Psalms 40:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, And doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּתֵּ֬ן בְּפִ֨י ׀ שִׁ֥יר חָדָשׁ֮ תְּהִלָּ֢ה לֵֽאלֹ֫הֵ֥ינוּ יִרְא֣וּ רַבִּ֣ים וְיִירָ֑אוּ וְ֝יִבְטְח֗וּ בַּיהוָֽה

Transliteration

Wayyittēn in my pî šîr ḥādāš, təhillâ to our ʾĕlōhênû. Yirʾû rabbîm wəyîrāʾû, wəyibṭəḥû in YHWH

Grammar Details

• *Wayyittēn*: Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - 'and he put/placed'
• *pî*: masculine noun with 1st person singular possessive suffix - 'my mouth'
• *šîr ḥādāš*: masculine noun + masculine adjective - 'new song'
• *təhillâ*: feminine noun - 'praise'
• *ʾĕlōhênû*: masculine plural noun with 1st person plural possessive suffix - 'our God'
• *Yirʾû rabbîm*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural + masculine adjective - 'many will see'
• *wəyîrāʾû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural with conjunction - 'and will fear'
• *wəyibṭəḥû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural with conjunction - 'and will trust'
• *YHWH*: proper divine name with preposition bet - 'in the LORD'

Word Meanings

• *šîr ḥādāš*: new song/fresh song
• *təhillâ*: praise/song of praise/hymn
• *Yirʾû*: they will see/they will perceive/they will observe
• *wəyîrāʾû*: and they will fear/and they will be in awe/and they will reverence
• *wəyibṭəḥû*: and they will trust/and they will rely on/and they will place confidence in

Referenced Verses

• Ps 34:8 : 8 Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
• Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
• Ps 2:12 : 12 Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
• Ps 118:8-9 : 8 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, Than to put confidence in man. 9 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, Than to put confidence in princes.
• Ps 119:21 : 21 You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, Who wander from your commandments.
• Ps 15:4 : 4 In whose eyes a vile man is despised, But who honors those who fear Yahweh; He who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn't change;
• Ps 84:11-12 : 11 For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly. 12 Yahweh of Hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in you.
• Ps 101:3-7 : 3 I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me. 4 A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil. 5 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited. 6 My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, That they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, He will serve me. 7 He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.
• Isa 44:18-20 : 18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand. 19 None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? 20 He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
• Jer 10:14-15 : 14 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 15 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
• Jer 17:7-8 : 7 Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
• Jonah 2:8 : 8 Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
• Rom 15:12-13 : 12 Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, He who arises to rule over the Gentiles; On him will the Gentiles hope." 13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
• 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;