men--musical instruments, and that of all sorts. 9 So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me. 10 Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor. 11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun. 12 I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king's successor do? Just that which has been done long ago. 13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness. 14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all. 15 Then said I in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity. 16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool! 17 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind. 18 I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who comes after me. 19 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. 20 Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun. 21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. 22 For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun? 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity. 24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God. 25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? 26 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
• Isa 55:2 : 2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
• Luke 12:19 : 19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'
• Luke 16:19 : 19 "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
• Jas 4:13 : 13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
• Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts. 5 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
• Ps 80:1-3 : 1 > Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock, You who sit above the cherubim, shine forth. 2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us! 3 Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, And we will be saved.
• Ps 21:6 : 6 For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.
• Ps 39:6 : 6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
• Ps 42:5 : 5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
• Ps 44:3 : 3 For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, Because you were favorable to them.
• Ps 49:16-20 : 16 Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased. 17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him. 18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul-- And men praise you when you do well for yourself-- 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light. 20 A man who has riches without understanding, Is like the animals that perish.