Psalms 119:143

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Adversity and distress have found me, Thy commands `are' my delights.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

צַר־וּמָצ֥וֹק מְצָא֑וּנִי מִ֝צְוֺתֶ֗יךָ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָֽי׃

Transliteration

ṣar-ûmāṣôq məṣāʾûnî miṣwōtêkā šaʿăšuʿāy

Grammar Details

• *ṣar*: masculine singular noun - distress/trouble
• *ûmāṣôq*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - and anguish
• *məṣāʾûnî*: perfect, 3rd person common plural, qal with 1st person singular suffix - they found me
• *miṣwōtêkā*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your commandments
• *šaʿăšuʿāy*: masculine plural noun with 1st person singular suffix - my delights

Word Meanings

• *ṣar*: distress/trouble/affliction
• *māṣôq*: anguish/straits/distress
• *məṣāʾûnî*: they found me/they came upon me/they overtook me
• *miṣwōtêkā*: your commandments/your precepts
• *šaʿăšuʿāy*: my delights/my pleasures/my joys

Referenced Verses

• Job 23:12 : 12 The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.
• Ps 18:4-5 : 4 Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid. 5 Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.
• Ps 88:3-9 : 3 For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol. 4 I have been reckoned with those going down `to' the pit, I have been as a man without strength. 5 Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off. 6 Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths. 7 Upon me hath Thy fury lain, And `with' all Thy breakers Thou hast afflicted. Selah. 8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up -- I go not forth. 9 Mine eye hath grieved because of affliction, I called Thee, O Jehovah, all the day, I have spread out unto Thee my hands. 10 To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah. 11 Is Thy kindness recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness in destruction? 12 Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13 And I, unto Thee, O Jehovah, I have cried, And in the morning doth my prayer come before Thee. 14 Why, O Jehovah, castest Thou off my soul? Thou hidest Thy face from me. 15 I `am' afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors -- I pine away. 16 Over me hath Thy wrath passed, Thy terrors have cut me off, 17 They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together, 18 Thou hast put far from me lover and friend, Mine acquaintance `is' the place of darkness!
• Ps 116:3 : 3 Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.
• Ps 119:16 : 16 In Thy statutes I delight myself, I do not forget Thy word.
• Ps 119:47 : 47 And I delight myself in Thy commands, That I have loved,
• Ps 119:77 : 77 Meet me do Thy mercies, and I live, For Thy law `is' my delight.
• Ps 119:107 : 107 I have been afflicted very much, O Jehovah, quicken me, according to Thy word.
• Ps 130:1 : 1 A Song of the Ascents. From depths I have called Thee, Jehovah.
• Mark 14:33-34 : 33 and he taketh Peter, and James, and John with him, and began to be amazed, and to be very heavy, 34 and he saith to them, `Exceeding sorrowful is my soul -- to death; remain here, and watch.'
• John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;