Psalms 110:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

The rod of thy strength doth Jehovah send from Zion, Rule in the midst of thine enemies.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מַטֵּֽה־עֻזְּךָ֗ יִשְׁלַ֣ח יְ֭הוָה מִצִיּ֑וֹן רְ֝דֵ֗ה בְּקֶ֣רֶב אֹיְבֶֽיךָ

Transliteration

Maṭṭêh-ʿuzzekā yišlaḥ YHWH from Ṣiyyôn; rědêh in qereb ʾōybeykā

Grammar Details

• *Maṭṭêh*: masculine singular construct noun - 'rod/staff of'
• *ʿuzzekā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your strength'
• *yišlaḥ*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'he will send/stretch out'
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
• *miṢiyyôn*: preposition + proper noun - 'from Zion'
• *rědêh*: qal imperative, masculine singular - 'rule/have dominion'
• *běqereb*: preposition + masculine singular noun - 'in the midst of'
• *ʾōybeykā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your enemies'

Word Meanings

• *Maṭṭêh*: rod/staff/scepter/tribe
• *ʿuzzekā*: your strength/power/might
• *yišlaḥ*: he will send/stretch out/extend
• *rědêh*: rule/have dominion/subdue
• *qereb*: midst/inner part/interior

Referenced Verses

• Matt 28:18-20 : 18 And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth; 19 having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them -- to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days -- till the full end of the age.'
• Acts 2:34-37 : 34 for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand, 35 till I make thy foes thy footstool; 36 assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him -- this Jesus whom ye did crucify.' 37 And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, `What shall we do, men, brethren?'
• Rom 1:16 : 16 for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.
• 1 Cor 1:23-24 : 23 also we -- we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness, 24 and to those called -- both Jews and Greeks -- Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God,
• 2 Cor 10:4-5 : 4 for the weapons of our warfare `are' not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds, 5 reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,
• 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;
• 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.
• Exod 7:19 : 19 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thy hand against the waters of Egypt, against their streams, against their rivers, and against their ponds, and against all their collections of waters; and they are blood -- and there hath been blood in all the land of Egypt, both in `vessels of' wood, and in `those of' stone.'
• Exod 8:5 : 5 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy hand, with thy rod, against the streams, against the rivers, and against the ponds, and cause the frogs to come up against the land of Egypt.'
• Ps 2:8-9 : 8 Ask of Me and I give nations -- thy inheritance, And thy possession -- the ends of earth. 9 Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'
• Ps 22:28-29 : 28 For to Jehovah `is' the kingdom, And He is ruling among nations. 29 And the fat ones of earth have eaten, And they bow themselves, Before Him bow do all going down to dust, And he `who' hath not revived his soul.
• Ps 45:5-6 : 5 Thine arrows `are' sharp, -- Peoples fall under Thee -- In the heart of the enemies of the king. 6 Thy throne, O God, `is' age-during, and for ever, A sceptre of uprightness `Is' the sceptre of Thy kingdom.
• Ps 72:8 : 8 And he ruleth from sea unto sea, And from the river unto the ends of earth.
• Isa 2:3 : 3 And gone have many peoples and said, `Come, and we go up unto the mount of Jehovah, Unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we walk in His paths, For from Zion goeth forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.
• Jer 48:17 : 17 Bemoan for him, all ye round about him, And all knowing his name, say ye: How hath it been broken, the staff of strength, The rod of beauty.
• Ezek 19:14 : 14 And go forth doth fire from a rod of its boughs, Its fruit it hath devoured, And it hath no rod of strength -- a sceptre to rule, Lamentation it `is' -- and it is for a lamentation!'
• Ezek 47:1 : 1 And he causeth me to turn back unto the opening of the house; and lo, water is coming forth from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house `is' eastward, and the water is coming down from beneath, from the right side of the house, from the south of the altar.
• Dan 7:13-14 : 13 `I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as a son of man was `one' coming, and unto the Ancient of Days he hath come, and before Him they have brought him near. 14 And to him is given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, and all peoples, nations, and languages do serve him, his dominion `is' a dominion age-during, that passeth not away, and his kingdom that which is not destroyed.
• Mic 4:2 : 2 And gone have many nations and said, Come and we go up to the mount of Jehovah, And unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we do walk in His paths, For from Zion doth go forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.
• Mic 7:14 : 14 Rule Thou Thy people with Thy rod, The flock of Thine inheritance, Dwelling alone `in' a forest in the midst of Carmel, They enjoy Bashan and Gilead as in days of old.